Welcome to NENSA’s hub for coaches, leaders, and ski community volunteers. This page is in development and aims to offer a wide range of tools – tips, video clips, clinic notes, and trusted external resources – to help you grow as a coach and support skiers at every level. From development frameworks and athlete safety guidelines to training systems, waxing tutorials, and resource libraries, you’ll find content designed to inform, inspire, and strengthen your coaching.
We also know the best ideas come from our community, so if you have a favorite resource, article, or video that could help others, please share it with us. Together, we can keep building a strong and supportive ski community for all.
Development
- NENSA Athlete Safety
- U.S. Ski Team Cross Country Training Systems
- Canadian Sport For Life Long Term Athlete Development 2.1– resource paper on the Canadian framework of Long-Term Athlete Development, a training, competition, and recovery program based on developmental age – the maturation level of an individual – rather than chronological age.
- Aspen Institute and Project Play: This 50-page report released in January 2015, aggregates the eight most promising strategies for the eight sectors that touch the lives of children. This document is a call to all stakeholders, parents, policy makers and coaches to work together to grow access to an early, positive sport experience. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sport for All, Play for Life: A Playbook to Get Every Kid in the Game
Training
- Team Aker Daehlie Resource Library
- Nordic Team Solutions: A cross-country ski training and consulting company helmed by professional Nordic skier and Olympian, Andy Newell.
Equipment and Waxing
- Caldwell Sport YouTube Channel: Waxing, ski selection, fleet management, and MORE
- Craftsbury Green Project TV: Introduction to Glide Waxing, and Kick Waxing.
