Fall Rally at Deer Valley

Registration for FALL RALLY 2021 is now open. Get a jumpstart on your education this season with topics sure to provoke your interest and inspire your teaching. Fall Rally is multi-discipline and designed to build and celebrate our entire snowsports community!

Fall Rally is a two-day event with a range of presenters from across the ski industry. This year, we will host webinars on Friday and Saturday, and outdoor breakout sessions on Saturday. Choose any three topics for 6 CEUs, or get a pass to attend all.

- E-bike ride around Old Town
- Build your own Balance Board, and learn to use it effectively for training
- Inline skating, slalom skateboard and longboard sessions on Saturday morning. Demo skates and boards available - all disciplines welcome to try out skates and boards.
- Tailgating and Cornhole with the Board. Deer Valley Chili is on us!
- Webinars to join from a distance

Sessions include:
- Boards and Balance: Skateboard Slalom, Longboard and Balance Board Skills Clinic.
- Skate to Ski Clinic
- Mountain Bike Clinic
- Guided E-bike/mountain bike around Old Town
- National Team Snowboard Coach Eric Rolls - Training resources for Alpine and Snowboard Exam Preparation
- Slalom Skateboard Champion Martin Drayton - Movement Analysis in Boardsports
- National Team Member Stephanie Wilkerson - Neural Plasticity: Creating Positive Pathways
- National Team Member Stephen Helfenbein - The Future of Teaching
- Author and Park City Trainer Nathan Jarvis - "The Other CAP model: Create And Play"

Register now before the price goes up on Sept 24.

There's still time to register for:

Skate to Ski Clinics
(earn 3 CEUs per session)
- September 11 in Park City
- September 18, 25, & 26 in Jackson

Mountain Bike Clinic
(earn 3 CEUs)
- September 14 at Snowbasin

Education Update

Over the past few years our association has been going through a comprehensive strategic alignment process. As a result, in addition to using the same National Standard for certification all 8 PSIA-AASI divisions are now using many of the same resources. These include:
- A performance guide used to design divisional process and education
- A national candidate assessment form (scorecard)
- A shared scoring scale.

The goal is one we’ve desired and pursued for a long time: consistency!

Thanks to this evolution, all Intermountain Discipline Managers have been taking a fresh look at everything the division does relative to education and certification. You can expect to see several new things when you investigate your educational opportunities this season. Beyond aligning with the other divisions, these changes should immediately benefit you in several ways:
- Increased number and more diverse range of clinic topics
- Transparent and intuitive clinic titles
- Specific attainable clinic objectives
- Experiences that balance content with practice
- Clinic leader and participant accountability

You’ll notice several new clinic titles and revised descriptions when you explore the calendar. Hopefully we have made the process of finding the right clinic easier and clearly communicated how each educational offering supports your development. We will continue to share more detailed information about our revised educational curriculum throughout the fall.

The 2021-22 calendar will be available for registration starting the week of September 20.

Scholarship Spotlight

Thank you for the scholarship that allowed me to continue adding to my skiing portfolio. This year with the scholarship I was able to participate and complete the Level 1 Adaptive Ski Instructors course. With this I was able to teach and ski with a number of individuals who are either visually impaired or fully blind. This has become my passion and I love being able to give people the opportunity to ski down a mountain even though they have no vision. Being retired the scholarship has made this possible for me and I know others can benefit from it as well.
- Christine Chidgely

Scholarships are available for the upcoming season. The application is online and easy to fill out, so get it done by November 15!