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Snowboard Skills Assessment
 

 

The Snowboard National Skills Assessment is a Snow Australia initiative to help promote the importance of skill development and to allow athletes, coaches and parents the ability to track development over time. 

The Skills Assessment will help identify athlete’s strengths and opportunities for improvement by challenging them to complete a series of tasks. 

By working hard and focusing on skill acquisition; athletes will be rewarded by seeing their Skills Assessment scores improve in the short term and their opportunities for athletic success increase, in the long run. 

click here to view the Snowboard Skills Assessment Manual.



 

About

The Snowboard National Skills Assessments will pay an important role in the Athletes Club IPP and potential selection to initiatives such as the Snow Australia Emerging Talent Program (ETP).

The Skill Assessments will target five key identified skills;

  • Stance/ Position
  • Edging
  • Rotary
  • Pressure
  • Timing

Each skill has five tasks with varying degrees of difficulty to help determine the rider’s ability. (Total 25 tasks.) 

There are also a series of six dryland movement assessments that are aimed to gauge basic physical movements such as; balance, timing and flexibility. 

  • Cart Wheels
  • Jump 180
  • Jump 360
  • Agility Direction Change - Cross
  • Agility Direction change – Straight 
  • Sit and Reach

For the National Assessments a Scoring Scale is assessed from 1 to 10, then broken into three categories ;

  • Below Average
  • Average
  • Above Average

How can I become involved?

The Snowboard Skills assessment will be run by the clubs and coaches within the resort and club. The coaches will have direct training from discipline leads to help develop the skills assessment in the years to come.

There will be opportunities to develop the skill assessments and scoring with discipline directors either in club visits or camp activities such as Snow Australia Futures. This new direction will assist Clubs to better integrate the National Skills Assessment into their daily training environments and design program plans to enable athletes’ quantifiable opportunities to make improvements during the season.