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Steve Haigh wrote:
I'm not sure you need 10 grand [I'm assuming this was GBP since you were talking about British skiers] though to do a season though... I survived seasons on way less than that. I did do a few weeks work, but I managed to live in Chamonix a few years ago (1994) on about £300 a month when I wasn't working - i.e. £300 to cover rent, food, beer, er thats it really. OK, you'd need to set aside £400-500 for a lift pass on top of that and money for a deposit on a flat, but you could easily do a season in a big resort for 4 or 5 grand. If you are prepared to rough it you could do it for less still. Thanks for the correction. I was completely guessing with my figure although you can rent a studio flat in Val d'Isère for about 3,000 GBP for the season. |
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David Off wrote:
Steve Haigh wrote: I'm not sure you need 10 grand [I'm assuming this was GBP since you were talking about British skiers] though to do a season though... I survived seasons on way less than that. I did do a few weeks work, but I managed to live in Chamonix a few years ago (1994) on about £300 a month when I wasn't working - i.e. £300 to cover rent, food, beer, er thats it really. OK, you'd need to set aside £400-500 for a lift pass on top of that and money for a deposit on a flat, but you could easily do a season in a big resort for 4 or 5 grand. If you are prepared to rough it you could do it for less still. Thanks for the correction. I was completely guessing with my figure although you can rent a studio flat in Val d'Isère for about 3,000 GBP for the season. Val d'Isere is one of the most expensive resorts to rent in (IMHO) - £3000 for a season is not too bad for Val. I found Chamonix (Argentiere in particular) to be a much cheaper place to live, I think we paid about £100 per week for our place (slept 4 in 2 bedrooms, so we had between 5 and 8 in it at anyone time). Of course, if you did have 10 grand you *could* blow it very easily in over a season! |
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"A." wrote:
David Off wrote in message ... snipped David, thanks a lot for that info - I had no idea the standard of entry into the BASI GAP course was so high! My daughter did this course about 4 years ago. She had been skiing about 16 weeks by then having started when she was very small and we lived in France and they went with the Recreation Centre on Wednesdays. Before she went she did an evaluation with a BASI trainer on a dry slope where she was asked to do things like shuffle her feet back and forwards during the turn - it wasn't so much how well she did those things, just how easily she adapted to trying them. Her basic skiing was evaluated too of course and was OK. The course itself started in Scotland with First Aid and other admin courses. Then they went off to Pila in the Aosta valley. Most of the course there (5 weeks I think) was spent shadowing another instructor in a real class which is a great way to learn, but not very exciting skiing. She enjoyed the course though and was a much better skier at the end of it and a good instructor, especially for kids. |
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Why not take a private lesson and get the instructor to
demonstrate to you what level ability you need to pass the course. I did this and found out my ability to carve and not skid a turn at low speed let me down. It was a valuable lesson and far cheaper than doing a course and being told the same thing. I think we as recreational skiers are limited in our ability to acheive "instructor level skiing ability"due to the low number of days we have available in a season Peter "Mark" wrote in message om... (A.) wrote in message . com... Thanks for the feedback everyone! A. If you are based in Ireland, you could also use IASI, the Irish version of BASI. Same standards expected, same trainers as BASI etc. Leads to the International license and beyond. You could also do a beginner instructor course with the Austrians in November and teach for the season there. I'm also involved in computers and thats what I did for a season. Email me if you want any more information about IASI or anything else. |
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peter.creagh wrote:
Why not take a private lesson and get the instructor to demonstrate to you what level ability you need to pass the course. I did this and found out my ability to carve and not skid a turn at low speed let me down. It was a valuable lesson and far cheaper than doing a course and being told the same thing. I think we as recreational skiers are limited in our ability to acheive "instructor level skiing ability"due to the low number of days we have available in a season Good points. I do ski with trainer sometimes, I did 10-15 days last year with a trainer and so far this season I've skied about 30 days in total I think. The number of days required to turn the sort of things they tell you into second nature on any slope or in any conditions is pretty high. For me the two barriers have been years of skiing badly and fitness, even someone skiing way less than I do could avoid either of those traps :-) With hindsight I really, really wish I'd had more lessons over the years. Anyone that has the option and wants to ski well should move somewhere they can do more and get high standard training :-) Even if you're not aiming for a BASI level then I can't personally speak high of the returns on good training, it's increased my skiing enjoyment hugely and I was having a good time before. For the money spent the returns on lessons are way better than this years skis or boots :-) Ian |
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