Snowboard Level 2 Qualification

Course Price: £699

This is a 8 day on-mountain training and assessment course in which Technical and Teaching skills are developed and assessed. The following subjects are included:  

• Technical Snowboarding (practical) 
• A thorough grounding in the snowboard instructor technical syllabus (central theme) 
• TIED and Snowboard Teaching (practical) 
• Training, analysis and practice of teaching snowboarding using the progression skills from the technical syllabus 
• Theory and Off-snow Content 
• Safety and fitness for Snowboarding 
• Communications 
• Lesson planning 
• Technical consolidation 
• Principles and practice of snowboard teaching

By the end of the course successful students will be able to ride to the level required, have the knowledge, ability and understanding to teach snowboarding in a variety of situations. On completion of the course students will be issued with a written report. The Snowboard Level 2 Instructor can teach all aspects of the snowboarding central theme up to and including basic turning within the confines of a patrolled area.

35 hours Snowsports School Experience is required for Level 1 Instructor Qualification. These hours ideally should be shadowing or teaching experience in a UK Snowsports centre after completing the Level 1 instuctor course. A maximum of 15 of these hours can be completed at slopes using Maxxtracks technology, such as Skiplex or Chel-ski**.

An additional 35 hours Snowsports School Experience is required for Level 2 Qualification. These hours are additional to the 35 hours completed as part of the Level 1 Qualification. The additional hours should ideally be completed after the Level 1 Qualification has been awarded and before attending the Level 2 instructor course (70 hours can be submitted to the BASI Team after completion of the Level 1 instructor course).

Students should provide a breakdown in writing of what they have covered during their Snowsport School experience, this should be on headed Snowsport School paper and be signed by the Snowsport School supervisor. 

For a BASI Log Sheet Click Here

** Due to the nature of these slopes the instructor should always be mindful of how their lesson could be given on a dry slope or indoor snow slope where there are more slope users and a change of terrain (angle and underfoot conditions). Clients should be given instruction in accordance with the FIS code, particularly with regards to safety.

£399

This is an optional 4 day training module designed to help you improve your technical standard prior to attending the Snowboard Level 2 Instructor course or Snowboard Level 2 Re-assessment course, thus improving your chance of success.

Course Price: £479
Re-Assessments must be taken within 2 years of the date of the course failed, otherwise the candidate will be required to pay for and attend the whole course again.

If a candidate fails both the Teaching and the Technical elements of the course, they must retake the whole 8 day Level 2 course.

If a candidate fails either the Teaching or Technical element of the course, they can book onto a 4 day Level 2 Re-assessment course.

If a candidate fails the 4 day Re-assessment course twice, they must complete the whole 8 day Level 2 course again.

Any candidate who needs to take a 4 day Re-assessment course is not allowed to book onto 4 days of the 8 day course and must book onto the 4 day re-assessment course. There might be possibilities to merge some re-assessment students onto the last 4 days of the 8 day courses. The BASI Team will contact students directly if this is a viable option in order to confirm the course.

NB: If you would like some additional training before attending the Level 2 Re-assessment, there is an optional, 5 day Training course (Level 2 Performance Training). Students booking the Level 2 Performance Training course at the same time as the Level 2 or the Level 2 re-assessment course running in the same resort the following week, will receive a discount of £50 off the Ski Level 2 Performance Training. Please contact the BASI Team to make your booking and to get the discounted price.