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SnowSports Instructor Inspiring lifelong passion for the mountain experience ISSUE 2 07/08 SEASON PNSIA-EF Event Line Up Alpine Tryout Camp JANUARY 24TH -26TH What to expect Refinement of movement patterns and skills $250 Growth of technical and professional knowledge Lift tickets $26/day Professional coaching Looking for a challenge? Interested in pushing the Indoor discussions envelope of your skills or understanding more of what is Video and review involved in the Technical Tryout or the Divisional Staff Goal setting tryout? This camp at Mission Ridge will take you through drills, DVD of the event video, varied terrain and indoor discussions to assess skills, Fun provide valuable hands-on coaching and feedback and end with goals for continued growth. Great prep for the upcoming Lodging information tryouts or some fun training! Requirement: Level III alpine RV parking available at Mission Ridge certified. Wenatchee – 15 minutes to the hill www.wenatcheevalley.org/lodging.html Winter Blast FEBRUARY 4TH -5TH What to expect Lift tickets included with registration $300 Breakfast each morning, Monday après ski and Tuesday lunch provided with registration Stellar skiing at Stevens with National Team Members Come join us at Stevens Pass this year to slide on the snow with some of the nation’s best of the best. Members of PSIA’s Lodging Information national team will come coach and challenge you for two days Leavenworth – 30 miles east of Stevens Pass of skiing, food and fun. Participate and find out what all the leavenworthlodging.com hype is about. RV parking and hookups available at Stevens Pass Skykomish – 15 miles west of Stevens Pass Sky River Inn – skyriverinn.com Cascadia Inn – historiccascadia.com Symposium What to expect APRIL 4TH -6TH Lift tickets $40 all participants - family and Northwest $130 PSIA|AASI members. Ages 5 & under/70 + complimentary lift tickets ‘FREE FRIDAY’ clinic with registration for Saturday and/or Sunday Come join all your Northwest friends and staff members Festivities based out of Seventh Mountain Resort when we travel to Mt. Bachelor Resort for this season’s A great souvenir Symposium. We will be offering your all time favorite Alpine, snowboard and tele clinics and adding some new ones - information on classes, Daycare is available lodging and registration will be on the website and in your next newsletter. This is the time to wrap up the season with Lodging Information great snow, educational clinics and fun with your friends and Discounted lodging at Seventh Mountain Resort. family. We look forward to celebrating the end of the season Call for details 800.452.6810 or visit their website, with you at Mt. Bachelor. seventhmountainresort.com. Reservation code 1065X1 2 early winter ‘07 Event Line Up Divisional Clinic Leader Tryouts Alpine and Snowboard • Must be a level III member in good standing MARCH 7TH -9TH • Applications must be received at the Northwest office no later than 5pm Friday the 8th of February 2008 • Tryout packets will be available online and through the office Nordic Symposium MARCH 22ND -23RD $110 Our perennial favorite, White Pass, will be hosting the Nordic Symposium. Friday will be a Staff/TD/Level III Training day, and Saturday and Sunday, as usual, will be full of turns, track and of course, clinics! All abilities welcome. Discounted trail pass and lift ticket Track and tele For lodging ideas please visit www.skiwhitepass.com/lodging Technical Team Tryout MAY 9TH -11TH Applicants must be: • A Level III alpine member in good standing for a minimum of two years • At least 21 years of age The Northwest Technical Team will be conducting • Hold a Level I certification in another discipline or an tryouts on the 9-11th of May at Mt. Bachelor, OR. The ACE, Freestyle or Senior Accreditation Technical Team is a working group for the education, • Able to commit an average of 20 days per season certification and technical arms of the division. A few of the • Application packet must be received at the Northwest group’s responsibilities are development of new programs, office no later than Friday, the 4th of April 2008 revisions of existing programs and conducting on snow clinics Information packets will be available online or by contacting for the membership. A member term on the team is four years. Kirsten Huotte at the Northwest office. early winter ‘07 3 NW Snowsports Instructor Features NORTHWEST SnowSports Instructor 13 • Senior Accreditation Professional Snowsports Instructors by Ed Kane of America-Northwest Division 17 • Spout Springs PNSIA Education Foundation by Mike Peters PSIA-NW 18 • The NSCD Way 11206 Des Moines Mem Dr. #106 by Trudy Parcher Seattle, WA 98168-1741 Phone (206) 244-8541 19 • What’s New and Groovy Fax (206) 241-2885 by John Stevenson Email: [email