Ash Newnes
Ash is one of the UK’s most respected coach’s. He has been involved in Snowsports since the early 90’s. Before getting into teaching Ash was a sponsored rider spending the majority of the time in various resorts around the world, including New Zealand, France, USA, Andorra and Canada. He started teaching in 1997 and loved it. Since then Ash has gone on to gain the highest qualifications achievable. He has also created, developed and sold Snowsports schools, so has a wealth of experience within the industry.
Ash has trained instructors for ALL the main governing bodies in Great Britain for over 20 years – The British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI), Snowsport Scotland (SNSC) and the Irish Association of Snowsport Instructors (IASI). He holds full worldwide accreditation from the International Association of Snowsport Instructors (ISIA) and holds the International Ski Teacher Diploma (ISTD) the highest levels attainable for instructors and coach’s.
Over the years Ash has appeared as a rider and been a contributing writer to many of the UK’s Snowsports magazines such as Ski and Board, Document, Whitelines as well as The Times and Daily Mail newspapers.
He has also been on Radio 1, Blue Peter and many other BBC/ITV programs. He was also the Snowboard Coach for Channel 4’s reality TV show “The Jump”.
