The Dream in Austria

Join our level 2 – Landeslehrer – camp in Austria, which is guaranteed to take your snowboarding skills to the next level. With full focus on sharing good vibes and snowboarding training with a top professional trainer every day. Open the door for exciting future job opportunities as a highly-competent instructor around the world with your Landes education.

The Training

If you can not get enough of snowboarding and would like to improve on piste, moguls, park and powder, as well as build on top of your Anwärter education, then you now have the opportunity to do so on Snowminds Landes course!

In our course you will be taught each day by some of Austria’s best snowboard trainers. You will undergo the training of the Austrian snowboard country. This is a challenging course which will develop both your own snowboard level, as well as your skills as an instructor.

After the course, we will hold a closing party in true Snowminds fashion and celebrate in style.

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WHAT IS INCLUDED?

Whichever course you choose, we guarantee you “the full Snowminds experience” of your winter season as a snowboard instructor. Our experienced staff, who are all former ski instructors, follow you from the first step and are with you ALL the way during your snowboard instructor training. At the same time, our top professional, Austrian trainer team ensures that you get the best possible training before the snowboard instructor exam.

When you travel with Snowminds, we take care of ALL the practical work in connection with Gap year, so you just have to pack your bag and look forward to an experience of a lifetime as a ski instructor in Austria. For the Snowboard Landes camp you can look forward to the following:

3 week (March) or 3.5 week (November) Snowminds course in Kaprun, Austria
The internationally recognized Austrian Landes snowboard training incl. materials and fees
Hotel accomodation with 1/2 board during the entire course
Possibility to purchase lift pass
Confidence in a Danish travel company that is a member of the Travel Guarantee Fund
A total experience where all the practicalities are arranged for you
Team events, evening activites and closing party during the course
A strong community of friends for life

What’s not included?

Transport to and from the course destination (purchase possible) *
Lift pass for the course (purchase possible)
Cancellation insurance and travel insurance
Pocket money, and other things not mentioned above

TRAVEL PERIOD

The dates of the course may vary, but are currently set as:

November 6, 2021 – December 2, 2021 **
March 12, 2022 – April 2, 2022 ***

** After completing the course, you can either choose to go directly to an Austrian ski school employment and work the rest of the season in the beautiful Austrian Alps, or travel home

*** The course ends on April 2nd, but accommodation is included until April 3rd, 2022.

"The Level 2 (Landes) course in Austria is wild. It focuses 100% on your technique and was the coolest way to finish my season with a bang."

- Nanna, Snowminds Instructor

Who can participate in the Landes camp?

To participate, you must have:

Passed your Level 1 snowboard exam (Anwärter exam)
A confirmation from a ski school that you have worked as an instructor for at least 12 days.
Membership of SBSSV

We have a big interest in our courses and the spots fill up quickly. Therefore we have a “first come, first serve” principle with an application deadline each month. This means that the earlier you book your place, the greater your chances are of joining the team and joining us in the snow!

Further information about course dates and prices can be found below, where you can also hit the button to apply now.

Key Details about the Course

Accomodation

We stay in a hotel with Wifi and all the basic necessities. You can expect to live with 2-5 people per room or apartment. While this may not sound fancy, that’s “mountain luxury” for you.

At Snowminds, “we take care of our own”. That’s why we specifically only work with hotels that make healthy and nutritious food. Breakfast typically consists of a large, nutritious buffet. Dinner will either be a 3-course meal or a buffet with soup, salad, main course and dessert. In short, no one goes to bed hungry with us!

LIFT PASS

If you take the course in March you maybe already have a liftpass for Salzburger Super Skicard. This can be used on all resorts in Salzburgerland inclued Kitzsteinhorn gletcheren, where the course will be placed. In this case you do not need to buy an extra lift pass.

If you do not have your own lift pass, you can purchase a lift pass which will be delivered on arrival.

Education

To ensure all our instructors receive the highest quality education, we work together with the Salzburger Berufskilehrer & Snowboardlehrer Verband (SBSSV), one of the world’s most recognized ski instructor organizations.

The Landes education with SBSSV will build on your Anwärter and focus primarily on more performance-based boarding. With a passed Landes exam, you stand with an instructor certificate in hand that allows you to teach experienced snowboarders. Regardless of whether the education has been passed or not, a marked development on the board can be felt!

The education is one of the most recognized in the world. By passing your Landes, your certificate of excellence will not only be valuable on your CV, but can also be used for other Snowminds destinations around the world.