The Technical Program has been designed to create a community among the elite snowsport trainers in the Northwest. Members of this community include:

  • Training Directors of Member Schools
  • PSIA/AASI-NW Divisional Clinicians
  • PSIA/AASI-NW Specialists
  • PSIA Alpine Technical Team
The intention of this program is to develop and share contemporary snowsport curriculum, to collaborate together on current techniques, trends and practices and to work as 'one staff' of trainers for the members of the NW.

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Are Your Instructors Connected?

by Mike Peters, Training Director @ 49Degrees North

One of the challenges for Training Directors is to provide information that enables their instructors to see the relationships between exercises, progressions, efficient movements, etc. In other words, are they able to put the pieces of the ‘big picture’ together? Even seasoned instructors are constantly learning new relationships, hence making their lessons more effective...continue