Young talents | Ski-Club Arlberg GmbH

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Youth development in the ski club

With a tradition spanning over 100 years, the Arlberg Ski Club places particular emphasis on promoting young talent. Throughout the Arlberg region, more than 200 local children and young people are coached and trained by successful and highly qualified coaches.

Our children and young people are prepared for the winter season in the summer with coordination exercises, mountain biking, and many other sporting and social activities. Before the ski season opens on the Arlberg, some training groups attend glacier training sessions.

The Arlberg Ski Club is, of course, not only concerned with racing. The coaches teach free skiing, the use of avalanche transceivers, powder or firn descents, kicker jumping, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, and many other interesting variations.

The goal is clear

The youth of the Arlberg should receive a comprehensive and in-depth education in snow sports, as skiing is one of the most important components of the Arlberg, and one that young locals in particular should be able to master.

Alpine Skiing

The Ski Club Arlberg's youth development program began with the Alpine Skiing division. This division includes various training groups focused on freestyle skiing and developing good skiing technique. Race groups, which focus on pole training and intensive race preparation, are also part of this division.

Although these two areas of the Alpine Skiing division differ considerably in terms of training content and scope, they both pursue the same goals. The aim is not only to provide Arlberg's youth with a solid education in skiing, but also to demonstrate and convey their enthusiasm for skiing.

Freestyle

The Arlberg Ski Club has been offering professional ski freestyle training for children and young people under the name "Newschool" for more than 10 years.

The training in this discipline focuses on learning freestyle tricks. However, the training sessions aren't limited to the Rendl Fun Park. Especially during preparation in the summer and fall, but also for a change of pace in between, the children and young people train in the Banger Park or the trampoline hall. The tricks they learn can then be showcased at various contests in the winter.

Freeride

The third area of youth development is freeriding. What was formerly generally known as backcountry skiing has evolved into freeriding as a sport in recent years.

Since the 2016/17 winter season, the Ski Club Arlberg has offered freeride training for young people aged 12 to 18 with freeride professional Stefan Häusl. The Freeride World Tour is the freeriding world cup and tours the world. The young athletes of the Ski Club Arlberg competed in the Junior Freeride World Tour for the first time in the 2017/18 winter season.

The basics learned in alpine and freestyle training are continued here and applied in open terrain. Jumps over rocks, lines, tricks, avalanche safety training, and fast skiing are perfected here and then demonstrated in competitions. Freeride – the new, creative way to ski backcountry. Ride on!

Snowboard

Since the 2018/19 winter season, the Arlberg Ski Club in St. Anton am Arlberg, in collaboration with Emanuel Misslinger, a certified snowboard instructor, has been offering professional snowboarding training for children and young people.

The snowboarding section aims to improve the technique and skills of children and young people in all areas. In addition to on-piste training, the training content also includes snow & safety training, freeriding, and slopestyle.

Cross-Country Skiing

Cross-country skiing is the newest division of the Arlberg Ski Club. It is the first division to focus beyond the downhill.

Since the 2022/2023 winter season, the Arlberg Ski Club has been offering cross-country skiing training for children and young people. The goal of this division is to stimulate young people's interest in Nordic skiing and convey the joy of this sport. The design of the training sessions clearly reflects this goal. The children and young people are introduced to cross-country skiing in a playful and varied way. The focus is initially on getting used to the equipment before finally heading out on the cross-country trails.