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Honored Member Spotlight - Horst Abraham! Horst A

Honored Member Spotlight - Horst Abraham!

Horst Abraham is responsible for the birth of the American teaching Method (ATM), which, with its guest-focused pedagogy, has been a game-changer in ski instruction worldwide.

The “guest-and-skills” centered teaching methodology has become the backbone of American ski instruction and all national ski teaching systems in the world.

After moving to the U.S. from his native Austria, Horst found that most ski areas were not interested in his individualized approach to ski instruction, but rather preferring a “one-size fits all” technique. With the mentorship of Curt Chase and Jerry Muth, along with his appointment to serve as the technical director at Vail, Horst was able to gain national visibility and influence.

He was appointed to serve as the technical Vice President of the Rocky Mountain Ski Instructors Association, and in 1971, Horst was asked to fill the position of Director of Training and Development of the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA). Career Highlights:

National Certification of Austrian Ski and Alpine Guide certification (1959)

Graduated at the “Ecole Nationale Du Ski E Alpinism” in Chamonix with “Special Mention” – the highest award given by the French Ministry of Sports, served as the Technical Director of PSIA-RM

Director of Training and Development for PSIA National

Inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2010

Horst Abraham was inducted into the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2012

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The objective of International Museum Day (IMD) is to raise awareness about the fact that, “Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.” Organized on 18th of May each year or around this date, the events and activities planned to celebrate International Museum Day can last a day, a weekend or an entire week. IMD was celebrated for the first time 40 years ago. All around the world, more and more museums participate in International Museum Day. Last year, more than 37,000 museums participated in the event in about 158 countries and territories. - https://icom.museum/en/

We are proud to take part in the International Museum Day this year. It is a shame that we can't be open for tours on this day but we encourage everyone to head on over to our website, https://skihall.com, and check out everything we have to offer! We hope you would consider donating or becoming a patron while you're over there so that we can continue to honor and celebrate those who have made skiing and snowboarding into the sports we love today!

Honored Member Spotlight - Jakob Vaage! Jakob Vaa

Honored Member Spotlight - Jakob Vaage!

Jakob Vaage was considered the world’s foremost ski historian. As curator of the Norwegian National Ski Museum at Holmenkollen, he contributed many little-known facts until his retirement and assisted in the memorialization programs of the NSA and USSA for many years. Vaage was a prolific writer who willingly shared his vast ski sport knowledge with other historians.

Born in Oslo on February 9, 1905, Jakob Vaage was an accomplished skier, student of languages, educator and scholarly botanist.

Twice a Holmenkollen competitor, Jakob won the Norwegian Junior Ski Jumping Championship (18-20 years) in 1924. He served as a certified ski jumping judge from 1925 on. With the revival of F.I.S. interest in slalom, he turned to the alpine aspect of the sport in 1933 and three years later became the first chairman of the Norwegian slalom committee; in 1939, he was named first chairman of the ski instructors’ committee. Vaage coached the Norwegian jumper for the F.I.S. World Championships in Poland in 1935 and managed the Norwegian Olympic slalom team during the Winter Games in Germany in 1936. Chairman of the Norwegian ski judges for many years, he also served on the F.I.S. judges’ committee for a decade.

Vaage’s writing career was launched by a book about slalom racing, On Steel Edges (1939). He also wrote The Holmenkollen Hill (both Norwegian and English versions) and Sports Books of Norway, a monumental research project listing of 1500 titles published over the previous 200 years.
Vaage attended the 1954 dedication of the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum on which occasion he presented twenty pairs of historic skis to the museum: five pair from mid-19th-century Norway and the others gathered during his travels in the American mid-west.

Vaage returned to the U.S. as a ski jumping judge at the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley and took time out to lead members of the Norwegian ski team on a pilgrimage to Snowshoe Thompson’s grave in Genoa, California.

Jakob Vaage was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1976.

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