 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kooky, thanks for the link. Time to submit a profile for LB?
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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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rob@rar, i know...i am a very bad mom 
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Cool, thanks for flagging that up - hope they're more successful then their predecessors!
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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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Does anyone know how this is going to be any different from what went before ?
Looks like they're just relying on sponsorship and donations for their funding.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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| British Ski and Snowboard (BSS) is the National Governing Body for Skiing and Snowboarding in the United Kingdom |
If BSS is the National Governing Body why do i pay membership fees to BASI 
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stewart woodward, There's quite a difference between the licensing authority for competitions, and the regulatory body for training and testing. Think FIA (RAC in the UK) governing motorsport and e.g the BSM who license driving instructors as competent.
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^^ Is BSS not the national governing body for competive snowsports at a national level?
We also have Snowsports England, Scotland, Wales and NI which look after things within the various 'nations' that make up the UK, hence there are also Scottish, Englaish squads and I guess also teams for Wales and NI (not so sure about them though).
We then have the added complication that SSE, SSS and the others also award dry/artificial slope qulification at the amateur level and SSE is "the British member" of the IVSI (International Federation of Ski Instructors), not sure about the others but I presume it's only SSE, which as I understand it is an association for "amateur" ski instructors, as in part timers etc.
BASI being the professional association for snowsports instructors is a member of the ISIA and awards qualifications (many internationaly recognised for the mountain envoironment) for professionals, or those training professiojnally, in the field.
Anyway, bet you knew all that Stewart!
All I know is that it seems a trice over complicated to say the least but try rationalising it and you end up with organisations with vested interests torpedoing and progress, as happened recently with the supposed modernisation of instructor qualifications - Snowsport Scotland seem to have no problems working with BASI though, the others and one in particular seem to have issues doing that, which is ironic being that Scotland is, English club fields aside, the only part of the UK which actually has mountains with uplift and facilities for snowports!
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