Miscellaneous

AU_Misc1978

I CERmmD go TEACHER I I. S. I. A. NEWSLETTER MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Robin Locke President 1977-78 saw chandes in L S. I. A •• The certification progam had big changes and more to come; clinics made good moves; Spring Clinic at Jackson Hole; night clinics at Park City; Examiners clinic and Examiners College. I would like to take this opportun-ity to remind everyone that this is your organization. Your officers and Board of Directors donate many days each year to hopefully better I. S. I. A.. Let me say that we do car e about your problems or interest regardless of how involved you are in ski teaching. The Newletter will provide space for your suggestions or questions. I would remind you that it does not require any effort to "Bitch" but it does require effort to accom plish something. p. S. LA. Domonstration Team this season will attempt to invite as many people as Divisions can send. to where the D-team goes for fall training, to attend a 2-3 day workshop I would encourage attendance of certification people or those which do most of the clinicing in the Division-- SkiSchoolDirectors, Ex­aminers, etc. The problem when the D-team 1 donducts clinic s, is that if they only meet with instructors, there is potential problem with Ski School Directors who sometimes feel that the D-team undermines their efforts. The D-team can be more effective if they are not just used in separate sessions. This can avoid or help clear up and misunderstanding concerning technique, methodolgy as presented by D-team. The D-team also plans after above training sessions, to still visit other Divisions if time permits. There are not enough team members to go around, however they would like to keep workshops £entralized in just a few places so that team members aren't spread out individually all over the country for one day sessions. This arrangement would be a more effective use of the team, because it would pro-vide an opportunity for key people in all Divisions to meet, work and learn together. The best time to have the D -team to conduct clinics would be the last of November and early Dec-ember. Jens Husted gave this report to the p. S. I. A. Board of Directors meeting in Denver this summer with this year an Interski year, we can understand why the D-team will be limited in their time for clinics. I would like to see the I. S. I. A use the D-team with our clinics in the future. The D-team has done a g.eat deal to put the American Ski Instructor on the map. Some changes on the Board of Directors, Paul Norum, Steve Bagley, and Allen Titensor have resigned. Gary Summers Doug Harmon, and Fran Wikstrom will replace the resigning Board members. JOANNE BURTON IS THE NEW EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Joanne comes from a skiing family. Her husband Norm is certification Vice­President of ISIA. She has three childrenl all skiers. Youngest son Russ, 19, teaches for Earl Miller at Snow Basin, he passed his associate certification last year. Son Larry,23, is a racing coach for Nordic Valley Racing Team. Russ and Larry both raced for Nordic Valley and Utah Racing School. Daughter Pam, 25, is going to start teaching for Earl Miller this year. Joanne doesn't teach, but she always goes with the family skiing, and was always at the races cheering for the racers. JoAnn Burton Executive Secretary Joanne is well qualified for the job as Executive Secretary. She graduated from Ogden High School (a few year sago) and attended Weber State. She worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company until she and Norm got married, then quit working so she could follow Norm around the country while he was in the Air Force. When the children were all in school, she de­cided to go back to work. She has worked the last 13 years doing Accounting and Sec­retarial work. The last 10 years at The Elks Lodge in Ogden. Some of her other interests include, being a Den Mother for 3 or 4 years. Mem­bers of Jayceettes, holding several offices. Held the office of President twice in the Patio Springs Country Club Ladies Golf Assoc­iation, also held other offices including Team Captain. She also enjoys cooking and enter­taining. She and Norm like to spend their "free time" boating or golfing in the summer. 2 Joanne plans to be at most of the ISIA Clinics and activities, so be sure to stop at the registration desk and say hello, she would like to get aquainted with all of you. If you want to write or call her, the address an( phone number are: 1376 Kingston Drive Ogden, Utah 84403 Phone [phone] or 801393-887 The best time to reach her is in the evenings. News from Targhee ... Snow is not a necessary part of Ski Instructor's Fun Recipes. Proving this was a very easy job for about half of Targee's Ski School Instructors this sum­mer. Hebgen Lake was the location for one weekend in August of fun and games, mostly fun. Gene Palmer's troups gather­ed at "Paco's{GarySummers) Yellowstone Holiday Resort on the north shore to play volley ball, sall a catamaran, swim, water ski - drink beer and tell many, many, many, jokes. The winer routine was easily for­gotten under such ideal condition, As 80 