Our aim

To get the most out of your precious time on skis, to be able to achieve your goals, you should first understand what creates good skiing. Our aim is to help you to do just that.

Ali Ross Skiing Clinics first started as a teaching system in 1983, independent of national ski schools' approaches to teaching. This was because Ali's idea that holiday skiers should learn to use the side-cut of the ski to make effective turns, eliminating as much unnecessary skidding as possible if they were to make real progress, was regarded as heretical by traditionalists. They claimed that, "Such techniques are only for racers." Even today, some trainers still believe this.

We needed freedom from ski technique orthodoxy. Now, modern ski design with its exaggerated side-cut, has since caught up with Ali's idea that carving should be the norm, rather than the exception for recreational skiers. They can, as a result, learn to use the edges of the skis more easily and effectively. Our pupils have shown consistently that recreational skiers are able to use the same technique as the racers, albeit at their own speeds and skill levels and in doing so, discover that their skiing horizons have widened immeasurably.

They can ski better than they ever imagined, in places they had only dreamed of skiing.