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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 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
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Welcome to episode 58 of the podcast and an interview I did with Perry and Jeff from the new Canadian ski instructor association, The Professional Ski Instructors of Canada, PSIC.
We had a great wide ranging chat, talking mostly about the new organisation and their objectives but also chatting other things like Interski, attracting new people into snowsports and Perry and Jeff themselves.
You can find out more about PSIC here: www.psic.pro
Happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons
music by www.bensound.com
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Welcome to episode 57 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring a return to the pod for Jon and Tom.
Jon and Tom have gone in a new direction with their own ski instructor training company, Level Up Ski Coaching. You can find them here:
www.levelupskicoaching.com
Insta and FB @levelupskicoaching
In this episode we chat all things to do with their new venture, ski instructor cars and accommodation, off season training and skiing robots.
On the day that we recorded this it was about 33 degrees in Le Châble and we had a fan on in the background so that is what the background white noise is.
I hope that you enjoy the episode as much as I did making it.
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Welcome to episode 56 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and finally, I get round to doing the Q+A episode that I promised you all so long ago.
I was on a week long motorbike tour with Phil Brown of Impulse Racing and we had a chance to sit down one evening overlooking Lake Como and go through the questions that you all sent in.
I want to thank you for taking the time to send them in.
Happy listening
Dave
https://www.snow-pros.ski/snowboarding
music by www.bensound.com
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Welcome to episode 55 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and part 2 of my chat with Darren Turner.
I travelled to Aosta in the autumn to chat with Darren about his life in skiing, his career as an instructor and his subsequent changes of direction after skiing.
Darren grew up skiing in the UK and Europe, eventually becoming an independent instructor in Serre Chevalier in France.
In this episode we chat about his transition to making film, the development of the app and his philosophy for technical skiing and teaching.
You can get in touch with Darren through his website http://insightski.com/
or find him on facebook @darrenturnerskiing
Dave Burrows
https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-aosta-valley-italy
music by www.bensound.com
Thursday May 25, 2023
Thursday May 25, 2023
Welcome to episode 54 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.
I travelled to Aosta in the autumn to chat with Darren Turner about his life in skiing, his career as an instructor and his subsequent changes of direction after skiing.
Darren grew up skiing in the UK and Europe, eventually becoming an independent instructor in Serre Chevalier in France.
As well as this, he created the wildly successful Ski School app and now splits his time between video production and ski teaching. We talk more about that in part 2.
You can get in touch with Darren through his website http://insightski.com/
or find him on facebook @darrenturnerskiing
I really enjoyed the conversation that I had making this podcast and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Dave Burrows
dave@snow-pros.ski
https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-courmayeur
music by www.bensound.com
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Welcome to episode 53 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.
This week I have an Interski Review Podcast for you with Derek Tate. Derek went to Interski 2023 in Levi in Finalnd and reports back on some of the seminars and on snow practical sessions that he attended.
The theme at this years' Interski was the 'Guest Experience' which as many of you know by now, is a topic close to my heart.
In the episode we talked about Derek's Interski report, which you can read here:
https://books2read.com/Interski2023CongressReport
You can find Derek's other books, including the one he gave me a copy of here:
https://www.paralleldreams.co.uk/derekntateauthor
Lastly, you can find and book Derek for skiing here:
www.basschamonix.com
Happy listening
Dave
https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-aosta-valley-italy
music by www.bensound.com
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Welcome to episode 52 of the podcast.
This week I have the second part of a 2 part interview I did in the autumn with Stuart Bernard of Ski Focus.
Stuart splits his time between working in the snow domes in the UK and skiing with clients in Tignes.
We chatted about the value of indoor practice, bumps, marketing and more on bad backs and mental approaches to skiing.
You can find Stuart at www.skifocus.co.uk
Also on Instagram @skifocus @stuartjbernard
Happy listening
Dave
music by www.bensound.com
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Welcome to episode 51 of the podcast.
This episode I have the first part of a 2 part interview I did in the autumn with Stuart Bernard of Ski Focus.
Stuart splits his time between working in the snow domes in the UK and skiing with clients in Tignes.
We had a wide reaching chat talking about Stuart's journey to becoming an instructor, ski philosophy, mindset and technique. I found Stuart to be an excellent guest, thoughtful, thorough and interesting.
You can find Stuart at www.skifocus.co.uk
Also on Instagram @skifocus @stuartjbernard
Happy listening
Dave
music by www.bensound.com
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Hello and happy new year to you all. I hope that Santa brought you all new skis and lots of snow.
So here we are at episode 50 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. I'm personally amazed that I have managed to find enough content to keep this interesting for 50 episodes and 80,000 downloads.
For the 50th episode, which also doubles as the late Christmas special, I bring you a great interview with Katie Dobson who is an independent ski instructor based in Chatel in France. She runs a company called Ski Goddess which runs ski camps/holidays specifically for women. You can find Katie at www.skigoddess.co.uk
We chat about stray dogs, her journey to full cert, why she started Ski Goddess, female specific teaching and working and living in France.
This time of the year is always difficult to keep to a regular posting schedule, the ski school is busier than ever but I will do my best.
Enjoy the snow
Dave
music by www.bensound.com