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The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors.
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Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
Welcome to part 2 of The Ski Instructor Podcast's episode with Helen Trayfoot who is an independent instructor based in Chatel, France.
This week we chat more about teaching children to ski, female representation in snowsports, teaching in a french ski school and some general technique chat, including pole swing weight. I really enjoyed chatting with Helen and I think that comes across in this pod.
Link to the best ski video on you tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9agAh1Nmu4E
You can find Helen at https://www.facebook.com/helen.trayfootwaugh
For the upcoming QandA episode where I attempt to answer your questions along with a special guest, please write to me at dave@snow-pros.ski
happy listening
Dave
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons
music by www.bensound.com
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Welcome to part 1 of episode 43 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. This episode is with Helen Trayfoot who is an independent instructor based in Chatel, France.
We chat about her twin journeys towards French nationality and full certification. We then go on to discussing teaching children to ski, which is the main focus of these episodes.
New York City cabbie does French numbers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp2J09orYWY
For the upcoming QandA episode where I attempt to answer your questions along with a special guest, please write to me at dave@snow-pros.ski
You won't find me on facebook because I have quit that.
happy listening
Dave
www.snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Welcome to episode 42 of the podcast and to one that I have been a long time getting round to recording.
Colin Martin is a boot fitting specialist who looks after my own boots. He is based in Bicester in the UK and is always on my list of places to visit when I go back to Blighty.
In this episode we chat all things feet and boots, as well as some random chat about boats.
You can find Colin at www.solutions4feet.com on social media or email on fitting@solutions4feet.com
Happy listening and I'll be back next month with the next episode.
Dave
music by www.bensound.com
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Welcome to episode 41 and this year's Christmas special roundtable chat.
Joining me were Phil Brown of Impulse Racing, Julian Griffiths of European Snowsports and Steve Hindman from the US Nordic Demo Team.
We chatted on a wide range of topics from topics as diverse as mince pies to the last two years running a ski business during covid. We talk also about digital tech and it's place in skiing as well as the lack of meaningful teaching and client care training in instructor systems.
We had great fun making this, I hope that you enjoy listing to this over the holidays.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Dave
music by www.bensound.com
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Welcome to episode 40, the second part of my interview with Jon Ahlsen.
In this one, we go a lot more in depth about skiing and we get into detail about different national ski systems, lots (more)chat about the Japanese technical champs, an insight into the mind of a national team race coach, in depth technical discussion and a review of last winter.
You can find out more about Jon and his work here:
https://www.instructorcourses.skinewgen.com/ski-instructor-courses/verbier-prof-dev/#trainers
https://www.projectedproductions.com/jon-ahlsen
happy listening
Dave
music by www.bensound.com
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
In episode 39 and 40 of the podcast, I chat to Jon Ahlsen. I went to his place in Verbier and spent a wonderful 2.5 hours chatting all things skiing and life in general. Jon is a deep thinker on most subjects and I very much enjoyed getting to know him more that I already did.
We chat in part 1 about summer skiing on the glacier, corparate life vs skiing life, fashion, his journey in skiing and much more.
You can find out more about the higher certification level training program that Jon and Tom run in Verbier here:
https://www.instructorcourses.skinewgen.com/ski-instructor-courses/verbier-prof-dev/#trainers
and you can find Jon on instagram @jon_ahlsen
Happy listening
Dave
www.snow-pros.ski/expatskiguide
music by www.bensound.com
Wednesday Oct 06, 2021
Wednesday Oct 06, 2021
This week I have a great interview that I did with Dan Egan, US ski hall of famer and author of a new skiing book '30 years in a white haze' which you can find here https://www.white-haze.com
Dan has featured in numerous Warren Miller ski movies and runs his own ski camps in the US and Europe www.skiclinics.com
We chat about all things skiing, growing up in Boston, skiing as a kid and then growing up and coaching them, polar exploration, Mount Elbrus and much more.
This was a great interview and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Dave Burrows
https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-school-portes-du-soleil
music by www.bensound.com
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Welcome to episode 37 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and part 2 of this interview with Peter Kuwall. I had so much to talk to PK about that I had to extend this interview across two episodes.
We carry on our interview and talk about the effects of Brexit, transcendent performance, his time on the BASI board and the long awaited living in a barn story.
If you want to get in touch with PK, you can contact him at www.britishskischool.com/chatel
Happy listening
Dave
https://www.snow-pros.ski/glacier-3000les-diablerets
music by www.bensound.com
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Welcome to episode 36 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and one that I have been looking forward to since I first began drawing up my list of people I wanted to speak to.
Peter Kuwall is my guru, a guy who has probably forgotten more about skiing than I will ever know.
We talk about how he came up in the industry, the boom years of Scottish skiing, how teaching and mechanical engineering relate and the old French technical test that was the forerunner to the Eurotest.
I always love chatting to PK and i think it really comes out in this interview. If you want to find him you can catch him at www.britishskischool.com/chatel
Happy listening
Dave
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
https://www.snow-pros.ski/instructors
music by www.bensound.com
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Welcome to episode 35 of the ski instructor podcast which will be the episode that takes it past 50,000 downloads. I'm a bit late publishing this one, I've been out recording podcasts and generally doing other stuff not related to skiing.
This week, I had the chance to record a lovely interview with John Greenwood, who runs the Silksworth Dry Ski Centre in the North East of England https://www.everyoneactive.com/centre/silksworth-sports-complex-and-ski-slope/
We had a great chat covering topics as diverse as school ski trips to Norway, quirks to teaching on a dry slope, ski prep for dry slope skiing and load of other stuff in-between.
You can reach John at https://www.facebook.com/john.greenwood.16
It's a good interview with good energy. I hope you like it.
Dave
https://www.snow-pros.ski/summer-ski-camp
music by www.bensound.com