BASI Adaptive Snowboard Level 1

A distinct BASI adaptive snowboard instructor qualification with snowboard-specific teaching and riding assessment, designed to introduce disabled learners to the sport.

Adaptive snowsport · British Association of Snowsport Instructors

What This Qualification Covers

  • BASI's current qualification overview describes introducing beginners under the responsibility of a snowsports school or club, at non-mountain facilities or on suitable mountain terrain. That conditional teaching setting is distinct from independent practice or a destination's legal permission.
  • The course develops activities for beginner and intermediate disabled snowboarders and adapts teaching to the learner. Check the actual assessed scope for the person's equipment and needs rather than inferring every adaptive discipline from the award title.
  • Short turns and carving are candidate riding requirements. They do not turn this award into Adaptive Ski Level 1, ordinary Snowboard Level 1, or an unrestricted terrain qualification.

FASS country rules

These are the active qualification conditions configured on FASS. They do not confirm that a person has met them or has permission to teach. Local professional and immigration requirements still apply.

No active FASS rule is recorded for these qualifications. This does not establish permission to teach or lack of recognition.

Training and Progression

  • The course combines adaptive-snowboard training and assessment with mandatory preparatory online modules and established riding competence. Confirm current entry and full award-completion requirements with BASI.
  • BASI records Adaptive Snowboard Level 1 as its own qualification. Other adaptive or snowboard progression should be confirmed directly rather than inferred from the separate Adaptive Ski pathway.

Check the awarding body's current syllabus for entry requirements, course dates, fees, and assessment rules.

Sources and Further Reading

Official source review

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BASI's official public qualification descriptions and discipline-specific course specifications were read on 17 October 2026. These are the descriptions supplied to its public course pathway; they were available without an account. Course components and the completed qualification are distinguished below. Confirm current award-completion, licence, and destination requirements with BASI.