QUOTE (david_raybould - 15/11/2009 @ 21:23)
chr15dallat.
ahhh, yeah, your right.
It is to do with FIS points.
So you either have to do Boardercross or Big Air, to teach people to turn on a beginner hill??
Grill
Let's see what other fun ways you can twist my opinions.
Best one wins a sweet!
So defensive, so sad. The French want either an expert said discipline (FIS), or an expertise in a secondary discipline (skiing) in order to teach, so what? The boarding section of the French competency exams isn't a walk in the park, and is between BASI 2+3 in terms of difficulty. So you're not yet up to standard, then work harder and get there if it's what you really want. You fail to see that 95% of French instructors have been skiing in club up to Olympic hopeful standard for a good 15 years before they start to teach.
Keep making excuses, but at the end of the day France belongs to the French and they're entitled to make whatever rules they want. I don't see you complaining about the difficulties of getting a visa so you can teach in the US. There's a very real possibility that you won't be able to teach in Switzerland soon as they're getting tired of Brits out there.
Of course you could always go the third route and take the French to court. After 3 appeals they'll let you teach as they won't send the case to the EU. Little known loophole if you have the cash.