group activities. Progress is tracked through a report card- style booklet. Sample activities, terrain, and outcomes are standardized in each level. Drills and activities are easy to use by less experienced instructors and comprehensive enough to be valid for veteran instructor.
Top takeaway: Developing something like this that is
High-energy skiing and riding -- with a healthy dose of national pride -- is the hallmark of team demonstrations at Interski.
T e skiers who look the best and inspire the public to ski better ski highly dynamically while staying completely in the fall line. T e specifi c conditions gave rise to this style of very short-turn carving. T e public seeing and admiring the athleticism of this style of skiing created the demand for instruction in this. Many countries aspire to World Cup technique. T e
Koreans have created another competition to inspire high- performance skiing. T roughout the country the KSIA (Korean Ski Instructors Association) runs Technical Skiing Championships at both a professional and amateur level. T ese competitions judge specifi c forms: short turns, long turns, GS (in gates), and moguls. T e short-turn progression that was presented is designed to lead skiers to the image and performance demonstrated in the short turn part of the Technical Championships.
Top takeaway: T e Korean system is a well thought out, logical, methodology for developing specifi c outcomes. T e system is form-based and very specifi c on what the highest level of each form is. Not unlike the concept of fi nal forms from the early American Ski Technique (AST), the forms are to be mastered independently rather than serve the development of a broad spectrum of skills. – Jonathan Ballou, PSIA Alpine Team
SWITZERLAND
Swiss Snow Academy and Swiss Snow League T is was a well-facilitated workshop on Swiss Snowport’s new program for standardizing developmental pathways in children’s ski/ride schools. T e program’s main aims are to create consistency in kids lessons throughout Swiss Snowsports Schools by tracking progress of kids through standard levels (similar to USSA’s SkillsQuest, although less task based); and to motivate and inspire kids to love snowsports through measured achievement. T e program is noncompetitive and based on fun
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internally monitored by PSIA-AASI, and supported by the Teams and national education department would create a centralized, usable product that could help create consistency in teaching methodology and recognition of achievement across the country. T is could also help create retention of snowsports participants. – Jonathan Ballou, PSIA Alpine Team
Age Development Formula for Attention Span
In this on-snow clinic, the Swiss presented a formula whereby they take the student’s AGE x 2 plus 2 minutes to get the amount of time they should spend on a task. Students get a booklet that they can take around to Swiss ski schools and when they meet criteria they can get pins. T is helps sell lessons and keeps kids in Swiss schools. Exercises or tasks that get new levels or pins are designed based on the kids’ developmental stages as well as the group they are, such as race, freestyle, free ride, etc. – Robin Barnes, PSIA Alpine Team
Interski attendees discover Swiss instruction strategies.
Children, Freestyle Come First In Switzerland, the fi rst step in the certifi cation
process is a children’s-specifi c course and exam. T ey also introduce switch riding right after basic linked turns. As a nation, they use the same progress report card at all resorts. T e report card is on the back of the pass and when each level is completed you get a sticker to fi ll a box. T at card is also a lift pass, ID card, and can have credit on it for purchasing meals, etc.
Top Takeaway: I like the idea of introducing switch early in order for students to be more confi dent in their riding skills at an earlier stage. Learning to teach kids fi rst creates more
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