by Laura Turner | Feb 22, 2015 | Blog
It’s been a while since any of us wrote so there’s a lot to tell. The first week of January saw a return to training after the Christmas period, Harry and Jon resumed the ski improvement training where we left off before Christmas and everyone found change...
by Laura Turner | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog
The first week of Basi level 1 training was the week where we learnt the most. Ross Murdoch, our ski trainer, taught us that skiing, whilst fun, is far more enjoyable when you are also thinking about improving your technique! After only one week you could see a...
by Laura Turner | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog
For the December ‘Gappies’ the last two weeks have been rather busy with training for BASI level 2 getting well underway. As well as training hard we’ve also found time to welcome the January Gap course students, explore the 4 vallées and enjoy Verbier’s best...
by Laura Turner | Jan 15, 2015 | Blog
A new season in a new ski resort has given me the chance to discover Verbier and to make a lot of new friends. The first couple of days I discovered the resort with my ISIA course colleagues and before we realized the ski school formation week took off. This week is...
by Laura Turner | Jan 11, 2015 | Blog
Between shadowing lessons and celebrating Christmas and the New Year, the past weeks have been an absolute blast for Altitude Futures Gap Course students. Ski school shadowing – week 1 The first week started off with a group meeting explaining what we should expect...
by Laura Turner | Jan 5, 2015 | 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...