The Ski Instructor Podcast

Welcome to episode 85 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Charlie Brooksbank of Pure Powder.

Pure Powder is a tour operator and they organise heli and cat skiing tours and holidays.  This interview is a slight departure from our usual interviews of ski instructors and ski school directors and gives a different perspective on life in the ski industry and how ski instrcutors and guides fit into that.

We chat about how the business has evolved over the years and the challenges of running a business like this.

You can find Charlie and PurePowder here:
www.purepowder.com
https://www.purepowderheliskiing.co.uk/

 

Happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

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Welcome to episode 84 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring part 2 of my interview with Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor.

Our conversation continues and touches on how to get better at skiing and teaching whilst you're working on a daily basis, how to make a year round living from skiing, knee injury recovery, skiing and teaching in China and much more.

Happy listening
Dave

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Welcome to episode 83 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor.

I had a great chat with Mark, taking about his back story in skiing and we soon went off on a tangent into topics such as how not to become a cynical ski instructor, how a ski turn actually works and snowplough deniers.

This is part 1 of the conversation and part 2 will follow next month.  I had a great time recording this and I think that comes through in the edit.

Happy listening
Dave

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Welcome to episode 82 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring part 2 of the interview with Billy Clark from Billski.

Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.  I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer.

Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area.  This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one.

In part 2 of the interview, we chat about Billski, how it got started and has evolved and his approach to marketing.  We also chat about the evolution of the French side of the Portes du Soleil over the years.

You can find Billski here -

https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/

https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk

Happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

Welcome to episode 81 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Billy Clark from Billski.

Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.  I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer.

Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area.  This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one.

In this part 1 of the interview, we chat about Bill's journey to full cert, the people that helped and inspired him along the way and how to approach challenges.

You can find Billski here -

https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/

https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk

Happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

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

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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

 

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

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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

 

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