by Laura Turner | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog
After a week of failry intensive training both physically and mentally for the BASI Level one exams, everyone was looking forward to getting back to training with our regular coaches. Little did we know this was going to be one our most rigorous weeks of training to...
by Laura Turner | Jan 31, 2016 | Blog
This was always going to be a stressful week. The BASI Level one exam requires you to teach one of the five stages of beginner skiing from never having seen snow before to making parallel turns. It also requires you to perform the full spectrum of technical turns from...
by Laura Turner | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog
After two very productive and lucrative weeks of teaching and ski school related work, it is of course, back to training. Not normal training however, but being taught by ex GB ski racer, Sega Fairweather who has given up racing to pass on her passion for skiing to...
by Laura Turner | Jan 19, 2016 | Blog
The week began as the last ended, heavy snowfall and visibility which didn’t extend much beyond a few feet in front of you. This sounds like a complaint but unfortunately it’s an inherently British trait. I can only compare it to when we don’t get warm...
by Laura Turner | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog
We met the BASI examiners on Sunday evening who gave us some information on how the week would pan out. We were split into two groups and assigned an examiner each. We were to be taught and assessed on the following categories: Technical; Central theme, Piste short...