Performance Courses
Performance Courses are one of Rebel Alliance’s premium products. They have been incredibly successful over the past 7 years, with riders returning time and again to continue to take their riding to the next level. The aim is to ensure you improve your snowboarding to the maximum and have the best time possible, whilst making the most of the terrain Tignes has to offer.
The courses are aimed at intermediate to advanced riders, and are designed to teach you how to ride the whole mountain with style and confidence. Rebel Alliance Performance Course sessions are 3 hours long, allowing us ample time to discover the whole of the Espace Killy. Our performance courses are the best way to get the most out of your week in Tignes. Here at Rebel Alliance, we believe that it’s all about riding what the conditions suit best. That’s why our performance courses are designed to be totally flexible and allow us to work with what is best. In general if there is plenty of powder snow, then that is what we will ride, but if conditions aren’t suitable the courses will be more technical or we may just go with a morning of cloud bursts or euro carving. Keeping things loose enables us to keep things safe while still improving and of course having tons of fun!
Our Performance courses cover all aspects of snowboarding including steep terrain, moguls, switch riding, powder, carving, flatland freestyle and park freestyle. We always make the most of what’s on offer on that particular day. Si and Keith know all the best spots on the hill to maximise every session – Even if its a white out!
What you get on the Rebel Alliance Performance Course.
Firstly, Rebel Alliance will ensure that your equipment is set up to get the most out of your performance. This doesn’t take long, but it is critical to your improvement. Incorrectly set up boards can be uncomfortable and bio-mechanically bad for your body.
We start the weeks course with the basics, beginning with explaining how the snowboard actually works and how to get the most out of it. Si or Keith will also make sure your stance is correct. The way you stand on your snowboard is key, and ultimately the most important thing in snowboarding, not only to improving your riding but in giving you a good style. If you stand correctly you will not only be balanced, but you will also be standing in the optimum position to control your snowboard, and get the most out of your equipment.
Once you are standing correctly, it is time to understand how the snowboard turns. It shouldn’t be by swinging your body from side to side or kicking your back leg around. If you are doing it correctly it will look effortless and easy, with very little movement from the upper body whatsoever. Achieving this is all about your understanding and use of pedalling, a skill which Si or Keith will ensure that you understand and use correctly. Without knowing how to pedal, you can’t turn properly on piste.
After the first day warming up and giving you the basics, or refreshing what you may have already learnt on a previous course with Rebel Alliance, we will start to discover more of the resort. Using the skills you have been practising, we will spend the next couple of days covering all types of terrain, adding to your skill set and advancing to more difficult tasks, such as switch riding, carving and off-piste, all within a non competitive and encouraging atmosphere. Towards the latter end of the course, speed starts to increase, tasks become more difficult, and terrain becomes more challenging. By now you will be more confident with your equipment, familiar with the correct technique, and have a greater understanding of how to ride the whole mountain. Ultimately, you should feel you have the ability to snowboard at the next level.
It’s not just all about perfecting those turns, everybody wants a little “party piece”. As we ride around Si will give you lots of little tricks to keep things fun, known in snowboard terms as “jibbing”. Knowing the terrain and setting tricks that everyone can give a go is one of Rebel Alliance’s specialities. Everyone wants to look cool – We can make it happen.
There isn’t much sitting around on a Rebel Alliance Performance Course. Covering miles, whilst working on your technique at the same time, is a key element to your progression. Daily video sessions are used to enhance your understanding of your own riding. Just seeing yourself ride is a very important part of improving your performance – Si and Keith will take daily video footage of your riding and then analyse it with you so that you can see where you are going wrong, or equally where you are really improving. Video review sessions are usually held in the bar over a beer or two. It’s very informal, but at the same time very productive.
There are a maximum of 6 riders per group, all of whom are adults. Si is skilled at setting individual tasks relevant to your level within the group. We hope to see you out in Tignes this winter, and look forward to helping you take your snowboarding to the next level.
| 3 Hour morning sessions Monday – Friday. Max 6 in a group. £250. |
- 20th to 24th December. Christmas Freeride course.
- 27th to 31st December. .New Year Freeride course
- 3rd to 7th January. First week of January is aways a winner. Its very quiet and the snow is usually good.
