Chris was at Meadows this year for the Cert 2 exams. He and I have been chatting a little over at
ABC-of-Snowboarding I have the same nick there and he goes by ctrides. Pretty cool guy and knows his stuff. I was going to take the cert 2 written but I waited too long to decide and after looking at the study guide, decided it would be better to take the summer to hit the books a bit and be ready next year. A couple of areas of my riding I felt really sketchy on for the cert 2 but in the mock exam the guy gave me the green light no problem so I could have probably passed this year. That`s okay next year just means a little extra insurance.
MA is one of the more difficult things to get good at I think. I definitely practiced it a lot more this year with my students and toward the end of the season, I was getting better and picking out the things that were really working against a rider. The better the rider, the more difficult this is. I had some park lessons where I had to try to figure out why the people were`nt getting their 3`s down. Surprisingly I was able to pick out a couple of things and it helped me with my own park riding, seeing the same poor technique I was using in other riders.
Like I said, please frequent the instructors lounge; I would like to develope that area more as not ony a place to asnwer people`s questions, but also as a place for instructors to share experience and teaching techniques.
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) at blue or louis, because those are the best hills around. lol.
I beat myself up pretty bad working on all the Cert 2 riding tasks for AASI-RM this season. I did pass my Cert 2 written exam this season. I now have the three days of on-snow examinations to pass.
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