Our Training Facility

Our Boot Camp Technician Training Facility offers a dedicated winter sports training centre for all aspects of working in the ski and snowboard industry.

Experience of giving and going on training courses has helped us to identify what is important for our own dedicated training facility:

Hardware

The workshop facility contains custom finished work areas with ski and snowboard vices. We have a floating workshop desk to allow several candidates to work safely, and to watch demonstrations in comfort without straining to see what is going on. All the core tools from irons to P-tex guns are available, along with a variety of waxes to demonstrate. The facility has a ski and snowboard base grinding machine, combined with a side edge tool for setting of side edge angles. And we have one of the few fully working and calibrated binding test machines in the UK.

Environment

We want you to be comfortable, and to be honest we want to be comfortable too! So we have custom built the facility from a shell, even selecting paints that reduce eye strain (Despite the bright green colour!). We have a built in air extraction facility that is normally found in buildings with 7 rooms, to ensure that when working with fluorocarbon waxes that any fumes are extracted as quickly as possible. Room temperature is controlled by a modern air conditioning system allowing us to drop the temperature to as low as 15 degrees or as high as 38 degrees. We also had the chairs which we carefully selected fitted with comfortable bases with decent foam, to reduce numb-bum to a minimum.

The floor has been fitted with 7mm stress reducing rubber workshop matting, which is durable and reduces foot impact, and areas of this have been further enhanced with 10mm rubberised protection mats.

There is a dedicated boot fitting bench with spaces for 2-5 boot fittings at one time, which are high up to allow you to see the processes being demonstrated to you without having to strain too much.

We have fitted daylight bulbs to our suspended ceiling, which has been set at a higher height than normal to allow us to throw skis at each other without damaging the ceiling.

Other stuff

There is a kitchen facility so you can bring your own packed lunch if you wish, and we provide tea, coffee and soft drinks throughout the training sessions. There is built in audio too, although we can't be held responsible for the trainer's poor taste in music.

Parking is available a few metres away (Park outside unit 15-16 which is our sister business Edge & Wax) and we have secure bicycle storage should you wish to ride in rather than take the car.

Our Supporters



Atomic logo


bliss bikes


dalbello


edge and wax logo


falke logo


full tilt logo


garmont logo


head logo


hotronic logo


k2 logo


lange logo

Line Skis logo


magic potion logo


marker bindings


nordica logo


sidas logo


volkl


Supporters are non financial, and ensure we provide the latest product information, and pass on the latest techniques for tuning and use of their ranges.

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