Freeride ski courses in Chamonix

This year we have even more freeride ski courses on offer with a max of 6 people per group. Ski with AMP head coach Mark Gear and  x world freeride Champ Arnaud Adam as your demonstrator.

These courses provide the perfect blend of elite coaching and demonstrations to offer you the ultimate learning experience. Watch Arnaud Adam ski showing a variety of techniques while Mark Gear provides clear explanations to develop your progression. At the end of each day you can watch video footage of yourself to help further your progress.

During the course we will focus on the following aspects of your skiing:

• Control of speed and line
• Technique and tactics for snow and terrain
• Jumps, drops and tricks
• Tips for steeps and couloirs
• Avalanche/mountain awareness

Freeride ski courses

SKI CHAMONIX

December 2008  in Chamonix and the most snow for the last 50 years covers the landscape.

Chamonix is going off this year with already 2 meters of snow on the ski areas. Treat your self this winter and ski Chamonix.

SKI CHAMONIX

Our new instructors jackets came back from the printers just in time for us to wear them on this weekend's taster weekend.

We ran 2 courses over the weekend, and although there are still a few rocks around, we still found deep powder everywhere we went.

AMP would like to thank our sponsors, who we visited last week in Annecy to pick up this seasons kit.

We ad to take the seats out of the AMP van to make room for all the skis, snowboards, skiboots, bindings and clothing that our friends at Voelkl, Marker & Tecnica have kindly given us this year.

The best Ski courses on the best mountain in Europe

Based in Chamonix we offer Performance ski courses for people who really want to improve.

Our ski courses offer high quality coaching that really works along with in resort transport and video feedback. Ski courses run all season long with 3 different levels for all mountain skiing, Intermediate, Advanced and expert levels offer skiers a full range of course levels to suit every skier. You can choose a 5 day ski course or a weekend ski course.

On our courses we ski all over the Chamonix valley with ski lift priority. The main aim of the course is to dramatically improve your all mountain skiing. Group safety and fun are paramount.

The snow has now arrived in the Chamonix valley and it looks like being the best start to the ski season we have had in years. We have even more ski course dates available than last year.

So come on and reserve your place now on one or more of our ski courses for this winter.

 Great news for everyone who likes to ski Chamonix. The ice age is coming!

The forecast for this week is getting colder with some snow on Tuesday then on Friday a cold wind from the north will bring temperatures down to glacial conditions with -13 in Chamonix  over the weekend with up to 1 meter of snow expected on the ski areas.

  This is the start of the season we have all been hoping for. The long range forecast is also saying that this snowy period will be the first of a series of cold snowy fronts expected to hit the Alps over the next 2 weeks.

 This is great news for our early season kick off. We have courses running from the 13th of December and if this early snow happens we will be running private ski lessons in Chamonix as soon as the ski lifts open.  The companie du mont Blanc have said they will open the Grande Montets at weekends in November snow permitting. So come on ski Chamonix this ice age. Its going to go off!

Learn to ski powder

Dont miss out join one of our all Mountain ski courses or reserve your very own private coach to take you to all the best spots on the mountain. We will teach you various techniques for skiing powder snow, windblown snow and anything else he mountain throws at us.
Learning to ski deep powder snow can be quicker and easier than you may think. Our courses will teach you the correct movements and technique to ski powder snow. We use a series of innovative tasks and exercises that really work. We will teach you initially on the piste to ski clean short turns developing your ability to feel support from both skis against the snow. once comfortable with this on piste the chances are you will be able to link turns in the powder. Then its just a bit of millage to crack it.

AMP British ski school Chamonix

In the last few years the French Alps have seen a number of new British ski schools setting up in many resorts. Their reputation is excellent with smaller groups and highly skilled coaches who are equally as good at skiing. Better still its ski coaching at its very best in English so clients can now develop a better understanding of the sport and their skiing.

We at AMP are proud to be the Chamonix local specialists for all Mountain development for advanced and expert skiers. Now into our 5th Year operating in Chamonix, our reputation as a British ski school for enthusiasts is growing from strength to strength. So if you are looking for a ski school with a difference come to Chamonix and see what new school ski school is all about.

BRITISH SKI SCHOOL CHAMONIX

PERFORMANCE SKI COACHING CHAMONIX

Its not ski school how many people would imagine it. What we do at All Mountain Performance is very different to a typical ski school experience.

Our ski coaching can dramatically improve a skiers level by developing all aspects of their performance in a Variety of conditions and terrain. By use of  more modern ski coaching methods involving not only development of skiing technique but also improving tactical, physical and psycological skills. In fact these 4 aspects of  performance are aparent in  every sport. More too oftern than not ski schools and ski coaches in the past have focused very much on a technique focused aproach. which actually is only a quarter of an over all performance.

Imagine these four aspects of  performance in sport.

Technique, Tactical, Psycological, physical. 

We call these the 4 aspects of performance. Now imagine how much better you will ski having developed all 4 aspects through stratigically designed exercises and performance ski coaching that really works.

It Is the job of a good ski coach to be able to quickly identify which performance aspect needs develping the most in any given situation or task. For example lets take a skier who is working on improving their performance skiing in the bumps.  Lets say that the skiers bumps technique is pretty good, as are their tactical skills and they are not scared so psycologicaly the skier is not having trouble but still they are finding it hard when they need to make quick agile movements.

In this situation a good ski coach will work on improving the skiers physical performance aspect as it is the weekest one. More specifically to bumps skiing, quick agile movements will need to be developed in short turns. This can be done outside of bumps on a smooth, not to difficult run before reaplying the overall performance back to the bumps.

The result is wow! 25% better bumps skiing in one lesson!

It may then be that one of the other aspects of performance needs developing, and as we ski around the mountain your ski coach will improve all aspects of your skiing performance prioritising the most important one for you.

Modern ski coaching has no bounderies or limtits. The possibilities for your improvment are endless as there are so many ways you can improve. Its not all technique!

CHAMONIX BASED PERFORMANCE SKI COACHING

Well its true that the weather in the mountains changes quickly. in the last 3 days we have seen the snow line around Chamonix drop from 2700 meters down to 900 meters. We woke up on Saturday morning to a 5cm blanket of snow. Of course its very early for snow at that altitude and its not going to stay for long. It may however be enough up on the ski areas above 2000 meters to create a bit of a base. I can remember in late October Novemeber 1996 it snowed a total of 2 meters in the Chamonix valley over a 2 week period leading way to the best start of a season I have ever seen. The only problem was that a dry spell followed which lasted until Febuary.

Some Chamoniards Say that a lot of early snow falls can oftern lead to less snow during the peak of winter. Personally I think the weather is too unpredictable over a long period to really say. I have lived in the Chamonix valley for 13 years now and ive seen many freaky weather changes like 23 degrees in February followed quickly by  - 23 and loads of snow. Ive even seen it snow in the town of Chamonix in mid September when just 2 days before it was 26 and sunny!

One thing we can be sure of is that  it snows every winter!  The question is always how much is coming?