Big Mountain Programs
Non Competitive & Competitive Ages 10+
Team Breckenridge Sports Club’s Big Mountain and Freeride Programs offer competitive level coaching for athletes who want to develop and refine their style in big mountain and terrain park riding. Our coaches will mentor and coach athletes at practice, and in regional and national IFSA competitions. Competition is not mandatory to join our Program, we have multiple program offerings to support your level of commitment.
We promote strong work ethic, all-mountain etiquette, sound decision-making skills, sportsmanship, creativity, and confidence. Your athlete will learn advanced skiing skills, reading terrain to optimize line choice, air awareness and skiing smoothly in and out of difficult situations. Technical proficiencies and skill assessments will be a component of our weekly training. We strive to create community for all athletes and hope that our programming can serve as a vehicle for life long learning.
A Season Pass must be purchased to participate in the program.
All Mountain Rippers is a great option if you want to develop into a great all-around skier with a focus on skill development. Athletes will be introduced to all mountain skills with additional time spent on technical skill development. This group will spend time in the terrain park, the bowls and even the groomers to become complete all-around skiers.
Athletes must be able to ski black terrain while confidently linking parallel turns with ease.
Dates: December 3, 2022 - March 25, 2023
Training Day: Saturday - No training on December 24 or 31.
Time: 8:30 - 3:00
Competition: No
Mountain: Breckenridge Ski Resort
Pass: You must purchase a minimum of an Epic Local Pass. Pass prices are not included in program fees and must be purchased directly through Vail Resorts. Purchase early for best pricing.
Expectations & Requirements: Please read expectations prior to registering your athlete.
Participants may be required to switch to a more appropriate program, if available, at the discretion of the Team Manager.
Big Mountain Specialist team will be prepared in all aspects of big mountain skiing. This includes but is not limited to: advanced skiing skills, reading terrain to optimize line choice, air awareness and skiing smoothly in and out of difficult situations. Our team is designed to prepare you for IFSA contests.
Athletes must be able to ski all terrain on the mountain while confidently linking parallel turns with ease. Athletes will be grouped by age for competition purposes.
Dates: December 3, 2022 - March 25, 2023
Training Days: Friday, Saturday and select Sundays. Depending on Competition Schedule. No training on December 24, 25, 31 or January 1.
Time: 8:30 - 3:00
Competition: Yes
Mountain: Breckenridge Ski Resort and Arapahoe Basin
Pass: You must purchase a minimum of an Epic Local Pass. Pass prices are not included in program fees and must be purchased directly through Vail Resorts. Purchase early for best pricing. Information regarding A-Basin pass will be provided upon registration.
Expectations & Requirements: Please read expectations prior to registering your athlete.
*Wednesday Add On available for U14+ Big Mountain Specialists*
**Contests are not included in the pricing of the team and will be priced on an individual basis.**
Participants may be required to switch to a more appropriate program, if available, at the discretion of the Team Manager.
Athletes 11 years of age or younger on December 31st, 2022
Athletes 12-18 years of age on or prior to December 31st, 2022
Our Big Mountain Full Time program targets athletes 12 and older looking to spend more time on skis. Emphasis will be placed on skill development, training for competitions and skiing challenging terrain. This is our most comprehensive program where the athletes will train 5 days a week. This program will focus on the competition criteria, learning line choices, high performance skiing in all terrain and conditions and putting tricks on venue types of terrain. We will begin conditioning with dryland training in September.
All athletes must be able to ski all terrain on the mountain while confidently linking parallel turns with ease.
Dates: September - April
Time: 8:30 - 3:00
Training Days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and select Sundays. - Depending on Competition Schedule. No training Dec. 24, 25, 31 or Jan. 1.
Competition: Yes
Mountain: Breckenridge Ski Resort and Arapahoe Basin
Pass: You must purchase a minimum of an Epic Local Pass. Pass prices are not included in program fees and must be purchased directly through Vail Resorts. Purchase early for best pricing. Information regarding A-Basin pass will be provided upon registration.
Expectations & Requirements: Please read expectations prior to registering your athlete.
**Contests are not included in the pricing of the team and will be priced on an individual basis.**
Participants may be required to switch to a more appropriate program, if available, at the discretion of the Team Manager.
Terrain Park Competition Team
Age 10+
Price:
Early-bird: $2,725
After September 15 - $2,935
*Must have a minimum of 6 athletes to run program*
The Freeride Competition Team is the ultimate terrain park experience. It is a competition terrain park team. This is a great progression for athletes who have worked through our All Mountain Rippers program and would like to pursue more focused training for competitions. This program will focus on the development of technical skiing skills, while ensuring that athletes have fun. Development of competition skills includes learning about line choice, control, style and technique.
All mountain skiing, moguls, powder etc. will be emphasized. Athletes learn all aspects of Freeride skiing in a fun, safe and highly structured setting.
All athletes must be able to comfortably ski blue & black terrain and link parallel turns with ease and ski ungroomed moderate terrain.
Dates:
Time: 8:30 - 3:00
Training Days: Saturday and select Sundays. Depending on competition schedule. No training Dec 24, 25, 31 or Jan 1
Competition: Yes
Mountain: Breckenridge Ski Resort
Pass: You must purchase a minimum of an Epic Local Pass. Pass prices are not included in program fees and must be purchased directly through Vail Resorts. Purchase early for best pricing.
Expectations & Requirements: Please read expectations prior to registering your athlete.
**Contests are not included in the pricing of the team and will be priced on an individual basis.**
Participants may be required to switch to a more appropriate program, if available, at the discretion of the Team Manager.
Important Things to Know...
You must purchase a minimum of an Epic Local Pass. Pass prices are not included in program fees and must be purchased directly through Vail Resorts. Purchase early for best pricing.
Athletes requiring an A-Basin pass will be provided purchase information upon registration. Discounted vouchers are provided to Team Breck athletes in specific programs.
Big Mountain Specialists will have the benefit of pre-season dryland training, and other training opportunities like goal-setting workshops and mental training workshops, and additional days of inspection/skiing on days preceding scheduled competitions throughout the season.
An informational meeting for families who have athletes in any of the Big Mountain programs, will be held prior to the start of the season.
The Director reserves the right to refund the program fee if the athlete’s skills are not strong enough or have enough experience to take part in the program.
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