Multiple Option Alpine Clinics

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Dates: Monday, February 12, 2024 - Tuesday, February 13, 2024 from 4 pm - 9 pm ET (2 Days)
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Event Type: Education Clinic

Location: Pine Knob Ski Resort (TBA - Meeting Location will be sent out by email by the event leader prior to the event.)
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: $149.00 (available through Sunday, January 28)
- Second Chair Rate: $174.00
- CEUs: 3
Second Day only:
- First Chair Rate: $149.00 (available through Sunday, January 28)
- Second Chair Rate: $174.00
- CEUs: 6
Both Days:
- First Chair Rate: $229.00 (available through Sunday, January 28)
- Second Chair Rate: $254.00
- CEUs: 9

Prerequisites: Current PSIA-AASI Membership

Registration Deadline: Monday, February 5, 2024, 11:59 pm ET

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Online Registration: CLOSED

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Course Description (Synchro Skills for Pattern Making and Breaking):

Alpine Synchro skiing gets a bad rap as a tired tool of ski instruction, the practice has some great qualities for developing and honing your skills. Synchro is a fantastic tool for M.A.-- you'll learn to see and feel how your turns differ from those of your partner(s)- and ideally learn not only how to adjust, but how to describe the adjustment. Synchro Skiing develops spatial awareness and visual acuity, helping participants maintain track of their position relative to their partner(s) in front, in back, and to the side.

Course Description (The Long Turn is King):

This clinic addresses the common issue of "Park-and-Ride" long radius turns, which, while achieving the desired turn shape, lack dynamic skier performance. This course introduces participants to the "Transfer-Travel-Tip-Twist" methodology, designed to cultivate long radius turns that go beyond merely riding the side cut of the skis.

Course Description (Performance Skiing - 1 day):

This offering is an excellent opportunity for experienced instructors to work collaboratively, exploring the skiing fundamentals in applied situations. The group will learn to make situational changes to edging, rotary, balance, and pressure movements during this course. Participants will leave with a further understanding of the skiing fundamentals regarding tactics and terrain, body movements, and ski performance.

What: In this course, participants will explore dynamic skiing. They will factor for outside forces and variations in terrain, applying appropriate skill blends and maintaining the 5 fundamentals in order to ensure optimal ski and body performance.

Why: High-level skiing is both fun and exciting- the creation and execution of which is both an art and a science, with a foundation in technique and understanding.

How: Situational skiing- clinic leaders will seek opportunities to change up the skill blend to challenge participants' abilities and concepts.

Course Description (CEN- I've got a Task 4 That (Alpine)):

What- "I've got a Task 4 That" is designed to connect "Tasks" (the exercises and drills we employ to develop our skiing) to the outcome we are seeking to achieve. Instructors who may have heard of an exercise or drill, but have not understood why the task exists, or how to connect it to the desired take-away of the student.

Who- This course is for any instructor seeking to reach into a bigger tool-bag, and to pull out the "right" exercise or drill for the student they are teaching.

Why- Our students expect us to brilliantly prescribe, not to randomly sample.

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, and "I've got a Task 4 That", Performance Skiing, and "Alpine Agility Drills."

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

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