January is “Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month”
There’s still time to get out and learn and enjoy the rest of winter!
-Tony
There’s still time to get out and learn and enjoy the rest of winter!
-Tony
Here’s a good video I found about how to make big turns in a smaller space. This is useful to control your speed on more of a pitch. I tell my students that you can ski really any pitch if you just make big turns and it’s true. -Tony 📄 Download PDF Version
I’ve got two half day private lessons booked for January already. With how things are going to be ran this year, I highly suggest making your plans very early. I’m not sure if Cascade will have online reservations for lessons or not. We’ll see. We have our orientation in a month or so. Once I…
On Friday, I had a group from American Family Insurance and some school kids from Oregon, WI. The lesson took longer (we went over) but had a good time, so I didn’t mind. On Saturday, I had a private lesson with two girls (9 and 11 I believe) and we worked on some edging and…
I got out on the snow this last weekend at Cascade Mountain in Portage, WI where I teach. We had a good amount of runs open and the snow was actually really, really good! There weren’t many people either, so not nearly as dangerous as I thought (since the opening weekend at a place can…
Us ski instructors totally geek out on skiing. That’s probably why we’re ski instructors. For others who like skiing, once they meet us and hear how we talk, they usually come to realize that there’s more to skiing than just pointing your skis down the hill. We do talk differently and I think it’s best…
I’ve heard that phrase SO many times and guess what? I was in the SAME situation. Yeah, the first time I went skiing, my friends took me to the top and said, “OK, do this to stop. Let’s go.” And skiing that day was terrifying. I probably almost hit a few trees… for sure. Then…