ABOUT US

Ash 
Newnes

Ash is one of the most well-respected coach's in the British snowboard scene. He has been riding since the early 90's when neon and zinc were cool. Before getting into teaching Ash was a K2 team rider spending the majority of the time riding in various resorts around the world, including New Zealand, France, USA, Andorra, Bulgaria and Canada. He started teaching in 1997 passing a BASI course in Andorra.

Since then Ash has gone on to gain the highest qualifications achievable. He holds full Equivalence to legally work in France as a Snowboarder but chooses not to due to the price of a pint. He has worked and rode many a ramp night at Tamworth and started the Snowboard School at Milton Keynes where he left in 2002 to start Snowboard Coach. Alongside SBC/SSC, Ash also created and ran a successful Ski School in Bansko Bulgaria from 2005-10, before realising that you can't work with the mafia. Selling it on in 2010 and returning to Andorra as a winter base. Ash now floats between UK, Andorra, China and Japan….coaching private clients and organising BASI training & exams.

Over the past 23 years, Ash has also been a trainer for ALL the Snowboard Governing bodies in Great Britain training over 10,000 people from all over the world to live the winter dream. He also holds full worldwide accreditation from the International Association of Snowsport Instructors (ISIA) and the International Ski Teacher Diploma (ISTD), the highest levels attainable for instructors and coach's.

Over the years Ash has appeared as a rider and a contributing writer to all the UK Snowboard magazines such as Document, Whitelines and the legendary Snowboard UK (RIP) as well as The Times and Daily Mail newspapers.

He has also been on Radio 1 and Blue Peter and many other BBC/ITV programs. He was also the Snowboard Coach for Channel 4's TV reality show "The Jump".

Scott 
Maughan

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Marcus
Upton

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Lyndon 
Boddey

Lyndon has been involved in sport since he learnt to walk, competing up to national level in swimming and gymnastics before he left school. He studied percussion at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the same time discovered snowboarding, riding at Milton Keynes and the High Wycombe ‘diamonds of death’.

In 2002 he attended his first snowboard instructors course with Ash and hasn’t looked back since. He worked his way through the BASI system in record time whilst teaching and snowboarding throughout Europe and the USA, amassing a wealth of experience in both instructing and coaching.

Not one for sitting still, within this hectic snowboard schedule he managed to learn to skydive and become Rookie British Skydive Champion. Since these early beginnings Lyndon has gone on to gain the highest qualifications possible and like Ash, he is one of only a handful of people who has gained his full French Equivalence through snowboarding.

Lyndon also trains instructors for The British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI) and Snowsport Scotland (SSS). His time is spent working with Ash on the Level 2 Instructor Program and our Freestyle Coaching programme in Arinsal, Andorra. When not on the snow you’ll find him running a busy creative design agency in the UK.

Rob 
Lane

British Association BASI Level 4 Snowboard Instructor and Trainer 
Bachler of Science (BSc) Honours Degree in Sport Psychology from The Open University, credited by the British Psychological Society (BPS)

Rob started skiing in 1997, from the age of 5, taught by his Father who was a ski instructor.

And started snowboarding in 2002, at the age of 10 years old, and became a member of his local snowboard club in the Scottish Highlands, where he was snowboarding with the Cairngorm Snowboard Club every weekend during the winter months.

Rob became an instructor in 2010, at the age of 17, achieving his BASI level 1 Snowboard Instructor. 
Snowboard Coaching Ash was his BASI trainer, and was a massive inspiration and source of support throughout his entire snowboard career. He has a great respect and appreciation for Ash.

Rob went on to teach snowboarding all over the world for the next 15 years and can teach in a variety of European languages. From the snow domes in the UK, to the mountains in Scotland, Austria, Switzerland, France, Canada, New Zealand and Japan.

Becoming a BASI level 4 Snowboard Instructor in 2018, he was selected by BASI to become a trainer in 2022.

However, Rob has been operating as an international snowboard instructor trainer for different national governing bodies of snowboard instructors. In New Zealand he was hired to learn the SBINZ system and coach students training towards their level 1, 2 and 3 snowboard instructor qualifications, as well as their freestyle coaching qualifications.

In Canada, he was hired to learn the CASI approach, and coached students working towards their level 1, 2, 3 qualifications, as well as  their freestyle instructor qualifications.

And so far, Rob has been coaching and examining students through the BASI system working towards their level 1, 2 and recently the Level 3. He works a lot with Ash in China and Japan.

Rob has also spent time working as a freestyle coach for some of the worlds successful freestyle academies (e.g. Cardrona, Laax, Absolute Park) coaching young talented and competitive athletes.

Keir 
Moffatt

Keir is a BASI snowboard and ski instructor and web developer based in Arinsal, Andorra. He looks after all things web for Snowboard Coach, and sometimes helps out shadowing training sessions and mentoring students.

His current obsession is high performance carving, experimenting with bizarre carving boards and posi-posi stance angles - although he knows he should probably be spending that time getting better at riding park and variables.

When not snowboarding, he also likes downhill mountain biking, hiking with his daughter, and campervan holidays.