SBINZ Technical Team Named

Last week we ran a tryouts for the “SBINZ Tachnical Team”, which is essentially a group of six instructors/trainers who will work together over the next 18 months to prepare to represent New Zealand snowboarding at Interski in Bulgaria 2019. This team of...

New-Look Snowboard Level Three Workshop

It’s official… the Snowboard Level Three workshop is now six days long. Over the past few years, we’ve been finding it harder and harder to fit all the content into the Level Three workshop, and participants find it pretty full-on. So we’ve...

New Snowboard Manual for 2017

Wow, this was a MAMMOTH job! SBINZ setup a manual sub-committee this time last year, with the goal of re-writing the whole manual. We wanted to simplify the models, shift the main focuses to align with our more recent concepts, make it easier to navigate and of course...

NZSIA in China

As President we had been invited to visit and be hosted by two Ski Resorts in China; Wanlong Paradise Resort, Chongli, and Yabuli Resort, Near Harbein. Both Snowsports schools have shown a lot of interest in using the NZSIA qualification pathway for their instructors....