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Participants will meet outside the Mountain Adventure Zone 6 CEU’s for All Day ($85) 3 CEU’s for Session ($45) (Non-Members add $25 fee) What: This one-day course brings mountain bikers together to focus on the identification and transference of skills from sport-to-sport. We’ll explore the symbiosis between sports, emphasizing terrain management strategies and movements, and the connection to skiing fundamentals. Mountain Biking is a great off-season complement to your alpine skiing, just from a fitness perspective. In this course, participants will focus on less apparent skill exchanges. For instance, Visual acuity- in relation to how we read and anticipate terrain, and the corresponding movements we might make. This is not an intro to mountain biking course, rather, a course connecting similar movements and concepts between mountain biking and alpine skiing.   Why: We often reference bicycling in ski lessons- because the sensation of pedaling is common and easily recalled for a vast majority of our students. However, the connections go even deeper than longer vs. shorter legs. Mountain Biking on single track trails offers excellent opportunities to illustrate and enhance our understanding of skiing’s fundamentals. Mountain Biking is a sport of dynamic balance, just as with skiing– and also as with skiing, some intuitive mechanics employed in cycling can send you down the wrong path. Both sports rely upon surfaces, conditions, and obstacles. Both benefit from skillful anticipation and application of outside and internal forces, allowing us to safely and confidently move forward. Similar as the two sports are, Mountain Biking brings a more intensive “”heads up, eyes forward”” experience to the participant, while slowing other skill applications suitably for enhanced body-awareness.   How: Using various segments of terrain to facilitate learning, participants will apply the five fundamentals of skiing to mountain-bike scenarios. The clinic will include a brief introduction, bike maintenance, and fit basics, along with tasks, challenges, and terrain features designed to change your understanding of how we move. The clinic will consist of two separate rides with clinic and meal times between the rides. Each ride will be 5-8 miles on moderate terrain with some complex, but optional features. Participation in both rides and clinic will be required to obtain credit. Intensity will vary by participant from moderate to vigorous. Time: We will meet at the trailhead starting at 8:30 am and ready to roll with our bikes at 9 am, The clinic will conclude around 2 pm (earlier depending on the groups riding pace).   What do you need: Helmet, Mountain bike in good mechanical order, water, lunch, snacks, weather-appropriate clothing, lawn-chair, and notebook for classroom portions.   Experience Level needed: If you are comfortable riding over small roots, rock gardens, or down variable terrain that is found on most blue runs in a designated mountain bike area, you are ready to explore. Varying from flat to moderate single-track trail. Man-made and natural obstacles will be used for training.

Teaching Guests with Cognitive Diagnoses Online Clinic This clinic is an online interactive clinic. The clinic consists of two 2½-hour webinars, plus homework. Upon successful completion of this clinic (and with additional practice), you will be able to: Articulate some of the most prevalent cognitive diagnoses in adapted snowsports lessons Describe classes of medications commonly prescribed for students with cognitive diagnoses Perform a student assessment Create an exercise line (progression) for a student with a cognitive diagnosis Use teaching models, such as the Teaching/Learning Cycle and Learning Styles Incorporate Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs into your lessons to make the lessons effective and satisfying for your students In each class, we discuss the teaching and technical skills that are evaluated against PSIA National Standards. While this clinic is designed as a preparatory clinic for those taking their Level 1 & 2 Cognitive/Visually Impaired Exam, anyone who wants to enhance their Cognitive lessons can benefit from this clinic.  Format: This clinic utilizes GoToMeeting, a web-hosted service for online video conferencing. Prior to each week’s class, you are given a link and a password for the online meeting. You can use either a desktop or mobile device to connect to the meeting and you can receive audio via computer or phone. The presentation is shown via sharing of the instructor’s desktop. Throughout each class, there are discussions and activities to encourage participation.  Note: You must be present for both classes in order to receive PSIA credit. There is no makeup session and there are no recordings of the sessions. For more information about GoToMeeting, go here: https://www.gotomeeting.com. To verify that your system can run GoToMeeting, click here: https://support.logmeininc.com/gotomeeting/get-ready. To download the GoToMeeting app and find FAQs, go here: https://www.gotomeeting.com and click on Resources.

