Welcome to episode 64 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode. So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing. This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation and we did this in two different seasons, once in June 2023 before the Australian ski season and the second part in November 2023, just before the start of this winter. We had a great conversation (with decent sound!) and talked in this second part about how you know what you know to be true, why rotational and lateral separation matters, monoboard racing, long skis in the bumps, snow types and the brain as a prediction machine. I love chatting with Tom and I think this really comes through in the podcast. If you want to find Tom, you can go to his website www.bigpictureskiing.com

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

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Welcome to episode 63 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Jamie Kagan and Derek Tate of the Professional Ski Instructors of Europe (PSIE). The PSIE is a sister organisation of the PSIC, Professional Ski Instructors of Canada and shares much of the same pathway and framework as that organisation. There will be tweaks to the pathway for the PSIE that will make it compatible with European marketplace needs. We talk about what the guys are trying to do with the new association and how it aims to complement existing instructor associations in Europe. We talk in depth about what it offers ski instructors and where it is recognised. To find out more about the PSIE, go to www.psie.pro

I had a great time making this episode and I hope you enjoy listening. Dave dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

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Welcome to episode 62 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode. So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation and we did this in two different seasons, once in June 2023 before the Australian ski season and the second part in November 2023, just before the start of this winter. We had a great conversation (with decent sound!) and talked about Tom's online ski coaching business, ski boots, telemark (again, sorry) and flow state. I love chatting with Tom and I think this really comes through in the podcast. If you want to find Tom, you can go to his website www.bigpictureskiing.com

Happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/lessons music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to Episode 61 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. This week my guest probably needs no introduction as you will have all seen Deb's YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/@DebArmstrongSkiStrong but you probably haven't read her bio on what an extraordinary athlete she was in the 70's and 80's, culminating in her greatest success, the GS women's gold medal in the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984. We had a great chat about all aspects of skiing. How the channel came about and her early formative years of skiing that lead up to such amazing success. This was a great conversation with such good energy. I hope you enjoy it. happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/resorts music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 60 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring an avalanche awareness special with Julian Griffiths of European Snowsports. Julian's ski school has lost two instructors free skiing in the last three years to avalanches and this episode is a summary of the police investigation report in to the most recent one, in which Joel and his friend Joel, were taken. Julian is going around giving this talk to any organisation that would like to hear it and you can contact me to be connected to Julian dave@snow-pros.ski

This episode covers the the report and also we talk about how modern media glamourises avalanche risk, as well as how social media encourages risk for attention.

I hope you you get some useful knowledge from this episode.

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

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Hey everyone, welcome to episode 59 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. For this episode, I had long and interesting conversation with John Eames, Director of The Off Piste and Telemark Ski Company and former telemark director for BASI. This conversation is quite telemark centric and covers John's skiing background, the rise and fall of telemark skiing, evolution of equipment and technique versus alpine. You can find more info about John's company here: https://www.facebook.com/TheTelemarkSkiCompany Happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski/lessons music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 58 of the podcast and an interview I did with Perry and Jeff from the new Canadian ski instructor association, The Professional Ski Instructors of Canada, PSIC. We had a great wide ranging chat, talking mostly about the new organisation and their objectives but also chatting other things like Interski, attracting new people into snowsports and Perry and Jeff themselves. You can find out more about PSIC here: www.psic.pro

Happy listening Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

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Welcome to episode 57 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring a return to the pod for Jon and Tom. Jon and Tom have gone in a new direction with their own ski instructor training company, Level Up Ski Coaching. You can find them here: www.levelupskicoaching.com Insta and FB @levelupskicoaching

In this episode we chat all things to do with their new venture, ski instructor cars and accommodation, off season training and skiing robots. On the day that we recorded this it was about 33 degrees in Le Châble and we had a fan on in the background so that is what the background white noise is. I hope that you enjoy the episode as much as I did making it. Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski music by www.bensound.com