Nationality: Canada

Started working for The Rookie Academy in: 2005

Home Mountain: Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec, Canada

Qualifications: Canadian Ski Instructor Alliance (CSIA) level 4 senior examiner, Canadadian Ski Coaches Federation (CSCF) level 3 coach French National Ski Instructor

Countries where have you worked: Canada, USA, New Zealand, Korea, France, Austria, Australia, Switzerland

Favourite resort: Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec, Canada

Career Highlight: CSIA Demo Team Member in 2007, Young Pyong, Korea, CSIA Demo Team Member in 2011, St-Anton, Austria

Other Interests: Mountain bike, road bike, windsurfing, waterskiing, pilates, hiking.

Jf has been working with Rookie Academy on the Canadian programs in New Zealand program for the past 4 years. He is still in love with the sport and love to help people get the best of themselves.  Jf started skiing at 9 years old in Bromont, Quebec, Canada. The first time he went up a chairlift, he saw Bromont ski school director skiing and at that particular moment, he decided he wanted to make a career in skiing. "I remember my first day on skis, I started skiing at 9am and my father came to pick me up at 7 pm and I did not want to leave… My father bought a pair of skis for me the next day and I think I slept with my skis for a month. I was always thinking about skiing… and I am still like that. I love the sport." Jf is always the first on the slopes and the last one back from the mountain at the end of the day. He is training hard every day.

At 20 years old, Jf succeed at CSIA level 4. He then decided to go to Méribel, France to teach over there for two seasons. "When I first got there, they made me work in daycare for 2 month…  It was just before Christmas and I had to wear a Santa Claus outfit for my first week at work… It was good for the ego to start at the bottom of the ladder again." In 2001, Jf passed the French National full cert diploma and eventually worked as a "real" ski instructor for Meribel ESF…

When Jf came back to Canada in 2002, he started to work full time on courses for CSIA and work his way up to become level 4 examiner and a level 3 Coach from Canadian Ski Coaches Federation. He has recently been chosen to represent Canada at the 2007 Interski Congress in Yong Pyong, Korea. The next Interski Congress will be in ST-Anton, Austria in 2011. Jf already made the first cut for the team and still has to do cut number 2 and 3 this winter… He is currently running Mont-Sainte-Anne Telus WinterSports School in Quebec, Canada and he his on the slopes every day, training instructors to get better. Jf is also managing our new Rookies program in Mont-Sainte-Anne and he makes sure the training product is the best you can get.

When Jf is not skiing on snow, he is waterskiing, windsurfing, biking or hiking the mountain thinking of a new way to ski better…