Hargrave. “We believe that is partially due to the inability to feel connected to each guest’s success. If the instructor is connected to the guest’s success, there is more opportunity for both to experience a great lesson.” Focusing on the People Skills element of Te Learning
Connection, Hargrave said the key elements are: QPeople make the difference. QWe are offering on- and off-snow training. QWe are focusing on the instructor’s ability to connect. Q Student conversion will come through managing the fun and flow – and building powerful connections.
THE THREE FUNDAMENTALS OF NORDIC SKIING Te PSIA Nordic Team shared with its international compatriots a Cross Country Technical Model developed in collaboration with the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA). At the center of the model is the USSA Sports Performance Triangle (predicated on body position, movements, timing, and power). Te base of the pyramid represents body position, which the
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teaching progression or organize on-snow progressions. On snow at Cerro Castor, the U.S. team, comprised of
Megan Spurkland and David Lawrence, explored the Sports Performance Triangle and the three cross country skiing fundamentals through two different progressions, one for double poling and one for beginner skate skiers. Te model was well received and understood by all participating countries. Te skate progression, in which Lawrence used a “split skate” progression, elicited one response from the Swiss delegate who stated that they try not to teach outside of the ideal movement pattern. Keeping both feet on the snow to learn how to push and edge the ski was using movement patterns that did not include single-leg balance. However, once the context was explained – specifically, that isolating edging, body position, flexion and extension movements, and abduction and adduction movements in the absence of balancing on one leg – help skiers learn the skill, everyone agreed these types of exercises help skiers acquire fundamental cross country skills. (Go to
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instructional models. It’s also a place to forge international bonds. Tele teams from various nations gathered for a collective ski-down on the demonstration hill, and a local family played host to multi-national cross country contingent (see page 23).
POWER:
SPEED X FORCE TIMING: OF
POLES & BODY MOVEMENTS
FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT: ROTARY, FLEXION & EXTENSION, ADDUCTION & ABDUCTION INVERSION & EVERSION
FUNDAMENTAL ATHLETIC BODY POSITION: FLEXED ANKLES & KNEES, ROUNDED BACK & SHOULDERS, CORE OVER ANKLES
ADAPTIVE TEAM OFFERS TECHNICAL CLARITY PSIA-AASI Adaptive Team Coach Kim Seevers and team member Geoff Krill hit the slopes and lecture rooms of Interski 2015 with a clean and thorough developmental framework based on Adaptive Skiing Fundamentals. “Te people skills have always been there when it comes to
GLIDE: POLE RECOVERY, ARM RETURN, FOOT RETURN
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skier changes and adjusts to numerous variables throughout the cycle of athletic performance. Tis allows coaches and/ or instructors to describe, show, or examine what the athlete looks like at any moment in time. How the athlete moves from one body position to another requires fundamental movements, timing, and power. How skiers move, coordinate those movements, and create power is foundational to the conversation of cross country skiing. As outlined by the Nordic Team at Interski, the three fundamentals that skate and classic skiing share are: push- off, weight-transfer, and glide. Tese three fundamentals help organize the components of teaching a complicated sport. Ski programs can use the fundamentals to craft a multi-week
teaching adaptive classes, because teachers have always wanted to make a connection,” said Seevers. “What was lacking was providing those teachers with the technical skills for teaching.” To that end, the team unveiled a stunning new digital resource that will be soon be available to members: Te Fundamental Mechanics of Alpine Skiing Across Adaptive Disciplines (see page 60 for more information). Te new resource pinpoints
Adaptive Team member Geoff Krill draws a crowd.
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Forward
Motion
WEIGHT TRANSFER: MOVING FROM SKI TO SKI
PUSH OFF: WAX SET, EDGING, POLING
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