With a weekend of well-earned celebrations behind us, we stepped things up a notch and began working on performance carving. Tobin and a new instructor Darrin have taken us on for the week. Darrin West is the other CSIA Level 4 instructor on the mountain. Very professional in his approach and doesn’t fluff around with [...]
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CSIA Level 1 Exam ~~~ Celebrations
CSIA Level 1 Exam The exam was pretty straight forward, everyone was giving a particular skill to teach on the fast track to parallel. The skills being Mobility →Sliding →Stopping →Turning →Linking turns then working them the student after some mileage, into parallel turns. I was last of the day just before lunch so I [...]
CSIA Level 1 course: Day 3
CSIA Level 1 Course: Day 3 Thankfully we managed to smash out all the classroom material yesterday so we had the whole day to enjoy the slopes and doing mock instructing sessions. Yesterday was an amazing blue bird day. Not a cloud in the sky. It’s like insult to injury, sitting in a classroom when [...]
CSIA Level 1 course: Day 2
Poker last night started out with a heated discussion about the rules followed by erratic beating and a general casual approach to a serious game! This kind of set the tone for the evenings feature event. After about 1 ½ hours of playing the final two played off head to head. Tom had pocket aces [...]
CSIA Level 1 Course: Day 1
CSIA (Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance) Level 1 course started today. This course is also an assessment that goes on for 3 days where the instructors/assessors monitor our participation and ability to complete mock lesson scenarios as well as our technical skill level. This course precedes the CSIA Level 1 exam this Friday. Because the Section [...]
