Spring is the perfect time to progress your park laps. Warmer weather, forgiving snow conditions – it’s ideal. Learning freestyle though is something you can do throughout the winter. It’s also a great idea when there’s not been new snow for a while or you just want a new challenge. Give yourself the best chance at nailing your tricks safely, and stylishly with a freestyle snowboard lesson from REAL Snowboarding.
What can you learn in a freestyle lesson?
Freestyle snowboard lessons can teach you how to ride rails, kickers, flatland tricks, side-hits…the possibilities are endless!
Many people are surprised to find that freestyle lessons don’t always involve the park. You can learn the basic movements and skills needed for freestyle tricks on the slopes, away from the features you’re trying to hit.
This gets you prepped and confident so that when you approach a feature you’re confident in your ability and are able to just focus on nailing the trick.
Freestyle doesn’t always have to be about the park either. Once you start looking you’ll notice there are plenty of side hits on the pistes that you can play around on. A lesson can help you perfect the moves and then identify hits around the mountain.
It’s all about giving you the right tools to approach the trick, then building your confidence until you stomp it.
There’s still a lot to learn, regardless of your level
From learning the best way to take off on a kicker, to how to prep for a boardslide, it’s rarely as simple as just ‘giving it a go’.
YouTube and IGTV videos might break tricks down but nothing is as valuable as getting feedback and input from a qualified freestyle coach.
They can spot exactly what is holding you back and give you honest feedback. Sometimes what you think you’re doing doesn’t match the reality so using tools like video analysis can really help with your progression.
Why REAL Snowboarding?
One of REAL Snowboarding’s founding principles is to teach stylish snowboarding and help snowboarders to express themselves creatively. Freestyle plays a huge part in achieving creative snowboarding and we pride ourselves on delivering the most fun, and progressive freestyle snowboard lessons in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.
The REAL Snowboarding team have over 40 years combined instructing experience and have coached current GB Freestyle Team athletes. Dave and Barry both currently coach the RAF and British Army freestyle teams respectively, so you’re in good hands.
Whether it’s your first foray into the kicker line, or you’re looking for some professional help to stomp your spins some REAL freestyle snowboarding lessons will get you there.
Simple instruction. Stylish snowboarding.
Book your freestyle lessons today: hello@realsnowboarding.co.uk
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It’s a question many of our friends have asked over the years, and it’s something we answer again and again every season so, what, exactly, is a snowboard camp?
It’s everything you’ve come to expect from your favourite winter holidays
Relax, we’ll organise everything. From luxury accommodation, and smooth transfers, to wholesome breakfasts, tasty dinners and outstanding coaching, you just need to turn up.
It’s riding with people stoked on snowboarding
The wonderful folk who choose snowboard camps usually do so for one main reason – they’re completely hooked on snowboarding, and want to get better and better at it.
You’ll be supported to stomp your next trick, you’ll chat with people who know what they’re talking about, just like you, and you’ll share a drink at the end of the day with a shred crew to call your own.
It’s not just park laps
Whilst freestyle riding is a big part of a REAL Snowboarding camp progression takes place all-over the mountain! We spend all season hunting for good side-hits and spots to try new and creative things so you can be sure that you’ll be hitting plenty of fun, varied terrain.
It’s becoming the snowboarder you always dreamed of being
We all remember watching our first snowboard video, and dreaming of the day we’d catch that first floaty grab or charge through an untouched powder field with style. But how many of us actually got there? How many of us stopped ‘learning’ once we could happily cruise around the mountain with our friends?
Joining a snowboard camp is about progression. It’s about taking your snowboarding to the next level and learning to express yourself creatively on your snowboard. Most of all, it’s about having fun.
A REAL Snowboarding camp will establish confidence, progress your riding, and develop your style – guaranteed.
It’s damn good value
We understand that snowboarding is expensive. That’s why we work with selected partners to secure the best deals in resort and deliver an unforgettable week.
Join us for a REAL Snowboarding Camp this winter:
Early Season Camp with Hideout Hostel 12/12/19 – 15/12/19 FULLY BOOKED
Trifecta Camp: REAL x Nidecker x Absolute-Snow 12/01/20 – 19/01/20 ONE SPACE LEFT
REAL Winter Camp 15/03/20 – 22/03/20 FULLY BOOKED
Avoriaz is one of several stunning resorts, in the heart of the Portes Du Soleil ski area, where REAL Snowboarding teach, instruct, coach, and play.
A purpose built, car-free, architectural wonder atop dramatic alpine cliffs – it’s hard not to fall in love with the unique ski resort as you glide over its sharp, sloping rooftops for the first time on the Tour chairlift.
Nestled inside this cozy mountain retreat is a plethora of self-catered apartments, charming wood-clad hotels and plenty of cool shops, restaurants and bars to cater for all tastes – all served by horse-drawn sleds, and snowy foot tracks.
It’s no surprise Avoriaz is one of the ski resorts REAL Snowboarding call home, and thousands of keen skiers and snowboarders visit every winter.
Avoriaz in numbers
Altitude: 1800m
Chairlifts: 18
Gondolas: 2
Draglifts: 14
Total km of pistes: 75.5km
Longest run: 6km
Green slopes: 4
Blue slopes: 25
Red slopes: 14
Black slopes: 6
Nearest airport: Geneva
Why we love snowboard lessons in Avoriaz
Learning to snowboard demands a variety of terrain, ranging from gently sloping green runs for beginners, to more challenging pistes for more advanced riders to enjoy. Fortunately, Avoriaz has everything a snowboarder needs from their very first lesson, right up to competitive snowpark riding.
The Burton Stash provides limitless creative opportunity for those looking to take their freestyle snowboarding to the next level, whilst the wide, long pistes in the Lindarets bowl provide fun side-hits, groomed pistes for carving, and quiet spots to link turns for the first time.
Avoriaz, an architects’ masterplan
For those of you looking for something a little different to the quaint french village vibe, make your next winter holiday a trip to Avoriaz. There really is nothing like the experience of the sun setting through the Morzine valley, behind the stunning shapes and outlines of Avoriaz’s chic buildings there really is no going back.
Unique amongst the many purpose built french ski resorts of the 1960s, Avoriaz was designed by architects Jacques Labro, Jeans-Jacques Orzoni and Jean-Marc Roques with acute angles and red cedar wood cladding to resemble the very mountains that surround them. The result is breathtaking, and looks like an extension of the sunny shelf on which the buildings rest.
Snowboard lessons in Avoriaz
We always set our snowboard lesson meeting point at the top of the very accessible Prodains Gondola, with snowboard lessons beginning in the morning, mid-morning, and afternoon.
Getting to the Prodains Gondola is easy peasy, whether you’re staying Avoriaz itself, Morzine, or Les Gets. With free, regular bus shuttles throughout the resorts, it’s usually just a quick bus ride and a swift whisk away up the alpine cliffs, with beautiful views to get your stoked.
Book your beginner, improver, intermediate, or private lessons with REAL Snowboarding on your next winter holiday to Avoriaz and learn to ride the REAL way.
Simple instruction. Stylish snowboarding.
Book your snowboarding lesson in Avoriaz today: hello@realsnowboarding.co.uk
Photo credit: @samuelmcahon
