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Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
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| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |
Michael Ma
Adaptive Examiner, Adaptive Steering Committee Snowboard Dev Team
Not Available
Notes
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | When I am not working on snow, I am probably working with startups as either and advisor or an investor. Much like snowsports, I love teaching in any form when it drives growth. There’s no place to see that like working with a startup. |
|---|---|
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | My job as a clinician is to try and make everyone right. I’ve taken that to my off-snow career, and it’s paid dividends. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | First place: Watching my son get his Level 1 at Stowe last year and our long talks in both preparing as well as debriefing.
Second place: Awarding Level 1 pins to some adaptive athletes I had coached years earlier at Ski Spectacular. Third pace: Making National Team in 2021. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Mount Snow has been and always will be my heart, but I took at trip to Thompson’s Pass in Alaska for a week of incredible riding. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Empathy is the most important skill you bring as an instructor. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | I want to help make the snowsports world look a little bit more like the America that I live in everyday. We have so much work to do here to make our sport more accessible, diverse and equitable, so all can enjoy the beauty of the mountains. |