Snowboard Lesson Recommendation - Les Dux Alpes
Discussion
Just booked a week in the Deux Alpes for the third week in March and wondered if anyone can recommend a decent snowboard instructor / school?
Being crap at snowboarding (with a Mrs that is much better!), I want someone that is patient and speaks very good English (ideally as their month tongue)
I've found these things are best on recommendations, so does anyone have any ideas??
Thanks if you can help
Being crap at snowboarding (with a Mrs that is much better!), I want someone that is patient and speaks very good English (ideally as their month tongue)
I've found these things are best on recommendations, so does anyone have any ideas??
Thanks if you can help
Jason, have a word with Iain, we went to Deux-alpes last year and while he was gay and had skiing lessons (he did have 1 go on my board fell over and then proclaimed to have broken his thumb), I am sure it was with a guy who spoke pretty good English, was very good and also did snowboarding tuition.
You've got 3 options pretty much:
1 - ESF (French ski school) - It's like playing Russian Roulette, the instructor may or may not speak good English
2 - European Ski School ( http://www.europeanskischool.co.uk/) - Normally very good, for advanced ski lessons anyway, 99% of the time it's an English instructor, occasionally Italian with very good English. Lord Pikey's sister had lessons with them last season and progressed from beginner very quickly. The snow bunny teaching her was rather tasty too!
3 - Independent Guy ( http://www.blisssnowschool.fr/Accueilang.htm) - A couple of friends have used him in the past and spoke highly of the level of tuition, but they were total beginners.
Any other questions about resort post up I'll try to help.
Shameless plug - if you enjoy Les Deux Alpes and fancy a return trip next season check the link in my profile
1 - ESF (French ski school) - It's like playing Russian Roulette, the instructor may or may not speak good English
2 - European Ski School ( http://www.europeanskischool.co.uk/) - Normally very good, for advanced ski lessons anyway, 99% of the time it's an English instructor, occasionally Italian with very good English. Lord Pikey's sister had lessons with them last season and progressed from beginner very quickly. The snow bunny teaching her was rather tasty too!
3 - Independent Guy ( http://www.blisssnowschool.fr/Accueilang.htm) - A couple of friends have used him in the past and spoke highly of the level of tuition, but they were total beginners.
Any other questions about resort post up I'll try to help.
Shameless plug - if you enjoy Les Deux Alpes and fancy a return trip next season check the link in my profile
I went to Deux Alps last year. As with most large-ish resorts you will find they have one major shhki shhhchool. Some people in our party took lessons boarding and skiing I can't remember who they had, chances are that instructor would've moved on now anyway.
If you don't get any named recommendations from PH I would simply book with the ski school and tell them exactly what you've put in this thread and they'll sort you out.
If you don't get any named recommendations from PH I would simply book with the ski school and tell them exactly what you've put in this thread and they'll sort you out.
grumbas said:
Lord Pikey's sister had lessons with them last season and progressed from beginner very quickly. The snow bunny teaching her was rather tasty too!
Oh god yeah. She was puuuurdy. Start and end of the lesson were the highlights of the day. Oh, and my sister said she was a good teacher if that makes any difference
LP
Lord Pikey said:
grumbas said:
Lord Pikey's sister had lessons with them last season and progressed from beginner very quickly. The snow bunny teaching her was rather tasty too!
Oh god yeah. She was puuuurdy. Start and end of the lesson were the highlights of the day. Oh, and my sister said she was a good teacher if that makes any difference
LP
chrisga said:
Jason, have a word with Iain, we went to Deux-alpes last year and while he was gay and had skiing lessons (he did have 1 go on my board fell over and then proclaimed to have broken his thumb), I am sure it was with a guy who spoke pretty good English, was very good and also did snowboarding tuition.
Will do, but is it true that he went 56 miles an hour on his skis??!!grumbas said:
You've got 3 options pretty much:
1 - ESF (French ski school) - It's like playing Russian Roulette, the instructor may or may not speak good English
2 - European Ski School ( http://www.europeanskischool.co.uk/) - Normally very good, for advanced ski lessons anyway, 99% of the time it's an English instructor, occasionally Italian with very good English. Lord Pikey's sister had lessons with them last season and progressed from beginner very quickly. The snow bunny teaching her was rather tasty too!
3 - Independent Guy ( http://www.blisssnowschool.fr/Accueilang.htm) - A couple of friends have used him in the past and spoke highly of the level of tuition, but they were total beginners.
Any other questions about resort post up I'll try to help.
Shameless plug - if you enjoy Les Deux Alpes and fancy a return trip next season check the link in my profile
Thanks for this - like the sound of the indie guy1 - ESF (French ski school) - It's like playing Russian Roulette, the instructor may or may not speak good English
2 - European Ski School ( http://www.europeanskischool.co.uk/) - Normally very good, for advanced ski lessons anyway, 99% of the time it's an English instructor, occasionally Italian with very good English. Lord Pikey's sister had lessons with them last season and progressed from beginner very quickly. The snow bunny teaching her was rather tasty too!
