Ski school

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Ski schools (or ski schools in Austria and Switzerland) are small or medium-sized enterprises, which courses to learn or refine the skiing technique and related winter sports offer. The main offers include basic and advanced courses for

Course types and curricula

Children's ski school

Almost all ski schools also offer several courses for children of different ages and abilities, as well as the organization of ski courses for school classes. Many schools also offer the rental of skis and ski boots or cooperate with a local rental company. In addition to private schools, there are also course centers operated by alpine associations (e.g. the DAV ) and publicly funded ski schools, such as those at federal and state sports schools.

In the Alpine countries with around 30-50 million skiers, all ski schools are subject to strict quality control, which, in addition to the teaching program and the training of ski instructors, also includes various safety aspects and the 10 FIS rules . Experience in racing makes a decisive contribution to the further development of driving techniques, teaching methods and new trends.

Austria , where nine to ten million skiers are out and about every year, may serve as an example of a binding curriculum . Here the current “ski curriculum” is shared by all regional ski instructor associations, which means that all ski schools can instruct their customers in theory and practice on the basis of the same level of information. This ski curriculum is designed to be as short and simple as possible so that it can be easily implemented by the learners (see 2nd web link). After the preliminary basic (stability, falling techniques, snow plow , etc.) is now liberally to the teaching goal average momentum (Engl. Carving ) worked. For children and adolescents, the “short carvers” (new short gliders with 80 to 100 cm) allow particularly fast teaching paths until well-controlled cornering, gliding and speed control are achieved in the now classic cutting swing / carving.

The previously taught alpine driving techniques include a. Telemarking , the “leg play technique” of the 1950s, the stem turn , stem and parallel turns , jet turns and wagging (short turns).

The Bundeswehr sports promotion group for skiing is located in Sonthofen (Bavaria) and Todtnau -Fahl (Baden-Württemberg).

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