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12 Week Dual Course Timetable

   

New Zealand Rookie Academy 12 week dual qualification ski instructor course timetable

 

ARRIVAL 5th JULY

5th July

- Move into Alpine Resort

  ORIENTATION 6th JULY
6th July - Orientation Day - Look around Wanaka - Meet the trainers
 

ON-SNOW TRAINING & EXAMS 7th JULY TO 19th SEPT

Week 1  - Group split
- Stance and Set Up / The Movements of Snowboarding
- Personal Development 
- Teaching - Level 1 Progression
Week 2 - Teaching Cycle
- Intro MOVEMENT ANALYSIS
- Switch riding
- Teaching - Level 2 Progression
Week 3 - SBINZ Certificate in Snowsports Instruction Exam - Snowboard
  From weeks 1 to 3 you will snowboard Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, Friday and on
Saturday you will ski. After you have sat the CSI snowboard you will move onto skis for
the rest of the week-day course and snowboard on Saturdays.
Week 4

- Group split
- Re-Cap the 4 movements of Skiing
- Teaching - Gliding Wedge progression
- Personal Development - Improve balance using Fore / Aft and Vertical movements
- Demo's - Basic Parallel 

Week 5

- Application of the Teaching Model
- Teaching - Learning to turn & developing turnshape
- Personal Development - Improve turnshape using Rotational movements
- Demo's - Basic Parellel & Wedge Turns
- Preparation for NZSIA CSI exam

Week 6

- NZSIA Certificate in Snowsports Instruction Exam - Ski

Week 7 - Teaching - Introduce Wedge Christie
- Teaching - Introduce Ski Analysis framework
- Demo's - Introduce Wedge Christie
- Personal Development - Introduce Short Turns
Week 8

- Teaching - Advanced Wedge Christie
- Demo's - either Wedge, Wedge Christe or Parallel practice
- Personal Development - Short Turns

Week 9 - Teaching - Parallel Turns
- Demo's - either Wedge, Wedge Christe or Parallel practice
- Personal Development - All Terrain, Snow and Speeds
Week 10 - Teaching - Advanced Parallel Turns
- Demo's - either Wedge, Wedge Christe or Parallel practice
- Personal Development - All Terrain, Snow and Speeds
Week 11 - NZSIA Stage 1 Exam
  DEPARTURE 20th SEPT TO 23rd SEPT
Sept 20th - Unwind, Relax, Chill out....etc
Sept 21st - Unwind, Relax, Chill out....etc
Sept 22nd - Unwind, Relax, Chill out....etc
Sept 23rd - Move out of Alpine Resort

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