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Ski Instructor Training
Last season Beci an experienced ES instructor and photographer headed out with some of the girls training with Emma Cairns to shoot a Verbier staff training session in April. Here are some of her photo’s. At ES we do a lot of ski instructor training, we find it helps attract the best instructors who are passionate about skiing at the top of their game.
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Indoor Sky Diving Near Verbier
Verbier Ski School Operations Head Rachel Tugwell Went to check out Sion’s new Realfly facility.
At the start of this summer i was fortunate to experience Realfly in Sion. REALFLY is the first indoor skydiving simulator in Switzerland. The building reaches a height of 24 meters, and another 7 metres underground giving around 30 metres of air circuits. 
I had a professionally trained instructor called Mathieu who accompanied me throughout the equipment phase, during my flight, as well as for my post flight debrief. He gave me great support during my first free fall session… Which was such a fantastic sensation!
The concept is based on a blowing system installed in a tunnel that recreates the real thrill of free-fall allowing you to discover the sensations similar to those of a parachute jump. It was absolutely amazing and i would recommend it to anyone who is even just the slightest bit interested. They will even take children from 5 years old so its a great activity for the whole family. Go any try it for yourself…”
More photo’s soon
Rachel
Verbier Snowboard School ES Ride
Meet the ES PDG Team
This year ES are entering a team into the PDG (Patrouille Des Glaciers). It’s a ski mountaineering race from Zermatt to Verbier. In this video we meet the team.
Jenny Jones Wins First GB Sochi Olympic Medal
The snowboard slopestyle has made its debut at Sochi and saw riders take on a daunting downhill course of metal rails and massive jumps.
Massive congratulations to all the British athletes and a special mention to Jenny Jones for a bronze medal today!
Britain had an impressive slopestyle showing on Saturday with two riders, Jamie Nicholls and Billy Morgan, making the final and finishing in the top 10.
The success of the British team has a huge impact on the sport of Snowboarding and is ‘cool’ once again so get yourself along to Verbier and join one of our team from ES-Ride Snowboard school and learn some of the slopestyle tricks with us.
You can learn freestyle from day one on a snowboard and you can continue to progress to a higher level we offer professional freestyle and slopestyle coaching for everyone!
Come and experience the thrill of this exciting and friendly sport with us now!
Find us at http://www.es-ride.com/ , https://europeansnowsport.com/
ES Adaptive Volunteer Program
Help put a smile on somebody’s face!
ES Adaptive are looking for budding volunteers in the area of Verbier to help out and join in with lessons and events!
What is ES Adaptive?
Our Adaptive Snowsports Program in Verbier aims to assist the people with disabilities to enjoy the thrill and freedom of the mountains with their family and friends!
Why?
A lot of time and effort goes into Adaptive Snowsports and in the past we have relied heavily on the support of dedicated volunteers to help with our lessons. Without this generous support we would not be able to do what we currently do and run efficiently! As a result, this season we have decided to make this official and launch a Volunteer Program to get as many people involved as possible and fulfilling the Adaptive Experience!
How?
We understand that Time can sometimes be difficult to spare but no matter, if you are can spare a minute or 24 hours we would be happy to get you involved! This is a great opportunity to develop skills and experience working with individuals with a disability and can be extremely rewarding. Rewards will be offered in return for all your hard work and dedicated time! All we ask is that you have your own lift pass and bring along massive SMILES! 😆
You are guaranteed you have an AWESOME time and meet some truly amazing people!!
Interested?
Join our Facebook group and come along to our Welcome Meeting on Thursday 19th December at Brasserie Le Bec restaurant (W-Hotel) in Verbier and for more information, contact Sam at adaptive@europeansnowsport
.com or via the European Snowsports office.
All our Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless!!