Poster: A snowHead
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snowdave, there isn't anything to that extent that i am aware of. But there are hight level kids groups and then local seasonal groups. The ESF I worked for didnt have that level of choice!
Thanks for all your input, its been really useful!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We noticed in Are, Sweden that ski schools for younger folk spent the afternoons in the park, jumping and messing about in the half pipe. Teens love it and its quite "on stream" I think.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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My daughter did her Etoile D'Or at 11 and after that skied with Easiski at Easter each year in Les Deux Alpes. Small group of 4, 5 x 2 hours, generally the same kids each year. Lots of advanced piste work and off piste too. Most years included an "adventure" towards the end of the course, in 2009 it was La Grave and in 2012 the Clot de Chalance which is a big off piste descent. She got her BASI L1 at 16 so it gave her a really good grounding.
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Some kids like pushing it, going off piste etc, but most like hanging about with other kids, on their iphones, being cool in parks. My brothers daughter who is 14, is a competent intermediate skier, but isn't interested in off piste stuff in an afternoon, she wants to hang around the parks because "that's where the cool boys are". Just an idea.
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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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jjc_james
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Steve Angus, how do you deal with the transceivers do you just have a certain amount to give them on arrival? Or advise they get their own so they are familiar with it when skiing in their own group?
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TDC have invested a lot over the years, and have enough off piste kit to send out 4 or 5 groups at once. We also have clients that book their children/teens into clinics even if they rip and can shred anywhere on the mountain... but that's not a big market (especially in PdS)!
I'd say make your set up more like a club than a ski school/acadamy, then you have more play with price differentiation of groups and stuff. And you won't be competing with the other hundred private ski schools in the PdS!
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