Phil Smith, Director of Snoworks Ski Courses, reports from the British Embassy in Paris where Sir David Brailsford was giving a presentation on his winning ways as head of the British Cycling Teams and Team Sky. Phil was part of a delegation from the British Association of Snowsport Instructors invited to celebrate 200 years of...Read More
Phil Smith, director of Snoworks Ski Courses briefly describes some of the Snoworks all-mountain philosophies. Many years ago when we began our journey into all-mountain skiing we quickly realized that conventional ski instruction that was associated with the ‘closed’ world of piste skiing did not fulfill the needs of all-mountain skiers where the world is...Read More
SKI FASTER AND SLOWER AT WILL Ask almost any skier how they control speed or slow down and 99.9% of responses would be ‘turn’. Now get ready to change that concept completely and finally give yourself more control than ever over your skiing speed. Let’s take some other forms of transport and their methods of...Read More
Are you an ‘Open’ or ‘Closed’ skier? And is this the key to why ski schools may have literally got it all wrong…? Could this be at the core of why thousands, perhaps millions, of skiers around the world develop learning plateaus, unable to progress no matter how many times they sign up for ski...Read More
We can all walk and we can all run and we can all speed up, slow down and change direction whilst walking or running. We can also all walk downhill, run downhill, speed up, slow down and change direction. As a child you learnt to walk, run and change direction and now you just do...Read More
I love this quote. I first heard it when watching Kung Fu Panda. Master Oogway shares his words of wisdom to Po who is too pre-occupied with the future and the past and thus unable to fulfill his true potential as the Dragon Warrior. Yes, if you’ve never watched Kung Fu Panda then this is...Read More
Phil Smith. Director of Snoworks Ski Courses reports on the many conflicts that seem to appear in ski teaching and the reasons why. After years of frustration in watching and listening to the many conflicts that appear in how skiing is taught I’ve finally been able to put my concerns at rest. I’ve now accepted...Read More
Many Snoworks guests ask us how they can move up a significant level in their all-mountain skiing. In this blog Phil Smith Director of Snoworks Ski Courses and Emma Carrick-Anderson 4 time Olympic skier and Snoworks instructor, lists their top 20 ways you can step up a level. (Not in order) 1. DESIRE You need...Read More
As promised from the Snoworks Facebook page it’s technical week at Snoworks. This is where we answer all your technical questions. First up – How to ski sastrugi. (From Wikipedia) Sastrugi are sharp irregular grooves or ridges formed on a snow surface by wind erosion and deposition and found in polar snow regions (i.e. Scotland)....Read More
Open Your Mind to the All-Mountain Skiing Revolution! FOR DECADES, SKIING PERFECT PARALLELS DOWN ANYTHING WAS EVERY SKIER’S DREAM… BUT ONLY A SELECT FEW EVER REALISED IT. TODAY, ‘ALL-MOUNTAIN’ SKIING IS REVOLUTIONISING HOW WE SKI, HOW WE LEARN TO SKI AND WHERE WE SKI – YET MANY SKIERS REMAIN STUCK IN THE OLD PARALLEL UNIVERSE…...Read More
