Way back when the winter Olympics were last in town, an English seasonair, Lulu and her French ski instructor friend Eric, realised that the English speaking clientele of Meribel, whilst enjoying great holidays, were not getting what they needed from the existing establishment of “follow me and bend ze knees” type of ski school.
There and then (1992 for you youngsters), they set up the first Magic, an independent snowsports school, with a mission to pass on their passion for the mountains and it’s different sports. The idea was fun but professional lessons taught in English in small groups and private lessons.
Another “Academy”, followed in Courchevel soon after, and over the following 16 seasons Magic has set the standard for schools catering for English speaking skiers and boarders in Meribel, Courchevel, La Tania and Val d’Isere.
Languages
With almost all of our lessons taught in English it helps that approximately a third of our team are native English speaking, (giving us more Brits than all the “British” schools!). For the rest teaching in English nearly 7 hours a day everyday means their English is of a very high level.
In fact at the end of this season when our instructors' English was individually assessed by a language institute using an internationally recognised standard we obtained the best results in the area. We are proud to say that instructor/pupil communication is very good with a fair sized helping of humour thrown in for good measure.
On a private lessons basis we can offer a number of other languages for those with special requests, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Czech, Tibetan.
During the French school holidays we also offer afternoon groups in French.
Magic Snow Sports Academy
is the result of the merger of magic in motion international ski and snow board school and ski academy school.
The schools are based in meribel, courchevel, la tania (in the three vallies) and val d'isere (with our partner). our enthusiastic and experienced ski teachers are a multi national team of mostly french and english instructors.
Famous for our children's english speaking group lessons. children of all ages from 4 to 17 in small, fun ski groups and for the older children there are also snow boarding, ski race training and free style groups.
Adult ski groups are also technical and fun, in small english speaking groups from beginner (snow plough) developing to intermediates (parallel and carving) to advanced off piste and free style.
The snowboard section for adults and children's group lessons. teaching beginners to advanced, free style and free ride.
Private lessons for a one to one or with friends are available for all ages in english, french, spanish, russian, italian & tibetan. we can teach practically any snow sport from ski, snowboard, telemark, off piste, cross country, free style to heli ski and new this year speed riding.
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