The price does not include accident insurance. The child’s ski pass and ski equipment are at their own risk. Pre-sale of ski passes is now open. We recommend that you purchase a cheap ski pass GOPASS.
Breaks
after each hour
We save your money
Lessons in small groups
are more cost-effective
Experienced
instructors
WE FOLLOW THE RULES FOR GROUP LESSONS FOR CHILDREN
1 | Children who are making their first turns in the snow, first-timers up to 10 years old, must have a private lesson solo. Children love to move and learn new things. Children need to be constantly motivated, they need to feel safe and comfortable: they need to be warm, they need breaks, they need fluids, and they need a teacher who gives them their full, individual, and personalized attention. And we can only ensure this in a private lesson.
2 | For children under 10 years of age, beginners and intermediate learners, we recommend a maximum of 3 people in a group. In a group with small children, there should be no other persons aged 10 or older with them.
3 | The group requires participants to have the same skiing level. Please do not create groups with mixed levels. In such cases, divide the participants into several groups. Can you imagine how lessons would turn out in a group where older, experienced skiers were together with first-timer children or beginners?
These rules are recommended by the Slovak accredited educational organization ZSL. We have incorporated compliance with these simple rules into our reservation system to ensure the safety of your children.Preferred language of instruction
During lessons, the main language used, apart from Slovak, is mainly English, but we will do our best to match the languages spoken by your children. In the reservation system, instructors are marked with the international abbreviation of the language they speak to make your selection easier. Please write in the comments if there is anything we should know about the children: for example, health restrictions, each child’s preferred language, the need for ski or snowboard equipment, etc.
CHILDREN’S SKIING LEVEL
Children are grouped according to their age and ability. Our level system is based on international skiing level categories, starting with “First Timer,” followed by “Beginner,” who can handle easy blue slopes, then “Intermediate,” who can handle red slopes, and “Advanced,” who can ski on black slopes. The designations (Blue–Red–Black) have become established in Slovakia and have been in common use for some time, but “First Timer” remains a separate category, which we have adopted into our TERNAVSKI school system for teaching children who are putting on skis for the first time. You can read more (on this page).
All children, regardless of their skiing level, receive encouragement, praise, and, upon achieving progress, a medal and a diploma from us.
Choose
the skiing level for the child
You control the plow turn in a straight direction, regulate your speed, and can stop.
Goal: Master blue slopes, confident turns with plow technique. Parallel positioning of skis between turns.
Slope: Easy blue slopes with a gradual transition to longer and more variable blue slopes.
Recommended: Jakubkova lúka in Nový Smokovec with a transition to Štart, Buková hora in Tatranská Lomnica.
During the turn, you can lift the inner ski.
You can brake with skis parallel.
Reliable control of the track and speed in lighter descents.
Goal: Controlled parallel turns in more variable terrain. Introduction to the Snow Park.
Slope: Easy red slopes with a transition to steeper and longer red slopes. Fun park.
Recommended: Čučoriedky with a transition to Skalnaté pleso in Tatranská Lomnica.
You can jump on small kickers and ski Switch on flat terrain.
You comfortably ski on red slopes.
Goal: Controlled short and long turns in steeper terrain, carved carving turns, basic Freestyle Snow Park.
Slope: Steeper groomed red-black slopes. Snow park, powder.
Recommended: Lomnické sedlo from Tatranská Lomnica with an experienced instructor.
4 LEVELS – a system for evaluating our students’ skiing abilities:
First Timer ∙ I have never skied before. This is my first time skiing.
Beginner ∙ I can ski on an easy blue run in a snowplough in a straight line, control my speed and stop independently on flat terrain.
Intermediate ∙ I can make turns in a snowplough and am working on my parallel turns. I feel confident on blue slopes and am starting to master red slopes.
Advanced ∙ I have mastered parallel turns. I feel confident on red slopes and am starting to practise on black slopes.