As I said last season, the skiing standard for CSIA performed by the demonstrator are totolly different from the actual candidate. 95% of the passing Level 3 candidate can ski like the video of the L3 standard and 80% of the passing L4 candidate can ski like the L4 standard video.
As I said last season, the skiing standard for CSIA performed by the demonstrator are totolly different from the actual candidate. 95% of the passing Level 3 candidate can ski like the video of the L3 standard and 80% of the passing L4 candidate can ski like the L4 standard video.
Not sure where they found those "demonstrators"; they look like "instructor to be" in training to me. Nevertheless, those skills are exactly what ski schools look for. Ski schools don't want the hot-shot skiers but stable, patient, and less aggressive skiers so they can "demonstrate" the basic skills, which are fundamental to their skiing system, at the students' levels, so the school can do business and making money with.
1. Skis parallel.
2. Adapts to terrain, speed and turn shape.
3. Adjust skills for demonstration.
4. Stance and balance.
5. Timing and coordination.
6. Edging.
7. Pressure control.
These criteria all amount to a good skiing, as well as the good "progressive" for students to learn on to become a better skier, and that's why they are "required" during an exam, as standards, the candidates to demonstrate these skills in these fashions, not necessarily some particular hot-shot performance. Most of ski instructors I've met/seen on the mountains ski better than these "standards."
