NEWS OF NOTE I
LINEUP PSIA-AASI AND USSA SIGN HISTORIC AGREEMENT FOR COLLABORATION
n what will prove to be a historic step forward for the ski and snowboard industry PSIA-AASI and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) are now working under a letter of agreement to further collaborate in the interest of
professional development. T e two organizations have been working together more closely in recent years, with leaders of the U.S. Ski Team, USSA Sport Education, and U.S. Ski Team athletes benefi tting from deep professional connections with key PSIA-AASI personnel. Part of the agreement is to better inform the organizations’ memberships and the industry as a whole about existing collaborations, including the following collaborative
relationships and endeavors: Q PSIA Alpine Team member Michael Rogan (who was recently named coach of the PSIA Alpine Team for its upcoming 2016-20 term) is an assistant coach with USSA.
QT e U.S. Snowboard Coach Education program [
http://tiny.cc/ojlm5x] was developed in 2006 by a group of coaches with strong backgrounds in both USSA and AASI. Many elements of AASI technical principles were incorporated into the program.
QAASI Snowboard Team Coach Lane
QCurrent PSIA-certifi ed Level III alpine instructors may advance straight to USSA Level 100 testing [
http://tiny.cc/ojlm5x] without
taking the and AASI-certifi ed Level
on-snow clinic, III snowboard
Q USSA coaches can use PSIA-AASI clinics for continuing education credits.
instructors may advance directly to Level 200 coaching clinics.
QUSSA provides some content for 32 Degrees.
QRon Kipp (USSA Alpine Education Manager) contributed to the biomechanics and physics chapters for the new PSIA Alpine Technical Manual and was a technical reviewer for PSIA-AASI’s alpine and snowboard manuals (as well as its upcoming Cross Country Technical Manual). Kipp has also assisted with numerous PSIA Alpine Team clinics.
USSA’s Ron Kipp (left) with PSIA Alpine Team member Dave Lyon.
QActive PSIA certifi cation examiners (those division-level evaluators who assess instructors’ teaching skills, technical skills, and skiing/riding ability in relation to PSIA- AASI’s national certifi cation standards) may, and are encouraged to, take the Accredited Evaluators SkillsQuest course [
http://tiny.cc/iilm5x] with USSA and act as SkillsQuest evaluators.
Q PSIA Alpine Team members are members of the USSA clinician’s staff for the USSA’s Level 100 Alpine Fundamentals clinics.
10 | 32 DEGREES • WINTER 2016
Q Jon Casson is the new USSA Coach Development Manager and serves
as
QBryan Fish, the USSA Cross Country Team Head Development Coach, provided a technical review and edit of PSIA’s upcoming Cross Country Technical Manual. Additionally, the new PSIA Cross Country Technical Model incorporates the USSA Sports Performance Pyramid.
the Chairman of the Snowboard Coach Education Committee while working closely with AASI. He is also a snowboard examiner within AASI.
Clegg sits on USSA’s Snowboard Coach Education Committee, and has acted as a Certifi cation Snowboard Trainer.
At the U.S. Ski Team level, many athletes – including Olympians Steven Nyman, Alice McKennis, Stacey Cook, Andrew Weibrecht, Jackie Wiles, Jared Goldberg, David Chodounsky and Marco Sullivan, as well as members of the U.S. development team and National Training Group (NTG) – have participated in spring clinics with PSIA and identifi ed the importance of creating a solid foundation for self-assessment and self-coaching through this program. USSA Alpine Director Patrick Riml and U.S. Ski Team Head Men’s Coach Sasha Rearick have commented that these clinics with PSIA Alpine Team members
have helped their staff be more eff ective by using simpler, more focused instruction and emphasizing skiing fundamentals with U.S. Ski Team athletes.
USSA and PSIA-AASI are performing
a full audit of the programs, resources, and certifi cations available to further identify what may be valuable to the other partner and to explore further strategies for sharing educational resources. At the club level in particular, USSA is placing more emphasis on teaching skills, developing basic skiing and snowboarding skills in youth, and giving coaches more options for professional
development.
PSIA-AASI has established curriculum in these areas.
SARAH BRUNSON/USSA
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