degree weather, clear cool water and three good ski boats. Isn't it nice to fi nd that some of the ski instructors you work with really have shapes under all those ski clothe.s The beer was properly placed within the reach of volleyball battlers, water ski skim­mers, and lazy 10ungers, and when the fire was started, it wasn't hard to tell which were going to stay up half the night and tell the mOf jokes. Boy, were some of them bad! Palme discussed skills, but his wife C1arAnn is a better water skier than he is. Paco did mos1 of the boat driving and his wife Shan sure looks better in a bathing suit than he does as does Cheney's wife. John Walters' wife, Jack's wife, Bowcutt's girlfriend, Val's girl friend, and even Bybee's wife looks better the he does, and she even water skied pretty gOO( Each summer this bunch gets together fo one weekend of fun and this weekend is alway talked about throughout the entire ski season. What do some of the rest of you do -let's heal about it. Grand Tar ghee Ski Schoc Bob J. Bybee NEW SKI SCHOOL DIRECTOR AT BRIGHTON VAL STEPHENS Another Ski Season is rapidly approaching, and this year there will be two schools in the Wasatch Front with new directors. Duane Vigos, formerly director of the Brighton ski school, has been fired to head the park City ski school. We all wish Duane the best of luck in a position that he is well qualified for. I have been hired to head the ski school at Brighton after having spent three years as assistant dir­ector, and four years as a super­visor previous to that. I moved to Utah in 1971 after having taught at the Arizona Snow Bowl for two seasons. I recieved my associate certification in March of 1972, and my full certifi­cation in March of 1973. I have attended the ski instructors academy at Targee in 1975 and have been a back-up ex­aminer since then. I have hired Dave . Mccormick as my assistant director. Dave started teaching at Brighton in 1974 and went to park City for the 77-78 ski season. Dave has had experience running clinics for certification, coaching the Westminster ski team and is currently a back-up examiner on the technical certification team. VaZ Stephens Brighton I look forward to maintaining the high standards that Duane set in his position at Brighton. I feel Duane did an excellent 3 job of running the Brighton ski school and I feel no need for and major changes. We will, however, try to incorporate racing into our instructor s training to a higher degree, as well as providing racing instruct;­ion and a standard race for our ski school custoners. We have cut a new trail at Brighton starting from the top of the Majestic lift. We will be using this trail for standard races as well as for instructor clinics. I also intend to use cross country skiing to further develop the skills of instructor s in addition to including it in our programs. Let's hope and pray that we have a wintel as good as last years and we will see you on the slopes. Val stephens FRAN WIKSTOM Fran Wikstom Administrative Vice President Fran has been appointed to serve as Administrative Vice-President of ISIA and as a member of the board of directors. He is an attorney practicing law in Ogden, Utah. Fran is a graduate of Weber State Colleg where he served as studentbody president. He began teaching skiing at Snow Basin in 1970. While attending Yale Las School, he taught for several years in the New England area. He practiced law with an eastern law firm after graduating from law school, but returned to Utah in 1975 to be near real moun ains. Fran is a full certified member of the Earl Miller Ski School. Doug Harmon - Board of Directors , Doug Harmon Doug works as Ski School Director for the Park West Ski School. This will be his seventh year at Park West, where he has been in positions as an instrustor, Supervisor and Director for the ski school. In 1974 SDoug received his associate certification. In 1976 he became certified. He attended the National Academy at Vail. Doug is an examiner and is Ski School Directors Committee Chairman for ISIA. Doug lives in Park City with his wife Linda and his three daughter s. T-SHIRTS ISIA Member s Only Cost: $4.00 plus .50 shipping Contact: Med --- Julie Murphy 2899 Marrcrest West Provo, Utah 84601 801-373-2280 or 375-9106 Name: ------------------------------- Address: ----------------------- City:- ---------------State:- -------- 4 AWARDS Anyone passing an exam during 1978 season will be niailed a cert­ificate within the next month or so. Anyone else that would like a certificate, please fill out the fol­lowing form and mail to: Kristi Cooper 365 South 3rd West Wellsville, Utah 84339 NAME: -------------------------- ADDRESS: ------------------------- CITY:- -------------- STATE:- ---- YEAR CERTIFIED ------------------ CER TIFICA TION # ~ -'IP' ---------------------- THE PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AMERICA, INC. Announces Its New Office Address - And Phone Ntunber * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * .... New Address: 2015 South Pontiac Way, Suite JA* * Denver, CO 80224 * * New Phone #: [phone] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Old Address: 1726 Champa, Room 300 Denver, CO 