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How To Backflip

Doing a backflip on skis is a milestone achievement for any freeskier, and it's a trick that requires more commitment to face our own fears than actual technical skills or ability. We're going to break down how to do a backflip into smaller…
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Make life easier by choosing the right sk is for your ski instructor course

Ski Instructor Courses: Choosing your skis

Choosing your skis This is not a topic to take lightly if you have already spent a good amount of money on a ski instructor course the last thing you want is to not be able to get the most out of it because you chose the wrong ski. Everyone…
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Becoming a ski instructor takes time - New Gen's BASI Level 4 courses can help achieve this

How to become a ski instructor: The 70 hours shadowing

You have completed the other BASI 1 modules and passed the BASI Level 1 exam and now the only thing that is standing in between you and your desire to become a ski instructor is 35 hours of shadowing. So how should you go about arranging…
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How to become a ski instructor: The other BASI 1 modules

By now you are hopefully starting to get your head around how to become a ski instructor and how the different BASI ski levels work. You may have booked or just passed your BASI level 1 and are now starting to think about the other BASI level…
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Once I was qualified as a ski instructor.

Ski Instructor Training: Long turns

When embarking on any ski instructor course you sometimes have to be willing to look at things from a completely new direction. We can think of the turn in two halves. The fast half as we run towards the fall line and the slow half as we turn…
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Many instructors over look ski touring till their EMS
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Life in Verbier!

Christmas has been and gone and life in Verbier is now getting pretty serious. The Verbier level 1 and 2 students are just weeks away from the start of their level 2 and the ISTD ski instructor training team have reached crunch time! January…
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Once I was qualified as a ski instructor.

10 winters as a ski instructor!

Written by Jon Ahlsén - New Generation Verbier ISTD coach, BASI ISTD, Swiss Patente, NZSIA Demo team member. Until five years ago, I was a pretty successful M&A/corporate lawyer. Here’s a before/after shot, both taken at work:   I…
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