The Ski Instructor Podcast

Welcome to episode 46 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Harry McFadden part 2.

Our conversation carries on and in part 2 I finally put to bed my questions about the Japanese technical champs.  We also talk about China, Italy and this summer's NZ season. Finally we talk tech on where the turn comes from.

I hope you are all well and enjoying this hot summer or southern hemisphere winter.

You can ski with Harry at harry@rookieacademy.com or find him on insta @harrymcfadden

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

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Welcome to episode 45 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Harry McFadden part 1.

Hopefully this episode will be just in time for the start of the New Zealand winter and will provide some inspiration for all those heading to NZ to ski.

We chat on a wide range of topics including getting your new season going, fatigue between seasons, his journey to full cert and differences in systems.

Part 2 will follow in a few weeks with another hour or so of this interview.

I hope you are all well and enjoying the summer or southern hemisphere winter.

SnowPros are recruiting.  If you think you have what it takes to join our team, message me and tell me why on www.snow-pros.ski/contact

You can ski with Harry at harry@rookieacademy.com or find him on insta @harrymcfadden

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

p.s.  sorry for the strimming noise in the background

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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

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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

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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

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/instructors

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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

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

dave@snow-pros.ski

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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

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

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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

dave@snow-pros.ski

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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

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-school-portes-du-soleil

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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

chatel@britishskischool.com

 

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/glacier-3000les-diablerets

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