Halifax Nordic Ski Club- Dec 23rd,2020

Halifax Nordic Ski Club Newsletter

In this week's newsletter:

1st Weekend of Skiing
Coaching Development- Step 1
Coaching Development- Step 2
HNSC Programming Update

December 23rd, 2020

1st Weekend of Skiing.

Thank you Mother Nature for the holiday gift!! We hope you were able to get out and enjoy the first weekend of skiing for the 2020/2021 season.

Our volunteer groomers put in over 40 hours of work at the 3 sites we groomed for this snowfall; Dollar Lake, Graves Oakley and the Brunello Cart Paths.

Dollar Lake was particularly busy with 35 cars counted in the parking lot at one point.

Our partner, The Links at Brunello, does have a limited small number of both skate and classic skis available to rent, if you are looking to introduce a friend to your favorite winter activity.

Some of us may even have skipped school to ski the first day!!!

Click Here for Rental Info

Graves Oakley park is a very flat field area that is the perfect place for learners or for those getting their ski legs back in action.

Information on all of our trails can be found at our website. Our FB page and Twitter account are the best place to find reports on conditions. We encourage all of our members to help with reporting conditions.

Visit our website

Coaching Development- Step 1

We want to tell you about an exciting opportunity developed by Nordic Canada- NC (the national ski organization) and Cross Country Nova Scotia - CCNS (the provincial ski organization.)

If you would like to get involved (this year or planning for upcoming years) in developing the skills and love of skiing for children, NC and CCNS have offered to cover the costs of the initial two coaching courses until Jan 16th/2021. Both courses are offered online and can be completed at your own pace. In total, it is approximately a 4-5 hour commitment.

Halifax Nordic is fortunate to have experienced coaches working with children in our programs who are responsible for program delivery. If you would like to get involved with helping out or coaching, these courses will teach you how to teach children in a developmentally appropriate way and are required from a liability perspective. The best part of these courses is you don’t need to have a lot of technical skiing ability. The purpose of the courses is to provide you with up to date coaching information when instructing a 4-5 year old in an outdoor winter environment. Halifax Nordic welcomes parents to assist the program coaches in program delivery and the overall development of the children.

The ‘Initiation to Coaching’ takes about 1 hr to complete and the Introduction to Community Coaching 3-5 hours to complete. Hopefully, some of you will consider this opportunity and we will see you on the snow.

Please reach out if you are planning on taking advantage of this opportunity or if you have any questions.

Melanie MacDermid : melanie.macdermid@gmail.com or David Hubley : davidhubley@icloud.com

Coaching Development- Step 2

Dear Coaches,

Halifax Nordic Ski Club is offering the Community Coaching course in January 2020 over 3 dates:

Thursday, January 7 (6:30-9:00pm) On-line
Saturday, January 16 (12:00-4:00pm) On-snow at Brunello Golf Club: teaching skate skiing
Sunday, January 17 (12:00-4:00pm) On-snow at Brunello Golf Club: teaching classic skiing

Back-up dates for the on-snow sessions are January 23-24.

The Community Coaching (CC) course is the next step in coach development after the Intro to Community Coaching (ICC) course. The focus of the CC course is on the FUNdamentals of skiing for teaching Jackrabbits (age 6-9) to ski.

Please protect these dates in your calendars. We really hope you will register for this course. Halifax Nordic and Cross Country Nova Scotia are covering the registration costs so it is free for coaches.

To register, go to ‘The Locker’ on the Coaching Association of Canada website: https://thelocker.coach.ca/home

Log-in with your NCCP#
Click on the ‘Calendar’ button
In the ‘Filter’ select January 2021, Nova Scotia and Cross Country Skiing
Click on the link to the Community Coaching course to register.

If you have any questions, please contact David Hubely: davidhubley@icloud.com

To learn more about the Community Coaching course, check out Nordiq Canada’s Coaching Development page.

Have a great holiday! We look forward to seeing you on snow in January.

Programming Update

Provided Public Health COVID measures stay as they are, our programming should be able to start as planned on January 9th. Those registered in programming should expect a detailed plan of the modifications we will be making to be COVID compliant by the New Year. Looking forward to seeing everyone out on the snow.

Happy Holidays from HNSC!!!!

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Thank you to our club sponsors, we are grateful for your generous support of our club and growing the cross country ski community.