2015 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 85-95
To investigate the current situations of skiing and snowboarding lessons, questionnaires were sent to 1055 higher educational institutions around the country, and 491 responses were obtained. The results showed that 39.5% of the institutions offer classes in either skiing, snowboarding or both, and that approximately 9,800 students took part in those classes in total. The venue appeared to have been chosen based on the evaluations of the skiing/snowboarding sites, and the major factor affecting the decision revealed to be the teachers’ experience of visits to those sites. Most respondents were satisfied with the sites of their choice, which might be related to the fact that the sites were selected by the teachers in charge. While 54 schools gave skiing instruction by their own teachers, a relatively small number of snowboarding classes were taken care of by their own teachers: only one school for snowboarding-only class, and 18 cases where both skiing and snowboarding were taught. This finding implies the further need of improving the instructional snowboarding skills of teachers.
