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Snow Skool - Become a ski or snowboard instructor and live the dream

The Big White Ski & Board School is working alongside SnowSkool to offer five-week and eleven-week ski & snowboard instructor training programs. The residential programs will give you the organisation and training to allow you to sit the Level 1 (five week course) and Level 2 exams (eleven week course) of the CSIA (Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance) and the CASI (Canadian Association of Snowboard Instructors), fast-tracking your development and leading to a career as a ski instructor or snowboard instructor.

ON-SNOW: Why Big White

Josh Foster - Director of Snowsports, Big White:
Big White is the ideal location for the SnowSkool course. Big White Ski Resort is second-to-none with ample green runs ideal for practicing essential instructor drills, wide cruisey blue runs perfect for fine-tuning technique and acres of black, double-black and off-piste terrain that challenge you to take your skiing/ riding to a level you never thought possible. Students on the SnowSkool Big White instructor training course will be taught by the most highly-qualified and experienced pros in the Big White Ski & Board School and training will take place five hours per day, five days per week. In my opinion, the SnowSkool course at Big White offers the ultimate grounding for a career in snowsports’ instruction.

OFF-SNOW: Why SnowSkool

The off-snow aspects of your ski or snowboard instructor course in Big White will be organised by SnowSkool. SnowSkool has been operating instructor training programmes in Big White since 2005 and, during that time, more than 200 people have graduated from our programmes as a ski instructor or as a snowboard instructor. Indeed many of them are currently working at Big White! From the moment you arrive in Canada, SnowSkool will be there to ensure that you are well looked after; we’ll meet you at the airport and transfer you to your luxury ski-in/ ski-out apartment on the mountain. Evening meals are organised for you in-house or as a group at a local restaurant. The SnowSkool Big White reps are responsible for your pastoral needs, they will organise your social schedule and take care of your every need allowing you to focus 100% on your skiing or snowboarding.

Whatever your reasons for doing the SnowSkool course at Big White – a fun and constructive gap year experience, beginning a career as an instructor or simply improving your on-snow skills beyond measure – you are sure to have the experience of a lifetime in the magical environment that is Big White.

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For more information, please visit the SnowSkool website.

For information on Canadian Association of Snowboard Instructors Level 1 courses, please visit the CASI website www.casi-bc.com.

For Entry Level ski coaching courses with the Canadian Ski Coaches Federation visit the CSCF website www.bcalpine.com.

For Level 2 courses and higher with the CSIA, CASI and the CSCF, more information is available at www.snowpro.com.

Please contact us, we’d love to hear from you! Phone us at (250) 491-6101 or email us at skischool@bigwhite.com.