Teaching Guests with Cognitive Diagnoses Online Clinic This clinic is an online interactive clinic. The clinic consists of two 2½-hour webinars, plus homework. Upon successful completion of this clinic (and with additional practice), you will be able to: Articulate some of the most prevalent cognitive diagnoses in adapted snowsports lessons Describe classes of medications commonly prescribed for students with cognitive diagnoses Perform a student assessment Create an exercise line (progression) for a student with a cognitive diagnosis Use teaching models, such as the Teaching/Learning Cycle and Learning Styles Incorporate Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs into your lessons to make the lessons effective and satisfying for your students In each class, we discuss the teaching and technical skills that are evaluated against PSIA National Standards. While this clinic is designed as a preparatory clinic for those taking their Level 1 & 2 Cognitive/Visually Impaired Exam, anyone who wants to enhance their Cognitive lessons can benefit from this clinic.  Format: This clinic utilizes GoToMeeting, a web-hosted service for online video conferencing. Prior to each week’s class, you are given a link and a password for the online meeting. You can use either a desktop or mobile device to connect to the meeting and you can receive audio via computer or phone. The presentation is shown via sharing of the instructor’s desktop. Throughout each class, there are discussions and activities to encourage participation.  Note: You must be present for both classes in order to receive PSIA credit. There is no makeup session and there are no recordings of the sessions. For more information about GoToMeeting, go here: https://www.gotomeeting.com. To verify that your system can run GoToMeeting, click here: https://support.logmeininc.com/gotomeeting/get-ready. To download the GoToMeeting app and find FAQs, go here: https://www.gotomeeting.com and click on Resources.

Teaching Guests with Visual Diagnoses Online Clinic This is an online interactive clinic. It consists of two 2-1/2-hour webinars, plus homework. On successful completion of this clinic (and with additional studying and practice), you will be able to: Describe how the eye works Explain common visual assessment terms Articulate some of the most prevalent visual impairments in adapted snowsports lessons Describe classes of medications commonly prescribed for students with visual impairments Perform a student assessment Perform indoor guiding techniques Explain on-hill guiding techniques Create an exercise line (progression) for a student with a visual impairment In each class, we discuss the teaching and technical skills that are evaluated against PSIA National Standards. While this clinic is designed as a preparatory clinic for those taking their Alpine Level 1 & 2 Cognitive/Visually Impaired Exam, anyone who wants to enhance their Visually Impaired lessons can benefit from the clinic. Format: This clinic utilizes GoToMeeting, a web-hosted service for online video conferencing. Prior to each week’s class, you are given a link and a password for the online meeting. You can use either a desktop or mobile device to connect to the meeting and you can receive audio via computer or phone. The presentation is shown via sharing of the instructor’s desktop. Throughout each class, there are discussions and activities to encourage participation. Note: You must be present for both classes in order to receive PSIA credit. There is no makeup session and there are no recordings of the sessions. For more information about GoToMeeting, go Here To verify that your system can run GoToMeeting, click Here To download the GoToMeeting app and find FAQs, go Here and click on Resources.

Teaching Guests with Visual Diagnoses Online Clinic This is an online interactive clinic. It consists of two 2-1/2-hour webinars, plus homework. On successful completion of this clinic (and with additional studying and practice), you will be able to: Describe how the eye works Explain common visual assessment terms Articulate some of the most prevalent visual impairments in adapted snowsports lessons Describe classes of medications commonly prescribed for students with visual impairments Perform a student assessment Perform indoor guiding techniques Explain on-hill guiding techniques Create an exercise line (progression) for a student with a visual impairment In each class, we discuss the teaching and technical skills that are evaluated against PSIA National Standards. While this clinic is designed as a preparatory clinic for those taking their Alpine Level 1 & 2 Cognitive/Visually Impaired Exam, anyone who wants to enhance their Visually Impaired lessons can benefit from the clinic. Format: This clinic utilizes GoToMeeting, a web-hosted service for online video conferencing. Prior to each week’s class, you are given a link and a password for the online meeting. You can use either a desktop or mobile device to connect to the meeting and you can receive audio via computer or phone. The presentation is shown via sharing of the instructor’s desktop. Throughout each class, there are discussions and activities to encourage participation. Note: You must be present for both classes in order to receive PSIA credit. There is no makeup session and there are no recordings of the sessions. For more information about GoToMeeting, go Here To verify that your system can run GoToMeeting, click Here To download the GoToMeeting app and find FAQs, go Here and click on Resources.

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