protected] 20 • Preventing Ski Injuries Website: www.psia-nw.org by Jon Franklin, MD Editor Jodi Taggart Send all submissions to: Content Jodi Taggart C/O PSIA-NW 11206 Des Moines Mem Dr. #106 6 • President’s Report Seattle, WA 98168-1741 Changing the Rules [email protected] by Jack Burns Submission Deadlines 7 • McLaughlin Report Issue Deadline Setting the Speed Dial Summer/Fall July 15 by Lane McLaughlin Early Winter Oct 1 8 • Dollars and Sense Winter Jan 1 Spring March 10 Play More Pay Less by Diana Suzuki Guide for Contributors 9 • PNSIA Education Foundation The Northwest SnowSports Instructor is published four times a year. This newslet- A Perfect Partnership ter will accept articles from anyone willing 10 • National Report to contribute. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit all submissions. Submit by John Weston items as attachments via email or contact 12 • Become a Board Member the editor for other options. Articles should include the author’s name and a quick bio. 14 • Feedback Model Photos can be submitted via email or as by Rick Lyons and Nick McDonald prints. Please contact the editor for any ad- 16 • TD Column ditional information. Practice and Performance on the Mountain All published material becomes the prop- by Andy Rubesch erty of PSIA-NW. Articles are accepted for publication on the condition that they may 24 • How to Lose a Group in 10 Minutes be released for publication in all PSIA Na- by Amy Ohran tional and Divisional publications. Material 26 • In Remembrance published in this newsletter is the respon- sibility of the author and is not necessarily Buzz Fiorini endorsed by PSIA-NW. John E. Fuller 4 early winter ‘07 From the Communications VP Officers of the Board Jack Burns........................... President Mary Germeau ..............Executive VP Linking Turns, Linking Members Mark Schinman .....Administrative VP by John Eisenhauer, Communications VP John Eisenhauer Communications VP Molly Fitch ..................Education VP Many of us remember when a lot into a dance with gravity, terrain and Lane McLaughlin ..........Technical VP of our technical discussions were about conditions really defines modern skiing Chris Kastner ........... Certification VP “phases of a turn”. Oh yes, we had and riding. Diana Suzuki ................. Financial VP many names for these parts of turns Lance Young ....... Member School VP and each was (or so we thought) very In the last newsletter I shared some John Weston .......................PSIA Rep descriptive. There was the “preparation”, thoughts about the various names we’ve Staff the “initiation” and the “completion”. had for our organization and how they’ve Kirsten Huotte ..Ed Program Director These sound a bit more like some sort evolved over the years to what we have Barb Darrow ..............Office Manager of college Greek Row tradition now. Yet now. Somewhat like turns, Alpine Skiers, they reflected a time when successfully Snowboarders, Track & Tele Skiers, Advertising Rates making that one turn might have been Adaptive approaches, etc. are distinct, Classified Ads: Classifieds are line type quite a challenge. Our motto could have yet interconnected. We focus on each ads that may vary in size. Rates will be been, “Linking Turns, One Turn at a of them separately, yet to be completely reflective of the number of words in the Time”. successful, they depend on each other. ad. Rates: Somewhere along the line we started to Without giving up any of the 20 words or less $10 talk and think more about how we could individuality or traditions that the PSIA 20-40 words $20 link our turns more efficiently. Our “shield” and the newer AASI logo 40+ $1 per word technical discussions still included lots of represent, we wanted to create a fresh terms and we still liked to stand around new look. Modern and unique to the Display Ads: Display ads will be avail- and draw diagrams in the snow. Maybe Northwest, it would communicate our able in a variety of sizes and will be boxed we said beginning, middle and end. Or message of interdependence and our or otherwise set off from the surrounding perhaps we said control, finish and my commitment to the seamless delivery of text. favorite -”belly”. Regardless of how services to all of our members. Rates: we broke it down though, there was a Size Rate growing awareness that everything we did The result is a new Northwest logo 2.5 x 3 $50 in one turn affected the next. and complimentary graphics created by 5 x 4.5 (1/4 page) $100 one of our members, Matthew McVane. 7.5 x 4.5 (1/2 page) $150 While focus on a specific part of a turn Looking at the logo, your eye is drawn to 7.5 x 9 (full page) $200 can still be useful, the real significance the center. PSIA and AASI are distinct, There is a 10% discount available for run- became how what ever happened yet linked together.