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The Ski Instructor Podcast episodes

September 23 87 - Dave Morris - FIS Coach, Podium Ski, BASI Trainer
Welcome to episode 87 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Dave Morris.

Dave was on my original scrappy bit of paper list of people I wanted to speak to and it's taken us this long to get it together to finally sit down and talk - and I'm so glad that we actually did.

We had great chat talking about subjects like how to find the gains that make FIS athletes better, why the Eurotest and what you learn about yourself when you go through that process, as well as what makes for good skiing and chasing FIS points.

This was a great chat and I am grateful to have had the chance to share in Dave's vast knowledge.

You can find Dave here:

www.podiumski.com
instagram: podiumski

Happy listening
Dave
[email protected]
www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

1 hr 58 min
August 20 86 - Joe Beer 2 - Life after skiing
Welcome to episode 86 of The Ski Instructor Podcast after a summer break and a long hot summer here in Switzerland.

This week, I revise my early episode chat with Joe Beer who left the ski teaching world around covid and Brexit time to return to the UK to pursue life in the music world.

How was always playing music whilst he was skiing but we talk about the freedom of skiing and how he thinks skiing has changed in recent times, a serious eye injury that lost the sight in one of his eyes, how to make a living in the music industry and teaching skiing vs teaching music.

This is a podcast I've wanted to make for a long time and I have a couple of other 'life afters' which I want to do which I think make for interesting stories.

Happy listening
Dave

https://www.snow-pros.ski/level-1-ski-instructor-course

music by www.bensound.com

1 hr 24 min
June 26 85 - Charlie Brooksbank - Pure Powder
Welcome to episode 85 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Charlie Brooksbank of Pure Powder.

Pure Powder is a tour operator and they organise heli and cat skiing tours and holidays. This interview is a slight departure from our usual interviews of ski instructors and ski school directors and gives a different perspective on life in the ski industry and how ski instrcutors and guides fit into that.

We chat about how the business has evolved over the years and the challenges of running a business like this.

You can find Charlie and PurePowder here:
www.purepowder.com
https://www.purepowderheliskiing.co.uk/

Happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com
1 hr 7 min
April 24 84 - Mark Shaxted, part 2 - IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor
Welcome to episode 84 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring part 2 of my interview with Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor.

Our conversation continues and touches on how to get better at skiing and teaching whilst you're working on a daily basis, how to make a year round living from skiing, knee injury recovery, skiing and teaching in China and much more.

Happy listening
Dave

music by www.bensound.com
1 hr 5 min
March 23 83 - Mark Shaxted, part 1 - IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor
Welcome to episode 83 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor.

I had a great chat with Mark, taking about his back story in skiing and we soon went off on a tangent into topics such as how not to become a cynical ski instructor, how a ski turn actually works and snowplough deniers.

This is part 1 of the conversation and part 2 will follow next month. I had a great time recording this and I think that comes through in the edit.

Happy listening
Dave

music by www.bensound.com

1 hr 7 min
February 21 82 - Billy Clark part 2 - Billski
Welcome to episode 82 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring part 2 of the interview with Billy Clark from Billski.

Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets. I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer.

Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area. This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one.
In part 2 of the interview, we chat about Billski, how it got started and has evolved and his approach to marketing. We also chat about the evolution of the French side of the Portes du Soleil over the years.

You can find Billski here -

https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/
https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk

Happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com

1 hr 3 min
January 20 81 - Billy Clark - Billski
Welcome to episode 81 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Billy Clark from Billski.

Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets. I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer.

Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area. This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one.
In this part 1 of the interview, we chat about Bill's journey to full cert, the people that helped and inspired him along the way and how to approach challenges.

You can find Billski here -

https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/
https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk

Happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski
music by www.bensound.com

1 hr 4 min
December 25, 2025 80 - Joe Dunn part 2 - Ski Dad TV, Instructor at Deer Valley
Happy Christmas to you all and welcome to part 2 and episode 80 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV.

In this episode we talk about Joe's back story and how he came to be a ski instructor at Deer Valley, wedge christie and PSIA chat, keeping teaching simple and how he started his YouTube channel.

It's a great interview full of good energy.

You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV

Henrik Kristoffersen interview here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/henrik-kristoffersen/id1549121005?i=1000674224528

Happy listening
Dave

https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland

music by www.bensound.com

1 hr 36 min
November 27, 2025 79 - Joe Dunn, Ski Dad TV, Instructor at Deer Valley part 1
Welcome to part 1 of episode 79 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV.

We jump immediately into an in-depth chat about technical skiing, how to introduce people to carving and an in-depth discussion on width of ski. It's a great interview full of good energy.

You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV

Happy listening
Dave

https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland

music by www.bensound.com

1 hr 6 min
October 24, 2025 78 - Jason Hendy - Impulse Racing and Gloucester Ski Club
Welcome to episode 78 of the podcast, this week featuring Jason Hendy.

I worked with Jason this winter at a race we were running in Les Crosets and we started a really interesting chat about ski boots but we didn't get a chance to finish it and that is what this podcast is.

It's very much a follow up to episode 77 with Tom Gellie and we touch on a lot of the same topics about boots and this episode deliberately follows that one as a continuation of that topic.

Jason has thought deeply about this topic of boots and getting the right set up for you, then the conversation moves on to coaching on the dry slope in the UK, working with kids on a week to week basis and how to go fast on a dry slope.

I loved chatting with Jason and it really comes across in this podcast. You can find Jason here:
https://www.instagram.com/alpin_ish/
https://www.facebook.com/jason.hendy.7

Happy listening
Dave
[email protected]
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons
music by www.bensound.com
1 hr 48 min