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Welcome to episode 87 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Dave Morris. Dave was on my original scrappy bit of paper list of people I wanted to speak to and it's taken us this long to get it together to finally sit down and talk - and I'm so glad that we actually did. We had great chat talking about subjects like how to find the gains that make FIS athletes better, why the Eurotest and what you learn about yourself when you go through that process, as well as what makes for good skiing and chasing FIS points. This was a great chat and I am grateful to have had the chance to share in Dave's vast knowledge. You can find Dave here: www.podiumski.com instagram: podiumski Happy listening Dave [email protected] www.snow-pros.ski music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 86 of The Ski Instructor Podcast after a summer break and a long hot summer here in Switzerland. This week, I revise my early episode chat with Joe Beer who left the ski teaching world around covid and Brexit time to return to the UK to pursue life in the music world. How was always playing music whilst he was skiing but we talk about the freedom of skiing and how he thinks skiing has changed in recent times, a serious eye injury that lost the sight in one of his eyes, how to make a living in the music industry and teaching skiing vs teaching music. This is a podcast I've wanted to make for a long time and I have a couple of other 'life afters' which I want to do which I think make for interesting stories. Happy listening Dave https://www.snow-pros.ski/level-1-ski-instructor-course music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 85 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Charlie Brooksbank of Pure Powder. Pure Powder is a tour operator and they organise heli and cat skiing tours and holidays.  This interview is a slight departure from our usual interviews of ski instructors and ski school directors and gives a different perspective on life in the ski industry and how ski instrcutors and guides fit into that. We chat about how the business has evolved over the years and the challenges of running a business like this. You can find Charlie and PurePowder here: www.purepowder.com https://www.purepowderheliskiing.co.uk/   Happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 84 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring part 2 of my interview with Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor. Our conversation continues and touches on how to get better at skiing and teaching whilst you're working on a daily basis, how to make a year round living from skiing, knee injury recovery, skiing and teaching in China and much more. Happy listening Dave music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 83 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor. I had a great chat with Mark, taking about his back story in skiing and we soon went off on a tangent into topics such as how not to become a cynical ski instructor, how a ski turn actually works and snowplough deniers. This is part 1 of the conversation and part 2 will follow next month.  I had a great time recording this and I think that comes through in the edit. Happy listening Dave music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 82 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring part 2 of the interview with Billy Clark from Billski. Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.  I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer. Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area.  This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one. In part 2 of the interview, we chat about Billski, how it got started and has evolved and his approach to marketing.  We also chat about the evolution of the French side of the Portes du Soleil over the years. You can find Billski here - https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/ https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk Happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 81 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Billy Clark from Billski. Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.  I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer. Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area.  This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one. In this part 1 of the interview, we chat about Bill's journey to full cert, the people that helped and inspired him along the way and how to approach challenges. You can find Billski here - https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/ https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk Happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski music by www.bensound.com

