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 conversa ..read more

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 wi ..read more

Welcome to episode 41 and this year's Christmas special roundtable chat. Joining me were Phil Brown of Impulse Racing, Julian Griffiths of European Snowsports and Steve Hindman from the US Nordic Demo Team.   We chatted on a wide range of topics from topics as diverse as mince pies to the last two years running a ski business during covid.  We talk also about digital tech and it's place in skiing as well as the lack of meaningful teaching and client care training in instructor systems. We had great fun making this, I hope that you enjoy listing to this over the holidays. Merry Chris ..read more

In episode 39 and 40 of the podcast, I chat to Jon Ahlsen.  I went to his place in Verbier and spent a wonderful 2.5 hours chatting all things skiing and life in general.  Jon is a deep thinker on most subjects and I very much enjoyed getting to know him more that I already did. We chat in part 1 about summer skiing on the glacier, corparate life vs skiing life, fashion, his journey in skiing and much more. You can find out more about the higher certification level training program that Jon and Tom run in Verbier here: https://www.instructorcourses.skinewgen.com/ski-instructor-course ..read more

Welcome to episode 36 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and one that I have been looking forward to since I first began drawing up my list of people I wanted to speak to. Peter Kuwall is my guru, a guy who has probably forgotten more about skiing than I will ever know. We talk about how he came up in the industry, the boom years of Scottish skiing, how teaching and mechanical engineering relate and the old French technical test that was the forerunner to the Eurotest. I always love chatting to PK and i think it really comes out in this interview.  If you want to find him you can catch him at ..read more

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 h ..read more

Welcome to episode 34 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and this week's interview is with Alessandro Cambon of Beau Soleil International School and Alpine Italy. Ale is a BASI level 4 and trainer but is originally from Italy.  We had a lovely chat in his home in Gryon and we covered lots of ground in this podcast including pole vaulting, life and work skiing at an international school and lots more. I hope that you enjoy this chat with Ale and you can find him at www.alpineitaly.co.uk Have a great spring Dave dave@snow-pros.ski https://www.snow-pros.ski/summer-ski-camps   music by www.be ..read more

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 ..read more

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 music by www.bensound.com   ..read more

Welcome to Episode 32 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and the one that will take us past 45,000 downloads of the pod.  Every now and then I look at the blog stats and I'm amazed by how many people are listening to this podcast. This week I have an interview with Giles Lewis of The Development Centre (TDC) in Val-d'Isere.  Giles is also a member of the BASI National Education Team. We had a great chat on various topics but the real gem in this one is the moguls talk and there are some real nuggets in this interview about bumps skiing and why it is so rewarding.  You'll also find ou ..read more