PerformancEDU Staff

PerformancEDU was started in January of 2010 with the goal of merging Performance and Education in the Norther Nevada and Truckee/Tahoe Areas. During the past 19 months, PerformancEDU has touched over 200 lives through training.  PerformancEDU has presented to Reno Fire and Police Dept on injury prevention and Northstar Ski School on integration of the Functional Movement Screen into programing. PerformancEDU has directed and consulted for: North America Ski Training Center, Sky Tavern Alpine Team, Reno Police Dept, Moment Ski Company, Galena Volleyball Program, and Reno High Baseball Program.  PerformancEDU has written Ski Specific content for Stack Magazine, Ski Magazine and TRX Training for the past 9 months. Marc Digesti (founder of PerformancEDU) is a Reno/Tahoe native where he was born and raised. He received his B.S. in Exercise Physiology from Chico State University in 04 and is certified as a USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach.

Marc’s professional experience in the Performance Field includes:

• Head Strength Coach for US Disabled Ski Team
• Consultant
  • US Disabled Developmental Team
  • Team Serbia Disabled Team member
  • Team Britain Disabled Team member
• Performance Specialist at Todd Durkin Enterprise
• Performance Specialist at Core Performance Center/Athletes Performance
• Founder of PerformancEDU
• Performance Director for Sky Tavern Alpine/Freestyle Team
• Movement Coach for Reno High Baseball
• Contributing writer for Stack Mag and TRX Ski Specific Programing Content
• Type of Athletes trained:
  • Professional Triathletes
  • Minor League Soccer
  • NBA Players
  • NHL Players
  • Minor and Major League/College Baseball Players
  • Disabled Alpine Ski Team
  • Bill Flemming (Squaw Big Mountain Skier)
  • Michelle Parker (Pro Freeride)
  • Reno Police/SWAT Team
  • FMScreening for Northstar Ski School
  • High School Athletes (all sports)
  • Semi Professional Cyclists
  • Assisted in NFL Combine Players

During Marc’s tenure with the US Disabled Ski Team, he was able to craft a strength program from scratch.  The US Disabled Team did not have a strength program in place, so he was challenged to implement an Evaluation protocol, which provided the athletes with a strength program, which addressed their unique needs.

With the experience gained from training professional athletes and general population clients, Marc has created program guidelines he utilizes to reach each client’s individual goals, including:

• Injury and Medical History
• Body Composition
  • 7 site caliper test
  • Height/Weight
  • Waist to Hip circumference
• Performance Goals
  • Short/Long Term
• Functional Movement Screen
  • Document asymmetries through 7 movement patterns
  • Document pain through 7 movement patterns
  • Document compensative patterns through 7 movement patterns

PerformancEDU’s training philosophy is simple-evaluate the body while relating to functional movement, understand the bodies frontal and posterior chain, and prescribe and implement specific exercises and progressions to maximize athletic performance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cameron Clarkson: Performance Ski Coach

Director of Ski Operations at Sky Tavern | Race Team Coach Far West

Cameron Clarkson was born in Reno, Nevada in 1969, and spent his life in the Reno area.

Cam started skiing when he was five. The first time he skied was, of course, at Mt Rose. He was taken to the top of
Northwest and it took him three hours to get down. He remembered telling his parents, “I WILL NEVER SKI AGAIN!”
Fortunately, he got over it. After that he was enrolled in the Sky Tavern Junior Ski Program and learned to ski and
became interested in ski racing, after graduating to the highest level that Sky Tavern had to offer.

Cam grew up ski racing in NASTAR and was on Wooster High School Race Team (Go Wooster!!). He raced all through
high school, making it to Nevada State Championship in his senior year.

Cam took a few years off from skiing and racing while attending college at University of Nevada, Reno and University of
Nevada, Las Vegas and after graduation he returned to Reno to start a career in accounting.

Cam’s best friend called and invited him up to Jackson Hole, WY to enter an “open invite” downhill race. Of course he
went and within seconds he remembered how amazing racing made him feel… and he started training full-time.

By 1999, Cam was racing with the Far West Racing Association and the Sierra League and in no time he was winning
races and climbing up to the leader board.

In 2002 he started skiing and working for Head skis, Uvex goggles and Holmenkol wax. As he got faster, he started
entering more challenging races and in 2003 he started entering races with the USSA Far West Masters. Unfortunately,
a bad fall on a training course landed him in the hospital with a broken leg and put his racing career on hold for a few
years, but in his heart he never left the snow. While recovering from his injury, he received a call from Chris Bender on
behalf of Sky Tavern, asking him to help coach junior athletes, and that’s how he came to join the Sky Tavern Ski Racing
Team.

Cam loves skiing and ski racing. He tells us there is nothing more exhilarating than flying down a mountain at the edge
of losing control and pushing your body to the limits; and on top of that not getting in trouble for it!