Congrats to BarryB, PSIA-E Master Teacher

I happened to be glancing through the Spring 2004 edition of SnowPro
and just noticed the announcement.

Congrats !!! That is a huge accomplishment that obviously took years
of dedication and hard work. If by any chance you still occasionally
log in on RSA, you should obviously be proud of yourself, and your
students will benefit from your expertise although most probably won't
realize how lucky they are.

Cheers

Alpine Instructor wrote:
I happened to be glancing through the Spring 2004 edition of SnowPro
and just noticed the announcement.

Congrats !!! That is a huge accomplishment that obviously took years
of dedication and hard work.

Agreed, and congrats. Barry was/is one of the good guys; I hope he does
once again develop the nerves of steel required to post about skiing on
a skiing group. He consistently had good comments (even if he does use
those short shapely skis. grin)

If by any chance you still occasionally
log in on RSA, you should obviously be proud of yourself, and your
students will benefit from your expertise although most probably won't
realize how lucky they are.

Cheers

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:03:49 -0700, lal_truckee
wrote:

Alpine Instructor wrote:
I happened to be glancing through the Spring 2004 edition of SnowPro
and just noticed the announcement.

Congrats !!! That is a huge accomplishment that obviously took years
of dedication and hard work.

Agreed, and congrats. Barry was/is one of the good guys;

Definitely. I was starting to wonder if any of the old timers were
still around and would understand who I was referring to.

I hope he does
once again develop the nerves of steel required to post about skiing on
a skiing group.

err ... THIS skiing group.

He consistently had good comments (even if he does use
those short shapely skis. grin)

If by any chance you still occasionally
log in on RSA, you should obviously be proud of yourself, and your
students will benefit from your expertise although most probably won't
realize how lucky they are.

Cheers

Wow, that is a worthy achievement. (I just wish the badge was a bit more
impressive! I suggested an old-fashioned sized gold one, with the person's
name engraved on it). Several of my friends had this, and I spent many an
hour in the locker room and on the chairs, picking their brains. It takes a
LOT of time and effort to get this qualification. I hope the rest of the
country takes up Eastern Division's initiative and institutes it nationally.
Well done Barry.

ant

ant wrote:

Wow, that is a worthy achievement. (I just wish the badge was a bit more
impressive! I suggested an old-fashioned sized gold one, with the person's
name engraved on it). Several of my friends had this, and I spent many an
hour in the locker room and on the chairs, picking their brains. It takes a
LOT of time and effort to get this qualification. I hope the rest of the
country takes up Eastern Division's initiative and institutes it nationally.
Well done Barry.

Hi Ant, long time no hear here - did you have a good season ?

Congrats to Barry from here too, but exactly what is this award ???

"BrritSki" wrote in message
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Congrats to Barry from here too, but exactly what is this award ???

Master Teacher is an initiative of the Eastern Division of PSIA. It is aimed
at people who want to go through to level III, but might lack the fitness or
youth to tackle some of the skiing tasks...or maybe they just want a
different stream. Master Teacher involves doing a series of learning
modules, and being assessed in each one before being passed. From memory,
it's 20-something of them. It takes a few years to do, and is very
expensive. It's more academic, more thorough, more 'meaty' (to my view,
anyway). It's recognised there as the equivalent of PSIA III, I don't know
if it gets ISIA recognition.

I found my colleagues with this qual had a lot of very interesting
knowledge.

ant