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The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors.
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Happy Christmas to you all and welcome to part 2 and episode 80 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV.
In this episode we talk about Joe's back story and how he came to be a ski instructor at Deer Valley, wedge christie and PSIA chat, keeping teaching simple and how he started his YouTube channel.
It's a great interview full of good energy.
You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV
Henrik Kristoffersen interview here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/henrik-kristoffersen/id1549121005?i=1000674224528
Happy listening
Dave
https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland
music by www.bensound.com
Thursday Nov 27, 2025
Thursday Nov 27, 2025
Welcome to part 1 of episode 79 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV.
We jump immediately into an in-depth chat about technical skiing, how to introduce people to carving and an in-depth discussion on width of ski. It's a great interview full of good energy.
You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV
Happy listening
Dave
https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland
music by www.bensound.com
Friday Oct 24, 2025
Friday Oct 24, 2025
Welcome to episode 78 of the podcast, this week featuring Jason Hendy.
I worked with Jason this winter at a race we were running in Les Crosets and we started a really interesting chat about ski boots but we didn't get a chance to finish it and that is what this podcast is.
It's very much a follow up to episode 77 with Tom Gellie and we touch on a lot of the same topics about boots and this episode deliberately follows that one as a continuation of that topic.
Jason has thought deeply about this topic of boots and getting the right set up for you, then the conversation moves on to coaching on the dry slope in the UK, working with kids on a week to week basis and how to go fast on a dry slope.
I loved chatting with Jason and it really comes across in this podcast. You can find Jason here:
https://www.instagram.com/alpin_ish/
https://www.facebook.com/jason.hendy.7
Happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons
music by www.bensound.com
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Welcome to episode 77 of The Ski Instructor Podcast this week featuring Tom Gellie of Big Picture Skiing.
This podcast was prompted by a recent viral Facebook post that Tom put together based on his recent experience of skiing in rental boots at Ski Dubai.
We talk extensively about the reasons why rental boots are like they are, what the purpose of them are and how quickly you need to get out of them in order to progress.
As usual with Tom and I, we ended up on a bunch of tangents about different stuff to do with boots and customising them to suit your own body.
To find out more about Tom, you can go back and listen to my previous episode where I interviewed Tom extensively, the link to that is here.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0CaBF1sZ3IG1xkC5PpLqqk?si=IWMpLd0JTLa7D-US3MAHFA
I hope you are enjoying skiing wherever you are and I'll catch you on the next episode.
Happy listening.
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-lessons
music by www.bensound.com
Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Welcome to episode 76 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, featuring Anna Norlin Berg and Joel Baudin.
Anna and Joel are the hosts of the popular Swedish ski instructor podcast 'Skidlärarpodden'. When they aren't doing that, Joel and Anna are working ski instructors.
Joel runs the ski school in Kittelfjäll and is an instructor and course leader within Friluftsfrämjandet (The Swedish Outdoor Organization) for the past eight years. He's involved in instructor education through Friluftsfrämjandet and is a passionate moguls skier.
Anna is involved in training leaders and ski instructors in Friluftsfämjandet, and is chairman of the Swedish ski exams. She is an Alpine ski coach in Kungsbergets AK for U14 and U16.
She was a member of the Swedish demo team in Pomporovo and Levi.
We had a very wide ranging chat covering the backstory for Anna and Joel, instructor systems in Sweden, the technical models, hockey (again, sorry!), interski and falling off of bicycles.
I loved chatting with these two and it's a fun interview. If you'd like to listen to the interview that they did with me, you can find it here:
https://skidlararpodden.se/episodes/dave-burrows-on-coaching-community-and-carving-your-own-path-in-the-alps
Happy listening
Dave
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Welcome to episode 75 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Max Colvin, who you would have heard of me talk about on the podcast previously and who is the SnowPros Ski School Director of Snowsports.
Max holds the Valasian Patente and looks after the team here at SnowPros. I find Max to be an incredibly interesting guy who thinks deeply about skiing and everything else and I just had to get an interview with him for the pod.
