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Just wondering if normal ski insurance is sufficient for doing basi 1, the basi website is clear you need insurance and says it will be checked before the start of the course but isn't clear on any extra cover you need other than suggesting you buy their insurance. I am insured through DSV who will get me off any mountain in Europe after any kind of skiing, I am assuming this will be ok for the L1 course?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I guess it depends what exclusions your insurance has, nothing hazardous in the course (or there wasn't indoors where my daughter did hers).
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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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I'm just reading the info and they say the instructor will check the insurance before we start the course, I don't see anything in my insurance that should exclude me but just wondering if there was something specific basi want you to be covered for
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If you are doing you BASI1 in a fridge/dryslope in the UK then really what insurance do you need? Conventional ski insurance (even annual policies) don't necessarily cover artificial slopes, they are more about cancellation, rescue, repatriation, none of which require cover (IMO) in the UK.
Can you give a link to where on the BASI website it says about insurance cover?
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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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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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lynseyf, does your DSV over you for off piste? There's a fair chance you'll get taken off the side for fun/a test if you're doing an outdoor course. Can't say I've ever actually seen a BASI Trainer check someone's insurance, though. I'm sure it's only really on the website to cover themselves against litigation.
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Ah, you are not doing it the UK. Good to see BASI are now doing L1s in the Alps again.
In which case yes you will need conventional ski insurance cover. Any should do (of course read the policy) as you are unlikely to be heading off piste ...
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RobW,
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as you are unlikely to be heading off piste ...
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Depends how much they've dumbed down the course from the old days. I certainly got taken off piste on the Tignes glacier when I did my BASI Foundation course (the predecessor to L1).
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Raceplate, yeah I specifically checked, it covers any type of skiing anywhere, touring, off piste etc. should be ok then.
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lynseyf, just check there's no exclusion for professional training courses.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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beanie1, DSV is Deutsche Skiverband - the German Skiing Association (i.e. the German version of BASI is included) and they run their own training courses, so I doubt very much if there is an exclusion!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I think any holiday insurance will do (subject to no pro training exclusions). I've never had my insurance checked by the Trainer at the start of the course, although I've had plenty of fellow candidates withdraw from courses through injury so wise to have a policy in place that you're happy with.
RobW, as far as I know L1 courses have always been run in the Alps (as well as in the UK). I was on the first L1 course (after it replaced the old Foundation week) which was run in Val d'Isere.
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rob@rar, There was a time when no L1 courses were running in the Alps. A good friend of mine was living in Austria at the time and wanted to do his L1, but found to do so he'd have to come back to the UK - which seemed a bit daft so he went with the Austrian system instead. It may well have only been one year...
I did my foundation in the US in '98. It was actually run as two-week course, one week personal performance followed by a the "normal" foundation course. Some foundation courses did continue in the US for a few years, dunno if they ever ran any L1 courses there.
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