A five hour group lesson at Snowmass is $175.00. Group lessons are great for most people. The beginner group lessons are very busy.
YupMountains need to charge people less for lessons so they will take them more frequently, pay instructors more so ski schools won't be understaffed, and market lessons to adults more effectively so the quantity of lessons increases to fill the resulting revenue gap. In what world will that happen, ever?
& yupYes it is the resort, not PSIA. But that doesn't take the blame off of them. They do nothing to advocate for Instructor pay or to advocate for lower lesson costs. They are practically an arm of Ski Area Management. They specifically state that it is not their purpose to advocate for us or for the students. Their purpose is solely Educational and Certification.
Interesting. Part of the reason PSIA's founders got together and decided to create the organization was the way USSA was trying to control virtually every aspect of ski instruction, including lesson content and pay rates, in the name of a nationally unified program.
USSA wanted you to teach a wedge, followed by a wedge turn, followed by a wedge christie, followed by........regardless of the vararaties of terrain across the country, for a set rate of pay across the country, etc. I think PSIA has done more for training instructors. That's their job, not policing ski area ski schools.
That looks...athletic!
Private lessons are 1 hour where I teach and at most resorts I know of in the East. People can't afford to pay hundreds of dollars for a lesson.
Yes it is the resort, not PSIA. But that doesn't take the blame off of them. They do nothing to advocate for Instructor pay or to advocate for lower lesson costs. They are practically an arm of Ski Area Management. They specifically state that it is not their purpose to advocate for us or for the students. Their purpose is solely Educational and Certification.
There is no organization advocating for teachers or students.
At 8:35 is that flex to release? And, at 8:50, that's extension. Right?
The diverging parallels at 13:20 and on seem like flex to release to me.
I disagree, at least in the modern sense of flex to release, as illustrated by instructional materials that we've been discussing in recent threads. It's true that the skiers in this video end up strongly flexing the new inside leg. However, this is only following a strong upward extension move by that leg, to shift balance to the new outside ski. That move is necessary in the style of turn being demonstrated, because at the end of the old turn the skier creates a substantial divergence of the skis, and a huge inside tip lead. The feet are so far apart at that point that the skier has no choice but to make that big balance-shifting move. If the skier were to skip that move, and proceed directly to flexing the new inside leg, the turn would have to start on the new inside ski. The new outside ski would be way out there somewhere, and the turn would have to develop a while before the consequences of centripetal force would shift balance over the new outside ski.
The "diverging parallel turn" as demonstrated seems by today's standards a very odd technique to put into the centerline model.