Guess who is an instructor now?

I Passed!

On Monday I received my certificate says that I have passed my level 1 snowboarding! The whole day was spent on the slopes where I was constantly being assessed on my riding, and then on my teaching. Now we were comfortable with the theory and teaching adults, we had to adapt it to a children's lesson. Which meant we had to pretend to be 9 years old with each other! It was hilarious and so difficult to manage so.. we did our jobs as actors!

After our course was had 2 hours free skiing on the mountain which was amazing, we all got to relax and spend sometime together - it was the first time I've ever just gone out with a group of friend who all snowboard to shred. It was awesome, we were all cruising down the mountain popping tricks and having fun! We then headed to the t-bar for drinks and got our results cards. All in all a really fun day!

The next day we had off to sort out paper work and such, sign our contracts and get our snazzy new kit! The thing I have been waiting for!

Before we start teaching for real we were given some shifts shadowing, so that we could see how experienced instructors conduct their lessons and learn a thing or two from them. But when I arrived one of the snowboard instructors was a no show- so I was landed with my very first student! 

He was 4 years old and called William and we had an hour session which was so much fun! We played lots of games and chatted about helicopters cars and animals like tigers and improved his snowboarding at the same time! Seeing his little face light up in a big smile was amazing, I had to hold his hands the whole way through but he loved it. And couldn't understand why people decided to ski.. everyone should be snowboarders!

After I was finished I got to shadow some more lessons of people coming towards the end of the beginner progression - starting to turn and really explore the slopes. The biggest thing I learnt was how to build someone up to riding their very first chairlift! This wasn't covered at all during training so I was really glad to see how to do it. 

Now I have a couple days off to enjoy riding with the familly over Christmas! Magical, hope everyone is in the festive spirit and have a lovely time xxx