Skip to main content

Games for Kids

Atom Bomb (Balance/Stance)
Balance a pole on the back of your wrists to promote a quiet upper body and good balance. If you drop it you blow up.

Flat Tire Turns (Pressure)
To start the turn inflate you tires and turn them until your toes point down hill. As you begin turning down the hill, you get a flat.
**For matching deflate inside to make matching easier

Cowboy Turns (Edging)
Use very wide stance, put your hands on your knees, use your thumbs to push against inside of downhill knee

Skating (develops active movement from one ski to another, edging, moving CM forward)
Ice Skater - Glide on one ski for three seconds, then on the other, keep the glide ski pointed where you want to go
Speed Skater - Roll your ski on edge and push off, move across your skis like a speed skater
Xtreme Skater - Xtreme skaters know no fear, they skate down hills, but to do that you really have to get skis on edge and move across your skis

The Squatty Body Waltz (Edging)
Ski in a squatty body position. In this position the only thing you can do is roll your knees.

Pour Lemonade (Pressure)
Pour lemonade from glass to glass
See your hands the whole time

Hug Turns (Rotary)
Give your self a big hug as you make short turns down the fall line. Remember you’re doing great, you deserve a hug.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

VAK - Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic

Visual learners These students learn best by watching and imitating others. The following guidelines are helpful when teaching visual learners. • Ski well-executed demonstrations that illustrate the point. Be careful not to exaggerate and destroy the picture of good skiing. • Target the students’ attention to a certain part of your body or to particular movements.

Learning Styles – Doers, Feelers, Thinkers, Watchers

A learning style is the way a person’s sensory, perceptual, memorial, decision-making, and feedback mechanisms operate. Or more simply, the preferred technique to approach learning. Some students have a dominant style and others are comfortable in more than one. PSIA references different theories on learning styles, this is a classic one. Doers Values active experimentation Pragmatic, practical, functional Good problem solvers, work well with others Constantly active, doesn’t like being idle and gets frustrated with too much talking Learn by experimenting, trial and error Instructor should provide experiences that will guide the child Experiential learning is an effective method for all students

Sarah’s Big Binder of Ski Teaching Geekery (and more!) (Updated/edited as of October, 2015)

UPDATE: October, 2015: This has been updated with new links, programs, and information. Please let us know if you have other references, we promise to update again before 2020! - Kerry (Diva2) Last year when I was preparing for my L3 Part 1 Skiing exam, the Dev Team Diva turned me on to these great task descriptions developed by Bob Barnes for the PSIA Rocky Mountain Division (the Pocket Summaries listed under "Skiing" below). (Kerry's edit: Those pocket summaries are not on the PSIA-RM site anymore. But I think what you're looking for is in the Skiing IDP linked below.) In my search for them online, I discovered lots of other valuable ski teaching resources tucked away on various PSIA divisional Web sites. So I printed them out, organized them into categories, and stuck them in a binder. The binder became an invaluable resource in discussions with my good friend and ski coach as I helped him to prepare for his Dev Team tryout and he coached me to success in my ski