Ski Performance for Mountaineers
This course has been running since 2007 with increasing popularity every season. It aims to bring together like-minded people to develop their off-piste performance. You will be given simple yet effective tools to ski ice, bumps, powder, chopped up powder and whatever other snow we come across in the off-piste.
Ski Performance Scotland
These courses have been designed to make the most of the Scottish conditions and give mountaineers the option of accessing the same tuition at home in the UK. The course has exactly the same ethos and focus of those run in Chamonix; to bring together like-minded people to develop their off-piste skiing.
Chamonix Off Piste & Touring Skills

Welcome to Off Piste Performance
Off Piste Performance Ltd provides ski instruction from Alison Thacker (née Culshaw) ISTD and ski guiding by James Thacker (IFMGA Mountain Guide). We specialise in private ski tuition and ski guiding tailored to the needs of you, the skier. Alison and James split their time between Scotland, Norway and Chamonix. They will help you achieve your skiing aspirations and beyond, whether it is your first time venturing away from the lifts, or you want to fine tune your off-piste skills.
Off Piste Performance also offers the renowned 'Ski Performance for Mountaineers' which has been bringing together like-minded people to develop their off-piste skills since 2007.
News from the Mountain
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Scottish Spice
10/10/20 For the first time last season Off Piste Performance offered two days of steep skiing for members of the Eagle Ski Club. The 'Steep...
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The Long March to Certainty
14/05/20 Uncertainty is normal in the mountains, an integral part of exploration. We always strive for big margins, and to choose the certain...
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Reflections
10/05/20 We would have just finished our last day of skiing on our Arctic Norway ski touring programme for 2020. We were looking forward to so...
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COVID-19
10/04/20 Following the Norweigan Directorate of Health implementing travel restrictions in Norway, most EU countries rapidly introduced measures...