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PRO FILE: GRANT BISHOP
Can you tell members a little bit about who you are? Essentially I am a ski-ohalic! In the summer I think about skiing. I have been guiding rivers as a fi shing guide or raft guide every summer since my teenage years, but winter is what captures my mind.
What is your teaching background? Honestly, I completely stumbled into teaching skiing. I needed to make money for college and taught skiing for a winter. I had the full intention of only spending one winter as a ski instructor... luckily things worked out better than my previous plans. Having guided rivers for many years before teaching skiing, the transition was easy for me. During my fi rst few years of teaching,
I got roped into teaching telemark, alpine, track (classical and skate), adaptive, kids, adults… and even leading groups on overnight yurt trips. I taught lessons in German, Spanish, and Italian. I think I fell in love with teaching because of the variety of challenges that come at me every day.
PSIA-AASI TEAM – TELEMARK SPECIALIST; JACKSON HOLE, WY VIEW VIDEO
How cool is it to live in Jackson Hole? Jackson Hole really is a special place in the world. It’s hard to look at the Teton Range and not be inspired. I think it was Teddy Roosevelt who said, “T at is what mountains should look like.” Few places in the world are as ruggedly beautiful or pristine. I was very lucky to have mostly grown up in Jackson Hole in the middle of Grand Teton National Park. As a kid, I was known for always being late for school because of bison blocking the road. T e snow-capped, jagged Tetons also
bring a truly inspirational set of skiers and riders to match the terrain and snowpack. Just riding up the chairlift and looking at tracks on surrounding peaks in Jackson can be eye opening. People here really get after it and send some amazing lines; many of those lines are from your average, anonymous, hard-charging local.
How did it feel to make the PSIA-AASI Team? Completely surreal. When you are in that room with all of the other candidates, you know you’re among people who have trained for years. Nobody crammed the week before tryouts hoping they would magically be chosen. You get the feeling people have poured their lives into that selection event. It took a few weeks for it to sink in. I still feel it hasn’t fully sunk in.
Grant Bishop (second from left) is a new telemark specialist on the PSIA-AASI Team.
What kind of work did you put in to prepare for Team Selection? Going into selection, I felt confi dent in my skiing ability and worked almost exclusively on improving my abilities as a clinician. T e most benefi cial training I had was presenting and taking clinics at InterTele a couple of years prior to PSIA-AASI Team Selection. Presenting to people from other countries – who have very diff erent technical views on skiing – is the best
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New PSIA-AASI Team member Grant Bishop is looking forward to working to on education resources for fellow telemark instructors. Learn more about him from his application video for Team Selection.
preparation I had. It is way better to learn from people with diff ering opinions than you than to simply look up drills and national standards in a book.
Now that you’re on the team, what are your goals? My goals are much more membership- driven rather than personal. For instance, I hate failing people at exams. In the next few years I intend to work with divisions to get more educational materials out there to help people train for exams, and hopefully make it easier and more straightforward to pass without sacrifi cing standards. I also think there are a lot of opportunities to get people involved in telemark skiing and to build the telemark community. T is year we are populating some Intermountain events in conjunction with #worldtelemarkday festivities at Grand Targhee. Hopefully next season, we will also add a national component to the telemark festival that includes a big mountain comp, a sanctioned telemark race, and gear demos.
What does PSIA-AASI membership mean to you? A lifestyle I am very grateful for!
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