COURSE DIARIES
Read a week by week account of the course from our past New Zealand Clients.
Weeks 1-5
| WEEK 1 |
- The four movements in skiing
- Getting to know each other
- Introduction to Porters ski area and staff
- Assess personal skiing & set goals
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| WEEK 2 |
- Intro. to skiing progression
- Intro. to beginner lessons level 1 & 2
- Mock lessons
- Free ski at Porters
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| WEEK 3 |
- Teach mock lessons
- Common causes and faults and how to fix them
- Personal skiing development on-piste
- Free skiing off-piste at Club Fields
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| WEEK 4 |
- Teach mock lessons
- Safety and group dynamics
- Teaching and learning styles
- Skier analysis
- Free skiing off-piste at Club Fields
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| WEEK 5 |
- Teachmock beginner lessons
- Wedge demo turns
- Skier movement analysis
- Personal ski development (Short turn intro)
- Off-piste skiing at Club Fields
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Weeks 6-10
| WEEK 6 |
- Teach mock lessons
- Wedge turn demos
- Skier movement analysis
- Short turn training
- Off-piste skiing at Club Fields
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| WEEK 7 |
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| WEEK 8 |
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| WEEKS 9 & 10 |
- We will individually assess students so that those who wish to learn further higher level teaching skills ( highly reccomended for those going to teach and necesasary for level 2) can get this training while those who want to further develop thier personal skiing and ski more of the club fields can have more of a skiing focus.
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Weeks 11-14...(our 4 week Level 2 course)
| WEEKS 11-13 |
- Intro to and development of levels 3-5 lesson progressions (lesson planning, exercises, technical understanding and how to apply, skier analysis)
- Increasing speed and dynamics in personal skiing (various turn shapes over various terrain with high dynamics and precission)
- Mock lessons
- Skier movement analysis
- Exam prep.
- Free ski off-piste at Club Fields
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| WEEK 14 |
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