Private lessons
Snowboard
Live the dream of riding sideways. It isn't easy to learn — but I'll guide you through it.
Live the dream of riding sideways. It isn't easy to learn — but I'll guide you through it.
Snowboarding is so much more than the “cooler” alternative to skiing. It's an attitude: try lots of things, fall often, get back up even more often, push your body to its limits and, not least, do things differently from most people out there.
It means sideways freedom with your feet strapped in, letting board and soul hang loose, surfing even though the sea is far away. You feel the white stuff rushing under you, the rolling motion — especially when you get to enjoy some pow pow. Sadly that's getting rarer and rarer in our part of the world.
And still: with a bit of practice we can turn pistes with their drops and side hits, or patchy off-piste snow, into our surf spots. It takes work from the smallest bones in your feet, your ankles and flexible knees — that's what lets you steer the board safely between losing control, drifting and grip.
Doesn't sound that easy? True, but nobody said it would be. Years of teaching snowboarding have given me plenty of experience that lets me keep the risk of injury low and help my students progress as fast as possible. Like I said: I'll guide you through it.
Rebuild your confidence after catching an edge one time too many. The first day on a board — or the first one after a fall that really hurt — often decides whether snowboarding becomes something for the long run.
We go at the pace that suits you: stance, edge pressure, where you look. None of it is magic, but all of it needs to be understood.
Once the board stops skidding (well, most of the time) and starts to cut, snowboarding suddenly feels completely different. We work on edge angle, building pressure through the whole turn and the timing that makes all the difference.
That's technique work in the best sense — and it pays off everywhere: off piste, in the park and on every icy slope where others are sideslipping down.
Not just in the park at Rendl or in Lech, but anywhere we turn the mountain into our playground — and for me that definitely includes off piste: natural features, small drops, pressing in powder. Freestyle out of the park and into the backcountry.
We look at where your basic technique is holding back your style — and work our way up from there: presses, riding switch, clean take-offs and landings.
Give a splitboard tour a go — for a tour with me I'll lend you a splitboard for free. Skin up like on skis, ride down on a board: it opens up all the terrain the lifts can't reach.
And who knows? Maybe you'll soon be ready for your first splitboard tour, with or without help from the lifts — to experience where snowboarding belongs: in untouched terrain.
First we have a quick chat: what can you already do, what do you want to achieve, how much time do you have? Then I suggest an area and a meeting point — depending on where you're staying and on the conditions, that might be Lech, Zürs, St. Anton or the Sonnenkopf — but just as well Stuben, Warth and Schröcken, or somewhere else entirely.
Before your first tour you might want to book a day of off-piste technique, where we move between on and off piste with plenty of useful tips. Drop me a line and we'll work out where the journey should go.
Tell me briefly where you're at and where you want to go — and we'll work out together what's possible this winter.