Nordica Pro Series Level 2: How to Pass Your Level 2 Ski Instructor Certification Exam

THIS LEVEL 2 VIDEO IS FOCUSED ON ALL THE FUNDAMENTALS NEEDED TO PASS YOUR LEVEL 2 CERTIFICATIONS. THOSE CRITERIA COVERED ARE BELOW:
FUNNEL TURN:
This task can be used to assess the ability to continuously manage turn shape and size by moving from medium radius turns to progressively shorter radius turns. Turn shape and size needs to be actively adapted travel down the fall line should be maintained.
Variations - Long turns to short turns. - Short turns to shorter turns. - Reverse funnel using short to longer turns while maintaining the same speed.
TURNS WITHIN A CORRIDOR:
Ski a series of symmetrical (same width and length) turns within a corridor keeping a consistent speed through terrain and pitch changes.
Variations - Make a series a turns in one corridor and then change to another for a series of turns and change back to the original corridor (lane changes). - Use different size corridors for each series of turns. - Proactively change lines in easy moguls.
BUMPS:
Use this task to assess the ability to maintain a line by adapting the use of the fundamentals as needed. Example: Maintaining pressure along the length of the skis allows the skier to turn the legs effectively , steering the skis and creating the desired turn shape. Edge change is simultaneous at the finish and initiation phase. Through the turn edges are at an angle to allow for shaping and speed control. The magnitude of pressure is regulated throughout to keep the skis in contact with the snow.
Variations - Change where you turn on or around the bumps while maintaining a consistent speed. - Use the terrain variations and timing of pressure release to lift skis off the snow at transition. - Use a low edge angle to higher edge angle in one phase to control speed.
SHORT RADIUS PARALLEL TURNS:
This task can be used to assess the ability to turn legs separately from the upper body through the entire turn. At the initiation phase the simultaneous edge change needs to be shown consistently. Also, the pressure shifts toward the new outside ski and is directed to the outside ski throughout the turn. During the shaping and finish phases, the edge angle and rotation of skis are managed to allow steering of the skis.
Variations - Steer the skis rapidly through initiation and shaping with higher edge angles at finish. - Highest edge angles during shaping phase. - Lowest edge angle possible while maintaining symmetrical turn shape.
RAILROAD TRACKS:
This task can be used to show the ability to control and adjust edge angles. Example: Consistently increase and decrease edge angle from one set of corresponding edges to the other. The ski performance creates two distinct lines in the snow.
Variations - Perform railroad track turns with weight primarily on one ski. - Change the width of the corridor while leaving two narrow tracks in the snow.
THOUSAND STEPS:
This task can be used to assess the ability to manage fore/aft pressure by lifting each ski off the snow in a repeated stepping motion. Manage the rate of rotation so that a round and consistent turn shape is produced from turn to turn.
Variations - Increase the amount of ski divergence to tighten the turn radius. - Keep edge angles high enough to create a platform to move from foot to foot.
HOCKEY STOP IN BOTH DIRECTIONS:
This task can be used to assess the ability to turn the legs separate from the upper body and direct pressure to the outside ski while turning the legs across the hill to a stop. Skier must have the ability to control fore/aft pressure to stay in a corridor.
Variations - Control edge angle to allow for a long sideways slip before stopping. - Vary the intensity of stop from easy or soft to quick and abrupt.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:42 Hockey Stops
1:14 Thousand Steps
2:32 Side Slip Edge Set
4:09 Notes with Michael Rogaine
4:28 Skating
5:46 Traversing
6:04 Traversing Over Bumps
6:53 Mogul Skiing
9:28 Checking in with the Basics
10:50 Funnel Turn
12:53 Short Radius Turns
14:31 Railroad Tracks
14:45 Review and Takeaways
FEATURING:
Michael Rogan - PSIA-AASI National Alpine Team Coach
Troy Walsh - PSIA-AASI National Alpine Team
Meagan Jones - Pacific Northwest Ski Examiner
More Info at:
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[@chuckkornutiak3336]

'Michael Rogaine', love the 'doo!

[@anthonysears871]

Yep! A "long way from Hunter!"

[@albertouellette8702]

How big are the bumps you are talking?

[@tonymccurdy7623]

Nice “hair”

[@Nazrahnas]

I am level 2 Austrian instructor, and I must say.... DAMN your requirements are quite abit different. - And with all the respect yours seem kinda easy.

[@chaimwehrwein5132]

*Promo sm* 🌹

[@JB91710]

How about make a technically correct carved turn to a stop instead of a prehistoric twisting hockey stop? I mean this is 2024. A thousand steps do not teach a student how to position their upper body and balance on the turning ski to allow the ski to make the turn for you. This is just a gimmick, not ski teaching. Side slip. You don't use your feet; you use your shoulder and hip balance with a lean into the hill with your knees. What happens to your boots is a byproduct of those things. You don't teach the byproducts. You teach the moves that create them. Plus, as if it could get worse, you are thrusting your feet down the hill to get the feet out from under you to create the lower leg angle that is putting the skis on edge. 100% incorrect. It is the leaning of the knees into the hill that gets it done. 4:10 It is the positioning of your shoulders and hips that allow you to be balanced on the downhill ski when you lean your knees into the hill. Which, you didn't even reference. You concentrated on the knees and feet only. The PSIA is 100% wrong as usual. Skating down the fall line. Another useless trick that has nothing to do with skiing. The more complicated that make skiing, the more you need them. $$$ Traverse bumps. Showing with no telling how. What do I think about? What parts of the body do I use? What image do I create to allow my legs to do this? Bumps! As you can see with the girl in the green, even instructors need to be taught how to pass this test but knowing how to ski bumps. That wasn't taught here. Funnel turns. More show with no tell. Most of the candidates will be skiing incorrectly to start off with. If have to teach them what to do. There was no teaching here. Again! I don't know who that woman in green is, but she needs some serious ski lessons. Oh wait! She's an EXAMINER???? Why am I not surprised. This is what instructors are paying for when they seek a useless PSIA level badge. 12:25 There is only WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, no, HOW, HOW, HOW! do you know why that is? Because they don't know HOW to teach you the HOW or they would have. Short Radius Turns. The way he emphasized "Radius" I though he just might teach you something correctly. Nope! Those where just heal thrusts. Notice that his skis only went straight to the right and then straight to the left. There were no bent ski radius turns to be found. Not one round turn between them. 14:18 Better but of course, the teaching was incorrect. Nordica! Really?