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Canada, Training Week 5 (Exams)

Oct18
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg

We had the monday and Tuesday off to relax or practice any aspects we think we need to work on prior to our exams. I decided to just have a fun day of riding, spent some of it in the tree’s but stayed out the park to make sure I don’t run the risk of picking up any injuries.

Wednesday, day one of the exams:
Registration was between 8am-9am after which we were split into groups (about 7/8 to an instructor), my instructor was a guy called Clovis.  We set off for a mornings warm-up ride, well I say warm-up ride, it was more of an ongoing evaluation of our riding, making sure we could do the key area’s required under the CASI level 1 such as Stance & Balance, Pivot/Steering, Edging, Pressure Control and finally, Timing & Coordination.  After a few hours riding we broke for lunch.  The afternoon was spent half down in the nursery slope area going through parts 1-3 (Basics, Sliding, Control) on the quick ride system and the other half in our daily workshop with the instructor where we went through what we’d done in that day, giving us the chance to talk about anything but also gaining valuable feedback from the instructor about what we did well and what we could improve upon and more importantly how.

Thursday, day two of the exams:
In the morning we spent about an hour watching a video of the standards required for a level one pass, after which we went back out on the slope to work on our riding.  This was useful time as we could work on anything that was highlighted from yesterdays workshop.  In the afternoon after we’d come back from lunch we went through parts 4-5 (Turning, Linking) of the quick ride system down in the nursery area.  Once our instructor had finished his demo’s of the quick ride system it was our turn, he gave us a theme to work on and then we had to run the lesson from that point, I think I was given ‘Control’ which was fine with me.  I did my demo, took about 15 minutes and I felt it had gone really well, I couldn’t recall forgetting any aspect of the theme, I’d given my introduction and explanation about the ‘Gas pedal’ and ‘Sideslipping on toe-edge), backed it up with a good solid demo of what I’d like them to try, and then had the students (2 members from my group) try what I had demoed.  After we’d all given our first demo time for the day was just about up, so we headed back to the meeting room for our workshop to run through how our day had progressed.

Friday, day three, last day of the exams:
We met in the village and straight away headed down to do our second teaching session.  This one was an easy one for me, as I had been given ‘Basic’ which I had, had plenty of practice teaching before I’d even come on this course due to getting the job at Castleford SNO!zone.  After we’d all done our teach sessions we broke for lunch, I think most people were releaved to have gotten two teaches out the way, not only that we all started to relax a bit more, realising that it actually wasn’t as bad as any of us thought.  After lunch we did our last teach session, this was a real mix bag, as it was out of the nursery area and on one of the gentle green runs down from the village.  I was pleased with my last two teach sessions so was looking forward to what i would get this time, and oh my what a lesson Clovis has planned for me.  A family group of 4, Dad, Mum and two children, this in itself doesn’t sound bad, but this time I was given a scenario:

Dad can turn comfortably and is really there to support Mum.  Mum can turn but needs to work on it a bit she doesn’t feel comfortable or confident.  The kids just want to point the board down hill and go fast.  You must get Mum and the Kids turning, but not leave Dad feeling left out.

So bit of a tricky scenario that one as effectively its three lessons in one, but I coped with it very well, and my instructor Clovis was very happy with what I had done.  I got Dad to have a go at switch riding, as this is a great tool for improving aspects of your normal riding, as well as giving the added bonus of being able to ride switch.  Mum I had try a few turns down the slope so I could see what might help her, whilst I spoke to the kids about how important turns was, and that we all liked to go fast and point straight down the hill, but what if I wanted to hit a jump over to the left or right, if I can’t turn I’d never get to them.  As a reward I said if we can get some turns going I’ll show them how to do front flips (obviously this isn’t something you would show kids who can’t turn, but we found a nice stash of powder and did more of a front roll, than a flip, but the idea was the reward would give them something to work towards).

After we had all finished our lessons we had a couple of hours to practice some riding before the instructors went off to do the marking.  A few hours later we all met in one of the pubs to get our results and either drown our sorrows, or celebrate in style.  We had a 100% pass record with not one snowboarder failing either the teach or riding evaluations, congratulations everyone.

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Canada, Training Week 4

Oct18
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg

Our fourth week had arrived pretty quickly and this was our last week of training before out CASI level 1 exams next week.On the weekend I’d spent a day riding around the mountain and another day in the park, taking some pics and gathering some video footage.

The instructor for this week was a guy called Steve Simpson.  I wasn’t sure what to expect this week because it was Steve’s first week instructing anyone from our course, but what a fantastic week it was with a good mixture of riding and practice teaches to make sure we had them nailed before our exams.

