Ski Instruction and Resort Guiding
Our private coaching sessions are delivered by fully qualified instructors with a wealth of knowledge and experience to develop your skiing, whether you are a first timer or seasoned pro. We give you the tools to keep improving well after the session is over, by helping you analyse and diagnose all elements of your skiing and work on specific exercises to target these areas. Here are some of the key themes we aim to explore in each coaching session:
- Equipment checks
- Fundamental movement patterns
- Dynamic movement in high performance long and short turns
- Skiing in steep terrain and variable conditions
- Bumps/mogul skiing
- Strength and Conditioning for skiing
- Analytical video analysis
- Constructive debrief and action plan
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We are also experts when it comes to our home resort of Verbier, Switzerland, so if your goals are more focused to exploring the best of the resort, we'll show you the way, finding the best snow conditions and slopes for each day and ensuring you visit our favourite restauranst and après-ski spots. Once your booking is confirmed we are on hand to help guide you through other aspects of your trip including finding accommodation, arranging equipment hire, and making restaurant reservations. We have a wealth of experiencing looking after a wide range of groups, so please get in touch to find out more about what we can offer to the following:
- Groups of friends
- Families including young children
- Corporate trips
- Ski clubs and associations
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Off Piste Coaching and Guiding
We are highly experienced when it comes to coaching and guiding in Verbier, a world renowned hotspot for easily accessed off piste. Our goal is to develop your performance to the highest possible level in a safe environment whilst finding the best possible conditions. Each day is tailored to our clients' ability and experience level, but our coaches will cover avalanche safety and rescue procedures as well as high performance skiing in variable snow whether it's deep winter powder or champagne spring snow.
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Ski Touring
Experience skiing in its purest form, earning your turns by skinning uphill to your objective before enjoying a long descent. The possibilities are endless from a quick 45 minute skin from a lift to access another valley, a day tour from the car to a remote peak, a multi day hut-to-hut ski tour, or a descent of the north face of Mont Blanc.
Mountain Safety Training
Backcountry skiing is unfortunately not without risk, with the biggest threat being the chance of being implicated in an avalanche. Approximately 90% of skiers who are buried in an avalanche trigger it themselves, so by developing a greater understanding of this phenomenon through education, you can maximise your chances of staying out of danger, whilst still mastering the correct techniques to search for and recover your friends if the worst should happen. Acquiring and refreshing this knowledge is a right of passage for any serious off piste skier.
We run courses for up to 8 participants at time with a fun and relaxed environment that helps you get to grips with this very serious subject. Your course will cover:
We run courses for up to 8 participants at time with a fun and relaxed environment that helps you get to grips with this very serious subject. Your course will cover:
- Understanding why avalanches occur
- Analysing the impact of terrain, weather conditions, and human factors on the stability of the snowpack
- Learning how to plan a safe off piste ski descent or ski tour
- Interpreting weather and avalanche forecasts
- Ensuring you have the right equipment and know how to use it
- Mastering the technique of searching for and recovering an avalanche victim
- Essential first aid relevant to caring for an avalanche casualty
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