SnowSkool Blog

Snowboarding Tips: How to Snowboard in Icy Conditions

Snowboarding on powder is ridiculous amounts of fun but what if you turn up and the conditions are icy, with no fresh fluffy white stuff around? We still want to go ride! So here are some tips to help you go ride.

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Snowskool’s 5 Favourite Oldskool Snow Levels

At Snowskool we love snow, obviously, and some of the team also have a penchant for videogames. And the fluffy white stuff is just around the corner! So we thought it’d be a good time to put together a list of our favourite Oldskool Snow levels, from before the year 2000.

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Snowboarding Tips & Tricks: How to Snowboard in Powder

Snowboarding in powder can be one of the most enjoyable experiences there is so we spoke to Alyn Nash, lead snowboard trainer on the SnowSkool Big White course, to get some tips and tricks help you (and us) enjoy those endless days of glorious powder…

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And This Month’s SnowSkool Legend Winner is Brendan Delisio!

We have been asking you to share your #ski & #snowboard selfies with us throughout 2014 for a chance to appear on our Facebook header and WIN a week in Meribel. Congratulations to our latest Legend of the Month, Brendan Delisio!

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Stereotypical Skier No1: The Ageing Seasonnaire

A long and relatively quiet summer in the SnowSkool office sparked many pointless conversations - which animals are the hardest? What would we do with a lottery win? And lots of reminiscences about winter seasons past. On the back of the latter, some bright-spark eventually came up with the idea of doing a series of stereotypical skiers that may or may not be based on people we've come across since 2003. Meet the first in SnowSkool's series of stereotypical skiers: The Ageing Seasonnaire!

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SnowSkool Shortlisted for World Snow Awards!

SnowSkool has been shortlisted for a World Snow Award (basically the same as the Oscars) within the category of Best UK Specialist Tour Operator (the equivalent of Best Actor). The prize-giving will be hosted by Graham Bell (the skiing world's Brad Pitt) and so we really, really, really want to be there! The winner will be decided by public vote and so we were wondering if you would be so kind as to log-on and give twenty seconds of your time voting for us?! Please...pllleeeeaaassseee....pretty please?!!!!

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Easy-Peasy-Japanese-Ski!

If your skiing or riding has plateaued … if you’re stuck in a performance rut … if you’re about to give it all away … a week-long SnowSkool improver course in Japan will help you rediscover your snow mojo!

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Easy-Peasy-Japanese-Ski!

If your skiing or riding has plateaued … if you’re stuck in a performance rut … if you’re about to give it all away … a week-long SnowSkool improver course in Japan will help you rediscover your snow mojo!

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20 More SnowSkool Students Become Level 1 Ski & Snowboard Instructors in NZ

SnowSkool is delighted to introduce another twenty new ski & snowboard instructors to the world. The guys and girls, who hail from Australia, France, Russia, UK and the USA, have been training at Cardrona Alpine Resort near Wanaka on New Zealand’s south island as part of the SnowSkool New Zealand instructor training course.

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And July’s Legend of the Month is Morgan Bailey!

We have been asking you to share your #ski & #snowboard selfies with us throughout 2014 for a chance to appear on our Facebook header and WIN a week in Meribel. Congratulations to our latest Legend of the Month, Morgan Bailey! Morgan’s photo is up on our Facebook wall now. Here, we find out a bit more about our latest cover star of the month…

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