Here you will find all our levels and their details.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have never skied.
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.
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.
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.
I can ski on all slopes with good overall control.
In order to benefit from an adapted teaching, it is advisable to go to our page on the different levels to make the most of the lessons!
The instructors from Diablerets Pure Trace will be happy to help you discover the pleasures of snow sports.