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 #1 instructor courses Posted 19/01/2010 @ 15:42 |
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Hey everyone,
Quick question and would be interested in your opinions and views. I'm an intermediate boarder,can ride anywhere on the hill and am getting pretty comfortable riding switch.
So I had a few friends over and headed up the mountain to have some fun but kow and behold when we got there noinstructors were available for my mates.
They are first timers so I said I cud maybe give them a lesson.at the nd of the day they we're all up on the board riding blues and havin fun. I got a massive kick out it too.
So it got me thinkin about those 5d wk instructor courses. Has anyone done them? What standard do u need to be and above all are they worth it.
They reckon about 5 grand all in for one of the new zealand camps and you get your level 1w out of it.
Would appreciate some input. Thanks |
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| #2 Re: instructor courses Posted 19/01/2010 @ 15:46 |
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yeah should be good enough to do level 1
but finding work with level one is tough |
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| #3 Re: instructor courses Posted 19/01/2010 @ 17:28 |
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5k seems a lot of dosh to me for a level one cert, for another 2k you can do a full 11 week course in Canada, at the end of which you would have both level one and two, and you can also choose to have specialist training in areas such as Avalanche awareness, snowpits ect ect. There are almost as many people now offering Casi training courses as people who snowboard, where have all these companies sprung up from ???, i always thought teaching someone somthing meant you had a lot of expertise, it seems to me these companies are willing to issue pretty much anyone with a Casi cert, which kind of devalues the accreditation, |
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hmmm weird ?? |
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| #4 Re: instructor courses Posted 19/01/2010 @ 18:11 |
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www.snowpro.com you can go to Canada and sign on for the 4 day course which costs less than $400 canadian dollars, and probably pass your level 1...after working for a season you will probably be up for your Level 2 and get it..without signing on to any brit based courses. The hardest part whether you take the 5 wk/11k or just the casi course is getting the job...and the work visa -the non student work visa's have already filled up for 2010. |
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| #5 Re: instructor courses Posted 19/01/2010 @ 19:19 |
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Yeah €5 k is a fair bit. But it involves 4 grand for 25 hours (for 5 weeks) a week of coaching, accomodation,season lift pass and airport transfers and then another grand for flights (give or take). The reason I was lookin at NZ is that i`m really only available to dot he 5 weeks during our summer time. Canada would be great but not a runner time wise.
Level 1 as far as I gather lets you teach kids and first timers/beginners. Plus 5 weeks in Queenstown would be pretty decent too I wreckon!
Has anyone actually done any of these camps? I`d be nearly more interested in the horror stories than the recommendations that you get on their sites!  |
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| #6 Re: instructor courses Posted 19/01/2010 @ 19:49 |
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Just read the post above mine....i truely am a d**k! |
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| #7 Re: instructor courses Posted 20/01/2010 @ 10:26 |
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QUOTE (iluvbigdumps - 19/01/2010 @ 18:11) www.snowpro.com you can go to Canada and sign on for the 4 day course which costs less than $400 canadian dollars, and probably pass your level 1...after working for a season you will probably be up for your Level 2 and get it..without signing on to any brit based courses. The hardest part whether you take the 5 wk/11k or just the casi course is getting the job...and the work visa -the non student work visa's have already filled up for 2010.
Has it changed to 4 days now?
I did this and would recommend the route. I got lessons before hand to show me what they expect on the course and then passed it. It was really worth doing becaus ethey break your riding back down to basics and I picked up quite a few things that I missed or just simply forgot over the years. It was much more beneficial to my riding than the lessons I took actually  |
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| #8 Re: instructor courses Posted 04/02/2010 @ 00:44 |
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| #10 Re: instructor courses Posted 25/02/2010 @ 19:53 |
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Will throw my hat in as well 
Have a look on www.snowboardcoach.co.uk
Has some info on there about our programs for under 4k.
Like I always say tho depends how much money you want to spend, where you want to go to do it and where you want to go to use it if you pass.
Hope that helps. |
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| #11 Re: instructor courses Posted 12/03/2010 @ 15:40 |
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You're right, there are two ways of passing your CASI 1... On your own or by taking a course. Really it depends on your riding and what you want to gain from your season.
A few thoughts to consider...
Taking a course: This will provide you with a fail safe way of passing your Level 1, 2, race coach etc. You'll get taught how to improve your riding as well as how to coach... instructing isn't just down to being a good rider you also need to know how to detect and anaylse anothers riding and provide them with the tools to improve.
You can most certainly take the CASI 1 in a public exam without any pre exam tuition and if you are a good solid rider with a passion to teach and some teaching logic then you will pass. It's certainly the cheaper way of doing things but it won't provide you with all the extras that a course will.
Depending on your time and budget, companies like ours run courses between 3 and 11 weeks and you can train to get as much as your Level 1, 2, race coach, freestyle (park and pipe), avalanche level 1 (AST) and First Aid all in that time. Many people come on our courses simply to improve a huge amount and have the season of a lifetime! The 3-week courses are a great way to start your instructing career if your budget is tighter and the snowboard schools recgonise the training you will have had prior to the exam so when applying for jobs your CV will be ahead of many of the Level 1 instructors who simply passed on their own.
Best of luck with whatever you decide to do! |
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