80202 Old Phone #: [phone]-79 ISlA Education Clinics During the 78-79 season, ISIA will sponsor 5 educational clinics. The emphasis will be on smaller, localized clinic s to cut down on travel, time, etc. for the instructor Certification, skiing and teaching will be subjects covered at each clinic. Eaeh category will be cov­ered by and individual who is out­standing in that field. EXAMINATION FORMAT FIRST DAY OF EXAM 8:00 AM 11 :00 AM to 12:00 Noon 1. WRITTEN TEST (Limit 2~ hours) 2. ON HILL: Warm up runs Answer any questions on exam format Practi ce Demos Free Ski 12:00 Noon 3. LUNCH to 12:45 PM 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 4. TESTING ON HILL: 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Free skiing Demons trati ons Race Course EXAMINERS GRADE WRITTEN TEST SECOND DAY OF EXAM COMPLETION OF TESTING SKIING TECHNICAL EXAM: Technical questions & demon-strations Error Recognition TEST RESULTS POSTED ORAL CRITIC (For all candi-dates that desire critic. Limit 15 minutes per candi-date. Note: Format after warm up runs maybe changed due to weather conditions. 1978 - 1979 CERTIFICATION SCHEDULE Kelly Canyon Brighton February 10 & 11 February 17 & 18 February 17 & 18 February 24 & 25 March 3 & 4 March 10 & 11 March 17 & 18 Powder Mountain Snow Basin Park City Park West Beaver Mountain Jackson Hole Course} Targhee March 24 & 25 March 28 & 29 (Pre March 30 & 31 Targhee April 5 ~ 6 (Pre Course}Park City April 7 & 8 April 7 & 8 April 7 & 8 Park City Snow Bird Alta 5 SALE OF SNOW BASIN The sale of the Snow Basin Ski Resort to a group of Colorado ski developers who plan a major ex­pansion of ski area facilities was announced Oc1Dber7, 1978. Purchasing the resort for an undisclosed sum was the newly form­Snow Basin Ltd. headed by principle inve stor s F eter W. Seibert and Rodney E. Slifer. Mr. Seibert, who founded and developed the nationally famous re­sort at Vail, Colo., has moved to Ogden where he will oversee de­velopment at Snow Basis. Mr. Slifer, a realtor, is the mayor of Vail and was also instrumental in the development of the Vail Ski Resort. They purshased the local resort area from. Snow Basin Ski Lift and development Co. principals Roy C. Nelson, Ralph M. Benowitz and Fred A. Baker. Included in the progam will be the development of a overnight lodging fac­cilities. For the 1978 season they plan to increase in the snow-packing equip­ment to improve the grooming of the slopes. The resort will continue to operate under its present format during the coming season and noted that tm Miller family of ogden will continue its in­volvement with the Snow Basin ski school and equipment shop. WHAT'S NEW AT PARK CITY Much has changed at the Park City Ski School. There is a new Ski School Director, and with the new director there are some changes in the Ski School, and there are some new programs. The new Director is Duane Vigos who comes to Park City from Brighton where he was Director of the Brighton Ski School for several years. Duane replaces Rene Farwig who left to take a position at a major Canadian Ski Resort. To anyone to whom Duane Vigos needs an intro­duction, he is severing in his second term as a member of the I.S.I.A. Board of Directors; he is an I:S.I.A. examiner; and for a number of years he has been deeply involved in skiing as a profession. The Park City Ski School will still be as big as ever, -- 135 total instructors, inclu­ding many holdovers from previous years, some new faces from other resorts, and some new re­cruits to the profession from the Instructor's Training Course. Most of the familiar pro­grams will still be offered, including: week­long lessons, all-day lessons, learn-to-ski weeks, and the junior learn-to-race program. But there will also be some new programs and some improvement in ski school procedures. Lower skill students will be taught with an ATM method utilizing a very short ski for the first lessons (100 cm). And the Basic Christie will be the basis for instruction at all skill levels right up to advanced parallel. Of the new program, possibly the most interesting will be a week long program for women only named II Ladi es Edge". The Ladi es Edge wi 11 be taught by women instructors and will be specifically designed to be strong where instruction for wo­men has been deficient in the past. For ex­ample, Ladies Edge will focus on theories of physical awareness, and individual classroom seminars--which are an important part of Ladies Edge--will deal with such subjects as ski tuning and equipment care, physical condition­ing, the psychology of sports, and more. Other programs at Park City that will re­ceive greater emphasis this year are the Pre­School Program and the NASTAR Clinics. The Pre-School Program will be planned to take ad­vantage of a brand new terrain garden in the beginners' teaching area. (All beginning course will also have access to the terrain garden.) The Nastar Clinic is conceived to help recrea­tional skiers shave seconds from the NASTAR times. The clinic will last for two hours and will be offered in the morning on NASTAR race days. The fee for one run through the course 6 will be included in the clinic price. The Park City Instructors