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Established in 2014, the MINT Kids Snowboard Club‘s aim is to give kids living locally to Morzine the opportunity to learn and progress their snowboarding at an affordable price. Our team of instructors are passionate beyond measure about getting the local kids shredding, providing a fun and engaging environment for your kids to develop and ride with their friends. It’s generally hard to tell who is having more fun, the instructors or the kids as the air is literally buzzing with excitement at every session!
Ages: The club is open to kids of 3 yrs and up (with occasional sessions for 2 year olds).
Group Sizes: Group sizes depend on the age and level of the kids in each group. For kids aged 4 yrs and younger, as well as for young beginners, our groups are 3 kids per instructor, ensuring the kids get the extra helping hand they need to get them shredding. For kids aged 5 yrs and up who already rip the maximum group size is 6 kids per instructor.
Levels: Groups are run for all levels, from total beginners to our freestyle rippers who want to learn tricks as well as charge around the mountain. We take great care to place your child in a group course to suit their ability and confidence level. Don’t worry if you are not sure on your child’s level, we will assess this.
Program: The MINT Kids Snowboard club runs the following events: a Pre-Christmas Camp, weekly Saturday & Sunday Sessions and an Easter Shred Week. More info below:
As usual we are kicking off the season with a Pre-Christmas Camp to get all the youngsters of the valley amped for the season ahead. This winter it will run on Saturday 15th & Wednesday 19th December 2018. Open to all ages and levels.
Improver to advanced (or group size 4 – 6 kids):
Dates: Saturday 15th & Wednesday 19th December 2018
Times: 14.15 – 16.15 hrs
Meeting Point: Top of the Prodains Express, Avoriaz
Cost: 65€ (Total cost for both days / per child)
Group size: max 6, min 4 (with max group size of 4 for the younger ones)
Levels: For those just about turning, right up to freestyle rippers
Ages: Aged 5 – 14 yrs
Beginner & Improvers (or group size either 2 or 3 kids):
Dates:Saturday 15th & Wednesday 19th December 2018
Times: 14.15 – 16.15 hrs
Meeting Point: Top of the Prodains Express, Avoriaz
Cost: 85€ for groups with 3 kids / 100€ for groups with 2 kids (Total cost for both days / per child)
Group size: max 3 kids per instructor
Levels: From first slide mini-shred to those who have had an intro to snowboarding already but are not yet turning
Ages: Aged 3 – 14 yrs
Micro Shred Taster Session:
A 1 hour Micro Shred taster session for the tiny ankle biters aged 2 yrs wanting to have a go at snowboarding but not wanting to commit to two days.
Dates: Saturday 15th December 2018
Times: 12.15 – 13.15 hrs
Meeting Point: Top of the Prodains Express, Avoriaz (if there is enough snow, then we will do this session at the bottom of the Prodains Express)
Cost: 30€
Group size: max 2 kids per instructor
Ages: Aged 2 yrs
The weekly snowboard club starts early January 2019 and runs for 10 weeks, with a break during the busy month of February. The aim of the club is to progress your kids riding, teach them new tricks and develop new skills… but also to have a mega fun time snowboarding with their buddies. We guarantee your kids will come back buzzing each week!
Weekly sessions are on a Sunday afternoon in Avoriaz*.
*For first time, mini-shred beginner groups (for ages 3 & 4 yrs) we hope to run the lessons in Morzine/Pleney due to the better facilities for ankle-biters. If this doesn’t work for you, just let us know as we can find an Avoriaz solution.
