New Zealand Instructor Course – Week 7 Diary

The week was predominantly spent in mild panic as the group prepared for the up-coming exam week. There was large amounts of demonstration runs done, which for the most part only served to heighten the anxiety level in the group as the score 5.9 (0.1 points less than the pass mark) was liberally used by Jason.

Aside from the vast amounts of basic parallel and wedge demo turns that were bashed out we were lucky enough to get a free-ski powder day at Porters. Contrary to Jason’s best advice and warnings of concealed rocks the majority of the group managed to gouge their skis down to the base layer, and, in the case of one trainee (who shall remain nameless) managed to smash their face off their ski pole and put a hole in their lip!

On Wednesday the group was entrusted with an entire school of second time skiers, this gave certain members of the group a golden opportunity to get valuable hands on time teaching the higher level progressions.

On Thursday night we were joined for dinner and rifle shooting by Mark who runs NONSTOP ski at Red Mountain in Canada, who if he had managed to shoot his own card would have had a respectable score; also joining us was Mike the chairman of the CSIA who managed to hammer us all at shooting. Nothing major happened at the weekend, moderate drinking was done, but that’s about it.