We touched on lots of different topics, to do with how we teach skiing, our journeys to full cert, how surfing differs from snowsports and plenty more.
Max runs a successful surfboard manufacturing company, Hand Laid Eggs and if you surf, you should definitley check out his boards https://www.handlaideggs.co.uk/ he cares deeply about what he does.
You can tell from this episode that Max and I know each other quite well by now. The interview is very relaxed and is a real deparature in style from the usual interview.
Happy listening and see you on the next one.
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Welcome to episode 74 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Donna Clarke who is the President of the Regional Performance Centre for the Ski Team Dents du Midi here in Calais, Switzerland.
The Dents du Midi is the local region around where I live and Donna is responsible for the structure bringing young skiers through and then onto Ski Valais and then the regional Swiss age group teams.
We had a long and wide ranging chat about making speed on the flat, her story as to how she ended up here in the alps, coaching kids in the ski team and how to keep kids in the program.
We also chat about equipment, amazing local skiers and so much more.
You can find out more about the ski team here:
https://skiteamdentsdumidi.ch/
and if you would like to contact Donna, you can find her through facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/donnah.corminboeufclarke
happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/instructors
music by www.bensound.com
Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
Welcome to episode 73 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Alec and Max Allcock. This is part 2 of a 2 part episode.
Alec and Max are the hosts of The Snowboard Instructor Podcast,
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-snowboard-instructor-podcast/id1536803884
https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZtzwBFqrdQlOtbonKZxPp?si=SHI0R19fRymK6_Sk-88_xA
https://thesnowboardinstructorpodcas.buzzsprout.com/
https://www.instagram.com/snowboardinstructorpodcast/
Alec and Max have spent a lot of time and done some amazing interviews on their podcast and bring a unique perspective to our interview because they are both working ski instructors working their way through various instructor systems.
I talk to the guys about skiing at a higher level and things learnt about skiing going through various training. We also chatted about fixed boot snowboarding, GS training and retro equipment.
At the time of the interview, Alec was in New Zealand working as a ski and snowboard instructor there. Max works in the film industry and teaches snowboarding in the UK.
You can find the guys here:
https://www.instagram.com/maxpowerlighting/
https://www.instagram.com/alec_john98
happy listening
Dave
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons
dave@snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Welcome to episode 72 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Alec and Max Allcock. This is part 1 of a 2 part episode.
Alec and Max are the hosts of The Snowboard Instructor Podcast,
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-snowboard-instructor-podcast/id1536803884
https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZtzwBFqrdQlOtbonKZxPp?si=SHI0R19fRymK6_Sk-88_xA
https://thesnowboardinstructorpodcas.buzzsprout.com/
https://www.instagram.com/snowboardinstructorpodcast/
Alec and Max have spent a lot of time and done some amazing interviews on their podcast and bring a unique perspective to our interview because they are both working ski instructors working their way through various instructor systems.
At the time of the interview, Alec was in New Zealand working as a ski and snowboard instructor there. Max works in the film industry and teaches snowboarding in the UK.
We chat about life working through various systems, differences and similarities between skiing and snowboarding
You can find the guys here:
https://www.instagram.com/maxpowerlighting/
https://www.instagram.com/alec_john98
happy listening
Dave
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons
dave@snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Welcome to episode 71 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Steve Hindman.
This interview was made on a hot sunny day in Geneva and part 2 of this episode is Steve and myself chatting more technically about the similarities and differences between nordic, cross country and alpine skiing. We also touch on teaching styles, teaching terrains, PSIA chat and being an American in Switzerland.
Steve is a former US Demo team for nordic and cross country skiing as well as a telemark.
We touch on the topic of a movie that Steve may or may not have been in here:
https://youtu.be/KJ0Z8GOGnS0?si=IPjBlapRvbDsaDz0
Happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons
music by www.bensound.com