Author Topic: PSIA Contemporary Ski Instruction  (Read 5763 times)

jim-ratliff

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Re: PSIA Contemporary Ski Instruction
« on: November 17, 2012, 10:18:09 pm »

In the Back to the Future series Marty finally learned that he didn't have to (or need to) prove himself when someone called him yellow.

My compliments to Bush for stepping back from John's bait and choosing not to bite.

I never understand the fact that everyone falls back to "look how well he skis, he must be a good instructor".  The two are largely unrelated.  I have never heard anyone say "Look at the way Phil Jackson or Joe Torre played ball, they must be great managers."  The skill sets and personal interactions are completely different.

My thanks to Epic and Bushwacks for their honest insight into being a PSIA instructor. I hate seeing people learning "the pizza" and I am glad to hear their perspective on getting that same person for instruction the next day.  Imagine the confusion for the student, who gets different information on succesive days.

Max/John(and Todd).  If I stood at the bottom of the gondola at Killington and asked each skier what PMTS and PSIA referred to, out of 500 skiers, how many would recognize the respective abbreviations?
In fact, same question when standing at the bottom of the Vale gondola?
"If you're gonna play the game boy, ya gotta learn to play it right."