Wendy Fisher – Go Deep: How to Ski Powder

Wendy Fisher – Go Deep: How to Ski Powder

Go Deep: How to Ski Powder

If you get nervous about powder days—or avoid them altogether—because you haven’t quite mastered skiing pow, this online course is for you. Pro skier Wendy Fisher and PSIA Alpine Team member Ann Schorling will show you how to get more comfortable in all types of soft snow. In this five-part eLearning class, we’ll take you through the tactics and techniques you’ll need to master soft snow including drills you can do on groomers to improve your turning, balance, speed management, and overall confidence. Don’t be left behind on your next powder day.

What You’ll Learn:

Skiing powder may look easy when you see pros in the “bottomless” pow of the movies, but it’s not that simple. Throughout the course, Fisher and Schorling will teach you how to improve your turns, practice your balance, and better understand the risks, so you’re not hitting the slopes unprepared. Powder days can be some of the best, but you need to know what you’re doing to get the most out of them.

How This Course Works?

We know you have a busy schedule, so we’ve designed this course to be taken at your own pace. You’ll learn through a variety of interactive formats, including video instruction, photo descriptions, and more. Each lesson builds on the last, and, while we’ve designed the course to be 5 weeks long, you can take it as quickly or slowly as you want. Plus, once you purchase the course, the lessons are yours forever.

Choosing the Right Gear

• Skis
• Poles
• Clothing layers

Risk Management

• Snow hazards, lost equipment, and moving snow
• Proper gear
• Snow variation

Powder Strategies

• Maximizing float
• Turn shape
• Bounce
• Putting your skis back on in powder

Powder Techniques

• Adapting your stance
• Aligning to your outside ski
• Rotating to turn
• Skiing crud

Advanced Powder Knowledge

• How to find powder
• Sluff management
• Backcountry basics

INSTRUCTOR

Wendy Fisher is a two-time World Extreme Skiing Champion. But skiing has been in her blood since long before competing on the U.S. Ski Team and in the 1992 Winter Olympics. She learned to ski almost before she could walk, and even went to Burke Mountain Academy, a ski-focused high school in Vermont. Skiing Magazine once named her among the 25 best skiers in North America, and she’s been in her fair share of ski films (including Warren Miller Entertainment). These days, she coaches private lessons at Vail Resorts, and she’s teaching her two boys how to rip like Mom.

Ann Schorling is a member of the PSIA Alpine Team, a group of the best ski instructors in the country who help teach ski instructors how to teach skiing (aka: the best of the best when it comes to ski instructors). She grew up in a family of ski instructors, spending much of her childhood at the Keystone Ski School while both her parents taught. She’s been a ski instructor since 2003 and has taught at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort since 2008, coaching Steeps Camps and training instructors. Ann has taught on three continents and in 10 different states, and sometimes spends her summer at Ski Portillo in Chile. Schorling lives in Victor, Idaho.