We are BACK with another winter of the BEST snowboard camps in the WORLD!
Year after year our snowboard camps see a lot of returning and new faces, all of them have one thing in common……the love for SNOWBOARDING! This year is going to be no different!
We have THREE mega weeks of camps running this season, we would love to shred with you this winter!
Early Winter Snowboard Camp – 15/12/24 – 22/12/24
Level: Beginner to Advanced
The BEST way to kickstart your winter. This camp is for you! The start of the winter is the perfect time to dust off those snowboard boots and refresh your skills, Or for those who never stepped foot on a board, enjoy the quiet mountains and learn the fundamentals early in the season and become a REAL (excuse the pun) snowboarder.
Not sure if it’s for you? Listen to Molly – see what she has to say about the camp.
REAL x TREELINE January Camp – 05/01/25 – 12/01/25
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Teaming up with the AMAZING Treeline Chalets again this year we bring you an upgraded camp from last year! Amazing Accommodation overlooking the whole valley, with Sauna and Hot tub.
Daily coaching from REAL topped up with amazing chalet style catering and comfort from Treeline, what more could you want?!
Come and enjoy the amazing mountains in the heart of winter, cold fresh days, loads of snow, good people, it’s dreamy!
March Madness with REAL – 16/03/25 – 23/03/25
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
March can bring it all, Slushy park laps, knee deep pow riding. We will take you on a snow safari around the Portes du Soleil to ride all the best terrain and ensure you progress your riding. This year we have teamed up with the mega ATLAS Chalets to offer a unreal week of amazing snowboarding, outrageously good food and a mega chalet to stay in. Ease the body and mind after each day of riding in the hot tub and Sauna or a few cold ones by the fire.
We look forward to seeing you on the hill!
Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Winter 2023/24 SNOWBOARD CAMPS
Year after year our snowboard camps see a lot of returning and new faces, all of them have one thing in common……the love for SNOWBOARDING! This year is going to be no different!
We have THREE mega weeks of camps running this season, we would love to shred with you this winter!
Early Winter Snowboard Camp – 16/12/23 – 23/12/23
Level: Beginner to Advanced
The BEST way to kickstart your winter. This camp is for you! The start of the winter is the perfect time to dust off those snowboard boots and refresh your skills, Or for those who never stepped foot on a board, enjoy the quiet mountains and learn the fundamentals early in the season and become a REAL (excuse the pun) snowboarder.
REAL x TREELINE January Camp – 14/01/24 – 21/02/24
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Teaming up with the AMAZING Treeline Chalets again this year we bring you a very special week!
Daily coaching from REAL topped up with amazing chalet style catering and comfort from Treeline, what more could you want?!
Come and enjoy the amazing mountains in the heart of winter, cold fresh days, loads of snow, good people, it’s dreamy!
REAL March Camp – 17/03/24 – 24/03/24
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
March is when you can get a full season of weather in one week, just as the campers from last year! Started the week with some super fun park laps in slushy safe conditions and ended the week getting mega pow turns on some untouched secret spots!
We look forward to seeing you on the hill!
Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Are you working towards the BASI Snowboard Level 3 qualification? REAL Snowboarding are running a technical training week designed for you.
Get the inside information
The BASI Snowboard Level 3 technical exam is one of the hardest snowboard exams out there. Lucky for you, REAL Snowboarding coaches Dave and Barry are current BASI trainers so they know first hand what you will be assessed on.
Between them, Dave and Barry have over 40 years instructing and coaching experience. As well as running REAL Snowboarding and being BASI trainers, they have coached GB Freestyle athletes, and are freestyle coaches to the RAF and British Army snowboard teams. You’re in good hands.
The training week will focus on developing your riding to match the actual performance indicators (PIA) of the BASI Snowboard level 3 Technical Exam.
Identify your faults and how to fix them
Throughout the week your riding will be assessed across the five strands and against the technical criteria that BASI trainers will be looking for. As a result, you’ll be able to identify your weakest areas and understand exactly where you need to focus your training.
The training week will be split into full and half day coaching sessions. Video analysis and honest feedback will be used to help break complex riding requirements into manageable stages. You’ll also have time to ride by yourself, or with others in the group, so you can practice and consolidate the new movement patterns.
At the end of the week, you’ll receive an individual action plan to continue your training throughout the season. This will help to ensure that you’re in the best possible condition for the BASI Level 3 technical exam.
If you’re working through the BASI Snowboard Instructor pathway you’ll already know the high standard of riding required. A focused training week like this is certainly a great way to boost your confidence and avoid repeating expensive exams.
Dates: 3 – 7 February 2020
Location: Morzine / Avoriaz
Cost: £400 per person
Contact us for more details or to book your space email hello@realsnowboarding.co.uk
The end of the winter season here in Morzine, Avoriaz, and Les Gets, is in here. The mountain air is getting warmer, the snow is melting, and the goggle tans are in full effect.
And whilst we’re all looking forward to a little R&R at the end of an awesome, busy winter, we’re always thinking of the next opportunity to strap back in, and go riding.
Our friends and clients often ask how to get a snowboard fix during the long summers. So, we’ve prepared a little guide on how to make it through the warmer weather, as a snowboard addict.
