Course Details

The BASI level 1 Freestyle Coach is a 3 day course that looks at planning and delivering progressive freestyle sessions along with fundamental riding techniques. You do not need to be an instructor to do this course - though it will definitely help if you are. It is ideal for coaches, parents of young performers who are active in snowboard clubs and Instructors with an interest in performance freestyle snowboarding.

The principal outcomes from this course are:
How to design & deliver a well structured coaching session for you're groups and introducing them to performance freestyle riding. We also look at how to analysis and develop this riding using what we call the performance threads.

Take a look at the course content tab for more information regarding each day.

In order to receive the award candidates who successfully complete this course MUST ALSO :

• Be at least 16 years of age.
• Be a member of BASI.
• Hold a first Aid qualification that meets the requirements of BASI (This is not needed prior to attending the Instructor course – can be obtained after).
• Complete the compulsory On-line Child Awareness Module.
• Complete a Disclosure Scotland Criminal Record Disclosure Form online - Info available from here - online application click here

2010 Dates

The following list may be changed if minimum course numbers for that week are not met. A full refund of monies paid will be offered to all candidates if they cannot attend re-scheduled course.

This is the confirmed dates for all SNOWBOARD COACH snowboard Level 1 Freestyle Coach courses for 2010.

29th Sept - 1st Oct 2010 - Tamworth

for more information please email: courses@snowboardcoach.co.uk

All course fees are set by the centres themselves and NOT Snowboard Coach. Prices are correct as of March 2010 and could change. Please check with us to confirm.

They include associate membership to BASI until October 2010, a selection of course material inc manuals etc....all slope time and course/training costs and rental equipment (if needed). Courses after October 2010 include Associate membership to BASI until Oct 2011.

Don't forget, anyone doing this course with Snowboard Coach is entitled to special discounts on K2 Snowboards and bindings, Westbeach clothing, Hoven eyewear and Drop gloves. For more info have a chat with us during the course.

The courses do not include food or refreshments.

Tamworth Snowdome: £340 all inclusive of slope time.

Hemel Snow Centre: TBC

Day 1 – We spend the first part of the day looking at the fundamentals of snowboarding and how they apply to our own riding. We then use these fundamentals and apply them to freestyle. In the afternoon you will be taken through a series of basic progressions that will give course candidates the knowledge on how to safely prepare prospective freestyle clients to progress from flat land/butters/jibs through to ollies and nollies. An evening lecture will take place after the session.

Day 2 – The morning is spent further developing course candidates knowledge by being taken through progressions for small kickers and flat bars/boxes. Again the idea is that course candidates learn from the trainer's delivery in preparation for delivering there own assessed progressive freestyle session. The afternoon session is then used for course candidates to prepare this session themselves with the help of the trainer who will also deliver a small lecture that will help with lesson planning. Time will be allocated on slope for candidates to prepare demonstrations and practice delivery.

Day 3 – The morning session will be an assessed lesson. Course candidates will deliver their planned progression sessions to the rest of the group and will receive feedback from the trainer and peers. These sessions may roll into the afternoon. The time left at the end of the day will be spent on the hill riding and ironing out any problems and working on developing candidates ideas of delivering a freestyle session. We then have a course debrief at the end of the day.

This is an idea of an itinerary and may change subject to snow conditions (for the mountain) and timings/content depending on the level of the group.