Ski Mountaineering

FIS: 1 Coaches course of skialp the world

After the first theoretical session which was held in Milan on course for coaches continues touring on the slopes of the Stelvio. The initiative comes from the Italian Winter Sports Federation and involves the world's best ski touring nationally and internationally. , This first course is dedicated to the training of coaches third level that will be the instructors for courses future teachers, the first already scheduled in the month of October.

Sunday 14 July 2013 4 minutes reading time

The main objective is to form the "pictures" which will then give rise to subsequent courses for Coaches Federal and Federal Engineers for ski mountaineering. The identikit of the participants is very varied: The course is aimed at athletes, mountain guides, ski, cross-country skiers and technicians. Among the 47 participants in this first historic course there are well-known names of the great champions of the skialp as Manfred Reichegger, Gloriana Pellissier, Matthew Eydallin, but there is also the technical director of snowboarding Italian, Caesar Pisoni. The uniqueness and innovation of this course is the fact that in the drafting of the regulation takes into account the peculiarities of ski mountaineering, the synthesis of most of the typical components of the practice of winter sports and mountain: for this reason the course was opened, in addition to the typical figure of ski instructors, also in the Alpine Guide, which surely is a professional figure of particular importance in the world of ski mountaineering. The collaboration that has opened between FIS and the National College Alpine Guides will certainly benefit the development in the field of sports training at the Italian ski mountaineering. The need for an ad hoc course for coaches skialp felt for a long time just because of the importance it plays in the Italian ski mountaineering. It is a discipline that encompasses more skills and continues to record an increase of trainees even among amateurs. The panorama of ski mountaineering includes many athletes of all levels, Italian National Team among the best in the world for some time, great historical traditions and organization of important races. To train coaches with specific skills skialp means to work in the future for new generations of champions, but also teach you immediately feel the love and respect for the mountains in a beautiful setting, but that can sometimes be too harsh and merciless. The skialp allows you to experience the mountains in His infinite beauty, however, leads users outside the beaten track, and this inevitably leads to greater knowledge of the terrain in which we move and the conditions of the surrounding environment and must increase the threshold attention to prevent and avoid accidents. Having coaches with a background suitable means to have properly trained athletes to the mountain and to competition in all its forms.

Valentina Graziosi

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