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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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'The Internet forum as a tool for raising the profile of various aspects of skiing'
They obviously feel its important enough to appoint a 'guardian of BASI' to the online world.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I, too, recommend choosing a nice simple topic. Something like:
Should I wear a helmet?
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A few of ideas that could be interesting are...
- Development of classes and promotion for skiers with physical or learning difficulties
- What is the optimum length of a lesson? A question I often get asked, with some beginners with lots of money requesting full days of private tuition
- How much does individual progression slow down when the number of people in a group class is increased?
From reading your posts it seems you are pretty set on your speed test idea so if it's something you know a lot about already then maybe you should just go for it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Whatabout ....
"Ski Characteristics (e.g. width / length / stiffness) and their impact on the process of learning to ski."
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Whatabout ....
"Ski Characteristics (e.g. width / length / stiffness) and their impact on the process of learning to ski." |
Good suggestion.
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You could also do ski boots
"Ski Boot Characteristics (e.g. stiffness, fit, etc) and their impact on the process of learning to ski."
You could conclude by stating what learners should look for in their skis / ski boots. e.g. My first day on real snow was spent in a pair of stiff Salomon boots which fit my feet well but were just too stiff for me.
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You seem to have a very wide area of potential subjects - and as ever SHs are generous with advice, which I guess is why you asked.
A colleague of mine just wrote a very interesting assignment on the impact of virtual reality upon the tourism industry. If you tweak that a little you could perhaps look at the effectiveness of something the nintendo wii or other VR training tool - or even a way of supporting punters to 'learn the piste' through VR or POV filming. I know I enjoy using You Tube to look at runs where I am going skiing. 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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"The emergence of indoor snow slopes in the UK, and their effect on seasonality in ski instruction."
Or you could just call it "Are dry ski slopes dead?"
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If you are thinking about ski / snowboard related injuries, have a look at http://www.ski-injury.com
This site is run by a local Doctor in Aviemore who is also a member of the Cairngorm ski patrol. Tonnes of info here...just dinnae copy&paste!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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stanton, I'd say that's a seriously good idea for a topic.
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stanton, I like.
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You know it makes sense.
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are there any benefits to be had from warming up before you board/ski ? you hardly see anyone doing it, yet youd do it before partaking in any other sport...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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DB, I do like the ski type and how it would effect different learners.
limegreen1, we cover this in all of our exams. Every day we warm up with the trainer, every lesson you run should have a warm up (or an assumed one, if you are already all warmed up) However, it is true that many instructors then do not use a warm up. If teaching a beginner this is pretty natural though, they are starting off on ski walking around then 2 and so on, lots of stuff just on the flat to get familiar with sliding/edging a little.
Plenty of decent suggestions here! I just have to select one that I can produce a decent project on, and that I have genuine interest in.
thanks for your contributions  s
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Poster: A snowHead
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Whitegold,
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Look beyond the old world of UK and Europe.
Write something on how ski instruction is emerging in major developing markets like China or Argentina.
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I like that suggestion a lot. There's a gaggle of basi trainers in Argentina right now - you could interview them!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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achilles,
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Why there is a need to produce 3-4000 word essays for BASI.
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I checked out your question with the BASI office, the answer is that in France the equivalent of the BASI L4 is given the same status as a degree. The candidate should therefore have the competence to carry out research and express it to an educated audience. In order to make sure our qualifications are recognised in Europe BASI has to ensure that they are comparable to the standards of other European countries.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ski shape and size and adaption of technique to exploit or compensate for characteristics in different environments.
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stanton's idea about the deleterious effects of groomed slopes is a good one, but maybe you could develop that into a more BASI-relevant topic if you looked at the ways that instructors could help compensate for those effects. Groomed slopes aren't always groomed nicely - sometimes they're rutted (especially icy spring mornings), sometimes mogully, porridgey, nasty manmade snowy, etc etc. Lots of skiers get seriously bothered by those conditions and moan a lot - especially at the stage when they think they've got rather good zipping down nice groomed blue runs. Techniques such as using a "stem step" could be a helpful "get of jail" card and no doubt there are plenty of others. I wish I'd been taught sort of thing at an early stage before things had started to solidify.
easiski's technique of taking even beginner groups "off piste" (we're not talking couloirs here) is a good one, in my view, and stops people making too many assumptions about the surface they're going to have under their skis.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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^ Perhaps too complex.
More philosophically.
The no 1 skill for a ski instructor is the ability to handle a video camera well. Discuss.
NB not being entirely facetious - I suspect its been done but the availability of contemporaneous video feedback has changed ski coaching radically. How and should this be trickled down to the mass market?
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Whether the credibility of BASI will be impacted by a ‘yes’ vote to Scottish Independence as they will not have a recognised ski region within their jurisdiction
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| Whether the credibility of BASI will be impacted by a ‘yes’ vote to Scottish Independence as they will not have a recognised ski region within their jurisdiction |
I wonder how much investment would be seen in Yad Moss in that event
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