A ski instructor in Austria

This week I took part in the Austrian Anwärter exam to become a ski Austrian instructor.
In accordance with the Austrian ski teaching concept this was a week of improving my Alpine basic position, schussing, snowplow, turning, edging, drifting and carving techniques. I took notice that the Austrian Wiener ski verband
has a high standard, and the anwärter exam wasn't that easy at all....

Only 30% of the participants full filled the tests. Luckly enough, I was one of them!
This means that everything is set that to start with my new job.
The endless slopes of untouched and ungroomed powder snow in Arlberg are waiting for me,
Arlberg here we come!

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So everything went well... I bought a small van, moved all my stuff out of my appartment in Amsterdam, and left for the Alps. The first stop is Kaprun were I will have an off-piste (Freeride) training from mountainguide Wolfgang Hackel which is an excellent ski trainer...

Kaprun is a perfect area for ski training. The snow conditions are almost always perfect (whole year round) and the slopes are perfect for the improvement of your technique. This week we focussed on the basic techniques (fahr verhalten), buckels, off piste and a little bit of freestyle. Hopefully this training will be sufficient to complete my ski instructor exam next week.

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