Description

Learn to become a ski or snowboard instructor with a training company that has a 98% pass rate, get a BASI level one and two instructor qualification (previously called the BASI level three qualification), take a BASP first aid course and avalanche and mountain safety course, get offered a job at Verbiers top ski school and help teach students, and ski or snowboard in the breathtakingly beautiful Swiss Alps.

Want to learn to become a ski or snowboard instructor and spend a gap year or career break teaching students anywhere in the world? With Yomps amazing instructors course you can! Whether you are looking for an awe-inspiring way to spend your gap year or just want to improve your snow skills, this ten week course based in the breath-taking Swiss Alps will give you the memories of a lifetime! Yomps has teamed up with a British Ski School based in Switzerland's most renowned instructor school. With a 98% pass rate and instructors who ski competitively on the European tour, or used to ski for or teach the Great Britain ski team; on this skiing and snowboarding instructor course you will be taught by the finest in the business! This is no ordinary ski school (sub-contracting to a foreign company to train you); this is the best ski and snowboard school in Verbier Switzerland, and is fully endorsed by BASI (British Association of Snowboard Instructors).

Your base is at Verbier, one of the Alps premier off-piste resorts and justifiably one of the most beautiful ski locations in Europe, sitting with awesome views of Mont Blanc to the west and Matterhorn to the east. Here amid the frosted mountains and glacial river valleys you will live in warm wooden chalets that overlook the hills and mountains where you will learn to become ski and snowboard instructors. The ten weeks you will spend here will take you on a learning adventure with over 220 hours of snow coaching, 75 hours of classroom work, and 70 hours of shadowing professional instructors to give you a BASI level 1and 2 instructor qualification, a BASP first aid qualification, plus much more! This ski and snowboard instructor course is a truly amazing way to improve your own technique whilst you gain brilliant qualifications that will enable you to teach skiing and snowboarding to others. With some top people teaching you, some new friends to meet, and some awesome slopes to ski and snowboard down, whats stopping you?

Travel Types

• Downhill Skiing
• Mountaineering
• Snowboarding
• Photography
• Sports
• Vacation Packages

Qualifications

While we don't expect people to be world class skiers or boarders, students are expected to have a willingness to try bumps, improve their powder skiing, and develop their carving. At the start of our course students should be able to ski confidently on black runs linking turns down the fall line and being in control of their speed. If you are unsure of your level don't hesitate to contact us and we can always arrange to meet you over the summer for a ski on one of the snow domes or dry slopes around the UK.

Intern Types

• Ski Resort Employment

Languages

• English

Cost in US$:

14,900

Program Fees Include:

- Pre-departure support
- 24 hour emergency phone line in the UK
- Breakfast
- Dinner - prepared by chalet host/hostess
- Cleaning - 2 hours per week
- Accommodation in an alpine chalet
- Over 250 hours of snow coaching
- Over 60 hours of lectures and video debriefs
- BASI Manuals & Literature
- First Aid Course
- Work experience with Snow School
- Accommodation in Verbier with half board
- BASI membership
- Trainee and instructor course fees
- Airport transfer to the resort
- Hoody
- T-shirt
- Full season lift pass
- BASP first aid course
- Avalanche mountain safety course
- Up to 40% discount on ski equipment and Oakley eyewear
- Discount cards for pubs and nightclubs
- Child protection training

Experience Required

no

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Typically The Application Process Time is

1 day

Yomps's Mission Statement

We work hard to ensure you have the experience of a lifetime through responsible adventures off the beaten track. You will learn new skills, meet new friends, experience cultural activities that are just not available to tourists and you will have the time of your life.

Year Founded

2006