Private Ski Instructors in Courchevel, Meribel & La Tania

Patsy
Patsy Duncan is from Scotland and lives part of the year in Aviemore, she has worked in the 3 Valleys for 8 years. She holds a full International licence and also has the Equivelence which is necessary to work in France. Her training was done with B.A.S.I and E.N.S.A.
Patsy started out racing and was a member of the British Alpine Team. From there, she began her teaching career, soon qualifying as a B.A.S.I trainer. She spent many years working with people on B.A.S.I courses examining and training candidates.
She spent a season in Austria teaching in the Tirol. During that time she followed the European Freestyle circuit and gained more valuable experience.
Patsy was a member of the British Demonstration Team on the World recognised Interski organisation to Japan, Austria and Italy. Annually, she demonstrated at Earls Court for the London Ski Show which was an invaluable experience and an addition to her C.V.
The speed ski-ing World championships, only ever to be held once, in Scotland saw her in first place.
Now Patsy enjoys off-piste and exploring new terrain. She also recently added snowboarding to her list.
Patsy loves teaching at all levels and to meet new faces so she can pass on her teaching skills to others.
Summer is spent on the dry slope in Scotland and on the Glacier in Tignes.

Bastien
Bastien is from Marseille in the South of France and has worked in the 3 Valleys for the past 9 years. He is a former racer and, as a teenager, his training was done in the Southern Alps.
Bastien decided to become a ski instructor and completed his training with E.N.S.A and now holds a full International licence.
Bastien speaks English fluently, but he is always keen to progress more.
His passion is off-piste and he adores nothing more than to take off on a sunny day with a new snow fall, accompanied by his clients into the hidden areas which are often unknown to holiday makers.
Bastien's other talent is teaching children. He has the art of captivating their interest and makes his lessons fun. All children adore him which leads to repeat requests year after year.
Bastien snowboards and teaches at all levels.
The rest of the year Bastien teaches with Patsy on the dry slope in Scotland and the Summer months of June and July in France on the Tignes Glacier.

Jimmy

Jimmy Smith was born in Wales and now lives partly in Boat of Garten, Scotland and in Courchevel France.
He came to Edinburgh as a teenager where he spent a many hours at Hillend, an artificial ski slope (the largest in Europe) perfecting his technique and subsequently began ski-ing on snow at Glenshee, a resort in the East of Scotland. Jimmy became so enthused with ski-ing that he decided to become a ski instructor so he sat his B.A.S.I exams which he found no problem passing.
After Jimmy completed all his B.A.S.I grades he became fully qualified with his international licence and went on to become a trainer for several years.
His international licence took him all over the World teaching in places as far away as New Zealand at Mt. Hut. Vancouver in Canada at Mt. Seymour. Beaver Creek in Vail USA and Threadbow in Australia at Perisher Blue he also spent 2 years in Japan. All these teaching jobs he was holding were in a supervisory capacity.
To add to his list he also trained the British Alpine race team from 1981-1984 as head coach.
During the summer months Jimmy runs his own building business in Scotland.