Ski school group for children aged 4 to 6 in Arosa

In the kids' ski course in Arosa, your children aged 4 to 6 learn to ski in a safe environment. The course is equally suitable for beginners and advanced skiers. Group lessons take place in small groups, allowing skilled ski instructors to cater individually to each child and ensure significant progress in learning.

Beginners get used to the ski equipment and learn the correct posture for skiing. By the end of the course, they can already make their first turns. Experienced skiers improve their skiing technique and learn more about proper pole use and parallel skiing. They also ski together with other group members on more challenging slopes.

The instructors include many playful exercises in the lessons to make sure everyone has fun.

Swiss Snow Kids Village 1:

• Beginner
• You're skiing for the first time.
• Course goal: You can move on easy terrain with skis, climb up, ski down, and brake.

Swiss Snow Kids Village 2:

• You can brake and make your first turns on easy terrain but cannot yet ride a surface lift (drag lift or T-bar lift).
• Course goal: You learn to ride a surface lift on your own or with another child.

Blue Prince/Princess:

• You can brake and make wedge turns (pizza).
• You can manage the surface lift alone or with a partner.
• Course goal: You deepen your skills in gliding, braking, and wedge turning while increasing your speed.

Blue King/Queen:

• You ski confidently on blue slopes and use all transport facilities.
• Course goal: You learn how to ski diagonally, perform side slipping, handle simple bumps and waves, and master wedge turns.

Blue Star:

• You are already confident on easy red slopes.
• Course goal: Ski bumps and waves at higher speed; practice wedge swinging (preparation for parallel turns).

Red Prince/Princess:

• You can perform wedge turns on more challenging terrain (blue and red slopes).
• Course goal: Learn to brake in parallel, waltz turns, and slid parallel turns (classic style; French fries).

Red King/Queen:

• You master parallel turns (slid and classic).
• Course goal: Short turns on easy slopes; basic airs (small jumps); skate step on flat terrain.

Red Star:

• You ski securely, parallel and at speed on all red slopes and have also managed simple black runs.
• Course goal: Parallel turns through slalom poles; switch parallel turns (backwards), skiing on one leg, and short turns on intermediate terrain.

Black:

• You master parallel turns on all slopes.
• Course goal: Short turns with pole plant on difficult terrain; jumps and parallel turns on unprepared slopes.