National Team Training Kicked Off the Season at Arapahoe Basin This Week
PSIA-AASI National Team Training kicked off the season at Arapahoe Basin, Colorado, this week, with fresh snow, a brand-new team, and anticipation for hosting the snowsports teaching world at Interski 2027, the international ski instructors congress, in Vail in less than three years.
PSIA-AASI Welcomes Fischer Sports as Official Supplier
PSIA-AASI welcomes Fischer Sports as an Official Supplier, providing hardworking professional ski instructors with pro pricing on the brand’s innovative alpine skis and boots as well as its extensive offering of cross country skiing gear.
10 Things Every New Snowsports Instructor Needs to Know Before They Teach a Lesson
To help welcome new snowsports instructors to their own new adventures in learning, we went to the PSIA-AASI Facebook page and asked them, “What is your advice for new instructors about to start their first season of teaching snowsports?!” Here are some of their responses.
Certification Secrets: Maureen Drummey on How to Make Your ‘Better’ Your ‘Best’
In the third installment of the “Certification Secrets” series, Mount Snow, Vermont, Ski & Ride School Senior Manager Maureen Drummey shares the strategies, resources, and personal lessons learned to help you achieve advanced certification.
From the Archives: “Great Moments in Snowboarding History,” Part 2
In Part 2 of “Great Moments in Snowboarding History," we return to the Winter 2008 issue of The Pro Rider, with the second part of a fun article by then-Associate Editor Steve Lysaker. Here, we explore the 1980s through the 2000s.
PSIA-AASI Award Program – The Importance of Recognition
PSIA-AASI’s Award Program recognizes the association’s members’ achievements as instructors, leaders, and collaborators in the snowsports industry. This year’s nominations are due by Nov. 30, at 11:59 p.m., MT.
Transferring Teaching Skills with Cameron Lantz: Skiing and the Value of Persistence
Cameron Lantz is a certified Level I alpine instructor and is working toward a Professional Snowsports Education Program Certificate at Pennsylvania State University. Here, she shares the importance of persistence and how skiing has helped shape her life.
Certification Secrets: 2021 Education Excellence Award Recipient Stacey Gerrish on the REAL Job of Teaching Skiing
In the second installment of the “Certification Secrets” series, PSIA-AASI Education Leader and Tea Talks Host Stacey Gerrish talks about having a sound strategy, utilizing the resources around you, and taking ownership of your own training to help you reach your goals.
Certification Secrets: PSIA-AASI Eastern Examiner Bonnie Kolber Shares Her Insight on the ‘Learning Journey’
In this first installment of the “Certification Secrets” series, PSIA-AASI Eastern Examiner Bonnie Kolber shares the rewards of always aiming to improve and learn.
Other Industry News
- Two-week strike comes to an end after Park City Mountain, Ski Patrol Union reach agreementon January 9, 2025
- Beijing to host major international winter sports eventson November 19, 2024
- Why Park City’s Historic Town Lift Could Be Closing For Goodon November 14, 2024
- One Of The Best East Coast Ski Resorts Feels Like A French Alpine Village Bursting With Charmon November 14, 2024
- Navigating a Slippery Slope: Learning to Ski as an Adulton November 14, 2024
- The European ski resorts following in the tracks of North Americaon November 14, 2024
- 'Magician' Canmore ski instructor to be inducted in CSIA hall of fameon November 14, 2024
- This Winter Sports Summit Celebrates Black Ski Groupson November 13, 2024
- Documentary film focuses on Whaleback, other smaller ski areason November 13, 2024
- How Adaptive Lessons Took the Slippery Out of the Slopes For My Sonon November 13, 2024
