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The Ski Instructor Podcast

The Ski Instructor Podcast

The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors.

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01:34:27

18 - Joe Beer, Alpine Learning Curves

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2020/04/02

Episode 18 of The Ski Instructor Podcast features none other than Joe Beer. I count Joe as a good friend, mentor and all round good guy. We've skied together not enough in my opinion but every time I do, it's always a mind bending experience. We talked at length on many topics, skiing, teaching, Andorra, music, telemark and more. I hope that you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it. You can get in touch with Joe via the following places; Alpine Learning

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01:14:57

17 - Malcolm Erskine, The British Ski Academy

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2020/03/20

Welcome to episode 17 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. These are strange times and if you are as sick to death as I am about Corona news of one type or another, I bring you my latest interview with Malcolm Erskine of the British Ski Academy. We talk at length about the set up of the academy and how it functions before moving onto some discussion about when specific instruction turns into coaching and a couple of other tangents. I hope you enjoy the podcast and because everyone has suddenly become

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16 - Dr Jim Taylor, US Ski Team and World Cup...

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2020/02/28

Hello Welcome to episode 16 from a snowy (finally) alps. It's been a very weird winter here, lots of early snow and then nothing for the whole of January, followed by a wet and windy February. Compounding that is Coronavirus cancellations all over the place in March. As a welcome diversion, I had a lovely conversation with Dr Jim Taylor who joined me via skype on a stormy night in my office. There were some connection problems on the line so you might notice some echo on my voice and some cut

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01:35:29

15 - James 'Taco' Tautkus - Sun Valley Ski Education...

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2020/01/18

Welcome to episode 15 of the The Ski Instructor Podcast from a cold and dry Switzerland. This week I am podcast host and also super fan as I try to contain my excitement when interviewing Taco from the Piste Off Podcast who also happens to be u14s coach at Sun Valley. I've been listening to Piste Off for years and it's my favourite podcast. I've been looking forward to doing this podcast for a long time and it didn't disappoint. It's even improved my own skiing in the last few days. We chat about

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01:41:22

14 - Simon Butler, SBSki

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2019/12/21

This week I travelled to Megeve to speak to Simon Butler. Simon has just won a very significant court battle with the French state over the right for ski instructors at all levels to work in France. This series of court cases stemmed from Simon's arrest on the slopes of Megeve in 2013. He also went to court with the British Association of Snowsports Instructors in 2017 which we discuss in part 2. In this episode I wanted Simon to have a chance to tell his side of the story and get it on the record

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01:16:58

12 - Pete Gillespie, The Snow Centre, IASI

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2019/12/09

Hello from a stormy Swiss alps. This week I've got a great interview with Pete Gillespie who is the Head of Snowsports at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead in the UK (an indoor real snow slope) as well as International and Education Director at the Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors. We talk about many diverse topics including skiing in the Balkans, junior race teams going indoors and early season technical focus. You can find Pete

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11 - Jonathan Ballou, Aspen Ski School, PSIA

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2019/11/20

Welcome to episode 11 from the very snowy Swiss Alps. You might have heard that there has been some very serious snowfall already in the southern alps with resorts like Saas Fee, Cervinia and Zermatt getting absolutely hosed in the last week. It's snowy here also in the Western end of the alps and the temperatures are cold. Hopefully this means a good and early start to the season. This week I have a short interview with Jon Ballou, the Boss of The Aspen Ski School. That's the title I hear in my

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01:16:24

10 - Terry Godbout, Elite Skiing

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2019/10/05

Hello from a very autumnal Switzerland. This week I interviewed Terry Godbout who is the founder of the Elite Skiing Facebook Group and www.eliteskiing.com I finally managed to work out how to make calls over the internet sound ok when I'm recording them and I hope that you enjoy this chat that I had with Terry as much as I did. He is a guy with a great deal of experience in the ski industry and we spoke at length about the origins of the page and website, as well as his views on subjects including

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01:48:41

9 - Julian Griffiths, European Snowsports

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2019/09/13

I hope you had a good summer. This week, I travelled to Verbier to meet someone I have been wanting to meet for a long time, Julian Griffiths of ES. We spoke at great length over coffee and in his office about his history in skiing, Brexit and the history of British and French ski relations in Europe. I had a great time making this one and I think there is scope for a follow up because we didn't touch on half of what I wanted to talk about. You can find Julian at www.europeansnowsport.com Happy

