The Coaching

The Coaching

From Monday to Thursday you’ll receive five hours of professional coaching from Canada’s leading instructors. This coaching will concentrate on developing your personal development and instructor skills enabling you to pass on your passion to others. Our coaching will focus on:

INSTRUCTOR TECHNIQUES:

• Group management skills
• Communication skills
• Technical knowledge
• Detection & correction skills

FREERIDE TECHNIQUES

• Carve up the piste
• Glide through the trees
• Shredding the powder
• Hit rails, kickers and spines

The best instructors

Our experienced instructors are sponsored coaches, qualified instructor examiners and leading members of CASI. They provide the highest standard of professional coaching available and alternating instructors between groups ensures you benefit from their individual teaching styles.

As one of the longest running, and most established, instructor training courses in Canada, our participants benefit from our ability to secure some of the most senior snowboard instructors in the industry.

Proven success stories

Our Level 1 pass rate, to date, is an impressive 100%. About half the participants on our 11-week snowboard instructor course opt for the Level 2 and last season an awesome 93% were successful.

1:1 private coaching

These sessions are perfect for you and your instructor to work on specific skills and to discuss your ambitions for the programme. Sessions will be held before your level 1 & 2 exams to help you prepare.

Video analysis

This will help you critique riding styles in yourself and others and develop your skills in ‘detection and correction’. NONSTOP own plenty of video cameras and we have access to video playback screens close to the slopes.

A carefully planned weekly timetable

We include 25 hours of on and off snow coaching each week. Group lessons take place four days a week, for five hours per day. The fifth day is either used for 1:1 coaching sessions, additional courses, long weekend trips and for free-riding and crucially, practising what you have been taught during the week. From experience we know that this is the most successful formula for our clients, it is one that we have developed through seven years of running the programmes and from continual client feedback.

Off snow technical sessions

To complement the on-snow coaching, we provide weekly technical sessions which include: teaching techniques, lesson planning, snowboard theory, equipment design, snowboard maintenance, boot fitting and a careers advice seminar.

Ride with people of a similar ability

Our instructor groups are split according to ability and experience. Due to the popularity of our courses we have the capacity to group individuals with others of a similar ability, this ensures no one slows the group down or is held back by their peers.

Varied terrain

Canada’s varied terrain and deep powder conditions result in a rapid rate of progression. Our coaching will develop your personal technique in all conditions including on piste, in the terrain park, and in powder.

Work experience

After you have achieved your level 1 certification you have the opportunity to gain work experience in the local ski school, an invaluable experience that will facilitate future employment.

Careers advice

We’re proud to train more instructors than any other company. To find out why our clients are so successful in finding work as an instructor CLICK HERE