Testimonials

Dear Karen & Pro-ride Team,

I am glad to have the opportunity to learn from you all  (Alex, Tim, Kelsey, Lisa, Ross, and You) who are very patient, knowledgeable, willing to share at any time and being helpful and thoughtful at all times during my camp time and after as well. I truly believe me passing level 2 is based on luck and all of the help I got from the Pro-ride team. The encouragement and support make me able to get the improvement I needed for the exam. I love the video analysis Tuesday which has greatly improved my riding and teaching.

I will keep working on it, hopefully, I can get an instructor job in the coming winter and someday ride with you all again will a better skill and an opportunity to learn from you all again.

Wish you all continue to have a great season.

Keep in touch!!

Just on my way back to Brazil. Thanks again for everything, had a really good two weeks and really eager to spend more time on my board next season.

I’d love to join the Japan trip in 2020, 

Many thanks and best wishes,

Thank you very much again Karen! Its been an amazing week and really wish i could spend more time here! Very grateful of all the help from you and the other coaches. Will make sure i get to practice and solidify the skills i learnt here and maybe come again some season later! Have a great Christmas and season

Karen.
I just want to take the time and say thank you. The Japan trip was Awesome had a great time. Tim’s a great guide and caring as you would know. Ski Japan were amazing there services is second to two, (pro ride first) . The house was very well presented heaps of room and storage. Thank you again.
I will be in Whistler in March for two weeks so looking forward to that.
 

Hi Karen

Thank you and your team for another fantastic time really enjoyed myself.

See you next time.

Karen,

Thanks for taking care of me this week. I had a lot of fun. 

I want to say that both Tim and Duncan were wonderful coaches for me. I appreciated having Tim for 4 days and then Duncan for the last two.

Overall Feedback: I really appreciated the FreeStyle class ratio 1:4. Sometimes we even had more than 1 instructor. This allowed people to get more dedicated attention. I super appreciated having the 1:1 attention with Duncan. It really propelled my riding to the next level. It's during the session with Duncan that the lessons from Tim really came together from earlier in the week. It's like the puzzle pieces finally clicked. This is exactly what I had hoped to achieve this week.

Also, the accommodations were nice. It would have been great to know in advance that there is laundry on premise. Otherwise, rock on! 

I will definitely consider coming back to Pro-Ride in the future. Perhaps give myself a season or two to work out the things I learned and incorporate into my riding.

Cheers,

Vincy

Pro-ride makes you feel like you are part of a really fun and inclusive snowboarding family thanks to the way Karen and the coaches run things.

I passed my casi level 2 thanks to Pro-ride and i would recommend them to anyone who is looking to train to be an instructor, get better at snowboarding or just to make snowboarding even more fun! All the coaches are really amazing snowboarders and teachers. If you don't know the mountain well, they will take you to some really sweet spots and they can also improve your freestyle and freeriding even if you are already at a fairly advanced level. Every chance you get to ride with head coach Duncan is a privilege as you can learn so much from him and his snowboarding is completely flawless. Most of my lessons were with Terra and she is an amazing instructor - she taught me how to better analyse my own and other peoples snowboarding which not only improved my own riding but also my ability to teach effectively. I also had great lessons from Tim, Kelsey, Lance & Alan.

If you want a great winter in the best place in the world (Whistler), i can't recommend Pro-ride enough.

Hi Karen! We are back in Vancouver. It was hard to leave Whistler,  we had such a great time. Thank you so much for everything.  ProRide is awesome. All of the coaches are so professional and really really good in teaching so that we could bring our skills up on a higher level!  We definitely will come back! 

Thanks Karen! I had a blast and will definitely return in the near future. I will be putting all the new skills I learned to use on the mountain here.
Cheers Tammy

I just want to thank you for 2 fantastic weeks in Whistler, it was one of the best ski holidays I have had. The Pro ride team was so professional in everything over my entire stay, you made everything just so easy. The instructors were so professional and I learnt so much in just 2 weeks, special mention to Duncan and Tim, those 2 were fantastic. I will definitely be back again, next time with some friends, I have already told a few of friends back home and they want to do it. Hopefully I can sort out or be back next season.

Enjoy the rest of the season.

I just wanted to say I had a great time with you. All the coaches were great, special thanks to Duncan , Tim and Vince. I really learnt a lot and put it all into practice for the 2 weeks with my family.

