 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi guys,
Looking for a good company in Canada for my son to do a 11 week instructors course,found two,Canadian Rockies Academy and Nonstop ski and snowboard,has anybody got info on any of these two or have any of you done the course with another company.
Cheers 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Mrs telford_mike did Nonstopski in Fernie and recommends it very highly. Good value and great tuition. Here she is cat skiing on the course:
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the grafter, does it have to be Canada? Will your son want to work as a ski instructor after completing the course? (yours and his views may differ on that point!). If he will want to use the qualification then he should also consider where he is likely to want to work. If he will want to work in Europe he should consider doing a European qualification such as BASI. Take a look at the website:
http://www.basigap.com/
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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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Yes he does want to instruct after the course and it was his idea to go to Canada,the reason being that the level 1 & 2 CSIA lets you teach in Canada,New Zealand,Australia,Japan and Europe but not France ware as I think if he took it in Europe he could not teach in the other countries,At the moment he is in Australia doing volentry work so that is why I am trying to orginise it for him under his instructions.
Thanks for your reply.
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Australia doesn't have tinterweb as yet? That explains a lot. 
If he's paying the bills just book any. If you're paying book him on a CSIA Level 1 course direct with CSIA, give him the website for local craigslist or newspaper for accomodation and let him grow up a bit.
Sorry even as a lazy 18 year old I'd have been embarassed by having my parents sort out something like this for me but apologies as he might be out in the bush or something.
Nonstop customers seem to like them.
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the grafter,
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it was his idea to go to Canada,the reason being that the level 1 & 2 CSIA lets you teach in Canada,New Zealand,Australia,Japan and Europe but not France ware as I think if he took it in Europe he could not teach in the other countries,
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That's not quite accurate - with BASI L2 you can teach in all the countries you listed working for a ski school (I can think of personal examples in each case), plus if he wanted to make a career out of it he could go on to do L4 ISTD which would enable him to teach in France (or absolutely anywhere in the world, inlcuding starting his own ski school). Even with the CSIA top level he would never be able to teach in France, and many places in Italy, and France is where the best money is to be made.
The only reason I mention this is I have friends who are CSIA 2 but have now decided to switch to BASI as it enables them to progress their career further. It might be worth him doing some more investigations before he commits, there are a lot of threads on Snowheads about it if you do a search.
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