Best steps to become a ski instructor?

With respect to the previous message, the BASI course is not one I would recommend as they suggest a minimum of ten weeks (70+ days) on-snow experience before you consider doing the Level 1 and you do not have this. At SnowSkool, we offer a range of instructor qualifications - for skiers...BASI (British Association of Ski Instructors), CSIA (Canadian Ski Instructors' Alliance), NZSIA (New Zealand Ski Instructors' Alliance) and PSIA (Professional Ski Instructors of America). For yourself, I would probably push you towards the Canadian courses as they demand less previous on-snow experience, this is because you will spend more time on ski improvement as well as ski teaching on Canadian courses. Generally 25 hours per weeks with experienced and highly-qualified coaches. Also look for a training provide that offers help with recruitment after the course as you will require a little guidance in this. Hope this helps...

The best advice would be to contact BASI (British Association of Ski Instructors) - they run courses (expensive) but once qualified to internationally recognised BASI standards the world is your oyster!! Never too young to start - I would say that most, if not all of the attendees on a recent BASI course I met (as a bystander that is - I'm no expert!), were in their early twenties. Good luck - contact Tania at BASI at www.basi.org.uk/

The best advice would be to contact BASI (British Association of Ski Instructors) - they run courses (expensive) but once qualified to internationally recognised BASI standards the world is your oyster!! Never too young to start - I would say that most, if not all of the attendees on a recent BASI course I met (as a bystander that is - I'm no expert!), were in their early twenties. Good luck - contact Tania at BASI at www.basi.org.uk/

You can't be an instructor yet, most of the kids your wanting to teach probably have more days than you.I think the first step is to be a better skier, You should at some point take lessons, 2 days a week if you have the time(I did 2 days a week of MAP at Whistler and you get 44 lessons whereas if you do one day you only get 14 because it doesn't include week long camps). So you'll need to learn the technical things if you want to teach kids or teens to ski at on advanced and expert terrain. Which would be decades away if you only get 4 days of skiing every five years. If you commit and work hard you can teach some kids by the end of your first or second season, if, as you said, your a fast learner. But the beginning is always fast in skiing it takes time to master it, Good Luck.

You can't be an instructor yet, most of the kids your wanting to teach probably have more days than you.I think the first step is to be a better skier, You should at some point take lessons, 2 days a week if you have the time(I did 2 days a week of MAP at Whistler and you get 44 lessons whereas if you do one day you only get 14 because it doesn't include week long camps). So you'll need to learn the technical things if you want to teach kids or teens to ski at on advanced and expert terrain. Which would be decades away if you only get 4 days of skiing every five years. If you commit and work hard you can teach some kids by the end of your first or second season, if, as you said, your a fast learner. But the beginning is always fast in skiing it takes time to master it, Good Luck.