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The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors.
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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
Monday Feb 04, 2019
Monday Feb 04, 2019
In this, the very first episode of The Ski Instructor podcast, I interview Phil Smith who was here in Champery/Les Crosets for the Welsh Championships.
Phil and I talked on a wide variety of topics, the old wild west days of early British ski instructors in France, cultural differences as well as Phil's own unique spin on open and close learning environments. You can find out more about Phil in the links below.
I've got more great interviews coming up and I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I did recording it.
Dave Burrows
Director and Owner - SnowPros Ski School
Phil Smith - Snoworks, Tignes
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