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The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors.
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Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Welcome to episode 68 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Scott Hammond.
Scott is the technical director at Hafjell Ski School in Norway and is an IASI educator for both Alpine and Telemark.
I had a great chat with Scott about the roundabout way he ended up in Norway, what it is like to ski and teach there, his work with IASI, instagram skiers and much more.
You can find Scott at the Hafjell Ski School here:
https://hafjell.skischool.shop/en/kids-teens/
and follow the youtube page he talked about in the episode here:
https://youtube.com/@wefreeski?si=AziLpTxwOnukOC3q
Happy listening
Dave
music by www.bensound.com
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Welcome to episode 67 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Jamie Kagan. Jamie was on the pod recently with Derek Tate talking about the Professional Ski Instructors of Europe.
This episode we chat about his ski school, training centre and retail shop based in Nendaz.
We talked about Jamie's long and winding journey to making a life in Switzerland, building his various businesses, training ski instructors and IASI, PSIE and Interski.
I did this interview in person with Jamie in Nendaz and I always think that chemistry shows in these in person interviews. I very much enjoyed the coffee and chat with a like minded soul.
You can find Jamie at https://www.sommet-et-neige.com/en
https://www.instagram.com/sommet_et_neige/
https://www.instagram.com/nendaz_ski_school_es/?hl=en
happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
https://www.snow-pros.ski/clubs-courses
music by www.bensound.com
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Welcome to episode 66 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Ali Gibb and Rachel Kerr of the Women's Mountain Club.
The Women's Mountain Club is a year round club for women doing all sorts of mountain activities. It originally started with skiing but has expanded in recent years to include hiking, biking, climbing and a bunch of other stuff too.
I talk to Ali and Rach about their journey towards becoming fully certified instructors in France, how the WMC came about, cuckoo clocks, periods, gender differences in learning, why female only groups work and a whole bunch of other stuff.
It's a great interview if I do say so myself and I think you'll really enjoy it.
Find Women's Mountain Club here: https://www.womensmountainclub.com/
Find Ali here: https://thesnowinstitute.com/ski-instructors/#AliGibb
Find Rachel here: https://www.rachelkerr.me/
happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Welcome to episode 65 of the Ski Instructor Podcast from a rainy Val-d'Illiez.
This weeks episode features Stefano Carlin from Ski Zenit. Ski Zenit aren't a traditional ski school in that they do a mix of normal ski school stuff in Saas Fee and Zinal in Valais, Switzerland, but they also do race coaching and camps over the summer in Saas Fee as well as ski coaching in more exotic places like China.
We talked about Stefano, his long and roundabout journey to becoming a ski pro, how Ski Zenit came about, summer skiing and the future of glacier skiing, keeping healthy in the season, sparrows, dog chat in spanish and much more.
It was a great chat and i loved Stefano's laid back and funny style. You can find him at:
www.skizenit.ch
Happy listening
Dave
music by www.bensound.com
Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
Welcome to episode 64 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.
One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode. So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing.
This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation and we did this in two different seasons, once in June 2023 before the Australian ski season and the second part in November 2023, just before the start of this winter.
We had a great conversation (with decent sound!) and talked in this second part about how you know what you know to be true, why rotational and lateral separation matters, monoboard racing, long skis in the bumps, snow types and the brain as a prediction machine.
I love chatting with Tom and I think this really comes through in the podcast.
If you want to find Tom, you can go to his website www.bigpictureskiing.com
Happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons
music by www.bensound.com
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Welcome to episode 63 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Jamie Kagan and Derek Tate of the Professional Ski Instructors of Europe (PSIE).
The PSIE is a sister organisation of the PSIC, Professional Ski Instructors of Canada and shares much of the same pathway and framework as that organisation. There will be tweaks to the pathway for the PSIE that will make it compatible with European marketplace needs.
We talk about what the guys are trying to do with the new association and how it aims to complement existing instructor associations in Europe. We talk in depth about what it offers ski instructors and where it is recognised.
To find out more about the PSIE, go to www.psie.pro
I had a great time making this episode and I hope you enjoy listening.
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Welcome to episode 62 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.
One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode. So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing.
This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation and we did this in two different seasons, once in June 2023 before the Australian ski season and the second part in November 2023, just before the start of this winter.
We had a great conversation (with decent sound!) and talked about Tom's online ski coaching business, ski boots, telemark (again, sorry) and flow state.
I love chatting with Tom and I think this really comes through in the podcast.
If you want to find Tom, you can go to his website www.bigpictureskiing.com
Happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons
music by www.bensound.com
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Welcome to Episode 61 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.
This week my guest probably needs no introduction as you will have all seen Deb's YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/@DebArmstrongSkiStrong but you probably haven't read her bio on what an extraordinary athlete she was in the 70's and 80's, culminating in her greatest success, the GS women's gold medal in the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984.
We had a great chat about all aspects of skiing. How the channel came about and her early formative years of skiing that lead up to such amazing success.
This was a great conversation with such good energy. I hope you enjoy it.
happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/resorts
music by www.bensound.com
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Welcome to episode 60 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring an avalanche awareness special with Julian Griffiths of European Snowsports.
Julian's ski school has lost two instructors free skiing in the last three years to avalanches and this episode is a summary of the police investigation report in to the most recent one, in which Joel and his friend Joel, were taken.
Julian is going around giving this talk to any organisation that would like to hear it and you can contact me to be connected to Julian dave@snow-pros.ski
This episode covers the the report and also we talk about how modern media glamourises avalanche risk, as well as how social media encourages risk for attention.
I hope you you get some useful knowledge from this episode.
Dave
music by www.bensound.com
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Hey everyone, welcome to episode 59 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.
For this episode, I had long and interesting conversation with John Eames, Director of The Off Piste and Telemark Ski Company and former telemark director for BASI.
This conversation is quite telemark centric and covers John's skiing background, the rise and fall of telemark skiing, evolution of equipment and technique versus alpine.
You can find more info about John's company here:
https://www.facebook.com/TheTelemarkSkiCompany
Happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski/lessons
music by www.bensound.com