12 Week AASI Snowboard Instructor Course

12 Week Snowboard Instructor Training Course - AASI Level 1 & 2 - Keystone Colorado

Live to Ride? Turn your passion into your profession this winter. If you can ride blue runs confidently you can:

• Base yourself in our Keystone, Colorado, accommodation and enjoy all that Keystone and surrounds has to offer... Think fun and lots of it!
• Ride Keystone, Vail,  Breckenridge, Beaver Creek & Arapahoe Basin... Think POWDER and lots of it!
• Take your riding to a whole new level with weeks of expert training in small groups
• Get yourself AASI Level 1 & 2 Qualifications
• And come away with memories guaranteed to stick.

Your Opportunity To Start Your Snowboard Instructing Career the Right Way:

Rookie Academy's signature course offers you an unrivalled opportunity to join the snowsports industry.

You'll get personal attention from specialist snowboard instructor trainers. Trainers dedicated to getting both your riding and your teaching up to Rookie standard - a standard respected throughout the industry.

You'll end the winter with experiences to treasure and skills that will get you jobs at ski schools around the world.

Your Rookie training will prepare you for just about any challenge ski instructing may throw at you. More importantly: your Rookie training will tell prospective employers you know the job.

We've been training instructors for over 15 years. Rookie instructors have proved their worth just about anywhere there is piste and/or powder... If you train with us you'll be sought-after by the industry's most popular employers.

United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, Japan Europe... Wherever you want to go, chances are your introduction will be our reputation and relationships with the local Ski and Ride School.  

Why not start your snowboard instructing career with a winter in a riding destination most boarders would be happy just to visit?

Our Snowboard Instructor Training Course Includes:

• 9 weeks, 4 - 5 days a week of on-snow training
• 1 week AASI Level 1 exam 
• 1 weeks AASI Level 2 pre course and Exam
• 1 week teaching/shadowing for Keystone Ski School
• Introduction to "Pipe & Park"
• Introduction to "Racing" & qualification through NASTAR
• 5 mountain staff pass providing access to 15,633 acres, a total of 17,388 vertical feet and 125 lifts 
• Accommodation for the entire 12 weeks
• Video analysis of your skiing 
• Teaching children module 
• Ski tuning seminars
• Behind the scene look at the day to day running of the Keystone Ski and Ride School 
• Strategies for becoming a highly sought after instructor 
• Customer service training 
• On selling 
• Professionalism 
• Presentation and Communication Skills
• Rookie Academy item

Successful candidates will be offered a position in a Ski and Ride School in America for the 2009/2010 season.

There are only 12 Board positions available and we are taking bookings now. A US$2000 deposit secures you a place on the course... Contact us today.