 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello snowheads!
I am looking for a piece of advice in respect to choosing between two packages of the UCPA: beginner full time vs half-time instruction in Flaine w/c 14 Mar 2022.
I am not a complete beginner, I've done some skiing in the past, i'd say, maybe 6-7 days in total done in two trips, but those were unknown resorts in Slovakia and the altitude was up to 1k meters, so can't even be compared any of the Alps resorts I guess. I've never done UCPA in the past and wanted to ask those who did beginner full time and those who tried half-time:
(a) What is the quality of teaching at the beginner level? Wouldn't I feel as a waste of time?
(b) If you did both - how does the half-time compare to full time beginner?
Thanks in advance for your time and happy riding! M
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If you can ski a bit, I’d go for the intermediate level groups. They have a ‘harmonisation’ session before the lessons start and will put you in an appropriate group accordingly. Usually.
Half time or full time is up to you. My take was the more I learn and practice, the quicker I improve but I appreciate it’s a holiday for some people too.
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Depends how good you are at skiing on your own, or hooking up with others. I would tend to go for full-time, personally, as the lessons are good value. As for level, did you have lessons on your other trips? I wouldn't worry about it being Slovakia. Snow is snow..... If you're pretty confident, and fit, I'd go intermediate but not get depressed if demoted. 
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I've done many UCPA trips now, mainly full time instruction on/off piste starting from Matrisse level on the early trips, though I've done one half time week and this year due to the group dynamic (some of us on a 4 day trip) I'm going half time.
Based purely on value - full time is worth it as for a small additional extra cost you get exponentially more lesson time. The full time groups also in my experience develop a stronger bond more generally.
If you go full time you'll have lessons all day Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri and Wed's PM .
If you go full time beginner I think it also includes an additional lesson for part of the Sunday as the assumption here is you are new to snowsports.
If you go half time, you'll be assigned either a morning or an afternoon group.
Sunday and half of Wednesday have no lessons so you will be able to ski with friends etc then...
The 'harmonisation' of the group often just depends on the range of abilities that week, generally moving up or down a group is never an issue if you'd prefer to do that and when I have seen the instructor suggest someone moves up or down it's always been done collaboratively.
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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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| pam w wrote: |
| Depends how good you are at skiing on your own, or hooking up with others. I would tend to go for full-time, personally, as the lessons are good value. As for level, did you have lessons on your other trips? I wouldn't worry about it being Slovakia. Snow is snow..... If you're pretty confident, and fit, I'd go intermediate but not get depressed if demoted. |
thanks for your response. And no - I have never taken any ski lessons, just went with pro-friends who's said will teach me and then got only patience for just couple of hours, so i tried to go with the flow so to say.
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Full time beginners might be best, then. Presumably you could get promoted if you turn out to be brilliant!
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Thanks everyone for your answers, I think I've made my decision - i will go full-time beginner for now and see how it works out.
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