A night to remember…
July 24th, 2005Last night:
Well what can I say… it started off as an innocent meal in a Thai restaurant, it ended with people having no recollection of what happened the previous night and Mel admitting her undying love to Glin. We all bundled round shooters with a couple of trainers. We then headed round to the Thai, got very drunk… Mel pissed herself… I mean fell over in the the street and got her bum wet. Well video footage to come!! But heres a couple of piccies from the night:
Earlier in the week we had some very nice lamb shanks… Mikal bit off a bit more than he could chew…
SNOW INFO: I didn’t go snowboarding today. We had 5cm in the main basin and 8cm in the saddle basin. But today the slopes have started to melt and areas are getting really dodgy from what the people who went up today have been saying… snow dance is continuing! Heavy snow is predicted for tuesday so heres hoping!
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??
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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
Forgot to mention if you are quite good at snowboarding already you could go for the rookie academy 8 week course.. its cheaper…