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The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors.
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Sep 23, 2020
Sep 23, 2020
1 hr 31 min
Welcome to episode 26 of the podcast and one that will push us through 33,000 downloads! Thank you for all of you that have been in touch, downloaded the podcast and been a part of it. Thank you also to www.kaestle.com for their kind sponsorship.
This week I have a recording that was made in late July in Zermatt with Demian Franzen. Demian is an educator for Swiss Snowsports, was on the Swiss Demo Team until last year and is one hell of a skier as I know from first hand experience!
We talk at length about the Swiss Snowsports qualifications, life on the demo team and his life on the road as a ski racer, as well as the Swiss style and skiing culture in the country.
I always enjoy chatting with Demian. He's a great guy and this really shows through in this interview.
If you want to reach or book Demi you can find him at franzendemi@gmx.ch
Happy listening
Dave
SnowPros Ski School
https://www.snow-pros.ski/making-ski-school-easier-parents
music by www.bensound.com
Aug 31, 2020
Aug 31, 2020
1 hr 34 min
This week, I travelled to Verbier to meet for a second interview for the podcast, Julian Griffiths of European Snowsport. This podcast is sponsored by www.Kaestle.com
This was something of a covid special and in this episode we attempt tomato sense of the season just gone and what skiing will look like this winter for instructors and ski schools.
We also chat about the new regime at BASI.
You can find Julian at www.europeansnowsport.com
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
https://www.snow-pros.ski/get-the-most-out-childs-ski-lessons
music by www.bensound.com
Aug 5, 2020
Aug 5, 2020
2 hr 1 min
Hello and welcome from a sunny Switzerland to Episode 24 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. This podcast is sponsored by Kaestle Skis www.kaestle.com
This week I have a fun interview with Lynn Mill of Val D Ski Instructors. Lynn is also a BASI trainer and National Education Team member as well as an ex-racer for Great Britain.
We had a brilliant and fun chat about all things skiing and touched on a few female specific issues such as equipment and teaching styles.
Lynn has just become a mother for the first time and we talk about that and how that effects one's skiing.
You can contact Lynn at www.valdskiinstructors.com
I hope you enjoy this episode.
Dave
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
https://www.snow-pros.ski/get-the-most-out-childs-ski-lessons
music by www.bensound.com
Jul 10, 2020
Jul 10, 2020
2 hr 2 min
Welcome to episode 23 of the ski instructor podcast sponsored by Kästle Skis. The ski I talked about in this episode is the FX86 - https://www.kaestle.com/en/alpin/skis/show/fx86/
This week, I chat to Josh Foster, former Ski School director at Big White and various other places but now running his own business Snowsports Unlimited.
We talk on a wide range of topics including the CSIA, the Ski Tips series for Ski TV, Interski, similarities between Ice Hockey and Skiing and a whole bunch more.
I really enjoyed this chat with Josh and I hope that you enjoy listening to it.
You can find Josh at;
https://www.snowsportsunlimited.com
https://www.instagram.com/ssujosh/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/snowsportsunlimited/
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
https://www.snow-pros.ski/why-ski-with-us
music by www.bensound.com
Jun 11, 2020
Jun 11, 2020
1 hr 33 min
Welcome to Episode 22 of The Ski Instructor Podcast sponsored by Kästle Skis. https://www.kaestle.com/en/
In May I had the chance to go and meet Tom Waddington at his B&B Una Lodge in Le Châble, near Verbier. I've known Tom for a long time but it was lovely to have the time to sit down with him and chat all things skiing.
We covered a wide range of topics including what we can learn from the best ski racers, Gap years, rugby/skiing parallels, sportsmen and women as learners and loads more.
I really enjoyed this interview podcast and I hope you do too. You can find Tom at;
https://www.facebook.com/tomwaddingtonskier/
https://www.instagram.com/tomwaddington_skier/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnqaLJPR8U
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-les-diableret
music by www.bensound.com
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
1 hr 53 min
Welcome to episode 21 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. This will be the episode that takes us over 25,000 downloads of this podcast and I thank everyone that is taking the time to listen to these.
In this episode, I chat to former BASI trainer Andi McCann who was also my examiner for the Level 3 technical exam a long time ago. I got a lot out of that exam and some of the things that Andi talked about on that exam have stayed with me ever since and indeed we talk about a couple of them in this episode.
In this episode we also talked about Ron LeMasters' amazing book Ultimate Skiing, which you can find here;
if you don't have a copy you should, it's probably the best book on ski technique there is.
We also chat about Andi's skiing background, boots, ski poles and the ski caddie.
If you want to get in touch with Andi, you can reach him at andi@mccannix.com
Happy listening
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
https://www.snow-pros.ski/villars-ski-school
music by www.bensound.com
Apr 25, 2020
Apr 25, 2020
1 hr 38 min
Welcome to episode 20 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.
Firstly, I can't believe we are on episode 20 and over 24,000 downloads of the podcast and counting. I want to thank you all for listening to my conversations, thank the guests for their time and knowledge and to thank all of you for listening and getting in touch.
This podcast is with Ed Drake, former Great Britain downhill skier, Olympian and the host of the ever excellent Ski Racing Podcast. I've been wanting to get hold of Ed for a while and it's not been easy because he's an extremely busy guy but I'm so glad that I did.
Ed is sponsored by Atomic. I've checked out their Redster boot and it looks really cool;
https://amzn.to/2KxJqW5
We had an extensive chat about his career, what he is up to now, falling off a cliff post ski career, coaching and being coached. There's even some Eurotest chat in there.
You can find Ed via instagram or twitter @eddrake
I hope you enjoy listening to this episode.
Dave
Dave Burrows
SnowPros Ski School
music by www.bensound.com
Apr 12, 2020
Apr 12, 2020
1 hr 43 min
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
music by www.bensound.com
Apr 2, 2020
Apr 2, 2020
1 hr 34 min
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
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 20, 2020
1 hr 14 min
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