Levels guide
Supreme Ski & Snowboard School caters for all ability levels, for adults and children. If it's your first time skiing or snowboarding, our fantastic office team can advise you on a lesson program that will suit you. If you have skied before and are looking for a specific instructor to help improve your technique, or you would like to explore the ski area, we can ensure we match you up with an instructor that will help you achieve your goals. Please use these level descriptions as a guide to help explain your ability level to our office team, any extra information you can provide on top of this is very useful and help us provide you with a brilliant experience.
Children
Adults
Freshers
For children who are ready to learn to ski for the very first time! They’ve either never put skis on before or have skied before but were unable to stop or turn. These groups will focus on having fun and getting used to the feeling of ski equipment and slipping around on the snow. During the week they will cover the basics of speed control, stopping and linking turns. They will also gain some experience with the lifts in resort.
0
Swifts
For children who have skied on snow before, or had some lessons at a dry ski slope or indoor snow centre. Children are ready to progress from the nursery slopes and begin to sample more of the pistes the resort has to offer. They can ski in a snowplough, performing turns and control their skis to a stop. During the week, Swifts will work on the beginnings of parallel skiing and get comfortable with going a bit faster on the easier runs in resort.
1
Cruisers
Intermediate children who are happy to ski with some speed. Their skis are parallel most of the time, although maybe still wide apart and if the slope gets steeper they may revert to a snowplough. These groups will cover mastering the parallel turns on most terrains, and some more of the foundations of skiing, such as side slipping, skating on skis and hockey stops.
2
Rockers
This is for children who are confidently skiing parallel, enjoy a few more of the harder runs and are looking to learn how to perform short parallel turns and carve. Rockers will work on improving their long and short turns, introducing the pole plant and tackling some more variables, such as steeper runs and bumps. Children will likely spend a couple of seasons in a Rockers group before progressing to a Top Cat group.
3
Top Cats
For children who can ski most runs on the mountain, they want to have fun in the bumps, off piste and are looking to challenge themselves. Top Cat groups will cover improving the children’s on-piste skiing so they are ready to sample all-mountain skiing. The harder pistes in resort will be tackled and the children should be able to remain in control at all times.
4
Level 0
You have never skied before or you are still learning to snowplough and need to refresh the basics.
0
Level 1
You are comfortable snowplough turning down green runs and can control your speed, you’re looking to start learning how to parallel turn.
1
Level 2
You are able to perform parallel turns, although your skis may still be slightly wide apart. You generally ski on green and blue runs.
2
Level 3
You are skiing parallel confidently on blue runs and can ski on red runs, but you need to improve your technique when the conditions or terrain is more challenging.
3
Level 4
You ski red runs with confidence and are able to ski black runs but would like to improve your technique to better handle bumps, steeps and off piste.
4
If you are unsure of what level you think you are, we can help. Get in touch and we will help point you in the right direction.