Our first day was spent riding and we covered edging this week, so we spent a lot of time carving on varied types of terrain, from some mellow green’s to some red’s.  It was good practice because not only was the shape of the slope different but we had varied amounts of snow, some were covered in powder others not so much.  Learning to carve in deep powder was great, I was under the impression before that carving was more suited to ice but how I was wrong, after this week I could cope nicely carving on all types of terrain.  Some of the comments I got from Steve were very encouraging, but I did need to work on making my flex and extension a little smoother, this would mean my edging was less aggressive and thus make my balance a lot better.

All our practice teaches went very well, and I wasn’t worried at all about any aspect of the teaching side of things for the exams.  I felt I came across clear, and precise in what I wanted the student to try but also having a relaxed manner about myself, which I feel helps students relax and get on a bit easier.  My lessons were fun and active and engaged the class but on occasion I forgot to go over some static demo’s, i think in all this wasn’t a major error as every person is different, and I think sometimes there is not the need for static demo’s, however, this is obviously something you look at on each lesson to see if the students could benefit from a static demo or not.

Below are some photo’s from this week, hopefully they give a good impression of  what we were doing.


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Canada, Training Week 3

Jun21
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg

The third week was here, time was going fast but i was having a fantastic time thus far. Last weekend i took a trip into Kelowna for a bit more food shopping, so that was a 1 day break from the snow, not that i mind either way.

Monday was here, and this weeks instructor was Dom, this was good, because last week the first few days i had, had a really good time. This week we had to make two practice teaches infront of the group (pretending their pupils), we also learnt about the acronymn S.A.F.E:

  1. Static:  Students feel/visualise movements on the flat ground.
  2. Active:  Learn by doing.
  3. Free:  Focussed mileage and practice, analysis and improvement when helpful.
  4. Experimentation:  Change the situation to encourage adaption.

A lot of time was spent going over the teaching side of things, making sure were always positive and we don’t use words like but or I want but to use words like try.  I was very pleased with my practice teaches this week, Dom comment that mine had been the best he’d seen all week and perhaps all year, so that was very encouraging, i was not at all worried about my teaching part of the exam come week 5.

This weeks rider improvement was spent on Pivot/Steering and how it allows a rider to develop an effective steering angle using the upper and lower body to initiate and steer through turns.  I was pleased with my ridinge, felt i’d reduced my hunce on the heel edge a lot this week.  My carving was also spot on, Dom made a comment that my carving was of a high standard and that there wasn’t anything wrong at this level.  He said my turns were ‘sponsor’ turns; this is when your on such an edge, the you can see the writing on the bottom of the board quite clearly.

I think what helped with my carving this week was partly to do with my new snowboard.  Wednesday night Alyn had arranged to take us to a shop in Kelowna, who would close the store just for us, it was great, i’d never experienced sales service like it.  They shut the shop, the staff knew 100% what they were talking about (very different to the UK) and the brought beers for everyone whilst we were shopping, absolutely fantastic.  My new board is the 153cm Rossignol Retox, I can blame Alyn for this purchase too as originally i was after a Lib Tech, but im glad i made the Rossi choice, very popping and flexy but it also holds an edge extremely well, and i put a some of my carving skills down to this board.

Come friday we had our one-to-one’s and Dom seemed very happy with my riding and teaching, making a comment that if i keep it up i should have no issues with level 1, his oppinion was that i was already riding at a level 1 standard.

I feel my riding has improved an awful lot. I believe i have started to bend more on my heel side, but i still need to work on this to make it more consistent.

I have a tendancy to sometimes forget the ‘why’ in explanations, however my 2nd practice teach was a lot better, remembering the ‘whys’, being positive, and spotting problems then using the PTT (Positive To Try) approach to improve the pupil. I try to keep my lessons fun and engage the pupils where possible. I project my voice very well.

Here you can see a few photo’s from my third week on the snow, i’ve also included a couple of photo’s of the Kelowna shopping district as well as my Awesome new snowboard:


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Canada, Training Week 2

Jun21
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg

After a fantastic first week, I had assumed that we would have the same instructor for at least our first 4 weeks (up to the level 1 exam), Starting our 2nd week we all waited for our instructors to arrive a let us know what was happening this week.  Well I had assumed wrong we didn’t have the same instructor, which at first I thought was a real shame as I really got on with our 1st weeks instructor Alyn, but I was not disappointed for long, this weeks instructor was a guy called Dave.  Dave is a good chap, talks a bit sometimes, and made the mistake of telling us to say ‘shut-up dave’ every time someone thought he talked to much, needless to say this became our way of saying hello to Dave every time we saw him on and off the slopes.

