In this edition of Chasing Winter, we caught up with Dan Hogan, the director of the ski and ride school at New York’s Windham Mountain Club. Hogan and his wife, Jenni, made their Southern Hemisphere ski teaching dreams come true, spending several “summers” instructing at Australia’s Perisher Ski Resort.
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.
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.
On the first Friday of each month, we’ll take a stroll down memory lane and feature excerpted articles from 32 Degrees, The Professional Skier, and The Pro Rider from years past. For our first fun Friday foray, we go back in time 26 years, to Spring 1998.
Robert “Hak” Hakkinen earned PSIA Central Division certification pin #00159 in 1962, promptly pinned it to his parka, and hasn’t taken a run without it since. Here are some highlights of his life skiing and teaching in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
New Podcasts Feature Jonathan Ballou + Healthy Nutrition Habits Keep learning this summer with two new PSIA-AASI First Chair Podcasts –
Listen to these podcasts featuring Michael Rogan, Charlie Rockwell, and Jani Sutherland.
You can earn CEUs and continue to improve as a snowsports instructor this summer with the Skate-to-Ski and Teaching Families and Groups E-Learning Courses.
Learn about the most notable teaching benchmarks from the past 60 years of PSIA-AASI.
Improve your technical and teaching skills with a scholarship from PSIA-AASI. The deadline to apply is November 18, 2020.
