Levels
Here you will find all our levels and their details.
Ski levels for children
Bear
I am at least 3 years old:
- I have never skied before.
- My lessons take place in the evolutive snow garden.
I will learn:
- to walk on the flat,
- change direction with on the spot turns,
- I will slide across the slope
- I’ll stop going up the hill.
Snowflake
I got my Golden Bear
- I know how to move around with my skis on a flat surface
- I can glide standing on my skis
- I know how to take small steps even when I slip.
What I'm going to learn:
- Walking uphill lightly
- Go down in a traverse and make an upstream turn.
- Changing direction during descent
- Going to the baby lift.
1st star
I got my Golden Flake
- I can walk with my skis
- I know how to go down the beginners' slope.
- I know how to go up the beginners' ski lift.
I will learn:
- Scissor my way up, take the stairs and turn back upwards in the sun
- Skidding and going downhill
- Descend into the line of gradient and stop in a sharp bend.
- Simple form of parallel turns.
2nd star
I have been awarded my 1st Gold Star
- I know how to walk uphill on skis
- I know how to turn and stop on the blue track
- I know how to slip
What I will learn:
- Steps turning upstream and downstream
- Passage of bumps and depressions
- Parallel curves
- Simple form of short bends
3rd star
I have been awarded my 2nd Gold Star
- I know how to ski on a red slope in parallel turns
- I have a good basic position
- I ski with my knees bent.
What I am going to learn:
- No dynamic skater
- Short turns
- Cut curves
- Slope control.
Club levels
Performance
I have obtained my 3rd gold star
- I can ski on a black piste in parallel turns
- I can make short turns on a red piste
- I can control my speed and direction in all circumstances.
What I am going to learn:
- Skiing on a ski
- Short turns in moguls
- Cut turn variants
- Short turn variants
- Ski jumping
- Synchro skiing
- Slaloms.
Freestyle
I have obtained my 3rd gold star
- I can ski on a black piste in parallel turns
- I can make short turns on a red piste
- I can control my speed and direction in all circumstances.
What I am going to learn:
- Mastering safety in the snow park
- Variants of grabs jumps
- Mastering slope style
- Rotation technique
- Mastering back-country jumps
- Switch skiing.
Freeride
I have obtained my 3rd gold star
- I can ski on a black piste in parallel turns
- I can make short turns on a red piste
- I can control my speed and direction in all circumstances.
What I am going to learn:
- Use of equipment (shovel, probe, DVA)
- Knowledge of the dangers of off-piste skiing
- Snow cutting
- Planning off-piste descents
- Behaviour in the event of an accident and first aid
- Control of slopes in unprepared snow
- Cliff jumping.
Ski levels for Adults
Level 1
I have never skied.
Level 2
I've already been skiing for 2-3 weeks. I'm an average skier, I can easily link basic parallel turns but I'm not yet very comfortable on the red runs.
Level 3
I've already been skiing for more than 4 weeks. I ski on the red runs with good general control but am not very comfortable on the black slopes.
Level 4
I've already been skiing for more than 4 weeks. I ski on the red runs with good general control but I am not very comfortable on the black runs.
Level 5
I can ski on all slopes with good overall control.