Previously published
This article was previously published on megeveski.com when I took some time out to ski. An index of these pages can be found here.
Today we covered the “Central Theme” this is the basic BASI technical framework that is designed to guide skiers in the use of the Fundamental Elements that we learnt about yesterday to move people from total beginners to being able to ski parallel.
Previously published
This article was previously published on megeveski.com when I took some time out to ski. An index of these pages can be found here.
Today was day 1 of our trainee instructor program. We worked on the “Fundamental Elements” of skiing; or at least what BASI believe to be the fundamental elements.
We started the morning with a warm up and then began working on control of speed and line.
Previously published
This article was previously published on megeveski.com when I took some time out to ski. An index of these pages can be found here.
Our group’s BASI trainer has arrived, Julian Griffiths who is head of European Snowsport, ES, of Verbier. This evening we had a chat about what the training will entail and we start work on the Trainee Instructor training programme tomorrow. We had been expecting Julian to arrive tomorrow and were planning to have it as a rest day and to go out for a steak at the “greasy spoon” tonight, but we’re all very enthusiastic to be starting work tomorrow, stayed in and are all off to bed early!
It’s been a difficult few months for me recently. One of the things that has helped a lot was something that, thankfully, I discovered relatively quickly and have since refined somewhat. The refined version sounds very simple; “appreciate every moment” but it actually takes some practice to get into the habit. Once you do get into the habit you will find that it leads to a positive feedback loop of happy thoughts; which often leave you with a smile on your face which seems to encourage more happiness around you…
This is something that anyone living with a geek really needs to understand.
I find it interesting that Rands has his set patterns of behaviour for getting into The Zone in the mornings. I’m very much a creature of habit and I actively “grow” new and effective patterns of behaviour as and when I recognise them… I hadn’t really connected the successful completion of the patterns as being an enabling device for getting me into The Zone… Must look into that a little more when I get back.
I just realised that I hadn’t posted to here in two months. As I said a while back, my head is not really in the right space for me to be as effective, or interested, in my technical stuff at present. I’m finding it very hard to get into “The Zone” and do any decent coding in the evenings; though have had the potential to have had so much time alone to do so.
It seems that Vista contains lots of interesting new Win32 API calls and some of these provide built in support for deadlock detection… I guess my deadlock detection tool can operate differently on Vista then…
Joe Duffy has written an interesting piece over on “Generalities & Details: Adventures in the High-tech Underbelly” about problems with the CLR thread pool. Joe’s a program manager on the CLR team at Microsoft, so he knows what he’s talking about!
I find the issues that Joe raises interesting as I spent some time designing a flexible thread pool for my C++ IOCP servers some time go and came across the problems that he’s facing.
Normal service will resume at some point, but right now I have some skiing to do… I’m off to Argentina at the end of July for 2 months ski instructor training, then, when I get back I’m going to head off to Tignes to do some race training with R21, then on to the Ski Club reps course in December and then, who knows…
It’s funny how potential product ideas beget other potential product ideas and the thing that you eventually end up with as a product for sale is often far from the original product idea and the code that you started to write… I’m not even there yet and I’m on my third wave of product idea focus. Right now I’m working towards getting some developer tools out there to help people write better systems.
