Comments on: A night to remember… http://www.mantissa.net/2005/07/24/a-night-to-remember/ A journey of 1000 miles starts with a single SaaS Solution Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:00:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Francis http://www.mantissa.net/2005/07/24/a-night-to-remember/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Francis Tue, 02 May 2006 10:10:53 +0000 http://www.mantissa.net/?p=17#comment-66 Forgot to mention if you are quite good at snowboarding already you could go for the rookie academy 8 week course.. its cheaper…

]]> By: Francis http://www.mantissa.net/2005/07/24/a-night-to-remember/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Francis Tue, 02 May 2006 10:09:36 +0000 http://www.mantissa.net/?p=17#comment-65 I think it depends what you want to get out of it. If you want to have the best snowboard training which you can use anywhere in the world then the NZ one is one of the best. You get both the BASI & NZ qualifications. The NZ qualification is also generally regarded as one of the hardest snowboard exams in the world so you are trained really hard and become an amazing snowboarder. Also NZ is a really nice country. Everyone is really friendly and a lot of people travel around afterwards.

You do have an alternative, and that is doing the BASI way during a season. You end up shadowing an instructor for the season, learning how to teach etc for the exams at the end of the season with a couple of weeks actual examiner training. TBH I don’t like to do that, because what happens if you shadow a rubbish instructor? they are just teaching you bad habbits. The NZ course I went on had Top NZ examiners. A Chief Examiner from the US (one of 4 in the US, these guys train and test the examiners who test trainers who in turn test the instructors… so basically the best training you can get) and of course the British Trainers/Examiners.

One thing to take note of, there are a lot less southern hemi resorts. So basically NZ can pick and choose which examiners/trainers it uses because there are so many people looking for jobs so they can take the best.

Hope that helps a little…

Francis

]]> By: Pieter http://www.mantissa.net/2005/07/24/a-night-to-remember/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Pieter Mon, 01 May 2006 16:51:54 +0000 http://www.mantissa.net/?p=17#comment-64 Hy my name is piet i am from belgium.
I am 20 and looking for a desent international course for snowboarding. But it looks so much money?? Is it wourth of doing a course there??
bye

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