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

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.

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?

So, maybe this'll be a good start to the winter as it's due to snow very low tomorrow which is early for recent years! 1200 metres is below Argentière so  it could be skiddy on the roads. Maybe I ought to think about snow tyres or just carying chains but it seems too soon.

It's getting exciting now with not many weeks to go before it all kicks off and a trip to Tignes amready in the pipeline.

AMP is pleased to welcome a new member of the team, Sarah who will be our Logistics coordinator this season.

The weather finally broke giving us a full perfect week of sun, packed powder snow, gates and cat suits!

With our very own reserved lane for setting our course each day Mark Gear head coach for AMP set Giant slalom courses. We worked on modern GS techniques and tactics using a blend of open hill and gate training. By the third day the group were flying down the hill and looking more and more like racers.

We used a series of strategically designed exercises and drills to develop the right movements and techniques outside of the gates before then applying it to the gates. We then worked on getting the right racing line to get even more speed.

Each day we had a race to see how we were doing and to help raise the adrenaline!

Well done to all you racers!