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The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors.
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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
Sunday Jun 30, 2019
Sunday Jun 30, 2019
I hope you are all having a great summer. I took a trip over the Grand St Bernard Pass to go and see Phil Brown of Impulse Racing. Phil is a year round ski race coach and in heavily involved in the UK schools ski racing scene.
We chat at length about many diverse topics such as skis, running a business, collaboration, the coaching vs instructing and much more.
Phil is a real character and this shines through in our interview. It was a pleasure to chat to him and I really think you'll enjoy this episode.
You can find Phil at:
Impulse Racing - www.impulse-racing.co.uk
National Schools SnowSports Association - www.schoolsskiracing.co.uk
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School - www.snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
This week for episode 7 I had the pleasure of chatting with Tom Gellie. Spoiler - the sound quality is not amazing on this one as it was done over Skype. It gets better though - stick with it.
Tom has represented Australia with APSI at two Interskis, once on Telemark and once on Alpine.
In addition he runs his business, Functional Body, out of Sydney dealing with helping people get out of pain and specialising in perfecting body movement.
We covered lots of topics in our conversation including Tom's personal skiing journey, how the body works, ski equipment including a terrible business idea for someone out there and how having kids impacts your skiing.
If you need to get in touch with Tom you can get him at the following places;
Insta - www.instagram.com/tomgellie/
Facebook - www.facebook.com/functionalbodybalance
web - www.functionalbody.com.au
youtube - tgellie
and finally at the Global Skiing Podcast - www.podcastgarden.com/podcast/globalskiing
I hope you enjoy the podcast, I'll catch you on the next one.
Dave Burrows
Director and Founder
SnowPros Ski School
music by www.bensound.com
Monday May 06, 2019
Monday May 06, 2019
I hope you all had a great winter. It's not all over for some of us though and this week, I chat to Scott Pleva from Inside Out Skiing.
Scott works year round in an indoor Snowdome in Hemel Hempstead in the UK. He also takes his indoor client base on overseas trips to Europe.
We had a really good chat about teaching skiing indoors vs outdoors and went in depth about rules and regulations for teaching skiing in Europe. We finished off with some big buy skiing chat.
It was awesome to catch up with Scott again, he really is one of the good guys in our industry and I can't wait to get him out here again skiing with us.
You can find Scott though his website at www.insideoutskiing.com
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
music by bensound. www.bensound.com
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
This week I travelled to Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains in the Chamonix Valley to interview Derek Tate, the Chairman of the Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors (IASI) and Director of the British Alpine Ski School (BASS) in the Chamonix Valley.
The Irish created quite an impression this year at Interski and this was down to Derek and his team's hard work and innovative ideas.
We talk extensively about Interski and what came out of it this time around, teaching in the Chamonix Valley, developing flow, dogs and much more.
I hope you enjoy this podcast and if you want to get in touch with Derek, you can get hold of him at the following places;
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
music by www.bensound.com
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
For this episode of the Ski Instructor Podcast, I travelled to Verbier to interview Warren Smith of The Warren Smith Ski Academy. www.warrensmith-skiacademy.com
This was the end of something of a journey for me because I initially learnt to ski as an instructor with the Academy years ago in Saas Fee and it was great to return to where it all started for me.
We talked about many subjects including fatigue in ski instructors, technique, competition, motorbikes and much more.
Warren is sponsored by Voelkl and skis the new Deacon 74 which you can find here;
I also should mention the causes that Warren supports that he mentions in the interview.
SnowCamp - www.snow-camp.org.uk
Protect our Winters - www.protectourwinters.org
Thank you for listening.
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
music by Bensound www.bensound.com
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
For this episode, I interview Ali MacGrain, PSIA and NZSIA instructor, trainer and examiner. Ali just recently moved to a new role at Squaw Valley in the USA having previously worked at Northstar, Mammoth, Cardrona, Verbier to name but a few.
We talk in this episode about differences in national styles and teaching between systems, a bit of tech chat, where the money goes for an all day private lesson in US resorts and much more.
It was a real pleasure catching up with Ali again and I hope you enjoy listening to the podcast as much as I did making it.
You can get in touch with Ali via Facebook @alimacgrain
Thank you for listening and see you on the next one.
Dave Burrows
Director and Owner - SnowPros Ski School
music by www.bensound.com
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
In this episode I interview Jaz Lamb. Jaz is the Director of BASS (British Alpine Ski School) in Morzine as well as the Director of the BASI (British Association of Ski Instructors) National Education Team.
Jaz talks at length about his history in skiing, BASI's involvement in the upcoming Interski Congress in Bulgaria, ski instructors and business and much more.
We also chatted about ski pole length. These are the amazing Komperdell poles that I use;
I think Jaz gave a great interview and was a super interesting guy to talk to.
You can find out more about Jaz here;
https://www.britishskischool.com/BASS_Resorts/Morzine
Thanks for listening!
Dave Burrows
music from www.bensound.com