Snowsports Promotions Class.

My Valentine's Day weekend after the Keystone on-snow demo show was spent in class doing another demo.

The class Snowsports Promotions is a one credit, one weekend long class, 9am - 5pm , Friday through Sunday. However, this particular class ended up being 7:30am - 4pm everyday because of the project the class was based on. The idea behind the class is to give students a hands on opportunity to learn what it is like to prepare/set-up for an on-snow demo.

The first day, Friday, was half spent in class, deciding on key things like who will do what job at the show, what necesseties people will bring/be in charge of, and things like that. What we were preparing for was to put on a Liberty Skis demo, which the instructor Tim had prepared for since he has some connections with Liberty. The next half of the class day was spent on site at the mountain, seeing where we were going to set up the tent as well as heading over to Christy Sports near the clock tower to learn about the skis and bindings we would be using.

Saturday and Sunday were spent being at the mountain at 7:30am to set up the tent, until 4pm for the take down. Throughout the day, I was able to head out into the weekend crowds of people, trying to hype up our booth and get people to try the skis, as well as act as tech and set people up on skis, to getting to ride a couple runs here and there.

The final part of the class is a reflective paper that is due in one week, simply talking about what we learned and how we think things went. I'm pretty sure this is an elective class, but I'd recommend it anyway because, despite having to get up early, it's actually pretty fun learning how demos run and interacting with the people you bring into the booth.