Multiple Option Alpine Clinics

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Dates: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - Thursday, February 22, 2024 from 6 pm - 10 pm ET (2 Days)
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Event Type: Education Clinic

Location: Wilmot Mountain (TBA - Meeting Location will be sent out by email by the event leader.)
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the event.

Host Division: Central

Available Registration Packages (click for more info):
First Day only:
- First Chair Rate: $138.00 (available through Tuesday, February 6)
- Second Chair Rate: $163.00
- CEUs: 6
Second Day only:
- First Chair Rate: $138.00 (available through Tuesday, February 6)
- Second Chair Rate: $163.00
- CEUs: 6
Both Days:
- First Chair Rate: $199.00 (available through Tuesday, February 6)
- Second Chair Rate: $224.00
- CEUs: 12

Prerequisites: Current PSIA-AASI Membership

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 11:59 pm ET

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Online Registration: CLOSED

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Course Description (Cen- Your Basic Everything Bagel (Alpine)):

PSIA events have a tendency to "Start in the Middle"- and a good deal of the knowledge needed to enter the conversation comes from experience.

This means that some participants hesitate to speak up-- maybe they are part time, and don't get to have the locker-room discussions. Maybe their Level I was a long time ago, or the content lacked context. Maybe a concept or exercise just never got explained.

This course is designed to explore the basic premises of PSIA-- from the Skills Concept to The Five Fundamentals, The Learning Connection to D.I.R.T., Everything and Anything related to teaching ski instruction can be part of the dialogue.

So many terms and concepts are bandied about during clinics- and sometimes it is difficult to be the one to raise your hand and say "I don't know what that means", or "I don't understand this exercise."

Your Basic Everything Bagel means you, your clinician, or one of your peers seeds the dialogue with a question, and you see where it goes.

Your clinician's role is that of "The Well of Tacit Knowledge"- meaning if they don't have the answer, they'll find it for you.

Conducted over one day or two evenings, open to non-members, highly recommended for reinstating members.

Course Description (Alpine Agility Drills):

What's a Cormayeur Shuffle? a Dolphin Turn? How about a Scissor Hop? Have you ever tried any Acro-Skiing moves?

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In this HIGHLY energetic clinic, participants will Hop, Step, Glide, Squirm and Flail their way through skiing drills designed simply to develop and test their agility.

Agility drills disrupt your balance, interfere with your movement patterns, and challenge your concepts. Sometimes we perform them to prove a point to ourselves (so we can see), and sometimes to prove a point to others (so they can see).

Sometimes we create them just to watch another person try to untangle them.

In this fun and rewarding course, participants will explore the what, they how, and sometimes the why of some of skiings most elaborate of "stupid pet tricks". You may never be able to succeed at these tasks, but you'll have the chance to break them into their component parts.

Participants must be willing and able attempt high intensity exercises (like seriously)-- this is NOT a spectator course.

Additional Event Details:

Our "Multiple Option Clinic" events allow you to choose from a variety of courses to find your best fit. Most Multi-Option Clinics will include a "I want my Skis to ________", Performance Skiing, Synchro Skills on Day 1, and "I've got a Task 4 That", Performance Skiing, and "Alpine Agility Drills" on Day 2.

Not all events will have all options, groups with registrations below course minimums may be combined.

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