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The first and original!

Snowboard Coach was the first and original independent snowboard coaching company in the UK established in 2002 by Ash Newnes who, from riding and teaching for over 30 years, is one of the most respected coaches in the British snowboard scene.

Ash and the Snowboard Coach crew deliver a variety of riding courses at snow centres in the UK. They also have a full winter program from weekly riding holidays to instructor training and certification courses taking place at their winter bases both in Andorra and Japan.

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30 Years Experience

To sum it up, Snowboard Coach have the highest qualifications attainable in teaching snowboarding and also hold examiner accreditation for all the governing bodies in Great Britain.

Ash has been riding for 33 years, teaching for the past 28 years and examining and qualifying instructors for the past 22 years. So whatever you want they have the experience to help.

This isn't to show off or try to prove how good they are. It's to assure you are in good hands and you are getting what you pay for. Teaching snowboarding is their full time, year round profession.

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We are not just a faceless company selling Snowboard Coach courses from an office. We live it and with over 25 years of winters under my belt, I'm' still living it...

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Snowboard Coach Approved BASI Partner

Snowboard Coach is also a FULLY APPROVED BASI PARTNER. This is the governing body for Snowsports within Great Britain.

This is an accreditation that BASI are only issuing to approved companies with a proven track record of delivering a quality training product.

This means Snowboard Coach have been through a rigorous quality control process assessing everything from their training and delivery methods to their course structure and organisation. They have surpassed these stringent criteria with flying colours.

When looking for any course or instructor package, this is the accreditation you need to look out for to ensure you are getting the training you expect.

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Thanks for thinking about doing one of our courses!

All of the guys who teach for Snowboard Coach are personal friends who I have worked and rode with for close to 35 years of snowboarding. Not only are they some of the highest qualified instructors and coaches in the world, but they are also great riders and great teachers who will make you ride better than you ever have done. We specialise in making you less s**t at snowboarding. A moto that a lot of our regulars like!

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Take the time to read about what we do and check our qualifications and profiles below. If you want to ask us anything, then please get in touch.

We want everyone who comes with us to enjoy snowboarding and leave feeling part of the Snowboard Coach family, whether it's one of our day courses in the UK, a riding week or our season long instructor program in Andorra or Japan - that's what going snowboarding should be about.

I look forward to riding with you.

- Ash

The Team

Qualified under the BASI (British Association of Snowsport Instructors) system, the team are qualified to teach you anything on a snowboard and have the qualifications to do so...This is a must if you want your insurance to be valid whilst under instruction or coaching. If you use anyone else ask your instructor for their proof of qualification and make sure it’s valid.

All of the crew here have extensive experience of coaching everyone from complete snowboarding beginners through to top level sponsored riders. We have over 100 years of combined experience in snowboarding and instruction gathered from riding and teaching all over the world. We can pass this on to you.

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Ash Newnes
Team olly

Olly Bowley
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Marcus Upton
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Scott Maughan

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Ash 
Newnes

Ash is one of the most well-respected coach’s in the British snowboard scene. He has been riding since the early 90’s when neon and zinc were cool. Before getting into teaching Ash was a K2 team rider spending the majority of the time riding in various resorts around the world, including New Zealand, France, USA, Andorra, Bulgaria and Canada. He started teaching in 1997 and loved it.

Since then Ash has gone on to gain the highest qualifications achievable. He holds full Equivalence to legally work in France as a Snowboarder but chooses not to due to the price of a pint. He has worked and rode many a ramp night at Tamworth and started the Snowboard School at Milton Keynes where he left in 2002 to start Snowboard Coach. Alongside SBC, Ash also created and ran a successful Ski School in Bansko Bulgaria from 2005-10, before realising that you can't work with the mafia. Selling it on in 2010 and returning to Andorra where he now lives year round.

Ash now trains instructors for ALL the Snowboard Governing bodies in Great Britain – The British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI), Snowsport Scotland (SNSC) and the Irish Association of Snowsport Instructors (IASI) as well as delivering BASI courses for the Chinese Association of Snowsports Instructors (CASSI). He also holds full worldwide accreditation from the International Association of Snowsport Instructors (ISIA) and the International Ski Teacher Diploma (ISTD), the highest levels attainable for instructors and coach’s.

Over the years Ash has appeared as a rider and been a contributing writer to all the UK Snowboard magazines such as Document, Whitelines and the legendary Snowboard UK (RIP) as well as The Times and Daily Mail newspapers.

He has also been on Radio 1 and Blue Peter and many other BBC/ITV programs. He was also the Snowboard Coach for Channel 4’s TV reality show “The Jump”.

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Olly 
Bowley

Olly first put a board on in Snozone Milton Keynes over the summer of 2003 at the age of 12. He has loved snowboarding since that point. His first experience of mountain riding was over that winter, where he fell in love with the idea of becoming an instructor.

Olly became a level 1 instructor in the autumn of 2009. This is where he met Ash and Lyndon who were delivering the course. He then knew he'd definitely made the right decision. At 18 he spent two years working as an instructor at Milton Keynes Snozone. Whilst there, Olly worked on improving his skills, attending many Snowboard Coach training days, in preparation for a BASI level 2. He then did the 13 week Snowboard Coach program prior to taking his level 2, which he passed in the winter of 2012.

Olly didn’t stop there and has taught and trained hard and in 2017 achieved his BASI Level 3 – the highest attainable. Olly has also qualified as an Adaptive Snowboard Instructor and a BASI Level 2 Ski Instructor. He is now training and studying to gain his ISTD and ultimately become a BASI Trainer. Something he hopes to achieve in the next 3 years.

Olly and Ash work together on the SBC Level 2 and Level 3 Instructor training programs as well as the Riding weeks during the winters in Arinsal, Andorra . The summer sees Olly travelling down under to Australia working as a sponsored instructor for Mount Buller before returning to the UK in the Autumn and helping with the day courses at Tamworth and Hemel.

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Scott 
Maughan

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Ben 
Morrison

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Marcus
Upton

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Team marcus

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Somebody

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