North American Ski Training Center – Tahoe, CA

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  • New videos, ski tips & photos

    A couple more slideshows of our courses have been added to the Photo Gallery as well as some new video and ski tips.  To view the ski tips make sure you register on the site as a user. 

    If you will be up in the Lake Tahoe area over the weekend, join us for a 1-day Total Skiing Clinic this Saturday at Sugar Bowl or jump in the All Conditions/All Terrain Course, now $995 and as a special bonus, we will get to see Daron Rahlves and some of the best skiers in the country and area duke it out on Alpine Meadows’ Beaver Bowl.

  • Reduced Pricing on Select NASTC Courses!

    We haven’t seen good early season conditions like this in over 5 years; and as this is shaping up to be one of the best seasons in a long time, we want to make sure that all you avid skiers out there have an opportunity to also make this one of your best seasons ever.  Therefore we are offering the ACAT course at Alpine Meadows and Northstar at $995, The ACAT Squaw Valley course at $1100 and the Snowbird Performance Skiing Camp at $2050.  We hope this will give you all the opportunity to come out and ski with us and step your skiing up a level or two.

  • TOTAL SKIING at Sugar Bowl with NASTC

    Under mostly blue skies and on excellent snow, the first Total Skiing group enjoyed a complete immersion into ski improvement with Chris Fellows and Malcolm Ridenour at Sugar Bowl January 13-14.  Using principles from Chris Fellows’s new ski improvement book Total Skiing  the instructors led the group through a step by step progression in which they got the chance to really look at their own building blocks of good skiing:  fitness, equipment and technique/tactics.  They were then able to go away with a complete personalized program for ski improvement.  Sugar Bowl is NASTC’s home base and provides the perfect venue for these high-touch, high-level, customized clinics.  The next Total Skiing clinics are Jan. 22,  Feb. 5, Feb. 12, and March 17-18.

  • All Conditions All Terrain at Alpine Meadows

    NASTC goes to Alpine Meadows with the popular All Conditions All Terrain clinic on Jan. 23-25. This advanced skiing clinic will focus on the steeps, bowls, powder, chutes and bumps Alpine dishes up so well. With record-breaking snowfall, the skiing is beyond fantastic…and now we’re getting more fresh stuff falling! Top instructors Chris Fellows (with new book out Total Skiing) and Richie Jameson will lead these fun 3 days!

  • Banzai Tour & NASTC Alpine Meadows Course

    Daron Rahlves’ Banzai Tour (sponsored by Sugar Bowl Resort) and the NASTC All Conditions/All Terrain course are both taking place at Alpine Meadows on January 23rd!  What a sweet “two for one” deal, an opportunity to get great coaching from the top instructors in the country, ski a great mountain and witness a one-of-a-kind event that incorporates the disciplines of big mountain skiing, downhill racing and skier-cross – guess that makes a “three for one” deal.   Alpine Meadows is the first stop of the Banzai Tour – which is a 4 person race through gates in off-piste terrain for a $10,000 prize purse.  The overall winner of the tour has the opportunity to win $50,000.  The legendary terrain of the Alpine Meadows’ Beaver Bowl presents a unique venue for Banzai competitors as it offers a lengthy run with lots of natural features to build a course through and make it exciting. Join us at the All Conditions/All Terrain at Alpine Meadows for three days of fun, excitement and great skiing and become inspired to push the limits of your skiing further by watching great skiers like Daron Rahlves navigate through challenging terrain pushing the boundaries of their own skiing. more>>

  • Total Skiing at Sugar Bowl

    Chris Fellows new book Total Skiing is just out and selling like hot cakes. NASTC offers a clinic to go with the book at Sugar Bowl January 13-14. Sugar Bowl boasts some of the deepest snowpack in North America, and the skiing is awesome right now. In the book, students how to maximize their performance based on their inherent strengths, so that they can most efficiently truly improve.

  • US Men’s Alpine Team in Val Gardena, Italy

    US Men’s Alpine Team has arrived in Val Gardena, Italy in preparation for the DH and SG races this weekend.  The first American to run is Andrew Weibrecht, 11th on the course.  Bode Miller will be starting 23rd after Carlo Janka, Aksal Svindal and Didier Cuche.  Ted Ligety will be starting 32nd followed by Truckee local, Travis Ganong, 36th in the starting order.  Ted Ligety will be one to watch as he is on fire with his second GS win in Val D’Isere.

    Val Gardena is well known on the World Cup circuit as one of the most challenging downhill courses.  NASTC will be visiting this renowned ski destination February 11-20.  Spots are still avaiable on this trip.  Come and ski with us at this world class resort, view the DH run first hand, maybe even make a turn or two on it!  NASTC will spend a week skiing and exploring this massive ski area – the largest in Europe thanks to the Dolomiti Superski network.  The Dolomites have a much different scenery than the traditional backdrop that we are used to seeing in the Alps, the rock that makes up this section of the Alps has a unique color changing  property.  This is certainly an adventure that shouldn’t be missed, it’s an opportunity to visit and ski a remarkable destination, experience the unique culture in this part of Italy, have fun ski adventures everyday, ski from village to village and witness your skiing improve with each day that we spend on the snow.

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  • Total Skiing Has Arrived!

    It’s here! The first copies of Total Skiing have arrived in the NASTC office and are on sale now on our website.  Congrats to NASTC Director Chris Fellows, the book looks great!  First book signing is at the Booky Joint bookstore in Mammoth.  Stop by and see Chris there on Friday, December 17th to get your signed copy. 

  • Are you an Overpowered, Underpowered or Underskilled Skier?

    Discover what your skiing profile is and learn how to improve upon it at the NASTC Total Skiing Clinic Decebmer 20-21, at Sugar Bowl Resort.  Be one of the first to experience the principles of Chris Fellow’s Total Skiing in application.  Identifying your skier type helps pinpoint the areas of development needed to propel your skiing to the next degree of performance.  Skiers will receive a prescription of on-hill and off-hill exercises specific to their skiing profile that will help them make lasting progress in their skiing.  Read more>>

  • Tip for Skiing Heavy Snow: Clock Drill