SKI & SNOWBOARD PROGRAMME
Our ski and snowboard courses are unique. We are the only company to offer courses in both European and Canadian qualifications and we operate in only the very best winter resorts in the world.

We provide the highest quality coaching available in world-renowned top-class locations, combining our passion for snowsports with a personal, efficient and friendly service so that you are able to gain internationally recognised qualifications.

While each of our ski & snowboard programmes are individual, all of our programmes share a similar structure to provide you with an instructor course that is demanding and fulfilling.

Small classes with superb coaches

During each programme we initially focus on improving your technique while developing the teaching skills you will need to become a ski & snowboard instructor.

Ski & snowboard classes are small and personal and decided on experience and ability. Throughout the instructor course coaches rotate between classes so that you can benefit from their collective knowledge and expertise and experience a variety of different teaching styles and techniques.

Once you have acquired the required skills and knowledge to become a ski or snowboard instructor, we go on to explore more high performance disciplines such as freestyle or off-piste. Every ski & snowboard programme is designed to be flexible so you can tailor it to suit your needs and develop the disciplines that interest you.

All-round approach to skiing and snowboarding

We believe that becoming a ski or snowboard instructor is about more than being able to ski or snowboard. As well as on-snow coaching, each ski and snowboard instructor course also includes the following elements, designed to give you an all-round approach to skiing and snowboarding whilst developing your on-hill progression:

evening workshops, video analysis and weekly feedback sessions to compliment your on-snow work

ski and snowboard Tuning Clinics, teaching you how to look after and maintain your kit

avalanche training, working towards the CAA or AIARE certificates

First Aid Course, focusing on safety and rescue on the mountain

French language training (France only) to help develp your knowledge of the industry and the area

We're also pleased to announce our Speciality Days feature - new to Whistler for 2005/06!!!! In partnership with Whistler-Blackcomb ski and snowboard school, we have added a speciality day to our Whistler programmes with one day each week focusing on freestyle, racing or off-piste. Each week you will have an option of riding with a sponsored freestyle ski or snowboard competitor, have intensive race training from our professional coaches with the use of the Olympic slalom course or a day in the powder working on steeps, chutes and cliff drops.

The standard model for our instructor courses does already include these disciplines but we have adjusted our programme to give you more flexibility and to ensure you achieve your goals.

SUPPORT TEAM
Our Ski and Snowboard Instructor courses are designed with the individual’s needs in mind. We want to make your Base Camp experience as smooth as possible, whilst being challenging and enjoyable. All of our coaches and staff are hand-picked for their professionalism and experience.

We have Base Camp resort managers in the resort at all times, ready to support our clients should they ever need help with any aspect of life away from home. Throughout the course, they constantly liaise between our resort services, our London office and our clients, ensuring that problems are dealt with as quickly and efficiently as possible.

For friends and family back at home, our London office team is always accessible and on-hand should you ever need us.

After our ski and snowboard instructor courses, we continue to support our newly qualified instructors with our recruitment service. We can help to place you in jobs all over the world and give you advice, tips and contacts in the industry. Please see our recruitment section in the menu bar for more information about job opportunities for ski and snowboard instructors.

ACTIVITIES & RESORT LIFE
Base Camp Instructor courses are about making the most of what the mountains have to offer – and that includes the resorts and their surroundings. Our resort managers are under strict instruction to arrange as many activities, parties and outings as possible – from bungee-jumping to keg-parties, we’ve tried it, tested it and got it covered!