Val Isere ski school, snowboard school, private lesson, adult lesson, group lesson, children lesson, About us

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.

Language

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.