Ed Meltzer
Adaptive Examiner
Adaptive CoordinatorAdaptive Steering Committee Chair
Home Resort/School Loon MA work
About Me
| What is an interesting fact about you? |
I have owned my own food packaging business for 36 years and recently started an exit strategy that will take a few more years. |
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? |
I am a professional orchestral musician and perform as the Timpanist of the Boston Philharmonic since 1986. |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? |
Partner in a food packaging sales agency
Teach at Loon Mountain and am a trainer at New England Disabled Sports.
Perform with the Boston Philharmonic. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? |
Camp Sargent in New Hampshire |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? |
Teaching as a volunteer with New England Disabled Sports |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? |
I generally gain more fulfillment teaching snow sports than I give back. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? |
Although there are many, teaching a never ever British soldier to Mono ski who lost his legs due to an IED. We spent a week together at Breckenridge Co. He was skiing pretty much everything the mountain could throw at him and went on to become a Paralympian fir the UK |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? |
Vail in the West.
Loon and Stowe in the east. |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? |
Being a ski instructor is an amazing experience for a young person that helps develop communication/people skills in a happy winter environment. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? |
Cycling, boating |
| What would be your personal motto? |
Don’t be afraid to give of yourself to others. The feeling of self-fulfillment greatly out numbers the effort. |
| Name three words that describe you. |
Fun
Adventurous
loyal |
| Who is someone you admire, and why? |
Geoff Krill, our PSIA National adaptive coach.
His attitude for living life and not letting the small inconveniences he faces as a person in a wheelchair impact his attitude or his ambitions. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? |
A fulltime professional symphony orchestra musician. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? |
Help, through my participation as a member of the national adaptive task force, align our processes and our mission of inclusivity within PSIA |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? |
To still be physically and intellectually active as I am today. |