3 - Independent Guy ( http://www.blisssnowschool.fr/Accueilang.htm) - A couple of friends have used him in the past and spoke highly of the level of tuition, but they were total beginners.
Any other questions about resort post up I'll try to help.
Shameless plug - if you enjoy Les Deux Alpes and fancy a return trip next season check the link in my profile
Looked at your profile and can't believe you've just reduced the price of the week that I booked and paid for this morning!!!! Will def keep the link in my favourites
Evil Jack said:
Why not learn on an indoor slope (real snow) before you go? There's still time and you can pick up the basics in 3 or 4 lessons.
Don't spend your holiday learning!
Agree with you and have done already but need to take it to the next level. I can link my turns and can do greens and easy blues but can't go (read not confident enough) as quick as the Mrs and slow down too much for the turn.Don't spend your holiday learning!
flyingjase said:
chrisga said:
Jason, have a word with Iain, we went to Deux-alpes last year and while he was gay and had skiing lessons (he did have 1 go on my board fell over and then proclaimed to have broken his thumb), I am sure it was with a guy who spoke pretty good English, was very good and also did snowboarding tuition.
Will do, but is it true that he went 56 miles an hour on his skis??!!....Look mofo the numbers don't lie!
And show big Jase the video of my first "ghey on a tray" experience! A natural mate, a natural...
Last year Kath's instructor worked for the ski school that dresses in yellow, Saint something or other if I remember rightly? The guy was really good, although I have to say if you are having a mare having someone either with English as their first language or total fluency helps, as language needs to be very subtle in times of crisis...
Mid you Chris, don't you hate overtaking slow snowboarders like Jase, especially when they ride two or three abreast on a narrow run...
And show big Jase the video of my first "ghey on a tray" experience! A natural mate, a natural...
Last year Kath's instructor worked for the ski school that dresses in yellow, Saint something or other if I remember rightly? The guy was really good, although I have to say if you are having a mare having someone either with English as their first language or total fluency helps, as language needs to be very subtle in times of crisis...
Mid you Chris, don't you hate overtaking slow snowboarders like Jase, especially when they ride two or three abreast on a narrow run...
Hard-Drive said:
Look mofo the numbers don't lie!
And show big Jase the video of my first "ghey on a tray" experience! A natural mate, a natural...
Last year Kath's instructor worked for the ski school that dresses in yellow, Saint something or other if I remember rightly? The guy was really good, although I have to say if you are having a mare having someone either with English as their first language or total fluency helps, as language needs to be very subtle in times of crisis...
Mid you Chris, don't you hate overtaking slow snowboarders like Jase, especially when they ride two or three abreast on a narrow run...
lol soz, you know I'm only joking.... How come you said Kaths instructor? Werent you in the same lesson? And show big Jase the video of my first "ghey on a tray" experience! A natural mate, a natural...
Last year Kath's instructor worked for the ski school that dresses in yellow, Saint something or other if I remember rightly? The guy was really good, although I have to say if you are having a mare having someone either with English as their first language or total fluency helps, as language needs to be very subtle in times of crisis...
Mid you Chris, don't you hate overtaking slow snowboarders like Jase, especially when they ride two or three abreast on a narrow run...
I dont mind seeing snowboarders going slow, at least they are learning the art, everyone has to start somewhere! Everyone is going to slate snowboarders for sitting down at the top of the runs now which does bug me a bit too, and Tom said he hated waiting for snowboarders to do their bindings up but it turned out I was clipped in before he managed to get his hands through those strap thingies on his poles off the top of a chairlift (and i didnt take anyone out this year which was a bonus). What bugs me is skiiers who follow in lines and snake across the whole piste, esp a narrow cat track where boarders need speed for the inevitable impending flat section!
Sometimes it is necessary being a boarder, to stop at the edge of the piste, to admire the view though:
Hard-Drive said:
Last year Kath's instructor worked for the ski school that dresses in yellow, Saint something or other if I remember rightly?
ESI Saint Christophe - http://www.esi2alpes.com/fr/index.aspxNot used them myself though.
Hard-Drive said:
Look mofo the numbers don't lie!
And show big Jase the video of my first "ghey on a tray" experience! A natural mate, a natural...
Last year Kath's instructor worked for the ski school that dresses in yellow, Saint something or other if I remember rightly? The guy was really good, although I have to say if you are having a mare having someone either with English as their first language or total fluency helps, as language needs to be very subtle in times of crisis...
Mid you Chris, don't you hate overtaking slow snowboarders like Jase, especially when they ride two or three abreast on a narrow run...
Touché!And show big Jase the video of my first "ghey on a tray" experience! A natural mate, a natural...
Last year Kath's instructor worked for the ski school that dresses in yellow, Saint something or other if I remember rightly? The guy was really good, although I have to say if you are having a mare having someone either with English as their first language or total fluency helps, as language needs to be very subtle in times of crisis...
Mid you Chris, don't you hate overtaking slow snowboarders like Jase, especially when they ride two or three abreast on a narrow run...
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