SKI INSTRUCTOR COURSE, THREE VALLEYS

SnowSkool’s favourite thing about the Three Valleys is the diversity of skiing and lifestyle on your doorstep. Being able to cruise slopes of the quality of those in Méribel, Val Thorens and Courchevel in one lifetime is a dream but to do it all in one day is nothing short of a sheer delight. It is the skiing equivalent of Brad Pitt/ Megan Fox (delete as appropriate) in nowt but a pair of undercrackers! 600 km of piste, 296 lifts, 16 villages, 8 resorts, three huge valleys...need I go on?

Operating a ski instructor course in the world’s favourite ski area and working with a Ski School that we didn’t feel was the world’s best would be a little anti-climatic and so we 50:50’d every rail, 360’d every table-top and back-flipped every booter until we found Parallel Lines, a British Ski School based in Méribel. What clinched it for us was the knowledge that all PL ski instructors are all qualified to BASI ISTD (International Ski Teachers’ Diploma) – the level at which ski instructors morph into demi-Gods! Not only that but the ski training takes place intensively over the 11 week duration, we expect you to be on snow 35 hours per week...and at the weekends too!

Although the average age tends to be around 24 years old, there is normally a range of 18-50ish! People who grew up skiing the Alps will often deviate towards this ski instructor course and we always have a few that have to nip home to the UK on the odd weekend or two.

Of all the SnowSkool courses, the Three Valleys programme has the strictest entry requirements. Because the BASI level 1 exam takes place in week 2, we expect you to turn up as a very strong skier. Don’t stress the technique too much as we can iron things out there but you need to be happy to ski all types of on-piste terrain with good speed and control. Because we expect you to graduate this course with your instructor qualifications and Ski School experience, a career as a ski instructor is the next logical step.

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