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Welcome to Peak Leaders

Jul 2 – Sep 6, 2011

Peak Leaders New Zealand

Winter in Queenstown is one long party that kicks off with the opening of Coronet Peak ski resort. Queenstown is the "adventure capital of the world": you can bungee jump, heli-ski, sky-dive, luge, horse-ride, ice-skate, jet boat - and of course ski and ride till you drop! The list goes on and on. With time off, everyone scrambles to all these activities whenever they can.

Why choose this course?

  • Excellent 3* hotel
  • Fantastic breakfast & dinner included EVERY NIGHT
  • More training than other companies
  • WIFI available in rooms at hotel - small fee payable.
  • Optional Freestyle days at Snow Park
  • Hotel has a spa, a bowling alley, bar, gym, Internet and ski-tuning room!
  • Course Leader lives in hotel
  • Optional heli trip at a heavily discounted price!
  • Full Season Passes to Coronet Peak & The Remarkables
  • High Pass Rates
  • Career Development & possible job placements through Peak Leaders ski school partners worldwide
  • Optional Institue of Leadership of Management Award
  • Optional add-on trip to Craigieburn following the course (dependent on interest)

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).

 Peak Leaders is the only company to offer a risk assessment module, an introduction to team leading and the ski patrol and an ILM Level 4 award in Leadership. And don’t forget the Peak Leaders’ optional  multi activity course in Australia at the end of the course. This is all so that you come away with the most amount of relevent qualifications, putting you in the best possible position for employment, whether it be in the snowsports industry or not.

Peak Leaders run professional courses which deliver more all mountain technical training and skills than anyone else. We have been running courses in New Zealand for 5 years, so our experience in deliverying successful courses is second to none! 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 Level 1 assessment
  • Freestyle Intro
  • Avalanche awareness and Introduction to ski patrolling
  • First aid qualification (opt)
  • ILM Leadership award (opt)
  • Optional Heli-trip
  • NZSIA/SBINZ Level 2 assessment
  • Optional Freestyle days at Snow Park

Included in the costs

2011 Price TBC
Minimum 20 hours coaching per week
Lift Pass
3 star hotel accommodation
bowling alley
Breakfast and dinner 7 days per week
Back Country introduction
Avalanche Awareness Module
Theory sessions
Video Analysis
Freestyle introduction
Optional First Aid
Risk Assessment Training Module
Ski & Snowboard Maintenance Clinic
Transport to and from slope
End of Course Party
Optional ILM Level 4
NZSIA/SBINZ Instructor Cert
Stage 1 course Manual & membership
Information pack
Lift Pass
Peak Leaders lanyard & stickers
Team Photo