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The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors.
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Sunday Apr 12, 2020
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
Welcome to episode 19 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. This episode is a bit of a departure from normal in that I'm not interviewing a skier. However, there is lots of ski related chat in the pod and lots of content that relates to and is applicable to skiing.
My conversation this week is with Danny Miller who is a qualified Osteopath and who is halfway through a doctorate in Health Psychology.
This episode flowed out of a late night conversation that I had with Danny after a very enjoyable round of golf in Portugal. We discussed the concept of The Fear Avoidance Model and how knowledge of this could benefit the young skiers that we work with.
We were due to roll out this as a presentation to groups of young sportsmen and women in various International Schools in our region but corona put paid to that so we decided to make a podcast out of it.
What follows is a long conversation about various topics but the main one being how better we can manage injury when it happens to us through a better mindset.
You can find the slide deck here;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ffqj95678f5tkk/DB%20SnowPros.pptx?dl=0
You can find Danny at dannymiller702@yahoo.co.uk
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
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Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Episode 18 of The Ski Instructor Podcast features none other than Joe Beer. I count Joe as a good friend, mentor and all round good guy. We've skied together not enough in my opinion but every time I do, it's always a mind bending experience.
We talked at length on many topics, skiing, teaching, Andorra, music, telemark and more.
I hope that you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.
You can get in touch with Joe via the following places;
Alpine Learning Curves
Joe the Strummer
https://m.facebook.com/JoeLeStrummer/?ref=bookmarks
Joe's excellent book
Cheers
Dave
Dave Burrows
Director
SnowPros Ski School
music by www.bensound.com
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Welcome to episode 17 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.
These are strange times and if you are as sick to death as I am about Corona news of one type or another, I bring you my latest interview with Malcolm Erskine of the British Ski Academy.
We talk at length about the set up of the academy and how it functions before moving onto some discussion about when specific instruction turns into coaching and a couple of other tangents.
I hope you enjoy the podcast and because everyone has suddenly become free, I expect to be able to interview a few more people in fairly short order so watch this space.
You can find Malcolm at the British Ski Academy https://www.britskiacad.org.uk
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
Director
SnowPros Ski School
music by www.bensound.com
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Hello
Welcome to episode 16 from a snowy (finally) alps. It's been a very weird winter here, lots of early snow and then nothing for the whole of January, followed by a wet and windy February. Compounding that is Coronavirus cancellations all over the place in March.
As a welcome diversion, I had a lovely conversation with Dr Jim Taylor who joined me via skype on a stormy night in my office. There were some connection problems on the line so you might notice some echo on my voice and some cut off answers from Dr Jim.
We had a chat including visualisation and things instructors can do to help clients from a psychological perspective, amongst other things.
You can find Dr Jim at https://www.drjimtaylor.com/4.0/dr-jim-taylor/aboutdrjimtaylor/
I hope you enjoy this episode.
Cheers
Dave
Dave Burrows
Director
SnowPros Ski School
music by www.bensound.com
Saturday Jan 18, 2020
Saturday Jan 18, 2020
Welcome to episode 15 of the The Ski Instructor Podcast from a cold and dry Switzerland.
This week I am podcast host and also super fan as I try to contain my excitement when interviewing Taco from the Piste Off Podcast who also happens to be u14s coach at Sun Valley. I've been listening to Piste Off for years and it's my favourite podcast.
I've been looking forward to doing this podcast for a long time and it didn't disappoint. It's even improved my own skiing in the last few days.
We chat about the World Cup, Manny Feller, 3 magic points of ski racing, recreational vs racing turns and much more. It's another long one so strap yourselves in.
If you want to get in touch with Taco, you can find him at;
Instagram - @pisteoffpodcast
https://www.instagram.com/pisteoffpodcast/?hl=bn
or by email at jtautkus@svsef.org
Thanks for all of the comments and support
Dave
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Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
This week I travelled to Megeve to speak to Simon Butler.
Simon has just won a very significant court battle with the French state over the right for ski instructors at all levels to work in France. This series of court cases stemmed from Simon's arrest on the slopes of Megeve in 2013. He also went to court with the British Association of Snowsports Instructors in 2017 which we discuss in part 2.
In this episode I wanted Simon to have a chance to tell his side of the story and get it on the record completely, without any spin or soundbites that we see in other media and social networks. I present this to you, the listener, with as minimal comment or opinion from me as I was able to do.
Below I link to Simon's business SB Ski as well as the link to the contact details of Jean-Yves Lapeyrere as mentioned. You can contact Jean-Yves if you wish you follow the declaration process irrespective of if Brexit applies to you or not.
Thank you for listening this year and I wish you a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2020, as well as lots of powder and bluebird days in the ski season.
Dave
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
Simon Butler
Jean-Yves Lapeyrere
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Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Hello from a stormy Swiss alps.
This week I've got a great interview with Pete Gillespie who is the Head of Snowsports at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead in the UK (an indoor real snow slope) as well as International and Education Director at the Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors.
We talk about many diverse topics including skiing in the Balkans, junior race teams going indoors and early season technical focus.
You can find Pete at;
happy listening
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
music by www.bensound.com
Wednesday Nov 20, 2019
Wednesday Nov 20, 2019
Welcome to episode 11 from the very snowy Swiss Alps. You might have heard that there has been some very serious snowfall already in the southern alps with resorts like Saas Fee, Cervinia and Zermatt getting absolutely hosed in the last week.
It's snowy here also in the Western end of the alps and the temperatures are cold. Hopefully this means a good and early start to the season.
This week I have a short interview with Jon Ballou, the Boss of The Aspen Ski School. That's the title I hear in my head anyway but actually, his full title is Managing Director, Ski and Snowboard Schools, Aspen Skiing Company. You can find out more about what that all means when you listen to the episode.
We talk about managing such a large operation, teaching trends and a bit of tech. No podcast with Jon would be complete without a bit of chat about the movie Aspen Extreme too.
You can find Jon on facebook as Jonathan Ballou or on his youtube channel of the same name.
https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.ballou.7
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Ko-b6WfmZWWxyi6rj14hg
I hope you enjoy the episode, see you on the next one.
Dave Burrows
music by www.bensound.com
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Hello from a very autumnal Switzerland.
This week I interviewed Terry Godbout who is the founder of the Elite Skiing Facebook Group and www.eliteskiing.com
I finally managed to work out how to make calls over the internet sound ok when I'm recording them and I hope that you enjoy this chat that I had with Terry as much as I did.
He is a guy with a great deal of experience in the ski industry and we spoke at length about the origins of the page and website, as well as his views on subjects including the World Cup, general skiing technique, learning to ski, moguls and much more.
You can find Elite Skiing here https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627711514109344/
and Terry here https://www.facebook.com/terry.godbout
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
music by www.bensound.com
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Friday Sep 13, 2019
I hope you had a good summer.
This week, I travelled to Verbier to meet someone I have been wanting to meet for a long time, Julian Griffiths of ES.
We spoke at great length over coffee and in his office about his history in skiing, Brexit and the history of British and French ski relations in Europe.
I had a great time making this one and I think there is scope for a follow up because we didn't touch on half of what I wanted to talk about.
You can find Julian at www.europeansnowsport.com
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
music by www.bensound.com