3-Week Snowboard Instructor Course
Coaching
While the primary focus of the programme is to prepare you for the level 1 snowboard instructor qualification the coaching will also significantly improve your snowboarding skills.
The Coaching
Each week there are twenty hours of coaching spread over four days. The snowboard groups are small and personal, normally between five and seven people but a maximum of eight. This enables our instructors to pay close attention to each rider's needs. You will be taught by a different instructor each week so you'll benefit from several different riding and instructing styles.
Please note that our 2010/11 New Year instructor course in Fernie is actually a 19 night stay due to the fact that Christmas falls on a Saturday and we figure many participants will want to be back home on a Sunday. Therefore there will be 11 days of training (1 less than usual) on this course.
The instructors are some of the best in the world
Massively improve your riding
In preparation for the instructor assessment we will develop your technical knowledge of snowboarding, your communication and teaching skills, and your ability to detect and correct other people's riding. The evaluation for the instructor qualification is held at the end of the 3-weeks and lasts three days. It's a great experience and many clients claim it to be the single best lesson they have ever had.
Our coaching includes regular video analysis which will help you learn how to critique other people's and your own riding. As well as teaching the instructor skills needed to gain the level 1 qualification your instructor will develop your carving, freestyle and off-piste snowboarding techniques. You'll find that the varied terrain and deep powder conditions that the Canadian Rockies are renowned for will result in a rapid rate of progression.
Benefits of Instructor Training
Training to instructor level will have a huge effect on your riding as it teaches a technical approach to snowboarding. This enables you to effectively analyse and correct your mistakes so you'll be falling less and ripping more. Many of our clients choose to come on this course not with the specific aim of becoming an instructor but rather to gain a technical knowledge of their chosen sport.
*Please note that in order to instruct in Canada you will require a working visa. Please call us for more information.*
