SOFA SKI CAMPS – Porters, New Zealand

COACHES: Klaus Mair, Hansjörg Rumpold, Thomas Kreidenhuber    LOCATION: Porters Alpine Resort

DATES: AUG 10-12 🟠, AUG 13-15 🟠, AUG 17-19 🔴, AUG 20-22 🟠, AUG 24-26 🟢

We still have spots available in most camps. Get in touch to find out if we have a group for you!

PRICE: NZD 2150 (includes 3 days of coaching, 3 day lift pass, airport and ski field transport) also see below ⬇️

MOTEL: Once your spot is confirmed, we’ll connect you with Oxford Village Motel (rooms reserved for all participants) Room rates are approx. NZD 200 per night.

GROUP SIZE: max 6 skiers per group

We are very excited to be back at Porters Alpine Resort in 2025!

In the coming season we’re running five camps, each with three groups, and once again, we’ll be based in the charming town of Oxford.

What’s new for the 2025 Porters Camps?

We’re thrilled to welcome Thomas Kreidenhuber to the team! Tom has coached at SOFA SKI CAMPS in New Zealand for three seasons and is one of Austria’s top demonstrators. He runs his own ski school in Austria and is as a trainer and examiner for the Austrian Level 4 course at the Ski Academy in St. Christoph.

This year we have also booked the Oxford Village Motel exclusively for camp participants and secured a meeting space just across the road for video analysis and dryland training. It’s all within easy walking distance, creating a relaxed and focused environment for your camp experience.

We aim to confirm groups as soon as possible, so please register early so you don’t miss out.

Included in the Camp:

• 3 days of on-snow training (5 hours per day)
• 2 video analysis sessions (Day 1 + Day 2 – each group gets a 40 min-slot, you are welcome to jon the other groups’ sessions)
• 3-day lift pass for Porters
• daily ski field transport
• Christchurch Airport transfers:
  Arrival (CHC -> Oxford): between 5-6 pm the day before the camp starts
  Departure (Oxford -> CHC): directly after training on the last day (arrical at CHC around 5 pm)
  For Camps 2, 4 and 5: an additional early morning transfer on the following day is available

Why Train at Porters Alpine Resort?

Porters offers the perfect terrain for our training programme. From ideal slopes for doing drills in the main basin, to increasingly steeper groomers accessed by the T-bars, as well as mellow to challenging off-piste options. In Austria and Japan, we tend to spend most of our time working on ski technique on a few selected slopes with the right pitch and fewer crowds. Having the right terrain and uncrowded runs is a huge factor for the quality of training that we can deliver.
On top of that, you get to train in a spectacular scenery and get to experience a real NZ Ski Experience with an extremely friendly ski field vibe.

Result Oriented, Professional Coaching for Recreational Skiers

In intense 3-day camps with a maximum group size of only 6 skiers, we deliver high-impact training designed to accelerate your technical development. Sessions include daily video checks, lot’s of personal feedback, and high-resolution action footage to precisely track and enhance your performance on snow.

Our main goal is to create a safe, productive and fun environment for our training together, while putting in a lot of focused work so you can benefit from the training long after the camp. The goal is to help you make a real difference in your skiing so you can ski saver, faster and with less effort in all terrain. If you would like to train for more than 3 days, you can also do two or more camps in a row.

It obviously makes a big difference who you’re working with when it comes to improving your skiing. At our NZ camps every skier gets to train with Klaus (SOFASKI.COM founder), Hansjörg (SOFA SKI CAMPS, Japan) and Thomas. We rotate coaches daily and run the video sessions together. Having different coaches explain things from slightly different angles has consistently led to great results—and it’s something our clients really value.

All groups will be equipped with the latest helmet intercoms from UClear. We’ve been using helmet intercoms for over 10 years and with the newest, improved model, designed to work seamlessly in groups, we’re now using them across all SOFA SKI CAMPS. Live feedback, more skiing and less standing around talking.

Our Training Base Off the Mountain

All participants will stay at the Oxford Village Motel (more info below), located 55 minutes from the ski field. It offers the comfort and convenience we look for during our camps.

After skiing each day, we will watch the ski footage of the day and head out for dinners as a group. Each room also includes a small kitchen unit, and there’s a supermarket just across the street.

Included in the package price is your Christchurch airport and ski field transfer, so you don’t need to worry about driving or renting a car for the duration of the training.

If there should be any closed days, we will either offer a mix of ski technique related dryland training and ski video sessions, or we will drive you to one of the other ski fields for a day of free skiing. For those days, you will receive a 50% refund on the coaching and a full refund on your Porters lift pass.

Please email or WhatsApp +43650MKLAUSM if you have any questions.

We can’t wait to ski with you and hope that you can join us for another great ski camp experience in New Zealand!

Klaus, Hansjörg and Thomas

About Porters Alpine Resort:

Skiable Terrain: 285 hectares   Vertical: 678m
Base Elevation: 1310m    Peak Elevation: 1980m

Porters Alpine Resort is located at the southern end of the Craigieburn Range in the South Island of New Zealand. Although it has only one chairlift I think that the terrain is ideal for our purposes. One wide blue run for doing drills and increasingly steeper T-bar accessed runs for the next step as well as a big variety of ungroomed off-piste. Those obviously depend on how much fresh snow there is, but with permanent snowmaking there should always be sufficient coverage to work on your skiing. Nearby ski fields are Mt Cheeseman, Broken River, Craigieburn, Temple Basin and Mt Hutt.