Sharpen Your Skiing Skills with ASIA at Sno Mountain January 10-11 and 24-25, 2009

Hey, folks, come join ASIA at Sno Mountain in Scranton, PA, and learn to be a ski instructor or learn to ski like one. We're offering our Level 1 Teaching Certification over Jan 10-11 and Jan 24-25, 2009. Other clinics TBA.

It's A Skiing Best Buy!
The 4 day Level 1 program fee is $200.00 plus lifts. Discounted lift tickets are additional and available through ASIA the morning of sign in for the event by cash or check. 

Program Offerings
Level 1 Alpine Teaching Certification - If you're looking for a job teaching skiing, this event is just what you need to give you your entry level teaching and demo skills. If you just want to start looking like a ski instructor, the skiing improvement and technical focus will get you there!

Level 1 Day 1  We spend the first morning skiing to get warmed up and get our ski legs under us. For many folks these will be their first runs of the season! This usually means a few warm up runs and exercises to hone in on fore and aft and side to side dynamic balancing movements. Then we'll ski through the tasks we'll be expected to perform on evaluation day. These include straight running, wedges, wedge turns, wide track parallel turns, short radius turns and hockey stops. In the afternoon, we'll learn and ski the teaching progression from the rental shop to linked wedge turns on the beginner hill. You'll be the beginners and we'll be the coaches.

On day two, we'll start out the same, then in the afternoon, we'll go through the teaching progression again, and start having you become the teachers. We'll look at our own balance and symmetry in the beginning skiing tasks and learn the cause and effect of skiers' movements and how to enhance them.

On day three we'll work through all the skiing tasks in earnest, to get ready for the evaluation on the fourth day. There will be lots of practice and personal feedback to help you. The third afternoon, you'll become the teachers, and get feedback as you take your fellow candidates (the students) thru the progression from never ever to mountain skiers.

Day four will be the on-snow evaluation of your new teaching, technical and demonstration skills, and then you're off and running! I mean skiing!

Groomed to Crud to Scraped is an exciting clinic designed to develop your carving skills at higher speeds on that great fresh groomed snow. As the snow gets cut and piled up, we'll work on the tactics and techniques for managing bumps and crud. Finally, when it's all scraped off in the middle and icy, we'll get some tips on how to hold on that shiny, challenging afternoon surface. 

The Registration Deadline is December 26, 2008
Register early! All applications MUST be received at least 2 weeks before the cutoff date! Please note: Classes may fill before the cutoff date, so be sure to sign up early for great fun and learning. It’s easy, just fill out the Program application, write in your clinic choice, and sign the release and mail it with your check made out to ASIA. This event is popular and will fill quickly. Question about the program? Call the ASIA office.

Mail your application and program fee to:
ASIA
28 Park Drive
Woodstock, NY  12498


ASIA membership is required. To become a member of ASIA, fill out the Membership application and mail it with your dues check of $25.00 made payable to ASIA to the ASIA office. Questions? Call Bill Hornbeck, coordinator, at (845) 679-4609.

Come Ski And Ride With ASIA!