At the start of the week I had an instructor called Dom, who was a great chap and I was glad I had him again in the next week. Anyway, I had Dom for 2 days, and then come day 3 Dom had been taken off as an instructor and we were back down to 4 instructors, this is where I got moved into Dave’s group. I heard the reason for this was that SnowSkool had refused to pay for 5 instructors, and so Big White had to cut the instructors back down to 4. The groups were 3 groups of 8 and one group of 9, and hence why a 5th instructor had been added that week to make the groups smaller, and give each of us more time with the instructor. I can’t comment on if this was true about SnowSkool not paying for the 5th instructor as this was something I had heard from a few people, but I’d certainly bet money on it being the reason.

Anyway back to the 2nd week, so this week was all about keeping up our improvements on stance and balance, but to also introducing the teaching element, CASI’s quick ride system and the building block approach.

The building block approach allows instructors to have a good method of presenting information and allowing us to have a solid, progressive way of teaching new things on a snowboard.

The quick ride system is meant to be a safe and efficient teaching progression for intro snowboarding and I have to admit I was impressed with this system.  In comparison to BASI, BASI have nothing like this, and its a shame because I definitely see it as the right way to get someone on a snowboard and having fun (because lets face it, that’s what it’s all about).  The quick ride system is split into 5 separate goals, and the idea being once a student has completed one goal we move towards completing the next:

  1. Basics:  Become familiar with the equipment and moving around.
  2. Sliding:  To be comfortable standing on a snowboard while it is sliding.
  3. Control:  Gain control of speed and direction with both feet attached.
  4. Turning:  To have the ability to changes edges in the fall line.
  5. Linking:  Be able to comfortably link toe and heelside turns.

Stance and balance was this weeks focus on the rider improvement side of things and this makes complete sense as this is the bedrock of riding at all levels.  Having the ability to balance in a variety of situations while sliding down a hill remains the most obvious goal in snowboarding.

Dave ran through the quick ride system with us, and demoed some practice teaches, so we could all get an idea of what it should look/sound like, it was a big help, some of it was similar to BASI level 1, but some of it was not. I was really happy with my practice teach this week, although having tought in Castleford I guess I had a little advantage here but none the less was happy, and if I recall, Dave said it was a good first teach. I was also very pleased with my riding this week, I thought I had made a big improvement on last weeks riding, although I still need to hunch less on my heels I felt that I had improved and was hunching a bit less.

This weeks riding was in some ways a bit more fun, as we explored more of the mountain, was introduced to some tree runs, and some nice black runs, one in particular called ‘Devils Tongue’ will always hold a special place with me as had a great variety of terrain, with some nice rollers, long sweeping banks, plenty of really high moguls and some spectacular drops to do a bit of freestyle off.  As the weeks progressed this became a favourite run for most people and certainly as our abilities changed we were able to take the moguls at speed.

So at the end of the week as i mentioned we had our video analysis and our one-to-one’s with Dave.  My feedback this week can be seen below, but we also had a number of questions to answer:

  • List five skills and attitudes that will make you a more effective teacher:  (1) Keep it simple, (2) Be patient, (3) Friendly and positive, (4) Methodical (use building blocks) and (5) Make it fun.
  • How can a student control their speed during beginner and novice turns? Speed = Size, Slope, Shape.  This means that speed is affected by the size of a turn, the shape of the turn and the gradient of the slope the turn is made on.

I still need to work on m heel edge, however it has improved but needs consistency now. I have a very relaxed posture and handle terrain changes well.

I feel I give clear directions/instructions whilst maintaining the safety of the group. I always checked after each bit of information that it was clear and understood by the group.

Below you can see a small choice of photo’s from my 2nd week on the course.


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Canada, Training Week 1

Jun13
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg

It was our first week, and the complete snowskool group was waiting for our instructors out in the village centre for 9am.  We all had a group shot taken (for Big White and SnowSkool publicity) and then set off with out instructors to meet up a bit further down the slope so we could get to know each other and listen to hour this week and the following 10 weeks would go.

Everyone seemed pretty nice and everyone seems to be generally interested in improving there riding with a few wanting to have snowboarding instructor as a career.  So the first day was all about splitting us into groups and go through some basic ‘Stance and Balance’ drills i guess in order for the instructor(s) to see how each of us ride and how to help improve us all.

I was split into a group with some people i had not met and a few i had already met.  What was good news was that one of my house-mate, Dave was also in the same group as me, not that i was worried about the week but i think it was nice to have someone i’d spoken a lot too regardless of them being my house-mate as it chilled me out a bit that i wasn’t riding just with people i didn’t really know, saying that by the end of the week i was comfortable with everyone in the group.

