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Big White Long Course
Ski & Snowboard Instructor Courses in Canada
| Location: | Big White, Canada |
| Duration: | 11 weeks |
| Start Date: | Jan 2010 |
| End Date: | Mar 2010 |
| Qualificaton: |
CSIA/CASI Instructor Level 1 & 2 CSIA or CASI Freestyle Instructor CSCF (Ski) Race Coach |
| Tuition: | 25 hours per week |
| Price: | £TBC |
| Upgrade: | TBC |
| Reference: | TBC |
THE ELEVEN WEEK COURSE
The SnowSkool Big White programme was developed in conjunction with the Ski & Board School at Big White and is overseen by Josh Foster, CSIA Board Member and a member of the Canadian Interski Team. Josh Foster runs one of North America’s most progressive Ski & Board Schools with a huge focus on professional development within the School and an emphasis on customer service.
In Big White, we use a rolling pool of ski instructors and snowboard instructors to teach the SnowSkool programme. All are highly-qualified as either experienced CSIA/ CASI Level 3 snowboard/ ski instructors or CSIA/ CASI Level 4 ski/ snowboard instructors. And with five hours of tuition per day, five days per week, your skiing or snowboarding will improve dramatically. No instructor training course will offer more tuition than SnowSkool.
In four seasons of SnowSkool programmes in Big White and Banff, we have a 100% pass rate for the CSIA Level 1 Ski Instructor exams and the CASI Level 1 Snowboard Instructor exams. The corresponding pass rates for the CSIA and CASI Level 2 Instructor exams are 91% and 94% respectively.
As well as the daily lessons, SnowSkool Big White students will benefit from specialist training in powder skiing/ riding, bumps, freestyle and race technique. You will also be given a weekly feedback session from your instructor
EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS
The eleven week instructor training programme at Big White is viewed very much as a season-long job interview by the Big White Ski & Board School and, each year, a good number of the course participants are selected to work as ski instructors or snowboard instructors at Big White. In the past two years, twenty-five SnowSkool graduates have been employed in this manner.
Week 1
Group split
Hill Orientation, lots of skiing mileage and warm up.
Week 2
Develop and increase understanding of CSIA 5 skills.
Introduction to teaching.
Week 3
Individual skill development.
Week 4
Personal Ski Improvement, develop teaching skills.
Level 1 Prep.
Week 5
EXAM: CSIA Level 1 Instructor.
Week 6
Develop skills and performance skiing.
Level 2 Progression.
Week 7
Develop skills for backcountry skiing.
Discuss and improve coaching tactics.
Week 8
Personal Ski Improvment.
Level 2 Progression.
Week 9
Skiing Level 2 standard.
Teaching Level 2 standard.
Q & A.
Week 10
Freeski.
EXAM: CSIA Level 2 Instructor.
Week 11
Freeski.
EXAM: CSIA Snowpark Certificate.
EXAM: CSCF Race Coach.
Week 1
Improvements, introduce terrain, split into 2 groups.
CASI 5 skills concept/planes of balance.
Week 2
Personal rider improvements.
Introduction to teaching.
Week 3
Riding improvement - sliding turns.
Teaching practice, Level 1 progression.
Week 4
Riding improvement – carve.
Teaching practice, Level 1 progression.
Week 5
Q & A, general Level 1 preparation.
EXAM: CASI Level 1 Instructor.
Week 6
Riding improvement - terrain adaptation Level 2.
Week 7
Introduction to Level 2 teaching progression.
Week 8
Riding Level 2 standard.
Teaching Level 2 standard.
Week 9
Riding Level 2 standard.
Q & A, general Level 2 preparation.
Week 10
Freeride.
EXAM: CASI Level 2 Instructor.
Week 11
Freeride.
EXAM: CASI Snowpark Certificate.
