Queenstown

Course dates: Jul 7 '08 to Sep 14 '08

Course Price: £6500

What makes this course different?

  • Fantastic breakfast & dinner included EVERY NIGHT
  • Excellent 3* hotel
  • (No hostel-style accomodation used)
  • End of course Freestyle days at Snow Park
  • Hotel has a spa, a bowling alley, bar, gym, Internet and ski-tuning room!
  • Course Leader lives in hotel
  • Included heli trip!
  • Full Season Passes to Coronet Peak & The Remarkables
  • High Pass Rates
  • Career Development & possible job placements through Peakleaders  ski school partners worldwide
  • Optional SNSC award
  • Optional Institue of Leadership of Management Award

The trainees for the CSI CASI training in Queenstown New Zealand

The Course

The coaching is provided by top coaches at Coronet Peak and several days at Remarkables. The coaching is intense and applicants should be strong intermediate skiers or riders (or better).

Before applying, contact us if concerned.. Unique to Peak Leaders is a risk assessment module, an optional certificate in resort guiding (SNSC), an introduction to team leading and the ski patrol and an ILM Level 3 award in Leadership. And don’t forget the Peak Leaders’ optional  multi activity course in Australia at the end of the course.

Peak Leaders run professional courses aimed at delivering more all mountain technical training and skills than anyone else. After three years of intense assessment, Peak Leaders UK Ltd are members of the exclusive "Year Out Group", the governing body for structured year out opportunities.

Course outline...

  • Welcome talk & mountain familiarization tour 
  • Coaching begins-4 days of coaching per week and night video sessions
  • Risk Assessment exercise
  • ski / board maintenance clinic
  • NZSIA/SBINZ Certificate of Snowsport Instruction (CSI) assessment
  • Freestyle Intro
  • Avalanche awareness and Introduction to ski patrolling
  • First aid qualification (opt)
  • SNSC Award (opt)
  • ILM Leadership award (opt)
  • Heli-trip
  • NZSIA/SBINZ Level 1 assessment
  • Freestyle days at Snow Park!

New for 2009 - Lake Tahoe USA course

More snow, more parks and more than 300 days of sunshine a year.' The US Demo team have teamed up with us to offer us a ten week training course in one of the world’s premier recreation areas, Lake Tahoe, California. With training at Sierra-at-Tahoe and the South Shore Casinos only minutes away this will be the ideal course for any interested in getting their USA Certifications through the Professional Ski Instructors of America and the American Association of Snowboard Instructors. Peak Leaders trainees  will be coached by some of the best trainers in the US, the Western Division Demo Team, in all aspects of modern teaching and riding techniques. You will have the opportunity for work experience while employed by Sierra-at-Tahoe and will go through Level 1 Certification and Children’s Accreditation Programs offered by PSIA/AASI-W; with an option to enroll in freestyle specialist programs or to take Level 2 certification. We look forward to seeing you there!

Testimonial

2004

Hope you both had a good trip home. Thought you might like to know that day one of the gap olympics went well, a lot of outrageous and ridiculous outfits, that were caught on film that i'll forward to you. Thanks again for an amazing nine weeks and i hope i can do something this summer with you guys, I'll be in contact again soon.

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