In the afternoon and for a lot of the first week we spent a lot of time just riding so we could get to know the mountain we’d be spending the next 3 months on sooner rather than later.

There were lots of drills and exercises during the first week to help improve aspects of our riding as well as introducing the 5 skills needed to be able to snowboard, these are:

  1. Stance and Balance
  2. Pivot / Steering
  3. Edging
  4. Pressure Control
  5. Timing and Co-ordination

After each week we had a one-to-one sit down with our instructor so we could fill in a worksheet/booklet and go through our riding and teaching progression for that week. I was quite happy with mine.

My toe edge is stronger than my heel edge, when on my heel edge lean back a little more to get a more stable heel edge carve.  When popping, remember to stay flexible, this helps for bumps and moguls. I have independent movement in both legs and don’t have the GARM (don’t know if it’s a proper acronym, but it stands for Gay ARM, it’s where your rear arm comes out and stays to the side of you, kinda like your putting your arm around your partner).

Below are a selection of photo’s from my first week, hopefully they give a good impression of how much fun it was to be there with masses of powder.


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First Weekend in Canada

Jun13
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg
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Snow Ghosts seen from the lift

After our first day (yesterday) a lot of people were a little hung over from there first night on the beers, I had decided not to stay out all night as I wanted to do some more scouting of the mountain.  We got together a group of us in the morning and set off for our day of snowboarding.

We had a couple of hours and then stopped for lunch, I had bought a metal flask the other day and had filled it with hot soup, so I went for the cheap option and just bought a drink to go with my soup.

We headed back up the mountain to set off for some more runs, the lift stopped half way up so it was a good opportunity to take a few photo’s, it was a little overcast so the visibility isn’t as good as we’d have liked.

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Room mates stuck in the snow

After a few runs in the afternoon we decided to take a risk at doing some off-piste runs through some tree’s this didn’t go to well, halfway down a tree run we came to a cliff, and being only our 2nd day we didn’t want to risk cliff jumping off it, so we hiked back up the trails we made, and got back on to one of the groomed runs. We had a few more runs, and took a trip through the small freestyle park just to have a look as the visibility was too bad to hit anything safely, so we headed back to the village for a few bits and pieces so we could eat tonight.

Later we had some food as a group in our house talked about our day and then watched some TV.  I went for an early night again as I had booked a bus ticket for a trip to Kelowna on Sunday to get some food shopping and to just check out the city.

Sunday was here, and i was up early to catch the bus to Kelowna.  It took about 1 hour to get to Kelowna, a few of the snowskool group had gone so we went round as a small group, most people wanted sim cards, and originally i did also but the price of the cards and the amount of talk-time you got meant it would be no cheaper than just using my phone from the uk on the roaming service, so I decided not to buy the sim and save my Canadian dollars for beer and equipment.

After about 2 hours we had a good look round the shopping centre and stopping in the food court for a bit of lunch before taking a look at some of the snowboarding shops on some of the streets near by.  Nothing of major interest, I’m after a new snowboard because I snapped my old Burton Blunt Primo before I came to Canada, i brought my Nitro board which is great but I really want another Park board to replace the Primo.

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House mate (Chris) cooking steaks on the BBQ

Window shopping all done, we spent the rest of the time going round their equivalent of a supermarket and doing the shopping, think we spent about $150 in all, seemed expensive for what we bought but never the less a lot cheaper than buying food on the mountain. Food shopping all done, we waited for the bus, loaded up and made our way back to the house.

That night we dined on a steak BBQ meal as we decided to make good use of the BBQ we had provided to us on our balcony, there just something about eating BBQ when its -12°c out.  Then i watched a bit of tv before heading to bed at around midnight after having chatted to my other half on Skype as it was our first proper week of training that started the next day.

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CASI Course, Day 1

Jun08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg

It’s Friday 7th, and it’s our first day on the mountain Big White, Canada.  There is so much snow around i can’t contain myself and am just looking forward to riding in general never mind what else the course has to offer.

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Enjoying food and beer

So we have breakfast, and our house makes it over to the central offices for our registration and debriefing.  This was over an hour of dullness, with just general information, do’s and don’t and a tour of the mountain village.  After this we proceeded to get our lift passes sorted, this took a lot longer than i expected, and would have thought the staff at SnowSkool could have these all to hand in preparation, it’s not like they didn’t have our details for over a year.  Never mind, and hour later and we off back to the house with lift passes in hand.  We decided to go out as a group (as in all my house mates and I) for a ride and tour of the mountain.

