First Chair: PSIA-AASI Podcast

Meet Becca, from the Northern Rocky Mountain division, who shares how she became involved teaching adaptive skiing which led to her additional involvement in PSIA-AASI. Becca was featured in the Spring issue of 32 Degrees magazine, and was identified by division educators and her peers as an “Emerging Leader”. Congrats, Becca! www.thesnowpros.org/32degrees

Meet Brian, from the Eastern division, who shares how he became involved teaching snowboarding which led to his additional involvement in PSIA-AASI. Brian was featured in the Spring issue of 32 Degrees magazine, and was identified by division educators and his peers as an “Emerging Leader”. Congrats, Brian! www.thesnowpros.org/32degrees

Meet Jill, from the Northern Rocky Mountain division, who shares how she became involved teaching skiing which led to her additional involvement in PSIA-AASI. Jill was featured in the Spring issue of 32 Degrees magazine, and was identified by division educators and her peers as an “Emerging Leader”. Congrats, Jill! http://www.thesnowpros.org/32degrees

Meet Andy Davis, who shares the story about the World Cup Dreams organization. This is an organization that helps raise funds for the best athletes of all ages and disciplines, so they can help pursue their dreams and be laser-focused on their careers and not fixated on financing them.

Rick Lyons, from Whitefish, Montana chats about his role serving on PSIA-AASI’s Alpine Task Force and a recent meeting that just happened, and the work the task force did to review of PSIA’s alpine national standards. These national standards help guide PSIA-AASI’s members training and studying and represent the minimum level of competency expected for each level of PSIA-AASI certification.

PSIA Alpine Team members, Jonathan Ballou and Brenna Kelleher, chat about being a part of Rocky Mountain division’s free member event, when members could ski and ride with a member of the PSIA-AASI national team at Arapahoe Basin. Plus, get their recap from the 2017-18 season!

PSIA-AASI Northwest Division member John Mohan shares his stories about getting his start skiing and what piqued his interest about teaching others to ski. John shares his ideas on how you can be a great teacher, by being an "encourager" and a motivator to all of your students. #snowpros

PSIA Adaptive Captain, Geoff Krill, turns the podcast host table and interviews First Chair Podcast Host George Thomas, who talks about how he felt trying mono skiing for the first time and how he had to let go of his preconceived notions in order to ski.

PSIA Alpine team member Jonathan Ballou, talks about the difference between how you can advance from “pretty good” skiing to “awesome” skiing. Where will your skiing take you?

First Chair chats with PSIA-AASI Director of Education, Dave Schuiling, about the upcoming Education Leadership Council (ELC) meeting happening in Lakewood, Colo. this weekend. The group is the “education arm” of PSIA-AASI and is made up of PSIA-AASI’s divisional education leaders. Listen in to learn how the ELC is working to focus on consistency, learning outcomes and teaching fundamentals to improve the professional development and certification process for everyone.

Get the scoop from Matt Boyd and Rob Sogard and find out how PSIA-AASI’s The Learning Connection is an important developmental framework that will help you become a great instructor. It focuses on each person’s teaching skills, technical skills, and people skills. A great instructor is one who is highly skilled in each of those areas. Rob talks about how it will be used as the foundation for a new resource launching Fall 2019, Core Concepts, which is a manual that contains information that every instructor needs to know.

First Chair catches up with PSIA Adaptive Captain, Geoff Krill, and member from the Rocky Mountain, division, Katie Zinn, to get the scoop about what’s happening in the world of adaptive skiing and teaching. Geoff and Katie chat about the newest Adaptive Alpine Technical Manuals, what skiing is, how to teach it and helping to develop the skier.

First Chair connected with these three legends to talk about the role they played to help shape the organization’s education and how honored they were to be asked to come back and lead groups at National Academy at Big Sky. Listen to this group talk about how they stay current in their education and helping teachers become better teachers.

Meet Emily Spiker, a PSIA-AAASI member from the Eastern division, who at age 70 pursued and received her alpine level III certification which has helped her continue to pursue her passion for teaching at Whitetail Ski Resort. Learn how leveling up on your certification, no matter your age, can help you become a better teacher for your students.

AASI Team Coach Scott Anfang and AASI Team members Amy Gan and Eric Rolls and staff Education Director, Dave Schuiling, chat about the laid-back learning environment that’s a part of Rider Rally 2018 and why its unique culture truly sets it apart from other education events. http://www.thesnowpros.org/riderrally