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The Sultans of Ski


Emma McClelland catches up with Rupert Tildesley, representative of the BASI Interski Demo Team and director of one of Europe’s leading ski schools, for a chat about snowpack, sun cream and synchronised skiing


*BASI level 2 ski instructors. I was one of them. Rupert had trained us for two weeks, fi lming our mistakes (including my own very ungraceful carve turn to face plant moment), assessing our teaching methods and fi ne-tuning our techniques. As well as being one of the most experienced top level ski coaches in the world, Rupert is also a representative of the BASI Interski Demo Team, a Director of Mountain Masters Ski School and a Director of the International School of Excellence, a company running offi cial BASI courses in Val D’Isere! So what is the BASI Interski Demo Team and what do they do? Well, every four years, representatives of the world’s skiing nations, of which there are 36, meet for a week-long event called the Interski Congress. “It’s an opportunity for diff erent nations to exchange ideas on technique and teaching progressions – in essence it’s like a world conference for skiing and snowboarding,” Rupert explains. Each nation sends a technical team to the Interski Congress to demonstrate the way this nation


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he last time I saw Rupert, we were standing on the side of a mountain in Val d’Isere in the glorious sunshine with a group of freshly qualifi ed


skis to the rest of the world’s skiers. “Whilst not strictly a competition,” Rupert adds, “it is important to show your nation at its best. It’s an honour to be selected for such a team that comprised people like Alain Baxter (former


Olympian and World Cup racer) at the last event in 2011 in St. Anton” . T e demonstrations are a wonder to behold as the skiers (or snowboarders) perform in synchronisation almost like a choreographed


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