The important golden rule here is to be able to ski parallel turns on a european red slope (USA blue slope) – regardless of the type of camp you are on.

- Camp Levels

Our coaches are professionals who have been ski instructing and freeestyle coaching for years. As a result, they know how to differentiate their sessions and help everyone progress their own skiing. So provided you can link parallel turns on a red, you will gain a huge amount from attending!

Travel guides for our main destinations:

• Travel to Laax, Switzerland
• Travel to Zermatt, Switzerland
• Travel to Hintertux, Switzerland

We attempt to give the best advice there is on how to improve as a skier. We teach millions of skiers over video and 100s of skiers in person at our Stomp It Camps. Here adults between 18 and 60 years of age get to learn to be better technical skiers, improve their freestyle skills and develop as freeride skiers.

After you have filled in all the details, you are set! Around a week before your Camp begins, you'll be added to a WhatsApp group where questions can be asked!

• A freestyle camp can be done on any ski.
• Remember that boxes and rails will damage your edges and sharp piste skis can cause you to crash when trying to learn to grind. So brand new piste skier are not great but will work fine for most things.
• The ideal ski is a Freestyle ski 80-100mm wide with rocker and camber. Soft-Medium Flex unless you are very tall and heavy get something stiffer.
• Not Ideal, but it will work fine for beginners, Freeride skis, and Piste Skis.
• Relax what ski you are on is not a big deal. Start the camp on the ski you got and if its holding you back talk to your coach and rent some better skiers.

Introduction to Freeride Camps

• A Freeride Camp can be done on any all-mountain or freeride ski.
• The Ideal ski is a freeride ski, 98mm-115mm underfoot, with some rocker.
• You can have any binding you wish during the intro to freeride camp
• Ski boots like these with a walk mode is nice to have but not a must. 

Advanced Freeride Camps

A Advanced Freeride Camp can be done on any all-mountain or freeride ski with a hybrid binding or like

The Ideal ski is a freeride ski, 98mm-115mm underfoot, with some rocker.

You can have any binding you wish during the intro to freeride camp

Ski boots like these with a walk mode is nice to have but not a must. 

• A Ski Technique Camp can be done on any ski. But any ski that's too wide,  too blunt edges, too long radius (over 18m) will hold you back a bit. You can always rent when you are here if the skis you got are holding you back. Talk to your coach during day one on snow.
• The ideal ski is a piste ski with about 16m radius.
• A 13m radius ski turn a bit too quickly making it hard for you to do the right movements at the right time and 18m is turning too large making you have to ski perhaps too fast making you scared to do the right movements. 
• Relax, what ski you are on is not a big deal we will make it work together and if the ski is holding you back too much simply rent something else.

We do not supply rental skis, but all of the ski rental shops in the resorts we operate from do! Simply explain what you are in town to do (a technique camp for example) and your skiing level and the professionals in the shop will help you out. They know their stock and we do not recommend specific shops as the prices are all very similar. We like to do it this way to spread things out and support the local businesses in our favorite resorts.

Insurance:

• For your safety you must have travel/accident insurance that covers accidents on snow.

Ski gear:

• Helmet (mandatory)
• Goggles
• Small backpack (10-20L) to bring water and snack to the mountain.
• Base layer(s)
• Mid layer
• Socks
• Ski jacket and Pants
• Back-protector (Great to have but not mandatory)
• Ski boots and skis. (Can be rented)

Life specific:

• Clothing
• Shampoo
• Swimming wear
• Toothbrush etc.
• Earplugs are fantastic if someone is snoring!

It is not essential, but we do recommend it! It will give you some confidence which will only help your riding and may save you a bruise or two! Impact shorts and spine protection is sufficient. Helmet is mandatory.

We advise all Camp attendees to explain what type of Camp you are attending (essentially piste skiing on a Ski Technique or Freestyle where additional cover may be required) to your chosen insurance company and ask for cover specific to that activity. It is worth checking the usual things are covered, like rescue, cost of surgery, cancellation and lost luggage.

The responsibility is on you to ensure you have insurance specific to the activity.

Our awesome Coaches are well compensated for their services by Stomp It and tipping is not expected in Switzerland. However, if you feel your Coach deserves a tip, then please feel free! They all do rad stuff, like travel, climb, bike, fly and that stuff can be expensive! So you can be sure a thank you tip will be spent on their passions!

Of course! Add ther person by completing your spot in a shared room - remember to do it twice using their details too! Finally write the name of the person you wish to share the room with.

• Its fint to do but we discourgage to bring a friend, wife, husband etc to a camp if they will not join the camp. Often the partner feels left out when you are busy having fun all day. We speak from experience here.

Carv is a tough yet sensitive sensor that fits between your ski boot liner and shell outer. It communicates with your phone via Bluetooth and provides feedback, both live and in numbers to review after, of key skiing metrics: balance, edging, rotary and pressure. It also calculates a Ski:IQ for you which we try to increase day by day and also cool data like how far you have travelled, how fast, how many runs and so on. We lend out to everyone a unit at the Welcome Meeting on the arrival Sunday evening and set them up for you, so bring your boots! If you have your own, feel free to bring it!