In addition to the competitions there are instructional clinics held in each of the sports in which trainers instruct new-comers on basics of the sport.

Price for the festival is $26 a day and includes a lift ticket, instructional clinics and all the other events.

"Three hours a day of instructional clinics," I said.

She also is host to more than a dozen two- and three-day on-snow instructional clinics all over the country.

They can make up to $2,000 a month doing instructional clinics.

"It gives our city's young people the chance to work side by side with sports stars in instructional clinics," he said.

An instructional clinic for ages 4 through 16 will begin the first week in January and last six weeks.

A. A. Harding begins a series of instructional clinics for bandmasters, eventually becomes known as the "dean of university band directors".

Having joined forces with Rossignol, the French ski manufacturer, she now gives instructional clinics for women.

To accommodate the city's large Jewish population, Mr. Stone said, instructional clinics will be held on Sundays instead of Saturdays.