I have fallen in love with Whistler and can’t imagine any reason why I won’t be back next year. 

Thanks once again!

Snowboarding since 12 y.o I always strove to learn as much as i can about this wonderful sport and since a certain point in time i began to find myself drawn especially to the instructive part of it.  My romance with pro-ride started at 2007 and I'm lucky to have found the right place to expend my knowledge beyond what is needed to pass certain exams.

No question left unanswered, no tactic left unexplored. the wonderful instruction stuff did all they could so i could have the best teaching foundation possible. it was that good that i even came back for more!

Now, after passing my level 2 CASI exam in only 4 weeks of training i was able to become a part of the ski & snow school at Grandvalira Andorra, doing what i love the most for a living and a whole lot thanks to Pro-ride.

Thanks for everything!

Thanks Karen! It's been such a pleasure, amazing experience! Thank you for having me at Pro Ride!!

Hope you enjoy the holidays. Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and your family and pro ride team!!!
 

Just wanna say thanks for being really helpful and awesome, over these past 3 months. I've had the time of my life out here and achieved what I set out to do, which is hugely down to the Pro Ride team, so I would like to ask you to say thanks to everyone on the team for me. This trip was great and will recommend it to anyone I meet for sure, I'm sure I'll be back to Whistler at some point. So thanks again for everything.

I just really wanted to say how amazing the 3 weeks with proride was :) I had no idea what to expect with the camp, but was the best decision I have made to come (and stay longer!) I have gained so much more confidence and skills with snowboarding and I cant even explain how obsessed I am with park now :)

The proride team are so amazing! Every day on the mountain I learnt something new and had so much fun! It's such a family environment and was so much fun spending time with you guys and the campers-all such incredible people.   I'll hopefully see you guys again.. as I would love to do another camp! I cannot wait till I can strap in again (especially on my new board!) 

Thanks again for an incredible experience,

Amanda

Thanks Karen Proride and the rest of the team for such an amazing week! I've learnt a lot, met a huge bunch of incredibly talented people, and had some belly hugging laughs! until next time

My first camp with Pro Ride was a very great experience.  The coaching given for both freestyle and freeride was outstanding! I consider myself an expert at Big mountain riding , But Duncan was still able to point out a few things that greatly improved my overall riding . He also coached me to better my skills in the park,  Thanks to his great coaching I was able to progress doing spins off Medium to Large and Large to XL features.  Pro Ride is very organized, very friendly, very accommodating and I would recommend them to anyone of all skill levels.

Thanks A lot  

THANKS for everything! I had a wonderful time with proride :)  It was better than all expectations. I hope I can come back next year for so long again.

Hi Karen,

Wanted to let you know that I had a great week riding with Tim and Duncan. Definitely some great coaching, encouragement and confidence building provided by the guys. I was able to hit bigger jumps and park features that I usually wouldn't do if I was by myself. (Mini Hollywood, U-box, pyramid box, battleship box and even onto the dance floor!)

Cheers,

Karim

I just want to thank Karen, Duncan, Lisa, Tim and everyone else who helped me have the time of my life in whistler this year! My snowboarding has improved beyond what i thought was possible in an 8 week period, and my confidence just as much!

The people I met this year were amazing, and it is incredible to spend a winter living in the resort with a group of people all with the same passion as myself.

I achieved my CASI level 1, and learnt the ride powder, steeps, trees and park. 

The only regret i have is not booking the 12 week course!

I was extremely hesitant to book this trip before i did, and if you you are having any second thoughts, DON’T. It is the time of your life.

Scott.

Just want to thank Pro Ride for the last 3 weeks. Awesome riding and meeting everyone, will see you soon.

Dear Karen 

Thank you so much for an awesome time. Can't say enough about Pro-Ride. When I returned home I think I literally had Pro-Ride withdrawal (I'm sure the rest of the campers will agree) The coaches were so AWESOME!!! They were so positive, fun, energetic, and had so much knowledge and love for snowboarding. I worked with Lisa for most of camp and she was super. She taught me so much about the physical and mental aspects of snowboarding. I also wanted to thank you for putting together such a wonderful camp. Please pass on my regards to the Pro-Ride family. Thanks again. I hope to be back next season.