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01:31:39

8 - Phil Brown, Impulse Racing

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2019/06/30

I hope you are all having a great summer. I took a trip over the Grand St Bernard Pass to go and see Phil Brown of Impulse Racing. Phil is a year round ski race coach and in heavily involved in the UK schools ski racing scene. We chat at length about many diverse topics such as skis, running a business, collaboration, the coaching vs instructing and much more. Phil is a real character and this shines through in our interview. It was a pleasure to chat to him and I really think you'll enjoy this

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01:14:44

7 - Tom Gellie, Functional Body

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2019/06/11

This week for episode 7 I had the pleasure of chatting with Tom Gellie. Spoiler - the sound quality is not amazing on this one as it was done over Skype. It gets better though - stick with it. Tom has represented Australia with APSI at two Interskis, once on Telemark and once on Alpine. In addition he runs his business, Functional Body, out of Sydney dealing with helping people get out of pain and specialising in perfecting body movement. We covered lots of topics in our conversation including

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01:20:45

6 - Scott Pleva, Inside Out Skiing

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2019/05/06

I hope you all had a great winter. It's not all over for some of us though and this week, I chat to Scott Pleva from Inside Out Skiing. Scott works year round in an indoor Snowdome in Hemel Hempstead in the UK. He also takes his indoor client base on overseas trips to Europe. We had a really good chat about teaching skiing indoors vs outdoors and went in depth about rules and regulations for teaching skiing in Europe. We finished off with some big buy skiing chat. It was awesome to catch up with

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01:15:10

5 - Derek Tate, IASI Chairman and BASS Chamonix

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2019/04/16

This week I travelled to Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains in the Chamonix Valley to interview Derek Tate, the Chairman of the Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors (IASI) and Director of the British Alpine Ski School (BASS) in the Chamonix Valley. The Irish created quite an impression this year at Interski and this was down to Derek and his team's hard work and innovative ideas. We talk extensively about Interski and what came out of it this time around, teaching in the Chamonix Valley, developing

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01:00:07

4 - Warren Smith, Warren Smith Ski Academy - Verbier

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2019/03/26

For this episode of the Ski Instructor Podcast, I travelled to Verbier to interview Warren Smith of The Warren Smith Ski Academy. www.warrensmith-skiacademy.com This was the end of something of a journey for me because I initially learnt to ski as an instructor with the Academy years ago in Saas Fee and it was great to return to where it all started for me. We talked about many subjects including fatigue in ski instructors, technique, competition, motorbikes and much more. Warren is sponsored by

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01:33:46

3 - Ali MacGrain, Squaw Valley

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2019/03/13

For this episode, I interview Ali MacGrain, PSIA and NZSIA instructor, trainer and examiner. Ali just recently moved to a new role at Squaw Valley in the USA having previously worked at Northstar, Mammoth, Cardrona, Verbier to name but a few. We talk in this episode about differences in national styles and teaching between systems, a bit of tech chat, where the money goes for an all day private lesson in US resorts and much more. It was a real pleasure catching up with Ali again and I hope you

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01:33:34

2 - Jaz Lamb, BASS Morzine, BASI National Education Team

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2019/02/25

In this episode I interview Jaz Lamb. Jaz is the Director of BASS (British Alpine Ski School) in Morzine as well as the Director of the BASI (British Association of Ski Instructors) National Education Team. Jaz talks at length about his history in skiing, BASI's involvement in the upcoming Interski Congress in Bulgaria, ski instructors and business and much more. We also chatted about ski pole length. These are the amazing Komperdell poles that I

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01:14:50

1 - Phil Smith, Snoworks

The Ski Instructor Podcast ·

2019/02/04

In this, the very first episode of The Ski Instructor podcast, I interview Phil Smith who was here in Champery/Les Crosets for the Welsh Championships. Phil and I talked on a wide variety of topics, the old wild west days of early British ski instructors in France, cultural differences as well as Phil's own unique spin on open and close learning environments. You can find out more about Phil in the links below. I've got more great interviews coming up and I hope you enjoy listening to this as much

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