Element Verbier ski school – private ski lessons, off-piste & ski instructor training
Published on: April 9, 2020 It’s another week of lockdown all over the world and we thought it was tine we all started thinking about pre-season training. Because as our resident fitness coaches, Jake and Lottie, will tell you,
Published on: April 1, 2020 We know that a lot of people are having a tough time as governments around the world have restricted movement to combat Coronavirus. Well, we are in the same boat and whilst we are
Published on: March 5, 2020 After everyone got very stressed about high pressure and dry air in January, we have been treated to what seems like a storm every week or so for the last six weeks. It’s been
Published on: Feb 5, 2020 After some really heavy snow and some insane winds today the clouds parted and we were treated to an amazing powder day. Needless to say that while the majority of the ski school were
Skiing is a sport rife with opinions. But the trouble with opinions is that you can’t always trust them… So we’ve put together a little blog to explode a few of the biggest myths and to (we hope) help
Published on: December 9, 2019 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Peak Leaders (@peakleaders) on Dec 2, 2019 at 12:01pm PST TEN DAYS IN AND WINTER IS IN FULL SWING We have been flat out since
CONDITIONS ARE GETTING BETTER AND BETTER For two weekends in a row the resort has been open and we’ve had a load of snow. How much? Well estimates are that over 40cm fell in resort this weekend and plenty
Every year we fixate on the first snow. There are two targets: opening on weekends in November and opening full-time from the first weekend in December. The key date is the full opening – because as fun as the tracks
In our last ISIA Training blog we talked about the importance of mixing up your training to develop yourself as a well rounded skier of the whole mountain. In particular we talked about the huge benefits of backcountry skiing for
A common mistake ski instructors make when starting out in their mission to pass the BASI Level 3 Technical exam is to focus purely on piste performance. Whilst this is arguably the most heavily weighted area of the assessment, that