News

24.02.2017.
Dear colleagues and fellow ski enthusiasts!

The 1st SPE BALKAN SKI Conference is about to take place!!

To date, more than 100 participants from 14 countries of the Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia) and others (the USA, Great Britain, Italy, Czech Republic, Lithuania ...) have registered for the conference. We are expecting around 100 participants more from local ski schools in Serbia. We are very pleased with such great response from your side and we are confident that the first SPE BALKAN SKI Conference will fulfil all the goals that we have set for ourselves – to empower, advocate, develop and promote ski professions, as well as consider scientific and professional bases in theory and practice.

Beside the theoretical lectures and workshops, for which our guest lecturers will surely contribute a special added value, practical work on the slopes is very important for the full success of our meeting. Workshops, led by experts, members of demo teams from participating countries, will open up new insights on learning and teaching skiing.

For the success of the conference and its vision it is also important to develop a network of excellence by bringing together ski experts, i.e. ski instructors, coaches, scientists and other ski professionals from the Balkan region, and make their integration and networking possible. At the opening session we will be greeted and welcomed by a ski legend and one of the best skiers of all times in the Balkan region, Bojan Križaj, whilst our Bulgarian colleagues will present the Interski Pamporovo 2019 meeting. Mingling and setting up potential collaborations between ski teachers will play an important role also in the following days, culminating on Wednesday, 15 March with the Balkan Ski Demo Show when national demo teams of the participating countries and registered ski schools from the Balkan area will introduce themselves jointly as well as individually. We also look forward to attractive performances and gatherings, which will be accompanied by music and animation from local musicians and held late in the night. For more information please click on the link http://www.balkan-ski.com/.

In order to learn more about the performances we provide some basic guidance for the realisation of the proposed programme on the snow. 

Demo Show performance – Demo Teams from the participating countries and ski schools will take place as indicated in the following scheduled programme:

• Monday - morning training;
• Tuesday night performance - SHOWTIME BALKAN SKI

The programme will be carried as follows:

First EXIT:
All performers – introductory event. Honorary guest Bojan Križaj in front and all other participants in a narrow corridor behind him.

Second EXIT:
Introduction of national and other registered teams of ski schools performing at the show (example: 2 people will present one service, 2 another service .... – Each team will be composed of 3 to 5 performers. Each performer has to prepare a brief description of the performance, which will be explained by the team leader via the sound system on the field.)

Third EXIT:
Formations in a narrow corridor – combinations, changes, crossings, twisters etc.

Fourth EXIT:
Formations combining the wider and narrow corridor...

The exact arrangement of the final realisation of the programme will be agreed at the team leaders’ meeting on Sunday, 12 March 2017 at 21.00 at Angela Hotel at Kopaonik. The meeting will be co-ordinated by Tomaž Šegula. The exact venue of the meeting will be agreed at the reception desk of the SPE BALKAN SKI Conference at Angela Hotel.

We look forward to meeting and skiing with you soon!

The SPE BALKAN SKI
Organizing Committee