ESSENTIAL: SKI LEVELS

Find your ski level!

Please have a look at the chart below and try to assess your ability objectively when choosing your level.

If you choose the correct ski group level...

You maximise your lesson time on the first day!

Notes

- If you think you are between two levels, we would advise you to choose the lower one.
- Remember to take into account the amount of time since you last skied.
- Please try to assess your children’s level objectively. Putting them in too high a class will affect their enjoyment and impact on lesson time.

Little Ones (4 & 5 yo)

Current ski ability

A special level for four and five-year-old skiers. We ask that you book all children aged five and under into this group, whether they have skied before or not. Our experienced instructors will divide them into groups based on their ability level.

Level 0 (Beginner)

Current ski ability

You have never skied before
OR
You have skied before but cannot yet ski confidently on a gentle green run using snowplough turns.

Level 1 (Beginner)

Current ski ability

You can make confident snowplough turns on a gentle green run
AND
You can use easy ski lifts (button lifts or magic carpet/travellator lifts).

Level 2 (Intermediate)

Current ski ability

You are nearly skiing parallel on green and easy blue runs
AND
You are comfortable descending most blue runs.

Level 3 (Intermediate)

Current ski ability

You make fully parallel turns on green and perhaps blue runs
AND
You can ski all blue runs confidently. 

Level 4 (Advanced)

Current ski ability

You can make linked dynamic parallel turns of varying radius
AND
You ski confidently and in control on blue and red runs.

 

 

Level 5 (Advanced)

Current ski ability

You can make carved turns on easier runs
AND
You can make dynamic short and long radius turns on all runs
AND
You can ski black runs in control
AND
You are beginning to ski off-piste, steeps and bumps.

 

 

More info

  • Check your ski level before you book a group lesson...

    Group lessons are more enjoyable, and you will make more progress, if the group members are of a similar ability level. Here at the European Ski School we take great care over this aspect of lessons. Our instructors work closely with each other and with our on-slope coordinator to adjust the make-up of groups as necessary. This helps us to maximise the progress of every skier throughout the lessons.
    Please study the level chart when booking group lessons, and try to assess your ability objectively when choosing your level. This will help us to put people into the best possible group as quickly and smoothly as possible.

  • Planning on booking a private ski lesson?

    Knowing your ski level is less important for a private lesson as we can assess this at the start of the lesson. However, to ensure our instructor is prepared for the lesson, and to help us agree a suitable meeting point, it does help if we know what level of skier you are.

  • Worth knowing...

    Each skier’s individual progress will depend on many factors, including snow and weather conditions as well as their keenness to learn. Our instructors aim to get the very best out of each skier and we will move people between groups as necessary to achieve this.

    If you have a European Ski School Logbook from a previous holiday, please choose the level you were awarded in the book.

    If you have previously been given a level by another ski school, it might not correspond to our levels. Please read the descriptions carefully before selecting your level.