BPS SKI CAMPS
Join a limited opportunity to ski with Big Picture Skiing instructors this winter. Led by renowned ski instructor, Tom Gellie and his team of expert coaches, including Jason Simpson, and Demelza Clay. These exclusive camps are designed to elevate your skiing abilities. With a focus on honing, your skills, developing a strong foundation and unlocking your best ski turns. Our camps guarantee an unforgettable experience.
STAY TUNED FOR CAMP DATES FOR THE 2025/2026 WINTER!
We are planning on having our dates for the coming winter up and ready to view in June. We will be taking applications which will require a mandatory video to go with them unless we have skied with you before. This is to ensure our groups and levels of skier fit well together and you are in the right camp.
Three types of improvement camp
We offer a variety of camps based around skill level and fitness. If you have never done a BPS camp we encourage you to begin with a Foundations Camp to solidify some of the key BPS concepts around stance, boot setup, turn transitions and body alignment. From there Development camps are great for honing skills on specific turn types and Advanced camps offer high skiers a chance to really push their level on steeper terrain and more technical skiing in bumps.
IMMERSE YOURSELF EACH CAMP INCLUDES
Deep dive on ski boot setup.
All day coaching from BPS Coaches
Video analysis of your skiing
Recordings of your analysis saved for you to review later
Progressions emphasising exploration and feelings of good skiing
Drills to take away and work on after the camp
Where to go next via recommendations of videos in the BPS library.
Socialise with the coaches over lunch and learn more about self analysis of your own skiing.
How The Big Picture Camps Came To Be
The dream of running camps without any constraints on what you had to teach and how you had to communicate the information has always been there. This freedom of expression, license to be creative and teach how skiing feels is what binds the Big Picture Skiing coaching team together. But how did the current team find each other?
Tom launched a few technical skiing camps in Thredbo Australia, but he soon realised that a one man coaching team can be a somewhat solo adventure that lacks the collaborative magic of coaching with others, with the capacity to help very few people with their skiing. So Tom decided to be on the look-out for a coach with aligned ideologies, a growth mindset and of a caliber in the ski industry that he could trust.
As luck would have it, on a ski trip to Canada Tom bumped into his friend Demelza Clay; a former teammate on the Australian National Demo Team, Heli Guide, Examiner/Trainer and Technical Director. She was residing in British Columbia now, and upon learning about the impact that BPS was having in the industry, Demelza was excited to accept Tom’s invitation to coach BPS programs with him. The collaboration begun and soon they were sharing coaching ideas, pushing each other on snow, and much to her delight, Tom helped Demelza transform her skiing after a recent knee surgery and decades of battling with her ski boot setup.
Soon after, a Senior Examiner/Trainer and Ski School Director in western Canada named Jason Simpson sent a note to Tom that made him smile. Jason was feeling stagnant with his skiing and coaching, frustrated by ‘high level’ questions that neither his peers or those in his professional circle could answer. But his search for clarity ended when Jason subscribed to BPS. When they eventually skied together, Tom shared with Jason some further insight into ideas that challenged traditional beliefs held at the core of the instructor education system. With his mind freshly blown and his skiing going places again Jason was inspired. Tom soon realised that Jason would compliment his little gang of two coaches fantastically… and so the BPS Tech Camp coaching team was born.
Tom, Demelza and Jason are coaching together from the founding principal that efficient technical skiing is the instrument that increases our longevity as skiers. Underpinned by a progressive understanding of the body in movement, a ‘high performance comfort’ bootfitting philosophy and a combined 70+ years of coaching experience, we are lifelong students of skiing who deliver on-snow content that you’ve probably never encountered. Join us and discover what great skiing feels like.
BPS COACHES
Demelza Clay
Level 4 APSI Alpine
1 x Demo Team Member
Heli Ski Guide
Tom Gellie
Level 4 APSI Alpine
Level 4 APSI Telemark
2 x Demo Team Member
Jason Simpson
Level 4 CSIA Alpine
PSIC L4 Examiner
Former Ski School Director Panorama Resort
