With A-level results less than 24 hours away, you’re allowed to feel a little nervous. Waiting for “that envelope” is every students sweaty palm moment. But if your results on Thursday morning don’t tick all the right boxes…there’s always an instructing job in the Alps waiting! We hope it goes well … but if it doesn’t … We know how important it is to get […]
Booked on your gap year or career break. Turned up. Tuned in. Partied hard but skied or snowboarded harder. Passed the exams. Now surely that first day in uniform with your group will be easy. Or maybe not… Here’s a guide to 10 Things Ski & Snowboard Exams Don’t Teach You 1) The Number One Question to Ask at the Start of a Lesson How good a skier? What […]
Sunshine has been the word for week 6 in Morzine. So much sun! The weather seemed like it has changed its mind and went straight to spring. Luckily we have enough snow now! The training has picked up incredibly now. We just entered second half of the course and the guys are clocking shadowing hours as well as personal training. Piste, off piste, bumps, variables, […]
Week 3 started with a bang! Saturday was our first day off and the crew finally spent it resting and enjoying their time on the hill! Some of the guys swapped boards and skis and vice-versa. Good times all over the hill. Sunday was the free ride day for the Snowboards and David (one of the MINT instructors) took them for an almost 1000 vertical […]
Here we are!!! BASI level 1 week is here. Time flies fast here in Morzine. Everyone is settling into the daily routine of skiing or snowboarding and Sunday had been very busy. Finishing first Aid course, attending first pilates session, dinner and back to the rude Lodge for meeting with the BASI Level tutors and examiners Leslie and Simon. They set the tone straight away and […]
