Here at the Duolomidi Resort in Chongli, China, the first BASI Snowboard Level 1 course has been underway this week with great snow conditions and very, very cold temperatures. Wednesday afternoon was -19C with a wind-chill factor of Baltic. BASI Trainer, Steph Wiehe, re-organised the programme and on Wednesday afternoon brought the students indoors and worked through all the…
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Blog 3. BASI Heads East. BASI Snowboard Level 1. China
After a vicious 24-hour snow storm on Sunday 22 November, causing general mayhem and blocking the main highway from Beijing to Chongli, Day 1 of the BASI Snowboard Level 1 in Duolomidi Ski Resort, Chongli, China got underway with blue skies, cold, cold air and crisp, fresh pistes virtually to ourselves. A full course with…
Blog 2 BASI Heads East – The land of snow and ice
I made it! A bit of a detour via Amsterdam and then Paris before finally making it to Beijing. BASI Snowboard Trainer, Steph Wiehe arrived just after me on Saturday 21st Nov. We were met by our BASI Business Partners in China, Byron, Beard and Qian who go by the name of CASSI Snowsports Services Company Ltd….
Blog 1 BASI Heads East – It’s like riding a bike!
Once you’ve done it once………… Training people to become proficient snowsports instructors is what the British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI) does really well. So when a speculative email enquiry from China arrived in Tania Alliod’s inbox in February 2015, she thought – “No problem, we train instructors from many countries so why not China!”…
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earning Curves. Understanding learning and how to get the most from your next lesson or winter sport holiday Clear Communication Is the instruction content sensible (sense-able)? To put it another way, sense enabled. Can it be directly accessed by the senses? All humans interact with the world we live in via our 5 senses. We:…
SKIING : ‘IT’S LIKE RIDING A BIKE’
Written by Rachael Hallewell, BASI ISTD “It’s like riding a bike.” Not for me, with all my crashes, blown up wheels, squeals of fear and countless scars ingrained into my skin forever, skiing comes far more naturally to me, than riding a bike. However, this idiom is said of when we learn new skills and…
Call for all snowsports coaches and instructors to come together for UK Snowsports Coaching Conference
National governing body Snowsport England are calling for ski and snowboard instructors from across the country to come together for the UK Snowsport Coaching Conference, running on 19th and 20st September 2015 at Chill Factore, Manchester. In a bid to share best practice amongst coaches and instructors from across the country, the event, which is…
BASI Members are booking courses!
BASI’s 15 / 16 course programme is off to a flying start and we wanted to share some highlights with you.
With the big spring courses now over and the northern hemisphere winter dusted off, we’re now going through all your course feedback forms reviewing what got the thumbs up and the thumbs down and working on spreading the word on next season’s courses.
Fitness for Ski Instructor Training Session 7
Written by New Generation Instructor Courses Welcome to session 7. Hopefully by now you are starting to feel more at home with the language and terminology we are using and it is all starting to feel more natural. If you have fallen behind or just fancy starting a fresh, all of the workout are archived…
Hips Don’t Lie
Written by Jon Ahlsen. Jon is a BASI trainer and coach for the New Generation Verbier BASI level 4 ISTD training programme as well as being involved in New Generation Residential Verbier BASI 1 & 2 ski instructor training. There’s a saying in skiing that should be more known: “We turn with our legs. We balance with…