The Ski Instructor Podcast

Feb 14 2025 70 ep. 89 mins 83
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The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors.

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71 - Steve Hindman part 2, SnowPros Ski School, ES Verbier, Telluride, PSIA Demo Team member

Feb 14 2025 77 mins  
Welcome to episode 71 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Steve Hindman.This interview was made on a hot sunny day in Geneva and part 2 of this episode is Steve and myself chatting more technically about the similarities and differences between nordic, cross country and alpine skiing. We also touch on teaching styles, teaching terrains, PSIA chat and being an America

70 - Steve Hindman part 1, SnowPros Ski School, ES Verbier, Telluride, PSIA Demo Team member

Jan 16 2025 101 mins  
Welcome to episode 70 (!) of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Steve Hindman.This interview was made on a hot sunny day in Geneva and part 1 of this episode is Steve and myself chatting about his skiing journey through life, differences between US and European skiing and a bunch of other tangents.Steve is a former US Demo team for nordic and cross country skiing as we

69 - Warren Jobbitt, www.warrenjobbitt.com , CSIA Hall of Famer

Dec 02 2024 119 mins  
Welcome to episode 69 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this episode featuring Warren Jobbitt.This interview I think is one of my best and I had an engaging and enlightening conversation with Warren across a wide variety of subjects.We started off talking about skiing in Chile and his recent induction (for the second time) into the CSIA Hall of Fame.We moved on to chat about technical

68 - Scott Hammond, IASI Educator, Hajfell Ski School

Nov 07 2024 85 mins  
Welcome to episode 68 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Scott Hammond.Scott is the technical director at Hafjell Ski School in Norway and is an IASI educator for both Alpine and Telemark.I had a great chat with Scott about the roundabout way he ended up in Norway, what it is like to ski and teach there, his work with IASI, instagram skiers and much more.You can fin

67 - Jamie Kagan - Sommet et Neige, Nendaz and PSIE Founder

Sep 24 2024 84 mins  
Welcome to episode 67 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Jamie Kagan. Jamie was on the pod recently with Derek Tate talking about the Professional Ski Instructors of Europe.This episode we chat about his ski school, training centre and retail shop based in Nendaz.We talked about Jamie's long and winding journey to making a life in Switzerland, building his various b

66 - Ali Gibb and Rachel Kerr - Women's Mountain Club

Aug 20 2024 100 mins  
Welcome to episode 66 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Ali Gibb and Rachel Kerr of the Women's Mountain Club.The Women's Mountain Club is a year round club for women doing all sorts of mountain activities. It originally started with skiing but has expanded in recent years to include hiking, biking, climbing and a bunch of other stuff too.I talk to Ali and Rach abo

65 - Stefano Carlin, Ski Zenit

Jul 12 2024 101 mins  
Welcome to episode 65 of the Ski Instructor Podcast from a rainy Val-d'Illiez.This weeks episode features Stefano Carlin from Ski Zenit. Ski Zenit aren't a traditional ski school in that they do a mix of normal ski school stuff in Saas Fee and Zinal in Valais, Switzerland, but they also do race coaching and camps over the summer in Saas Fee as well as ski coaching in more exotic pl

64 - Tom Gellie revisited part 2, Big Picture Skiing

May 31 2024 79 mins  
Welcome to episode 64 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode. So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing. This is part 2 of a 2 part

63 - Professional Ski Instructors of Europe (PSIE) - Derek Tate and Jamie Kagan

May 01 2024 80 mins  
Welcome to episode 63 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Jamie Kagan and Derek Tate of the Professional Ski Instructors of Europe (PSIE).The PSIE is a sister organisation of the PSIC, Professional Ski Instructors of Canada and shares much of the same pathway and framework as that organisation. There will be tweaks to the pathway for the PSIE that will make it compat

62 - Tom Gellie revisited part 1 - Big Picture Skiing

Mar 11 2024 83 mins  
Welcome to episode 62 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode. So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing.This is part 1 of a 2 part