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Hi Snowheads 
A group of us are hopefully going to either Tignes Le Lac, Val Claret or Val D'Isere for a week in January. There are several upper intermediates/advanced, a few inexperienced intermediates and one total beginner. Those of us who want lessons would like to begin on Sunday and have the Friday off to hopefully be able to spend the day somewhat together when we're all a little improved! This makes Ski School options a bit more limited from what I can see. Can anyone tell me about Evolution 2 as they are the school I'm leaning towards right now. New Generation is another option I think. But if you know of others that begin Sunday I'm open to others. Thank you!
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| Lauka wrote: |
Hi Snowheads
A group of us are hopefully going to either Tignes Le Lac, Val Claret or Val D'Isere for a week in January. There are several upper intermediates/advanced, a few inexperienced intermediates and one total beginner. Those of us who want lessons would like to begin on Sunday and have the Friday off to hopefully be able to spend the day somewhat together when we're all a little improved! This makes Ski School options a bit more limited from what I can see. Can anyone tell me about Evolution 2 as they are the school I'm leaning towards right now. New Generation is another option I think. But if you know of others that begin Sunday I'm open to others. Thank you! |
My advice - learn before you go!
Its cheaper, youll enjoy your holiday more, and if you feel you want a 'top up' lesson, then book a day with an instructor.
Evo 2 by all accounts get good recommendations (although ive not used them)
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Thanks Paul C but I'm not really sure that's an option for us. No fridges in NI to begin with, and not much time over the Christmas period to go to the dry slope.
I 'learned' to ski last year, due to a fantastic instructor, and want to continue my progression so I am more in control and develop better technique, able to go faster, etc. If I hadn't had lessons (in addition to the 1 lesson before going) I would have hated my entire holiday.
Thanks for the feedback on Evo2.
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@Lauka, We had top up lessons with Mitch from Evolution 2 and it was fantastic. Very patient but also pushed us slightly. Hope thats helps somewhat 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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We used Evo 2 three years ago, when I was still the most nervous skier ever, needing to stop every 100 yards to assess conditions below me, above me, behind me, near me, within 2 miles of me ......... and finding any excuse not to slide 'yet'.
Unfortunately, OH fell badly (not during lesson!) on our first day and barely skied the rest of the week. That could have been curtains for the holiday, but Stephane Pitallier from Evo 2 with whom I had daily private lessons at lunchtime, not only kept me skiing in lessons but also gave me the confidence to go off skiing on my own. Initially I skied off with gritted teeth but with Stephane's support this turned into a grin, a real turning point for me. We returned and took lessons with Stephane again later in the season and both progressed really well. Haven't been back to Tignes since, but would definitely go back to Evo 2 and Stephane if we did.
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Thanks @Floss!
@sj1608 glad to hear you managed to have a great time in the end and thanks for the recommendation!
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We've used both Evo 2 and New Gen and both have been excellent.
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Oxygen here in Val often have adult groups starting on a Sunday. In general most skis schools that work with large numbers of UK tour ops (half of whom have Sunday as a travel day) start their lessons on Monday to make sure they ' catch' both Sat and Sun arrivals... there are exceptions and more often than not demand dictates what they actually have running! But EV2 and Oxgene would be options.... of course the ESF may have stuff running too. Where there are SEVERAL of you at the same'ish level then you could approach schools direct asking for a group to be based around you - that makes it possible for schools to work it for you... ill do the obligatory plug of the school I work for now - TDC - give the boys in Tignes (tignes@tdcski.com) a bell and see if they may be able to set something up for you - sessions generally are 3hrs x 3 days in small focused groups.
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That makes sense @Steve Angus, I wondered why it was like that! Thanks for the recommendations I'll make sure to keep Oxygene and TDC a shout when I know for sure where we're staying and seeing if a Sunday start is possible. I haven't skied with any of the others that may be around my level so only have my OH's memory/guesswork to guide my levelling of the others. Not sure I'd feel happy suggesting to a ski school that we're the same level and then it turn out not to be the case if they had scheduled around it. Thanks for your help though 
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@jellemr, thanks, good to hear a rec for New Gen too.
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I've got a pencilled in booking for TDC in March, and waiting to hear if there will be a group. I liked the idea of 3 x 3hr small group lessons rather than 5 x 2 hr or 5 x 3hr larger group lessons. Fingers crossed there will be enough for a group as after a lot of reading I convinced myself TDC was the ski school I wanted to use.
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rdk - yea I can see you are down in a Dev Plus group the week of the 7th March - I should think that group will fill up to the minimum number required for it to run - dont sweat - plenty of time before now and March... most groups at that level end up getting the minimum numbers OK!
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You know it makes sense.
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Thanks @stewart woodward, we've asked everyone to confirm with us if they're coming tomorrow so will get accommodation booked after that then I'll be in touch if we're staying in Tignes rather than Val.
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