About Coast Club
The Coast Club is the premier snowboard program on Vancouver Island. Our club supports athletes who want to take their snowboarding to the next level. With professional coaches, supportive friends, and opportunities to test your skills, you can't help but progress and have fun when you ride with us!
Additional Information
Born to board
The Coast Club is a group of dedicated snowboarders keen on progressing and potentially testing their abilities through competitive snowboarding. We cater to riders who have excelled beyond snow school programs and want to push their boundaries, whether competitively or recreationally.
Who We Are
- Target Age: 8 years and older
- Skill Level: Athletes should have progressed beyond the Snow School levels and want to start challenging themselves in a variety of terrain including the terrain park.
- Group Size: 1 coach per 6 athletes max
- Season Duration: 18-52 days on snow
- Training Schedule: Saturdays and Sundays, 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM, plus select dates during Christmas and Spring Break
- Location: Mount Washington Alpine Resort
What We Offer
Comprehensive Training:
- Focus on building a solid foundation of skills
- Trick progression through smart selection, practice, and analysis
- Freestyle and Freeride competition preparation and development
- Video analysis for performance improvement
- Portfolio-building with video and photo content
- Web and social media exposure
- Competition tactics and experience
Expert Coaching:
- Experienced and certified coaches
- NCCP and Canada~Snowboard trainings
- Diverse coaching backgrounds
Travel Opportunities:
- Training camps and competitions across British Columbia
- Potential for provincial and national-level events
Skill Development:
- Personalized coaching to meet individual goals
- Experimentation with diverse riding styles and techniques
- Exposure to a variety of terrain and conditions
Our Impact
The Coast Club takes pride in helping athletes:
- Achieve their personal snowboarding goals
- Forge lifelong friendships within the snowboarding community
- Develop good training habits and learning skills that can be applied to other environments
- Love the sport of snowboarding
Whether you're aiming for competitive success or simply want to enhance your skills with more on-snow time, the Coast Club provides the perfect environment for your snowboarding journey.
Join us and become part of Vancouver Island's premier snowboarding community!
Extra Activities
Competitions
Competing in snowboarding can be a peak experience in the sport. We strive to foster a love of snowboarding and a love of competitions from our athletes. We encourage athletes to step into this arena when they feel ready and meet athletes where they’re at in their competitive journey. Whether you’re interested in trying your first rail jam or want to podium at the BCSA slopestyles, our team is here to support you.
This is a great way to teach athletes the value of hard work, sportsmanship, and being able to perform under pressure. Life skills that athletes learn through competing pay dividends in many other aspects of their lives. Oh, and did we mention competing can be really fun?
This year we've got up to 4 BCSA slopestyle competitions at:
- Whistler
- Big White
- Silver Star
- Sun Peaks
We're also looking into attending our first Freeride event this year! More details to come on that.
Early-Season Whistler Fall Camp
Kickstart the season
We're getting a jump on the season this year. We'll be organizing an optional early-season camp to kick-start the season at one of the best resorts on Earth. Athletes will have a chance to get used to new equipment, shake off the cobwebs, and get radical!
This 4 day on snow camp will include:
- Freeriding with a longtime local - head coach Andrew
- Freestyle practice - hopefully including a jump, boxes, and rails
- Video review
- And more!
Late-Season Whistler Spring Camp
Extend the season with some epic riding
Extend the season with some We'll be organizing an optional early-season camp to kick-start the season at one of the best resorts on Earth. Athletes will have a chance to get used to new equipment, shake off the cobwebs, and get radical!
This 4/5 day on-snow camp will include:
- Great freestyle progession opportunity
- Spring freeriding - Conditions could be full pow to full slush.
- Video review
- And more!
The Gathering Youth Performance Camp: Sunshine Village
Canada Snowboard's seven-day Youth Performance Camp
Grab your boards and meet us on the Holy Bowly course at Sunshine Village for a week of skill development on unique style features and good old spring vibes. By bringing together clubs, coaches and riders from across the country along with Canada Snowboard High-Performance coaches, this week-long adventure provides an epic opportunity for both coaches and riders to celebrate our sport and grow as a community.
This camp usually is the first week of May but stay tuned for confirmation of dates. This may be your chance to ride with The Coast Club founder Buddy this season!
Founding Sponsors
These companies have supported us since day one!
Silver Sponsors