Block 1
Sunday 6th January 2019
Sunday 13th January 2019
Sunday 20th January 2019
Sunday 27th January 2019
Sunday 3rd February 2019
Block 2
Sunday 3rd March 2019
Sunday 10th March 2019
Sunday 17th March 2019
Sunday 24th March 2019
Sunday 31st March 2019
Times: 14.15 – 16.15 hrs
Meeting Point: Top of the Prodains Express, Avoriaz (3 & 4 year old beginner groups might start in Morzine – please enquire for more info)
Kids age 5 + (or group size 4 – 6 kids):
Cost: 290€ for 10 weeks
180€ per 5 week block if booked separately (it is not possible to pick & choose dates between blocks)
Group size: max 6, min 4 (with max group size of 4 for the younger ones)
Kids age 3 + 4 yrs (or group size 3 kids):
Cost: 380€ for 10 weeks
230€ per 5 week block if booked separately (it is not possible to pick & choose dates between blocks)
Group size: 3 kids per instructor
This is a fun-focused, advanced level weekly group running for 10 weeks aimed at kids not joining Ski Club and wishing to concentrate on snowboarding. The group runs on a Saturday morning for 3 hours, from 09.15 – 12.15 hrs, allowing the group to travel further afield or spend more time getting their latest tricks dialed! Option of doing some friendly, fun local competitions (fun-focused as this is not a competition training club)
Saturday 5th January 2019
Saturday 19th January 2019
Saturday 2nd February 2019
Saturday 9th February 2019
Saturday 16th February 2019
Saturday 2nd March 2019
Saturday 9th March 2019
Saturday 16th March 2019
Saturday 23rd March 2019
Saturday 30th March 2019
Times: 09.30 – 12.30 hrs
Meeting Point: Avoriaz
Cost: 410€ for 10 weeks (10 x 3 hrs)
Group size: 6 kids per instructor
Book your kids onto the Easter Snowboard Camp to give them a memorable time over the school holidays and an epic end to the winter season. Expect lots of slushy fun and a competition to end the week!
Dates: 15th – 19th April 2019 (tuition on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday – Wednesday 17th April off
Times: 14.15 – 16.15 hrs
Meeting Point: Top of the Prodains Express, Avoriaz
Kids age 5 + (or group size 4 – 6 kids):
Cost: 120€ per week, if your child is booked on the Sunday Sessions
140€ per week, if your child is not booked on the Sunday Sessions
Group size: max 6, min 4 (with max group size of 4 for the younger ones)
Kids age 3 + 4 yrs (or group size 3 kids)
Cost: 160€ per week, if your child is booked on the Sunday Sessions
180€ per week, if your child is not booked on the Sunday Sessions
Group size: 3 kids per instructor
Not sure what level your child is? Got any questions? Just email us and we will assess and fit them into the correct group!
MINT Snowboarding has made it a very easy decision for us to book again next year. Both of our children (8 & 6) enjoyed themselves hugely within group and 1:1 lessons. MINT Snowboarding took great care to ensure the group was balanced with similar ability levels and with a max of 6 children. The instructors were friendly, fun and nurturing which really inspired our children and helped cement snowboarding on their “again, again!” list. Thank you!
I’ve been snowboarding a couple of years but after a fall I’d lost confidence on a board, after a 2 hour lesson with Tammy I got that confidence back and found my love for snowboarding again; she’s an absolute legend an amazing instructor I have been singing Tammy’s praises to everyone……I will be back in Morzine next season and I will be booking Tammy for private lessons again 5* instructor and absolute legend!!! Thank you so much!!!
I can’t recommend the Technical Performance Course highly enough. I have been riding for 15 years and the skills I learned during this week have moved me on further than I could have hoped.
From the initial booking, Tammy and her team were great and helped with everything. On the course Toni our instructor was patient and encouraging and helped whenever it was needed which made the trip fun and exciting.
The other people on the course were great and we all got along really well which made for a great trip, I would highly recommend to anyone whatever your ability!
Me and a couple of mates had a private lesson with Toni. We can all board but wanted to progress. I have had experience of a number of instructors in France and Switzerland but Toni was by a mile the best. Why? He was fun, but firm and kept us safe. He gave us all time and rather than ‘focus’ on our weaknesses, looked at the positives and helped us to build on those. We’ve given up on being professional (!) and our goal is not to be technically brilliant but to have a bit of fun and ‘try’ new things. Toni tuned into that straight away and from start to finish, we all got something valuable and memorable. In just 5 hours, we ‘mastered’ the ‘dark arts’ of switch, freestyle, the parks (safely!) – we cracked ‘the green’ and were lucky enough to get a real good go at some powder off piste. We loved it and would highly recommend MINT and especially Toni.
Thank you! I had an amazing time! Valerio was incredible…
I was quite scared to even start, but he was very calm and patient. He was encouraging and always there.
Really, you have amazing instructors… Be proud of him!
My instructor, François, was excellent from start to finish. With around 22 years of Snowboarding experience, 14 of which coaching, he really understood the mechanics of snow boarding and was able to communicate them.
He kept it fun and was very up beat. But most important of all he cared about our group getting better and did everything he could to ensure we did.
