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couldn’t be more excited to see how team members will engage with divisions and individual members to share educational insights. T is Coach’s Corner department off ers updates on what the team is working on to help you be a better instructor. In this issue, Nordic Team Coach David Lawrence talks about a bold new direction for the cross country and telemark specialists on the team. It’s a great time to be a free-heeler!
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2016 marks a distinctive change for the Nordic Team. Every member, except for me, is new. Also, there are no all-mountain, cross-discipline experts. We have two telemark specialists (Grant Bishop and Greg Dixon), and two cross country specialists (Emily Lovett and Greg Rhodes).
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resh from this fall’s Team Training event in Summit County, Colorado, the newly selected PSIA-AASI Team is champing at the bit to share far-reaching messages and training tactics with association members this season (and beyond). As team manager, I T is distinctive change speaks to how
telemark and cross country skiing are evolving. Former team member Ross Matlock summed it up this way: “Cross country and telemark are two branches from the same tree. But now the two sports have branched so far apart that we need to start thinking of them as two separate trees.” T e 2016-20 Nordic Team represents two distinct sports, but we are one team
with a shared purpose. Namely, to: QProvide value to members QCreate great experiences Q Improve as a team and as individuals Q Connect with industry partners outside of PSIA-AASI
WHERE TO GO FROM HERE To bring our purpose statement to life at Team Training, we fl eshed it out with ideas, discussed opportunities, and took
READ IT, SEE IT, THEN SKI IT
Want to boost your understanding of cross country or telemark technique before you get a chance to get on snow with a PSIA Nordic Team member? Pick up a print and/or digital technical manual for the discipline of your choice at
TheSnowPros.org. Each includes video that help seal the deal on your understanding of movements and tactics.
action. First we focused on “improving as a team and as individuals.’” For example, the telemark guys took a deep dive into the 5 Fundamentals of Alpine Skiing with Team Manager Jeb Boyd, discovering and clarifying the similarities that telemark and alpine share. Grant, Greg, and Jeb also discussed what makes telemark unique, the lead change. Because lead change aff ects pressure distribution and adds rotation in the hip sockets, it alters how we think about skiing fundamentals. T e telemark skiers – as well as members of the snowboard and adaptive teams –
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