ANTOINE VACQUES
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ANTOINE VACQUES
Antoine Vacques
Activities
Snowboard and Alpine skiing
Spoken languages
French - English - Portuguese - Spanish - Italian

‘The mountain offers us a scenery… Let’s invent the story that goes with it’!

About

Antoine Vacques is an experienced ski instructor who focuses on a sound teaching method, in such a way that his lessons are a success for his learners. Above all else, Antoine likes transmitting his expertise and his techniques to new learners. Moreover, he possesses a real asset as he is fluent in four different languages: French, English, Spanish and Portuguese.


Encouraged by his parents- both passionate about snow sliding sports-, it is at the age of 3 that Antoine puts on skis for the first time. At 8, he takes an active interest in this sport and decides to throw himself body and soul by joining Courchevel Sports Club. From all of his 33 years of age and despite the fact that he has been teaching for only 13 years, Antoine has more than 30 years of experience. Appealed by off-piste skiing, he decided to specialise in this area because, according to him, nothing can equal the purity of unexplored ski runs. Competitive skiing is another area for which Antoine is passionate about.

He competed for the Junior French Cup in mogul skiing before heading towards freestyle and freeride competitions at the age of 16. Despite a few podiums, he never took part in national competitions and rather preferred providing ski lessons and participating on mountain sports films.

During summer, Antoine also works as a travel and trekking guide in a natural reserve in the north-east of Brazil. He is known for surpassing himself and for exploring new skiing areas. He therefore roamed around the world looking for new skiing sensations. The Streif of Kitzbuhel, the Face de Bellevarde at Val-d’Isère, the “Piste Verte” of Houches, “L’Aiguille Rouge des Arcs” and La Saulire in Courchevel are those which provided him the greatest thrills.

If you choose Antoine Vacques as a ski instructor, perhaps will you have the opportunity to slide with him on his favourite ski runs- Le Dou des Lanches for a regular ski run or Les Creux Noirs for an off-piste trail.

When would you like to ski with me?