According to Bruno Bouffigny, patience is the key for teaching!

Bruno Bouffigny teaches off-piste skiing, snowboarding and free ride in ESF Courchevel, a ski school which for him conveys certain values, including brotherhood and cohesion in its teaching. This instructor enjoys 17 years of experience as a ski instructor. Originally from Annecy, he also speaks English. He decided to work in this area especially because the idea of working in the great outdoors appealed him; he thus followed a sport-studies programme for seven years. 

For him, patience is the best solution for a suitable pedagogical approach, for everyone needs to overcome ‘obstacles’ at his own pace. For Bruno, there are as many ways of teaching as there are different people. Throughout his experience as a ski instructor, he had the opportunity to get wonderful memories, although what he especially keeps in mind the fact that he met people from various backgrounds, to whom he could communicate his passion for sliding and for mountains.

This instructor started skiing when he was four; he then participated in competitions of alpine skiing for 10 years, as well as in some Freeride World Tour competitions. In Courchevel 1850, his favourite slopes are Le Rocher de la Loze, Les Creux Noirs as well as the slopes of Jean Blanc and Jockeys. Overall, La Face de Bellevarde and Le Grand Couloir are for him one of the five most beautiful slopes in the world. As a matter of fact, this instructor has already skied in Switzerland, in Italy, Austria and New Zealand!

Commitment, the risks involved as well as risk management are what makes Bruno vibrate in the practice of snow sports, and what provides him this incredible satisfaction during its achievement. 

But apart from this first passion, Bruno is consumed by another one: surfing. It is the reason why once winter is over, he teaches surfing all around the world. He also practices bodysurfing, as well as other sliding sports, such as skateboarding and wakeboarding.