A ski instructor in Austria

Twice a week we have ski instructor training to improve the art of teaching and our personal abilities. With a group of about 7 instructors we take the last lift up together with a trainer to make the last descents of the day. We do exercises like: muggles skiing, off-piste skiing and schule-fahren skiing. (click on the links to see movies)

Since the ski training is at the end of the day most instructors are very energetic and lively and everybody is trying new tricks and is experimenting.

Not only there is ski instructor training twice a week, but also every friday there is a downhill race training. This friday I was very lucky and able to join the racing training.

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“Competence on the snow with excellence!” is the slogan of our ski school. The “red ski school” is well-known as the high quality ski school of Arlberg.

The team exists of around 25 local and international ski instructors. Most of the ski instructors that come to St Anton are here mainly for the ski sport and the majority of the ski instructors are very experienced. This builds a nice atmosphere among the ski instructors. After our lessons we ski a lot with each other and several times a week we have ski instructor training together, given by the staatlicher ski instructors of our school. This makes me very proud and glad to be one of the instructors within the "red skischool"!

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Every morning I try to take the first lift up (Galzigbahn). It is realy beatiful and a good start of the day to ski the untouched black run down alone. The piste is groomed in the night and then I am the first one to leave the first tracks behind me. This morning was one of the those lucky mornings that the sunshine is there and and all the mountains around you welcome you.

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Arlberg is one of world's best known areas for off piste skiing. The weather is getting warmer and I'm starting to know the off piste areas and ski routes a lot better now.

On the picture you can see a nice route (called Schongraben) from the Kapall mountain (2330 m) to Nasserein. It goes through a very narrow valley with on both sites high rocks. It is pretty steep and it features a lot of muggles. Later on I will upload the route on everytrail, so everybody can see the route and the pictures on google earth.

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