4 hours later and were back after a great days riding, mostly on-piste so we could get to grips with the layout and runs.  We got changed and took a dip in our hot-tub with a few beers before making it to the Snowshoe Sams (local bar) for some food and beers with the rest of the Snowskool group.  I didn’t spend the night partying like a lot of the guys/gals instead I went back to the house at about 10pm as i wanted to be up early Saturday for some more riding time.

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Leaving for Big White, Canada

Jun08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg

So the time for Canada is upon me (Jan 5th, 2011) and it’s the start of my 3 month trip.  Today I spent most of the day travelling to London as my flight tomorrow is an early one so i didn’t want the hassle of travelling from Nottingham to London as silly ‘o’ clock.  Got to London in the afternoon after a fun packed journey on the train, which in itself would have been fine without having to lug to huge bags around with me.

In the afternoon i spoke to my other half, letting her know i was in London safe and sound and would be contacting her again when i reached the mountain.  After this i left a message for a lad called Craig who was staying in the same hotel as me, he is also going to Canada, so it was a nice opportunity to say hello to someone before the chaos of settling into a Canadian hotel and commencing with the course.

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Time till arrival

The next day was here, and i was up at the crack of dawn to meets some of the lads and make our way to Gatwick airport, just round the corner.  We got there, the wait was dull as in any airport but we were soon checking in bags, I had to pay £20 excess baggage due to snowskool changing the baggage limits, this was slightly annoying as i had to leave stuff at home as it was.  Soon through check-in and waiting for departure, this was interesting meeting some of the people i would be seeing a lot of over the next 3 month, and seeing whom i might and might not get on with, most seemed nice enough so i was happy.

And were off, finally! the plane departs for the gruelling first half of the journey, the plane was cramped and pretty crap but i didn’t expect much there so wasn’t so disappointed.  Nothing of interest really happened beside being told off by another passenger for talking to some people, so i politely told her what she could do and continued talking.

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View from our balcony

Arriving in Vancouver airport was nice, good to know we were in Canada, but now it was the last half of the journey a 6.5 hour coach journey to the mountain. This was ok, half was spent looking at the Canadian landscapes the other half sleeping.  Once we arrived at the hotel we were shown were to unload our equipment too and then shown to our rooms.  The rooms were fantastic, big spacious kitchen/lounge, 3 bedrooms, and 2 bathrooms, and an outside hot-tub.  Spent most of he night unpacking then chatting to my house mate, it was a good night, and tomorrow starts registration etc before the weekend and then our 1st week of coaching.  Excited!

 

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Christmas 2010

Jun08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg

Christmas leading to, and shortly after was a bit of a mixed bag, as i had to work a lot of the xmas period, this wasn’t a problem as i really enjoy my work, it was just a shame not to spend some time with the family.

So, i’ve been teaching 3 months now and love every minute of it, i can honestly say i don’t regret one thing.  The lessons are still the same structure and i’m constantly teaching a variety of lessons daily with the occasional board in a day course, which is another really interesting lesson taking someone who’s never been on a board to well learn to stand on a board to going from the top of the slope and being able to come on there own, its a rewarding day as you get to see the students change by the hour and progress them through a long hard day of learning to snowboard.

Over Christmas we had a little bit of snow, so i made the most of my days off, and myself and the other half took to a spot of snowboarding on a hill quite close to us, this was fun, as it was free and local.  It also gave me the chance to try a spot of freestyling in an urban setting again.  Not doing much out of the ordinary few grabs, and 360′s.

Now Christmas is been and gone, I look forward to my 3 month trip to Big White, Canada to get my CASI qualifications, and give myself more career prospects.

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Working, finally!

Jun08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by NateDogg

I’d started working at Castleford Sno!zone and was really enjoying it despite it being near xmas 2010.  In the weeks leading upt to xmas i was working quite a lot (around 40hrs a week).

In this short period before xmas i definitely knew i had made the right decision to change my career and hence life.  I was enjoying every minute of my ‘working’ day, the people i work with are nice and friendly and the snow as mentioned before is a lot better than Tamworth’s so it was making for better riding too.  The pay isn’t great but i expected this so it wasn’t so much of a shock to the system, i just had to get it in my mind that gone are the days of buying new stuff monthly and that i now have to save for the littlest of things.

Most of my work was Beginner 1 and 2 with the occasional beginner 3 and intermediate 1.  This is no problem as its good to have a variety of work to do regardless of whether i was enjoying it or not (which i was).  The instructors are a real mixed bag, everyone teaches similar, but i noticed a huge different in mannerisms and communication.

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