Sincerely, 

Jane Uh

Thank you so much for the incredible experience I had with Pro Ride! I loved every second of my season in Canada, Whistler is such an amazing place. The training and coaches at Pro Ride were of a very high standard, and I feel like I learned more than I ever thought I would be capable of. My Whistler experience was about so much more than snowboarding though... Pro Ride made me feel like part of a 'family' from the first day I arrived in Canada, I met some very interesting people and made some great friends for life. I couldn't recommend it it enough!!!
 

Thanks for the experience with pro ride. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Pro Ride was probably the best decision I have made in the last few years. Telling everyone I know that they need to ride with you guys. I was at a plateau with my riding where I was losing interest and did not think I would push past it. That problem is well solved now. Even convinced my daughter to hike for powder turns yesterday and she is now hooked (on skis still but we will solve that later).

Farewell Whistler - the most incredibly beautiful place I have ever been too. We had a wonderful affair despite the black eye. I will miss waking up to the sounds of artillery causing man made avalanches because you are covered with so much fresh powder and subsequently carving you up, seeing adorable little kids in their snow get up and often enviously watching them put my ability to shame, smashing out freestyle tricks in the terrain park, riding your insane terrain (especially at crazy speeds), backcountry jumps day and the amazing coaches from camp who, despite my occasional tantrums and frustrations, encouraged me to keep pushing myself

Thanks to the amazing coaches of pro ride, i was able in 12 weeks to get all the credentials i need for working in a ski school. 

All the instructors of pro ride give a sence of extreme fun combined with technical riding.

The brio house is not just a place to chill out after a hard day. Thanks to the highly educated residents of the house, that come from all over the world, i was able to lurn history, geogrephy, political sinece ect. Of countries like austrailia, canada, italy, belgium, germany and chile.

I would personaly recomend pro-ride to anybody that likes snowbording, no matter your level of riding. Just do it!

Hi Karen

I wanted to thank you & pro-ride coaches for the greatest time I had in Whistler))) I really enjoyed my stay.  Feb 2012

Hello Pro Ride Crew, just sending you a note and say thanks again for taking care of us the week of the 10th when we were in town for the camp. Please give our regards to Duncan, Lisa, and Tim. They were great. I hope that we are able to come back soon, and if we do, I won't complain about being sore; that was weak on my part. :)

Happy New Year and take care!

My riding has improved one hundred percent thanks to you guys, and pro ride has been in the back of my mind, especially when I get a really good shred on.

If it weren't for the expert level of tuition and constant feedback on my progress at the 12 week camp I attended, then there is no way (in my opinion) I would of attained both my level 1 and 2 CASI certifications. I am very grateful to Pro Ride.

Thanks for an awesome time in Canada, I've learned more this year than all my years combined and I've had the time of my life.

Keep up the great camp, it was a blast being there and learning new stuff + I've had so many friends that want me to teach them to snowboard now, so I will have a lot more friends to go snowboarding with all thanks to you :)

Couldn't have done it without you and your awesome camp!

Pro-Ride is an awesome concept, without doubt the best way I have found to improve my riding, and great value too. I can't recommend you highly
enough and hope to come back again some time in the future.

I wanted to thank you guys for everything you've done for me with Pro Ride and out of Pro Ride. Looking back on old pictures and videos througout the season...I have seen a massive amount of progression with my riding and it was only over a span of the 4 week program and 3 months of riding! It feels damn good....you and the coaches have pushed me towards everything I have wanted to do in snowboarding and I know I will never find a group of people or a camp like the Pro-Ride crew. Thanks again!

This is just a quick message to say thanks for making our holiday exceptional we have progressed further in the 8 days with you guys than we have over 20 days of lessons in europe over the past 3 years

We had incredible moments in Whistler along with the Pro-Ride crew. We enjoyed so much all the time spent with the Pro-Ride staff.

It was simply amazing!! We came in from an awfull start for our trip but things came back into place once we began the clinic. Everything was lovely from start to end!!

Personally, I had more contact with Lance, Alan, Dave and Luke. All of them are great coaches and fun to hang out with!

I would like to forward my special thanks to Lisa, who had the patience to break down my video analysis. I can't stress enough what she did to my riding!! I have been practicing every single day all the aspects she called my attention to!! It has made an amazing difference! All my friends in Snowmass told me how I had changed my style and progressed my riding! This with just one week riding with you guys!!