Wake Up Wakefield!
Pictures from today are posted on the site now. What a great day of skiing! In the morning, it was sunny AND snowing – kinda crazy. What a nice, big hill. It really tired me out.
Tomorrow… snowboarding!
-T
Pictures from today are posted on the site now. What a great day of skiing! In the morning, it was sunny AND snowing – kinda crazy. What a nice, big hill. It really tired me out.
Tomorrow… snowboarding!
-T
This was fun… a group of us ski instructors went up to Granite Peak in Wausau, WI for the day (Rib Mountain). We had an ex-Cascade ski school director, Paul, be our guide out there. We got to most of the runs. Some on the right were kind of bad with the snow that was…
As I’m getting geared up for another great skiing season, I found this article online today that’s worth a look: How to Make the Most of a Ski Lesson (www.liftopia.com) While the beginner group-lesson meeting poles are magnets, most advanced/intermediate and above skiers act like they’ve graduated forever from ski school. Besides hearing from people…
Last night we had our normal, Wednesday night clinics. We normally do a general clinic for an hour and then they do a certification clinic for an hour and half after that or sometimes there’s an alternate clinic. The first one was on movement analysis and that was good. John first showed us how to…
Why Ski? Psychologists have studied the rationale for skiing – skiers speculate about it – ordinary mortals shake their heads in dismay over it. There is an ambivalence to this sport. There are no scores or points to skiing, but the beauty of movement gives a self-assurance that is better than winning a game. It…
Well, it was a great season… as always. It was DARN cold but I got in a record amount of lessons… 81! Last year, I think was struggling to get past 40, so I taught twice as many ski lessons this year. Teaching Skiing The snow at Cascade was amazing this year. Seriously, I don’t…
This season, I’ve had some people show up with some pretty weird DIN settings on their skis. Mine are at 7 for my height, weight and skiing ability. I had a guy taller than me with a few more pounds had his set at like 4. WAY too low. He kept popping out. It was…