Danny10

Bit of advice?
I'm looking at doing an instructor's course in 2010 and wanted some advice on the best company to go with and resort to go!

Can anyone help?

Cheers

NzGnu

might help if ya said where abouts your from...

BoarderBabe

ahah i was about to say the same thing.

but yea that would be a good place to start if you want information... lol

Snowolf

Judging from your IP address, I am assuming you are somewhere in the UK? A lot depends upon where you want to instruct as the American AASI system is very different from both CASSI (Canadian) and the European and Australian system. In America, you do not take a course, you get a job as an non certified instructor and work your way up through the ranks through certification levels. In Canada and Europe you can "buy" your rating in a crash course with little to no hands on teaching experience. That is gained from employment after you hold your certs. For the European and Canadian ratings, Paolosmythe is a good one to handle this one since he holds a CASI rating and is also from the UK

The floor is yours Paolo!...

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NzGnu

...how can you see his IP?....and how do you know where he's from jst from his IP?
...are you some well trained cyber-stalker?

isnt there a british qualifaction called BASI? or something similar...will try find the website i saw it on, pretty sure they have training for it over here in NZ if ya wanna take a quick trip across the pond...

Zapatista

Moderators of web forums can normally see the users IP address. And its pretty easy to get the location of a particular IP address...

daysailer1

This is one option in NZ and USA. They do BASI cert's, CASI, and AASI. Ski Instructor Courses & Snowboard Instructor Training - New Zealand & Colorado - Rookie Academy I've known several people to use it. I think they are the only one's doing BASI in NZ.

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Danny10

As most of you mentioned where i want to go might help! i'm looking at canada in 2010, just spotted a company called Ski-Exp-Air anyone heard of them or been with a similar company in Canada.

Snowjoe

I went with Snowskool to Banff a couple of years ago and did my CASI level 2 a couple of seasons back. Theres basically 5 main groups that come into Banff each season.

Snowskool - They get taught exclusively by the Sunshine Village snow school and are based out of the youth hostel just outside of Banff, you'll only get a Sunshine Village pass not a Tri-area (for sunshine, lake louise and norquay).

Nonstop - They use the Ski Big 3 snow school, which use their own instructors and travel between all 3 ski resorts in the area.

International Academy (Crystal) - They use the Lake Louise Snow School and have to travel the 60km everyday to the resort. However you work very closely with the school at Lake Louise and it leaves you very well set up for getting a job there, alot of the rookie instructors I worked with are Ex-IA.

Then theres Peak Leaders and Basecamp. I know nothing about these lot!

Basically all of them are set up in the same way to be honest, and if you did it in the Banff area then pick one where you ride at Lake Louise, its just way better than the other two, even if the drive is longer.

One thing I would recommend is if you can choose either Snowskool or IA just because your working with the 2 best qualified schools in the area with their fair share of CASI level 3's, I know some of the other schools are lacking in higher qualified instructors.

I know snowskool also run a course out of Big White, and they have some awesome accommodation up on the hill which is super convenient.

For info on courses out of Whistler, then wait for Paulo to arrive in the thread.

Snowolf

We see all, we know what you did last night....

Seriously, with the mod screen, we see the IP address any user logs in with and it is a very simple thing to click on it to get the properties and put that into the browser and go to the main site. His happened to be a British ISP.

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