New PSIA Alpine Team member Elle Matalavage takes advantage of fly-fishing opportunities at her local lakes, rivers, and streams to help her prepare for ski season. In this PSIA-AASI National Team Workout Q&A, she explains how wading and casting buoys her ski technique.
In this edition of Chasing Winter, we caught up with PSIA Alpine Team member Ben Potts, who has found a way to keep skiing year-round in New Zealand, as well as late into the summer at Colorado’s Copper Mountain.
This summer, we’ve shared some of the 2024-28 PSIA-AASI National Team’s favorite offseason sports and workouts. From cross-training to wakeboarding to dirt biking, get the inside scoop on what they love to do when it’s not snowsports season.
New PSIA Cross Country Team member Justin Arndt freeheel skis year-round, whether it’s on snow or on pavement. In this PSIA-AASI National Team Workout Q&A, he shares how and where you can get the most out of an offseason freeheel workout.
In this PSIA-AASI National Team Workout Q&A, AASI Snowboard Team member Josh Smith says that he enjoys golfing and racing mountain bikes in the summer. But the best sport for improving his mental and physical focus for snowboarding is competitive dirt biking.
In the latest edition of “Chasing Winter,” a guide to teaching skiing and snowboarding in the Southern Hemisphere, Francesca Pavillard-Cain, a PSIA Freestyle, Alpine, and Telemark examiner, talks about her love for spending her “summers” instructing in Treble Cone, New Zealand.
In this PSIA-AASI National Team Workout Q&A, PSIA Alpine Team member Dominique Vetromile shares how she’s spent a good part of her life surfing, windsurfing, and scuba diving, but is beginning to look to the mountains for new offseason athletic endeavors.
For this installment of “From the Archives,” we go back to Spring 2000 to find out why it’s never a bad idea for snowsports instructors to become familiar with snow grooming.
Want to ride the endless winter? AASI Snowboard Team Development Coach Tony Macri talks teaching and riding out the summer in New Zealand.
Multiterm AASI Snowboard Team member Matt Larson keeps riding gravity throughout the summer in the mountains of Montana. He says it helps him stay centered in the moment and committed to the action at hand. In this latest PSIA-AASI National Team Workout Q&A, he also shares how he pairs paddling with strength and mobility training to bridge the season.