will also bene­fit from some new procedures. All Instruc­tors will be offered incentive pay for teach­ing 5-day group lessons, full-day group lessor and half-day group lessons. There will also be a rotation procedure that will keep all in­structors rotating from the bottom-of-the­mountain stations (beginning student classes) to top-of-the-mountain stations (advanced stu­dent classes). We should also mention the many instructor activities and clinics scheduled for Park City this year. Two I.S.I.A. Clinics will be held here this year: First, the I.S.I.A. Night clinic to be held here on dates still to be specified by the I.S.I.A., and second, the Spring Clinic to be held April 27, 28, and 29. The P.S.I.A. Technical Committee meetings will be held January 8 through January 12. The P.S.I.A. National Academy will be held at Park City for the second year in a row from April 16 through April 26. And finally, what should be of great interest to anyone wishing to upgrade their certification status, a "Pre­Course" certification will be held at Park Cit April 7 and 8. (Only 2 Pre-Course certifica­tions are being offered this year in the 1. S. 1. A. Duane Vigos, Ski School Director "YES, I DO ... HOW DID YOU EVER GUESS?" REQUEST FOR PSIA SKI TEAM SERVICES SEND TO: PSIA (After August 1~ 1978) 2015 South Pontiac Way ~ Suite lA Denver, CO 80224 1. Requesting Division ____________________________________________________ _ 2. Description of function: 3. Location of function __________________________________________________ __ 4. Type of clinic/services desired: 5. Topics: ATM, Technical, Freeskiing~ Racing (Please specify) 6. Expected content (if a clinic) : 7. Dates Team is needed __________________________________________________ __ 8. Number of Team members desired ________________________________________ __ 9. Preferred Team members ________________________________________________ __ (if any preference is desired) 10. Name of person making request ______________________ __ 11. Coordinator of function ~---------------------------­( if different from above) Phone __________ __ Phone __________ __ 12. Clarifying comments/remarks ____________________________________________ _ 13. Suggestions __________________________________________________________ _ PLFASE NOTE: * A clinic day is defined as TWO 2% hour sessions: i.e., 2 sessions in one day (5 hours) plus one night session (2~ hours) equals l~ clinic days. * A clinic should be at least 2 days. Participants will be with one clinic leader an entire day. * Team salary is $80.00 per day, meals $15.00 per day~ plus actual expenses for transportation and lodging. Personal car mileage at $.15 per mile. Reasonable incidental expenses should also be reimbursed to Team members (e.g., cleaning uniforms, phone, etc.). * Team members are compensated for all days on assignment including travel days to and from location. Salary for travel days is also $80.00 per day. * If division travel allocations from PSIA are to be used~ please note amoun1 in "remarks" (see item #12 above). * Your request will be reviewed and acted upon as soon as possible. 7 NORM BURTON NORM BURTON IS A FULL CERTIFIED SKI INSTRUC­TOR FOR THE MILLER SKI SCHOOL AT SNOW BASIN. NORM IS CURRENTLY SERVING HIS SECOND TERM ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR I. S. I. A. AND HIS SECOND YEAR AS CERTIFICATION VICE PRESIDENT. Norm Burton. Vice Certificate NORM'S GOALS FOR 78-79 CERTIFICATION YEAR ARE: 1. START A PRE-COURSE PROGRAM FOR CERTI­FICATION. 2. FIRST EXAM TO BE HELD THE FIRST PART OF FEBRUARY, WITH LAST EXAM OF YEAR TO BE HELD FIRST WEEK IN APRIL. 3. BETTER COMMUNICATIONS TO EXA~INERS, SKI I.S.!.A. NEWSLETTER A publication of the Intermountain Ski Instructors Association 1376 Kingston Dr. Ogden, Utah 84403 ('\ \ ) SCHOOL DIRECTORS & SUPERVISORS. THIS WILL HELP TO INSURE THAT EXAMS FROM WEEK TO WEEK ARE MORE STANDARD AND AS OBJEC­TIVE AS POSSIBLE. ANYONE WITH QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR CONSTRUe TIVE CRITICISM SHOULD CALL NORM AT 393-8873. EXAM FEE FOR THIS YEAR WILL BE $60.00 CERTIFICATION - SOME NEW CHANGES After last years changes, the biggest hav­ing Ski School Directors certify teaching, the Certi fi cati on Commi ttee and Board of Di rectors have approved some minor revisions for this years program. FORMAT OF EXAM (see page 5) The exams this year will be a full two days. Weather and snow conditions may change or dic­tate the order of testing on the hill. Includ~ ed in the technical phase of the exam will be an area for error recognition and method of correction. This will not be teaching a stu­dent or an examiner. The following exam dates are subject to change by the Ski School Director. (see page 5) I.S.I.A. will sponsor a pre-course & exam at Targhee March 28 & 29 with exam March 30 & 31. The cost of the pre-course will be announCE at a later date. A pre-course will be held at Park City April 5 & 6 with exam on April 7 & 8. Anyone interested in either of these pre-course and exams should call Norm Burton at 393-8873. More details will be in the next newsletter. FIRST CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID 1511: PERMIT 1988 Salt Lake City. Utah