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National Freestyle Academy - Snowboard Freestyle Level 1 Training and Assessment

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Dates: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - Friday, February 2, 2024 from 8:30 am - 4:00 pm (3 Days)
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Event Type: Certificate Assessment

Location: Woodward Park City (inside the cafeteria in the seating area)

Registration Information:
- First Chair Rate: $350.00 (available through Tuesday, January 16)
- Last Chair Rate: $375.00
- CEUs: 18

Prerequisites: Current PSIA-AASI Membership, Freestyle E-learning course requirement, Primary discipline level 1 certification at a minimum

Registration Deadline: Monday, January 22, 2024, 11:59 pm

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Online Registration: CLOSED

Late registration may be available with a $25 late fee. Contact the office at (303) 987-9390 or admin@psia-i.org for more information.

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Course Description:

One day of assessment prep followed by a 2 day FS1 Assessment. The prep and assessment focus on the FS1 national standards and fundamentals/skills required to achieve the appropriate outcomes. Other topics covered are FS movement analysis, ATML, PARK SMART, and freestyle etiquette. Day 2 and 3 are FS Level 1 Assessment

Additional Event Details:

2 Day Camp

During the 2 day training camp you will get more time to develop skills in these areas. Plenty of time for feedback on tricks you want to get while helping to develop your Technical Understanding, MA and Teaching skills in the Freestyle environment focused on the FS-1 standard.

Boxes and rails

The trainer will work to build skills of the participants through feedback outside the park and then on an appropriate size feature inside the park for the FS-1 standard. You will have an opportunity to work on your skiing / riding skills as well as movement analysis and progression building. Example of tricks you will be working on but are not limited to are as follows.

- Right foot ski slides / Backside boardslides

- Left foot ski slides / Frontside boardslides

- Nose and tail press on a snowboard

- Right and left foot ski slides and come off switch / back or front board slides out switch

Jumps

The trainer will work to build skills of the participants through feedback outside the park and then on an appropriate size feature inside the park for the FS-1 standard. You will have an opportunity to work on your skiing / riding skills as well as movement analysis and progression building. Example of tricks you will be working on but are not limited to are as follows.

- Straight airs with good pop

- Straight airs with shifty

- Straight airs with different grabs

- Left side 180s / frontside 180s

- Right side 180s / backside 180s

Halfpipe / Transitional features

The trainer will work to build skills of the participants through feedback outside the pipe and then on an appropriate size pipe or transitional feature for the FS-1 standard. You will have an opportunity to work on your skiing / riding skills as well as movement analysis and progression building. Example of tricks you will be working on but are not limited to are as follows.

- Left wall aired edge changes

- Right wall aired edge changes

- On snow alley oops

- Aired alley oops

- Air to fakie

Please note that this event is focused on FS-1 standard but overall to the level and wants and desires of the participants. As always the weather and snow condition will dictate what we do to keep the group safe.

FS 1 Clinic/Exam

Clinic Day-

The examiner will review the content that will be assessed in the exam. During the warmup the examiner will have the group do a park inspection, while getting to know the group they will decide what will be the best focus for the day. They will give feedback on the tricks that are going to be assessed during the ride day. There will be some time for practice teaching and MA.

Exam Days-

Teaching / MA/Technical Understanding

The examiner will warm up the group whilst showing them what features and terrain will be used for the teaching segments. The examiner will talk about how the 20 minute teaches, the MA and technical understanding will be laid out. Then the examiner will give a demo teach. They will first watch the group ride a lap through the park trying some of the different FS 1 tricks. Then the examiner will choose a topic to teach the group. They will also ask the participants what their other hobbies and motivations are. Then the examiner will do a demo 20 minute teach. At the end of their teach the examiner will watch one of the students try a different trick and will then do MA on that student on that. Once the MA is done the examiner will then give an example of how the technical understanding will be asked and give a demo answer. This will come from the fundamentals that they just spoke to in the MA but be focused on their own riding. On exam day the group will be split in half for the 20 minute teaching segments.

Ski/Ride

The examiner will warm the group up as they do park inspections the examiner will point out the features that are going to be used for the ski/ride portion of the exam. Then the examiner will take the group to each area and allow the participants to hike that feature to warm up to the specific tricks they are going to be asked to do. The participants will have 10-15 to warm up to the tricks. Then when the participant is ready they will tell the examiner they are ready to be assessed at which time they will have three tries to show the examiner their skills. The participants will get verbal feedback on their first two tries.

Feedback and results with certificates and pins to successful participants.

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