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The centre hosts two highly successful ski racing clubs.
Both Clubs have racers of all ages who compete all over the country on dry slopes and on snow. The clubs have a long history of producing ski racing champions and members of British teams and they cater for all standards of racers.

Club Training

Gloucester Ski Club trains on Thursday and Sunday evenings, when the race slope is dedicated solely for race training. There are also training camps around the Easter, May, summer and October school holidays.

Western Counties Ski Club meet regularly on Monday evenings, where members get great coaching for Slalom and Giant Slalom racing. Western Counties hold Spring and Summer race training camps and provide snow training with two of their resident coaches and the Unique Academy. The club also arrange an annual snow holiday for members for all ages and ability levels.

Both clubs race in the annual Gloucester based regional Summer Race League events, with many of our skiers going on to race in National and International competitions on artificial slopes and snowdomes, progressing to race on snow and represent their Home Nations and Great Britain.

Gloucester Ski Club doesn’t run any snow training or instructor training, but they use partners to feed skiers into their programmes. Snow training is primarily based around Dragons Alpine or one of the many Ski Race Academies programmes based in the Alps.

Membership is open to all, with both clubs enjoying a fun family atmosphere. The emphasis is on everyone being able to ski and race at their own level, but most importantly of all, to enjoy it.

Coaching Teams

Both club coaching teams have some highly qualified coaches who regularly coach on snow or have spent ski seasons working abroad. This will ensure you get the best coaching available at a local level.

Gloucester Ski Club staff include:

Hedley Beavis – SSE Level 4 Performance Coach
Angela Hiller – CSIA Canadian Qualified Instructor
Jason Hendy - IASI Level 2 Race Coach, IASI Level 2 Alpine Instructor, IASI Coaching Theory, UKCP (Wales) Level 2 Alpine Performance Club Coach
TJ Baldwin - Level 2 UKCP, Level 3 ISIA BASI Instructor
Training times:
- Thursday 18:30 – 20:00
- Sunday 18:00 – 20:00

Website – www.gloucesterskiclub.co.uk

Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/gloucesterskiclub/

Western Counties Ski Club’s coaching team include two senior coaches who have raced nationally and internationally with dozens of podium places between them, both on snow and artificial slopes, and offer ski race coach training in addition to the mainstream race training.

Western Counties Ski Club coaching team includes: