If you have the slightest doubt about what level to enroll yourself or your child, please do not hesitate to contact us by telephone (+33 (0)4.92.46.28.32) or email so we can help guide you to choose the course that suits.)

The great thing about skiing is that you do not have to be particularly sporty. Skiing is a Leisure Sport, which means having fun,
so anyone can learn from 3 to 93. The importance is to find a type of lesson and instructor adapted for you: group lessons or private coaching.
Our adult and children courses cater for beginner to intermediate skiers and have a maximum of 8, but 6 for The Mini Kids – beginners aged between 4 and 6 yrs. This is a great value for money option.
Advanced workshops are also available for one, two or three days. They look at learning skills in specific areas – off-pistes, bumps, slalom or carving.

“A good stance is fundamental to being well balanced. As you travel down the slopes your stance should change depending on terrain, turn shape and changes in speed.  Your stance should not depend on a certain style or look you would like to achieve. It should depend upon your morphology, gender, level and your character. All good functional skiing stances should be strong and energy efficient.
Many people are too crouched when they ski. They believe that a low position will make them more stable. This is true to a certain extent, being low is okay sometimes, but not crouching. In general people bend their knees and this places their weight too far back, therefore making them not very well balanced. This combined with a steeper slope makes you often feel rather unsafe, it also gives you bad thigh burn. Your bones are there to give you support, not your muscles.
Keep your feet apart, about hip width. Try and keep your ankles, knees and hips all equally flexed. Hands should remain in front of you about hip height. Your bottom should be tucked under if you can, you should not have a hollow back. However when you ski  do not think about your body posture all the time or it will make you a stiff and rigid. To improve your posture try jumping off a few small bumps; do not try to get lots of air, but make sure that when you land your weight is in the middle of your foot. You can feel your shins on the fronts of your boots.”

Serre Chevalier Ski Lessons can be booked online or by phone, but please do book well in advance of your Serre Chevalier holiday as Serre Chevalier Ski Schools do get very booked up during busy periods.

“Bends zee knees!”. We have often heard this, but in fact we should think about flexing our ankles and feeling our shins in the fronts of the boots. Bending your knees makes you sit back, thus making you unbalanced and removing your shins from the fronts of the boots.
We need flexed ankles to allow us to play around with our edges.  When our knees are pushed forward, our shins stay in contact with the tongues of our boots. We can therefore increase and equally decrease the amount of edge we wish to use, easily rolling our knees from side to side.   This is essential to being a better and more skilful skier.
Flexing our ankles gives us slightly flexed legs, but also allows us to keep our hips roughly over the centre of our feet. (Unlike if you bend your knees and crouch as if you where sitting on the toilet, which places strain on our legs).
Flexed limbs are also stronger for all rotational movements which are useful for skiers. When you want to open a jam jar would you do it with a straight or flexed arm.

Ski lessons in Serre Chevalier by Davina Charignon and the Ski Connections team are easily bookable online or by phone.

Here’s a little background from their site:

6 prestigious Alpine ski areas have adopted the Holiski technology to offer you the “Ski à la carte” formula: with your new hands-free pass, no need to queue or go on the Internet every time you want to buy a lift pass.

The chip in the pass works just like a contactless motorway card: it is detected automatically when you go through the ski lift turnstiles. The system records the days you ski and you automatically benefit from exclusive reductions.

Your annual pass designed and delivered by the resort of your choice, acts as proof of your annual subscription. It is valid from the day the first ski area opens until 30 September the following year.

As the resort is based around villages from 1200 to 1500 meters in altitude, all the skiing is above this altitude, going up to 2800 meters. So sometimes it is worth starting off your Serre Chevalier ski lessons at the bottom of a chairlift, that way it gives you chance to have a chat with your instructor about what you are going to do. Sometimes you may have had a quick discussion online or by phone to pick out the areas you wish to improve on, in this case you may wish to ski lessons in Serre Chevalier on the piste.

The whole point about this Serre Chevalier ski school is that you can custom build and tailor your lessons to your requirements.

To contact the Ski Connections Serre Chevalier Ski School please use the form provided or call.