Cameron Lantz is a certified Level I alpine instructor and is working toward a Professional Snowsports Education Program Certificate at Pennsylvania State University. Here, she shares the importance of persistence and how skiing has helped shape her life.
In the second installment of the “Certification Secrets” series, PSIA-AASI Education Leader and Tea Talks Host Stacey Gerrish talks about having a sound strategy, utilizing the resources around you, and taking ownership of your own training to help you reach your goals.
In this first installment of the “Certification Secrets” series, PSIA-AASI Eastern Examiner Bonnie Kolber shares the rewards of always aiming to improve and learn.
Winter is just around the corner . . . The anticipation of speed, the possibility of powder, and all those new jokes you get to share with old friends on the chairlift. That once-a-year reunion of coming back home to the snowsports community.
In this final chapter of the PSIA-AASI “Chasing Winter” series, we talk to AASI Snowboard Team member Chris Rogers and PSIA Alpine Team member Kevin Jordan as they prepare to head to Los Angeles to work with SkyTechSport, manufacturers of interactive ski and snowboard simulators.
Want to make this your best winter ever as a professional ski and snowboard instructor? PSIA-AASI has all the resources you need to take charge of your professional development and achieve your goals.
Maxwell Sleeper, an Alpine Level II instructor, with Children’s Specialist 1 and Freestyle Specialist 1 credentials, has been honing his skills this summer at The Remarkables, in Queenstown, New Zealand. Find out what he’s bringing back to the States to help inform his teaching at Vermont’s Jay Peak.
AASI Snowboard Team member Chris Rogers has made regular trips to Mt. Hood to work as an instructor and coach on the sunswept slopes of Timberline’s Palmer Glacier. Here, he shares why the area offers such a great opportunity for instructors who want to keep chasing winter.
Aspen-based ski instructor Nick Nagey was honored with PSIA-AASI’s Angus Graham Rising Star Award at PSIA-AASI National Academies in Big Sky, Montana, in April, recognizing his career path in the industry and ability to connect with his students and fellow instructors. Here, he shares how his ski instruction skills transfer to the rest of his professional life.
What are the top ski and snowboard teaching skills you regularly apply to aspects of your life? Here are just a few of the interesting replies we received on Facebook and Instagram.
