APSI goes to Interski 2011

G'day, Richard here. It's the 27th of December. I'm in heavenly South Lake Tahoe. Doing some last-minute preparations for Interski. G'day from Utah. Welcome to a very cold Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Hi, I'm Paul Lawrence. I'm here in Japan just getting ready to go to Interski. See you there. Hi, my name's Jamelza. I'm on the road to San Anton from Whistler, Canada. I could skip a row and get along with you. Hello, oh, oh, oh. It doesn't really mean that I'm into you. Hello, oh, oh, oh. Happy birthday, dear Abby. Happy birthday. What do you think, Rolo? This is sensational. Okay, so day 1 in St. Anton, day 1 on skis anyway. A few thoughts from the first day of skiing here, Paulie? This place is big. We've just had a bunch of rain overnight, so everything's pretty icy and pretty slick and hard. And I think that we're a bit of a home ground advantage here because this is what we ski on in Australia, so we're all pretty used to it. But it's pretty rough times at the moment, but it's good to be here. We've done a few runs or spent the morning working on formations. This afternoon we're going to go to on-snow presentation. Marty here had a great first day in St. Anton. Weather turned out nice, perfect conditions, bit icy, but Really good skiing. Knee held up unreal for the first day back on snow after 3 months. So at the end of the day, we only have to ski just down here. This is where we're staying. I congratulate all of you for, you know, all of the work you've put in to get here. And you're right, now the work has to be put in so that we can transfer that into the future. And, um, but look, it's just great that you've dug deep and you've taken the time out from your work, and, you know, everybody pulled together to get the team here. Barbara Streisand. Barbara Streisand. Barbara Streisand. Barbara Streisand. So Monday today, first day of our workshops. Just did the opening ceremony last night, it was a lot of fun. But now it's time for Australia to show the world what we're doing. We're here, g'day! We're here in St. Anton about to do our indoor lecture. There's nothing like the people of Australian people are friendly. They have minimal snow experience when they come to us, but they do come from a very active background. It's important to note that we have stance, edging, rotary, and pressure control as our 4 skills. Hey Mark, what have you found to be the most interesting workshop, lecture, whatever you want to call it, from which country? What have you found interesting? Well, I like the Australians. Hi, what's your name? My name's Erin. And which team are you from? I'm from Team Korea. Cool, and I just wanted to ask you, what do you think of the Australian guys skiing, or the Australian guys and girls skiing? Oh, the Australian guys and girls? Yeah. They're awesome. Great, cool. They are wicked. Great, thanks very much. We love your skiing. Oh, we love your skiing as well. Our guys came and skied with you the other day and they were really impressed. Thank you. Yeah, they loved it. I'm talking of 3 levels. There is snow, engine, and people. So there is something happens with the snow in each turn. We search, there's no resistance, we try to go over it, and then we use it. We go into tarmac position. If we have a good run, you have weight there, you just try start turning one foot, then we take a look if there's something that's wrong. Now let's do anything else. Just try to burst the balloon. They try to burst the balloon, they do exactly the movement. This one, just balloon turn. So we go pushing the blue one, Elena. Okay, now good. Now the red one. Turn or short radius turn or, uh, in the bumps or in the steep slopes. All of those situations will create slightly different forces, and as a result, if the forces coming at you are coming at you at a slightly different trajectory, then your form on the skis is going to be slightly different to deal with those forces. Little easy lines where nothing can happen, nice snow lines, not jump over big cliffs. We want to introduce them into jumping maybe 1 meter where nothing can happen. And this is what we want to give to the people, and we want to experience a great day with the sunshine today. G'day guys, it's Tom from the top of St. Anton, top of the Vallugaberg. So, uh, it's amazing to be here. So today I'm taking a workshop with the Austrian demo team, a guy named Klaus, and it's a freeride workshop. So looking at guiding and teaching people how to ride sort of safe big mountain lines, introducing them to flares and cliffs and choosing, choosing your line down the mountain, all that sort of stuff. And it's bloody amazing. We just came up this huge valley-crossing tram and then up another miniature one which we crammed 5 people into. I'm just going to give you a look at that. It's going back down there, and we started Somewhere down over that valley there. But yeah, very high up, very impressive. There's one of the Austrian demo team guys now guiding one of the guys obviously down this face. Today is on the freeriding. Yep. And we are here on the top of the Valluga. We do the run down to a— this valley is called Patzeltal. And in the end of the Pizzieltal, on the left-hand side is Surs. Yep. We do— we see on the top it's a bit steeper, so we go more for short turns. And maybe if we have space enough, we go under the Rockspitze. It's called this mountain over there. Yep. Under the Rockspitze, left-hand side down, and look that we have a nice line there. Cool. Nice. So today is a about how to, how to ski big mountain lines safely. Safety, safety, what's even more important. The smile, right? Perfect, yeah. And having fun. And I show you also one elegant fall. We just skied down from there and the snow was amazing. All I can say is I hope you suckers are having fun on the hard pack ice. So now your workshop's over, Paulie. How do you feel? Like I'm about to get drunk. Cool. How many people turned up in total when we were standing at our flag? In the morning there was about 100 or so, and then we broke down into groups of about 20, and now we've had about 25, I think. Okay, cool. Perfect. So how's your, how's your St. Anton experience, Brad? Oh, well, I think every, every owner and manager of ski areas in Australia should have been to at least 2 of those lectures. The one yesterday than the one today, to understand the value of you guys. Excellent, good words. Well, I finally made it here from Whistler. Good. Yeah, and it's been awesome. Better than you thought? Better than you expected? Better, yeah, yeah, everything's better. Excellent. Better company. Every, every girl, Andy, in all the teams is envious of my fairy hood. And the third person from Australia, go Riley! Who was one of the best? Yeah, two buddies Come on, one more, one more. Hey, how about, um, this is an extra large. I'd like to see what your mince is. Yeah, Jack Johnson. Can I smell? That chocolate in it? Stuffing your faces full of German bakery food. Hey everyone, Tom just wanted me to let you know that all of the important people have arrived so far and the rest will be coming soon. We're here! Get excited! Hey, hello to Australia! Let's see if we can get some good conversation going so that we can go back back home, we can actually learn something from each other. So that would be the overall goal of the session. So what are we doing today? Um, we're gonna go and do some short swings. Short swings? Yeah, we're gonna go and ski the sinker hill. So how did the demo training go on the hill today? It was alright. I was at the front, so I thought it went really well. Everything I saw was good. Cool. And how was it? I saw the video and it was a bit bit different. How was the snow? Terrible. It was worse than any day I've ever had in Australia. It was, it was steep and icy and had been slipped by hundreds of people. It was sheet ice and sugar on top. Yeah, yeah, very difficult skiing conditions. But it was good that we were at a home ground advantage there because some of the Euros, they were struggling. That way. Prost! And then one of these.