Spring 2020

43 SIA is a truly international organisation, with teaching based at resorts in Austria, Canada, Argentina and Japan. The team has spared no time or expense in searching out the perfect places at which to hold their courses. They are, naturally, some of the best in the world, led by a carefully selected team of world-class trainers. In the same way that SIA trains its clients to leave with the best possible chance of success, their clients are trained by people with exceptional qualifications. This ensures that clients retain their confidence in a talented trainer who has a great deal of wisdom and experience to impart. Once training is over, perhaps the most exciting offer that SIA holds is that of a guaranteed job offer for its talented students. Thanks to the team’s strong network of colleagues across the world, it is possible to find good work very quickly. In many ways, this demonstrates the major benefit of heading to SIA. Those who take the opportunity to learn how to teach others will not only spend their time in a gorgeous location, but with course mates who will become friends for life and a team of tutors who want the absolute best for their pupils. The connections that people make at SIA never fade away. Time in the snow, at one of the finest training institutes for skiing, might not appeal to all, but to those who do, the perfect choice is SIA. Where some companies compromise or overpromise, the team at SIA excels in making sure that their students are able to pass on the best techniques and methods down to a new generation. Company: Ski Instructor Academy Contact: Gary Clark Website: www.siaaustria.com Sep19463 The increasing popularity of taking a gap year and teaching people to skiing and snowboard has created a need for exceptional training that can pass down best practice and techniques to beginners. The Ski Instructor Academy excels at providing not only excellent training, but doing so in luxury with a widely recognised qualification and job offer at the end of the process. SIA has the potential to offer an extraordinary number of courses, ranging from beginners all the way through to hardened veterans of the slopes. Clients are able to choose what they would like to study, with training available for ski, snowboard or dual instructors at levels varying from beginner, improver, performance or mogul. The team is also able to provide preparation coaching courses for higher qualifications. The courses give clients the opportunity to gain truly impressive qualifications. The SIA’s 2-in-1 Instructor Course is particularly appealing to the student who wants the chance to complete their Anwärter and Landes 1 Qualifications in just one season as well as spend a season at a guaranteed instructor job in a top Austrian ski school. Designed to be fully comprehensive, the SIA team have lined up practical training from remarkable coaches, accommodation in the lap of luxury and access to the incredible Austrian nightlife. The three stages of this course mean that the Anwärter (Level 1&2) Qualification is achieved, before the winter season is spent teaching, with the course completed undertaking a intense training schedule that includes performance on-piste, mogul and off-piste training for the Landes 1 (Level 3, Part 1) Qualification with exams at the end of the season. This is just one of several incredible options that not only open people’s eyes to skiing but opens the door to the industry and invites others to come through too. There is a special appeal to skiing, the joy that can be found weaving through the snowy Alps. Teaching others to do so, however, requires a specialist skillset, and those that wish to explore this vocation will find the team at Ski Instructor Academy the ideal people for this role, as they bring years of experience and knowledge to the table. It’s these factors which led to its success in LUXlife’s Winter Sports Award for Best Ski Instructor Courses Provider 2019 – Europe. We profiled the company to find out more. Simply Skiing Success