News and Articles
Instructor of the Year winner – Kim Cosman
Congratulations Kim!! Awesome to see such great feedback on your work! Some information on why Kim won: Qualifications with NZSIA: Adaptive Examiner, Ski Children's Cert Level one Employed: NZSki – Remarkables – their thoughts: Kim has been a natural leader within the...
Photo Contest Voting
A few weeks ago we announced a photo contest to win a course credit, asking members to send in their photos of teaching snow sports in New Zealand, brining to life one of the NZSIA Values. We only received entries from ski and snowboard members, so we have decided to...
PHOTO CONTEST: Win a one-day course credit!
We would love to share some photos from our membership that illustrate why we all love to teach snow sports. So here it is; we're running a two-week photo contest, with four separate one-day course credits as prizes (one per division). The Contest Send in your best...
Instructor of the year – get those nominations in
Travel and accommodation for the award winner and their guest will be provided by NZSIA. This is a fantastic opportunity for NZSIA and SBINZ to showcase the teaching excellence that we have in our ranks. Nominated person must be: A current member of NZSIA Instructing...
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 six will...
Snowboard Technical Team Tryouts – Interski 2019
Ever wondered how people get selected to go to Interski? The next event is a year and a half away but the process starts now. Here’s the low-down…
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 extended it to six days,...
New branding and a new-look website!
You may have noticed the small branding changes over the past month!? It's been subtle, so don't worry if you missed. It started with the new Snowboard Manual and a brand alignment, and continued into all divisions. We now have a main NZSIA logo, followed by four...
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...
Voting time for North Island Representative
Time to vote! Two nominations have been received for the North Island Rep position. Justin Stoddard and Matthew Britton. The information on each of the nominees is at the end of this newsletter. Only current full members are eligible to vote. To get your...
Ski Level Two in Hakuba has a couple of spare spots
Want to get your Ski Level Two course done this northern winter in Japan? The only course left in Japan with availability on it is: Hakuba Ski level two: 4 Apr 2017 - 11 Apr 2017 Check out www.nzsia.org for more info or email admin@nzsia.org
Shadowing a SBINZ Exam in Niseko by Ollie Midgely
Ollie works at Cardrona as coach for HPC and trainer for ITC, currently working for Brian Findlay at Niseko Academy and now SBINZ’s latest and greatest! To read his insight, click here.