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Ski Level Guide - Find your perfect ski lesson level

Find Your Ski Level

From your first steps on snow to off-piste: see where you are and what comes next.

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Level 1

Complete Beginner

French method: beginner class

First time on skis

You have never skied before. We get to know the equipment and the snow, move around on the flat, then let the skis glide down a very gentle slope that brings you to a stop on its own.

✓ Put skis on, move around, glide in a straight line
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Level 2

Beginner

French method: beginner class

Controlling your speed and turning

You can glide in a straight line on a gentle slope. We learn the snowplough to control the glide and change direction. Then we link the first turns and ride the beginner lifts.

✓ Linked snowplough turns
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Level 3

Novice

French method: class 1

From snowplough towards parallel skis

You are independent on gentle slopes and you ride the lifts. The snowplough is now only used to start the turn: you finish it with skis parallel, skidding. You learn to control your speed with rounded, skidded turns.

✓ Elementary turn, finished with skis parallel in a skid
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Level 4

Intermediate

French method: class 2

Parallel skis on easy runs

You finish your turns with skis parallel. We learn to turn with skis parallel from start to finish, to shorten the turns and to master side-slipping. The stem turn remains your solution for tricky sections.

✓ Parallel turns with controlled skidding
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Level 5

Confident Intermediate

French method: class 3

The whole groomed ski area, first carved turns

You ski parallel on moderate slopes, but with the same technique everywhere. We learn to adapt it to the slope and the snow, to build real edge grip and to add rhythm. On gentle slopes, you discover carving. This is also the level of your first off-piste outings close to the pistes with your instructor.

✓ Turns adapted to every piste, introduction to carving
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Level 6

Advanced

French method: class 4

Efficiency and commitment on every piste

You are comfortable all over the ski area and you are looking for efficiency and sensations. We work on commitment: more edge angle, more pressure on the ski, carved turns held all the way round and rhythmic short turns. You keep the ability to add some skid when the situation calls for it.

✓ Committed carving and rhythmic short turns, adapted to the terrain
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Level 7

Expert

French method: class 4

Off-piste, freestyle, racing

Your on-piste technique is solid. Off-piste, the snow, the slope and the stress change everything: even a very good piste skier falls back on old habits there. We adapt your skiing to powder, heavy or crusty snow and steep slopes, and build your independence safely.

✓ Adapting your skiing to all types of snow, safely
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Not sure of your level?

Take 30 seconds and find out where you fit.

Still not sure? Pick the level that feels closest. Your instructor checks where you are at the start of the lesson and adapts it.