Get to a glacier, stat!
Some of Europe’s higher resorts offer summer shredding on their glaciers. Because they’re so high up, usually above 2,500m, they benefit from cooler temperatures, so the snow remains in workable conditions year round.
Whilst these ski areas are fairly limited in size, they’re generally well groomed and cared for, and tend to provide brilliant snow parks for those looking to train during the off season – awesome!
Our favourite European glaciers
Stubai, Austria
Boasting one of the most famous snow parks in Europe, Stubai is also home to over 62km of piste – so you can spend the whole day riding without doubling back on yourself. A rarity for summer shredding.
https://www.stubaier-gletscher.com/
Dates: until mid-June, 8:30am to 4pm
Prices: One day €40, six days €190.40
Hintertux, Austria
Hintertux has an extensive ski area for your summer shred, and for those of you looking for some serious air-time, there’s even a 120m superpipe.
https://www.hintertuxergletscher.at/en/home/
Dates: May 12 to October 12, 8.15am to 4.30pm
Prices: One day €45, six days €215
Tignes, France
There’s good reason we take our Summer Camp to Tignes every year, with a well-shaped snow park and plenty of piste for progressive coaching, you’re hard pressed to find better snow in the summer.
https://www.tignes.net/
Dates: June 23 to August 5, 7.15am to 1.00pm
Prices: One day €25, six days €150
Les Deux Alpes, France
Served by 17 lifts, the Les Deux Alpes glacier offers 11 runs and a monster freestyle zone with two pipes (super and half), hips, rails, boxes, big air kickers, and a beginner area.
https://www.les2alpes.com/en/
Dates: June 23 to August 26, 7:15am to 12.30pm
Prices: One day €40.10, six days €200.50
Saas Fee, Switzerland
High up in the swiss alps is the Saas Fee Allalin glacier, with a double line of kickers in the snow park and enough features to keep even the keenest freestyle rider entertained.
https://www.saas-fee.ch/
Dates: July 14 to October 31, 7/8am to 12/3pm, depending on the date
Prices: One day 84CHF, six days 505CHF
REAL Snowboarding Summer Camp
Sound like fun? Keen for your summer fix? Why not join the REAL Snowboarding Summer Camp, and let us organise it all for you?
We takeover Tignes for the entire month of July to bring you snowboard addicts an awesome week of riding progression. It’s truly one of the highlights of our year.
We run one week for kids, one week for adults, and technical training weeks for specialist coaching.
We get up in the morning and enjoy a hearty breakfast before heading up to the glacier with the crew to throw down in the snow park, with your dedicated REAL Snowboarding instructors delivering world class freestyle coaching.
Then, in the lazy heat of the afternoon, enjoy a range of outdoor activities like mountain biking, skating, and trampoline training, or just send it into the (very) refreshing lake off the big air slide.
The entire week is built around bettering your snowboarding, with accommodation and tasty food included.
For more information, and to see exactly what goes on, head over here.
Book your place on the REAL Snowboarding Summer Camp now, and learn to ride the REAL way this summer.
Simple instruction. Stylish snowboarding.
Book your place on the REAL Summer Camp today: hello@realsnowboarding.co.uk
Photo credit: @samuelmcahon
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
Photo credit: @samuelmcahon
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
There are few things sweeter than a quick snack on your favourite chairlift. We’re all fond of oat bars for the essential shred energy, but sometimes, we just want a warm, pocket squashed pain au chocolat.
What kind of chairlift snacker are you?
The sweet tooth
Everyone’s best friend on the chairlift, you’ve always got a bag of Haribo stashed somewhere in your jacket to dish out. Smurfs one day, Star Mix the next.
The cereal survivalist
You never leave the house without a cereal bar. Just in case. For you it’s somewhere between a healthy snack and a chocolate bar, the substance you crave to keep hunger at bay between shreds. These’ll last for weeks, so no worry of overstocking your pockets.
The chalet sneak-thief
What’s in your pocket today? Whatever was for breakfast at the chalet, obvs. For most of you, this just means a croissant wrapped in cling-film, but for truly ambitious snackers this can be anything from salopette-scrambled eggs to last night’s tartiflette in a baguette.
The hasty pastry
Danish, croissant, pain au chocolat, apple turnover. It’s all good. Scoffing down a tasty pastry from the boulangerie on the chairlift is your favourite, and best of all, you can quickly brush off the evidence before you get to the top. So why not have two?
The protein pro
SKI. LIFT. SNACK. GYM. EAT. SLEEP. REPEAT. Ever conscious of the delicate balance of protein your body craves, you always make sure to top up with your favourite protein bar on the hill.
The bag-o-baguettes
Overzealous snowboard shop assistants will bore you with technical jargon and the latest trendy
Whatever you munch on the mountain, book your beginner, improver, intermediate, or private lessons with REAL Snowboarding on your next winter holiday to Morzine, Avoriaz, and Les Gets, and learn to ride (and snack) the REAL way.
Simple instruction. Stylish snowboarding.
Book your snowboarding lessons today: hello@realsnowboarding.co.uk
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
