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Alpe d'Huez ski instructors?

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Looking to book some lessons for our trip later this season. I see on the website that there are 3 ski schools. ESF, British Masterclass and the International Ski School.

This is primarily for Mrs Z who is getting more nervous and cautious year on year.

Anyone had any experience of any of these 3?

Are there any others?
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Ray Zorro, my kids and wife both have private lessons with ESF , theer coming on fine and all happy which is the main thing Very Happy .
sorry cant add anything for the other 2 as we haven't used them. I wish i could get over to LDA and get some lessons from Easiski snowHead
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Masterclass are easily the best.
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Lizzard, what makes them the best?
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Ray Zorro, Masterclass worked wonders for me on my 3rd week skiing, I'd highly recommend them. After my 2nd week being shouted at by a French ESF instructor to ski parallel, without actually being shown how to do it rolling eyes , within 5 mins of the start of my Masterclass lesson I was doing lovely parallel turns leaving nice little tramlines in the snow. Little Angel Little Angel There's been lots written about them on here if you do a search. For classes they do (or used to do) 3 mornings in the week, splitting into appropriate levels at the start of the first morning. They only have fairly small classes. Whoever she uses, I hope your wife's confidence increases Very Happy
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Ray Zorro, most effective instruction. Is there another criterion?
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Was just about to post a thread asking the same question! I'm going with a very keen friend who hasn't skied on snow before but is working his way up the levels at the Plymouth dry ski slope- if he can ski on that awful slope he should be great on snow! snowHead He's hoping to get to Level 5 by the time we go out on the beginning of Feb.

As far as I can see he can pay 140 euros for 6 mornings of ESF group tuition (2hrs 45 each) with a bit of a discount on the lift pass or the same price for 3 group sessions with Masterclass (2hrs each).

Would he be too inexperienced to get the best out of Masterclass? Or would the advantage of him being keen to progress and having the continuity of English tuition having already had lessons with BASI-qualified instructors outweigh the lack of lesson time?

I guess going out in the first week of Feb may hopefully mean that the ESF lessons aren't too crowded and oversubscribed compared to the French half term.

Any opinions on what would be best for him?
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Dr. Will, I don't think they take total beginners in their classes, but then he wouldn't be. I'd suggest dropping them an email, explaining the situation. See what they say http://www.masterclass.f9.co.uk/index.htm . If they will take him, it would certainly be money well spent to have tuition there, in my opinion snowHead
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Ski with Stuart Adamson. Lots of teaching experience. Former BASI trainer. Ski Masterclass
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Alpine Logic, rubbish jokes though. Laughing
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In another Alpe d'Huez friend one poster was referring to a "grumpy old man"- is that Stuart? Wink
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Dr. Will, doesn't sound like Stuart to me.
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I'd recommend Sebastien Ballereau
Stance Snow Ski School
Alpe d'Huez
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+33 608 108 964
www.stance-snow.com

My kids (good intermediates) had lessons with him last Feb & got on very well.
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