Learning the basics

Within ski racing every race needs officials to help run it. Many of the helpers are from the local club, some doing it for the first time but many officiating on a regular basis at many different races throughout the country.

There are currently two levels of officials that SSE like to have, Level 1 the basic and Level 2 more indepth. The thing it they forget that everyone is a volunteer in these races, yet they insist on running a 2 day (which in reality is 1.5 day) course for Level 2 officials.

Each year there is at least one course, and each year they complain that there are not enough people there. having attended a couple of these the one thing I have fed back is that they can easily do this on 1 day!

Now if the course was 1 day then I am sure more people would be interested in covering the course. Unfortunately there seems to be little appetite to change it and they are blind to the benefits. Not only in time but costs.

We need many more parents covering the main jobs and attending courses but to ask someone to give up the weekend for training, when much of it is common sense, is ridiculous. Well have started again on trying to get this improved, but time will tell.