New Staff

You will be required to complete 2 full days of mandatory training in addition to online training. All mandatory pre-season training is paid.

New Staff Training

Return Staff

See what training is required for return staff including on-dirt and online sessions. All mandatory pre-season training is paid.

Return Staff Training

Ongoing Training & Resources

Find out more about the elective and paid training sessions we offer with our awesome crew of trainers.

Ongoing Training

Resources

How to Sign-up for Training Sessions

To attend any training session, you must sign up in RPOS.

Go to instructor.snow.com
Enter your 11 digit pass number (on the bottom of your staff pass)
The password is $noW2425
Select ‘Training Clinic Signup’ to view available clinics and sign up for clinics.
Select ‘Whistler Blackcomb Bike Training’ as your training group.
Click ‘sign up’ to the right of the desired training session.

Please make sure that you are not scheduled to work before signing up for any Training Sessions.

View My Clinics
Clicking on this option will let you see your current clinics for this season as well as viewing history of past season clinics attended.

You can also REMOVE yourself from a clinic that you have signed up for but cannot attend by clicking the 'Remove' at the right side of the clinic.

New Staff

The first set of training you will do is your online new hire training. This will come to you as a series of emails from Vail and a program called Saba/The Lift. You can access the trainings directly from these emails or by logging into Epic Service and clicking on the My Training & Development Tile.

Return Staff

There are a few steps that you have to go through to be rehired. You will need to fill in the hiring forms that will be sent directly to you from a Vailresorts email address. If you can't find them look out for them in your junk.

All passes will be active once you have filled in your forms . You will need to resign your winter waiver again on line AND head to the Springs to sign your Bike Park Waiver.

Part Time staff can pay for your dependent passes at that time.

Please click the page that applies to you for more information as the process is a little different for different employees.

Returning to Bike School - hired to WB/Vail Resorts this past winter

Returning to Bike School - NOT hired for WB/Vail Resorts this past winter

Continue your professional development with the offered elective training sessions. Training sessions are skill based and focus on; good decision-making, skill development and progressions, coaching tactics and teaching methodology. Terrain and situations will be relative and appropriate to the session and participants.

See training calendar for complete schedule.

Training Sessions

Elective Training Sessions

● Yoga ● Assessment & Development ● Bike Mechanics ● Strength & Conditioning ● Cognitive Training

Evening indoor sessions are coming soon and will cover a variety of topics including:

Evening Sessions

Badges

Badge sessions are designed to:

● Increase confidence in riding and teaching skills ● Develop coaching tactics, skills toolbox and progressions ● Enhance decision making skills and risk management behaviour

in the environment that the session is focused. Prerequisite for badge sessions is attendance of a development session prior and/or supervisor approval. Upon successful completion, coaches will be paid 6 hours. Refreshers available every 3 years.

Offerings are:

● Jump Progression ● Black & Double Black Flow ● Whips & Tables ● Double Black Tech ● Double Black XC (Academy Coaches)

TRAINING CALENDAR

JUNE CALENDAR

JULY CALENDAR

Resources

Skills & Drills Booklet

This booklet contains different drills that can be used to progress skills for various rider ability levels.

Spanish Cheat-Sheet

With an increasing number of Spanish speaking guests, you can use this cheat-sheet to brush up (or learn!) some bike-specific vocabulary to communicate better.