Happy Christmas to you all and welcome to part 2 and episode 80 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV. In this episode we talk about Joe's back story and how he came to be a ski instructor at Deer Valley, wedge christie and PSIA chat, keeping teaching simple and how he started his YouTube channel. It's a great interview full of good energy. You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV Henrik Kristoffersen interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/henrik-kristoffersen/id1549121005?i=1000674224528 Happy listening Dave https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to part 1  of episode 79 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV. We jump immediately into an in-depth chat about technical skiing, how to introduce people to carving and an in-depth discussion on width of ski.  It's a great interview full of good energy. You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV Happy listening Dave https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 78 of the podcast, this week featuring Jason Hendy. I worked with Jason this winter at a race we were running in Les Crosets and we started a really interesting chat about ski boots but we didn't get a chance to finish it and that is what this podcast is. It's very much a follow up to episode 77 with Tom Gellie and we touch on a lot of the same topics about boots and this episode deliberately follows that one as a continuation of that topic. Jason has thought deeply about this topic of boots and getting the right set up for you, then the conversation moves on to coaching on the dry slope in the UK, working with kids on a week to week basis and how to go fast on a dry slope. I loved chatting with Jason and it really comes across in this podcast.  You can find Jason here:   https://www.instagram.com/alpin_ish/ https://www.facebook.com/jason.hendy.7 Happy listening Dave [email protected] www.snow-pros.ski/lessons music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 77 of The Ski Instructor Podcast this week featuring Tom Gellie of Big Picture Skiing. This podcast was prompted by a recent viral Facebook post that Tom put together based on his recent experience of skiing in rental boots at Ski Dubai. We talk extensively about the reasons why rental boots are like they are, what the purpose of them are and how quickly you need to get out of them in order to progress. As usual with Tom and I, we ended up on a bunch of tangents about different stuff to do with boots and customising them to suit your own body. To find out more about Tom, you can go back and listen to my previous episode where I interviewed Tom extensively, the link to that is here. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0CaBF1sZ3IG1xkC5PpLqqk?si=IWMpLd0JTLa7D-US3MAHFA I hope you are enjoying skiing wherever you are and I'll catch you on the next episode. Happy listening. Dave [email protected] https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-lessons music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 76 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, featuring Anna Norlin Berg and Joel Baudin. Anna and Joel are the hosts of the popular Swedish ski instructor podcast 'Skidlärarpodden'.  When they aren't doing that, Joel and Anna are working ski instructors.   Joel runs the ski school in Kittelfjäll and is an instructor and course leader within Friluftsfrämjandet (The Swedish Outdoor Organization) for the past eight years. He's involved in instructor education through Friluftsfrämjandet and is a passionate moguls skier. Anna is involved in training leaders and ski instructors in Friluftsfämjandet, and is chairman of the Swedish ski exams. She is an Alpine ski coach in Kungsbergets AK for U14 and U16. She was a member of the Swedish demo team in Pomporovo and Levi. We had a very wide ranging chat covering the backstory for Anna and Joel, instructor systems in Sweden, the technical models, hockey (again, sorry!), interski and falling off of bicycles. I loved chatting with these two and it's a fun interview.  If you'd like to listen to the interview that they did with me, you can find it here: https://skidlararpodden.se/episodes/dave-burrows-on-coaching-community-and-carving-your-own-path-in-the-alps Happy listening Dave

Welcome to episode 75 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Max Colvin, who you would have heard of me talk about on the podcast previously and who is the SnowPros Ski School Director of Snowsports. Max holds the Valasian Patente and looks after the team here at SnowPros. I find Max to be an incredibly interesting guy who thinks deeply about skiing and everything else and I just had to get an interview with him for the pod. We touched on lots of different topics, to do with how we teach skiing, our journeys to full cert, how surfing differs from snowsports and plenty more. Max runs a successful surfboard manufacturing company, Hand Laid Eggs and if you surf, you should definitley check out his boards https://www.handlaideggs.co.uk/ he cares deeply about what he does. You can tell from this episode that Max and I know each other quite well by now.  The interview is very relaxed and is a real deparature in style from the usual interview. Happy listening and see you on the next one. Dave [email protected] www.snow-pros.ski   music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 74 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Donna Clarke who is the President of the Regional Performance Centre for the Ski Team Dents du Midi here in Calais, Switzerland. The Dents du Midi is the local region around where I live and Donna is responsible for the structure bringing young skiers through and then onto Ski Valais and then the regional Swiss age group teams. We had a long and wide ranging chat about making speed on the flat, her story as to how she ended up here in the alps, coaching kids in the ski team and how to keep kids in the program. We also chat about equipment, amazing local skiers and so much more. You can find out more about the ski team here: https://skiteamdentsdumidi.ch/ and if you would like to contact Donna, you can find her through facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/donnah.corminboeufclarke happy listening Dave [email protected] www.snow-pros.ski/instructors music by www.bensound.com

Welcome to episode 73 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Alec and Max Allcock.  This is part 2 of a 2 part episode. Alec and Max are the hosts of The Snowboard Instructor Podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-snowboard-instructor-podcast/id1536803884 https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZtzwBFqrdQlOtbonKZxPp?si=SHI0R19fRymK6_Sk-88_xA https://thesnowboardinstructorpodcas.buzzsprout.com/ https://www.instagram.com/snowboardinstructorpodcast/ Alec and Max have spent a lot of time and done some amazing interviews on their podcast and bring a unique perspective to our interview because they are both working ski instructors working their way through various instructor systems.   I talk to the guys about skiing at a higher level and things learnt about skiing going through various training.  We also chatted about fixed boot snowboarding, GS training and retro equipment. At the time of the interview, Alec was in New Zealand working as a ski and snowboard instructor there.  Max works in the film industry and teaches snowboarding in the UK. You can find the guys here: https://www.instagram.com/maxpowerlighting/ https://www.instagram.com/alec_john98 happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski/lessons [email protected] music by www.bensound.com