Verbier Late Season Ski Instructor Course – Week 9

  The beginning of week 9 meant the start of the highly anticipated BASI 2 assessment. For 8 weeks the trainees have been working hard with Emma, Julian and Nick from European Snowsport and have all made huge changes to their skiing. Fortunately for the guys and girls, BASI trainer Derek Tate broke them in gently with a fairly relaxing day of skiing. Derek wanted […]

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Verbier Late Season Ski Instructor Course – Week 3

  The trainees in Verbier all completed their BASI level 1 assessment last week. The course started on Sunday evening with a welcome chat from Duncan, who was the trainee’s coach for the week. Duncan is a highly experienced trainer and coach who has worked as an instructor and instructor trainer all over the world, and has coached the British Ski team. During the BASI […]

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Verbier Late Season Ski Instructor Course – Week 2

  The week started off with our trainees shadowing the European Snowsport ski classes, during the busy half term holidays. The busiest time of the season brought with it thousands of holidaymakers. It seemed like hundreds of these aformentioned holidaymakers were stood in the ES meeting area, by the W Hotel, on Monday morning. Luckily everything was handled very efficiently by Izzy, the European Snowsports […]

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Verbier Early Season Ski Instructor Course – Week 5

  New Year’s week always brings thousands of wealthy holiday makers to Verbier’s pristine pistes, many of whom are in need of a lesson or three, which allows our trainee instructors to do their second slice of shadowing. In addition to a full morning of shadowing our trainee ski instructors have been busy training in the afternoons, which means they’re on the mountain for the […]

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Verbier Early Season Ski Instructor Course – Week 4

  Week four of the course marked Christmas week in Verbier! The week began with the trainees first opportunity to shadow the European Snowsport Team. For the guys and girls this involved shadowing the instructors responsible for ES’ most important clients, children. Shadowing sounds like a tactic a Ninja might employ but it is simply the act of following and watching a certified instructor without […]

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