Adult Beginner Weekend Ski Course

NOT JUST ANY SKI COURSE

This is not just any ski course. We use the short ski method. We start first-time-skiers with supershort skis (just a tad longer than the boot) and direct parallel turn. (With short skis you needn't learn the snowplough.) Each day of ski class you progress to slightly longer skis. Everyone can learn to ski because we start with such short skis and we learn by goofing off and playing silly games. We learn as a group; we travel as a group. It's like a school trip. The most fun you've had since you were a kid.

EQUIPMENT, TRANSPORT, LODGING, ALL IN

Parallel Skiing Munich provides ski equipment, organises ski passes, transport from Munich with car sharing and lodging at a cozy farmhouse with pub in Austria. All in.

WEEKEND SKI COURSE

We go away for the whole weekend, leave Munich FriEve 18:30, return SunEve.You might think it easier not to go for the whole weekend but just show up at a ski resort near Munich and go for a ski lesson, but it’s not easier. You arrive late morning, queue up to fit boots, queue up to get skis and queue up to sign up for ski class. It could be afternoon before you finally start your ski lesson and it may even be a bad ski resort for beginners. If you go with us, you get two full days of ski lessons, you have a later sleep, take your already fitted ski boots for a short ride to the ski resort, and start with your ski instructor, with whom you made friends the evening before. And we start you on terrain ideal for beginners. We have after all chosen the best ski resorts for beginners near Munich in the Austrian Alps.

And we get extra value from our farmhouse pub from the evenings spent in the pub analyzing our skiers' ski technique on videos taken that day and planning the next day.

PLANNING YOUR WEEKENDS   

You do need to be able to plan ahead, keep your appointments and attend entire weekends. We travel together, everyone at the same time. You sign up for specific weekends at your InfoEve. Adult beginner ski lessons stretch over the 1st six weekends of the new year. Our beginner ski course is divided into three weekends. You choose how many weekends and which weekends from those six weefends that you attend.   

2025 ADULT BEGINNER SKI COURSE WEEKENDS

•   3 Jan - 5 Jan

          •   10 Jan - 12 Jan

          •   17 Jan - 19 Jan

          •   24 Jan - 26Jan 

          •   7 Feb -  9 Feb  

          •   14 Feb -  16 Feb

We meet Friday evenings at 18:30 at a specified München Ubahn Station to leave for the Learn To Ski weekends. You return from the alps to Munich at an sbahn or ubahn station convenient for your driver.                   

Our adult ski course weekends don't coincide with our kids ski courses. We have no courses at which parents and kids learn at the same time. We dont take kids or any tagalongs to our adult ski course weekends. We don't offer private ski lessons; we need all of our instructors for group ski courses.

COSTS FOR SKI WEEKENDS

We discuss the ski course costs in detail at the InfoEve. The InfoEve itself is free and non-binding. Suffice it to say that Parallel Skiing is cheaper than the Munich ski schools. You might think it would be cheaper to not sleep over, but we get lots of added value by using our lodging's groundfloor pub in the evenings for part of your ski course. And although you spend on lodging, you save on petrol that you would need if you made two day trips. Not to mention the extra time we would spend stuck on the motorway in Bavaria.

But the big advantage in the cost of our beginner ski course is that with the short ski method you will learn so much faster that you dont need as many ski lessons before you can ski the whole resort on your own and with parallel turns. And Parallel Skiing Munich is the only beginner ski course  in Munich that uses the short ski method with direct parallel.

CONTACT PARALLEL SKIING

If you're interested please contact Parallel Skiing Munich to get on our mailing list. Once you have confirmed adding parallel_skiing@gmx.com to your contacts list, I'll put you on the mailing list to get InfoEve announcements. You will get very specific instructions how to meet up at the given München Ubahn station before your InfoEve.

Adult Advanced Weekend

if you already ski black slopes you can take the AdvWE at the 2nd weekend in March. To signup for the AdvWE you must first add Parallel Skiing to your contacts and ask to be put on the advanced list. Then you will get the AdvWE announcement in mid Feb. You must reply then to that email to signup for the advanced weekend. If you're not quite that good but you can already ski parallel turns on blue slopes, you could also start as a 2ndweekender in the normal beginner course.

InfoEve

Before the course starts, you  meet at a specified ubahn station to go to Ken’s flat  for an InfoEve to

• discuss the ski course and its costs in detail
• do some easy indoor ski exercises
• fit and reserve skiboots.
• signup for specific ski course weekends (or not)

The InfoEve is free, non-binding and you need not put any money up front for the ski course. Even if you are skeptical, you should come along to an InfoEve and see for yourselves how easy and fun learning to ski can be when you use the short ski method. You can't bring kids or any tagalongs to the InfoEve. The InfoEve takes about 3 hours; it is your first ski lesson and it's free. The earlier your InfoEve, the wider selection of boots and the wider selection of dates you have. Last ski season each Info Eve was fully booked only two minutes after the InfoEve announcement, so don't delay.

BOOTFITTING

One of the big advantages we have over other learn-to-ski programms is that we fit boots in advance of the ski course at the InfoEve. The boots you choose at bootfitting are then reserved for you for the entire season. This means you don’t get up early to queue up for boots Saturday morning and then under pressure that the lifts are already running you take any boot they give you even if it already hurts in the shop.

We measure your feet especially for ski boots taking into account the width of your ankle and heel. This helps us give you a good first try boot and guides us at custom fitting the inner bootliner to your foot. You should bring the socks you plan to ski with to the InfoEve. Supermarkets often have skisocks on special in the autumn (get your ski socks a couple of sizes too small so they don't sag, crease and hurt your feet).

If you already have skiboots, that's grand too; you will then use your own boots but you need to bring them with you to the InfoEve. We find an equivalent on our boot rack that has the same outer length so we can use it to set your bindings each week.