Team

Dougal Doyle - Head Coach and owner of Love Snowboarding.

I started snowboarding when I was about 18 with no lessons and took an absolute beating! I stuck with it and by the end of the week I could (sort of) snowboard.

The next season I went away for the winter with two friends we all chipped in and bought a van together, all I can say is that it was cold but life changing! From this point on I was hooked!

My main passion for many years in snowboarding was freestyle and I earned quite a good reputation on the UK scene for a number of years with sponsorships through NOMIS clothing, Subvert board store and ICON snowboards I even won a big air event down in London once. At this point I decided to focus on my career as an instructor as I had never worked in a job that I found quite so rewarding and loved teaching people something that meant so much to me.

I did my first instructor exam in New Zealand it was actually a freestyle coaches exam! I then went on to do my level 1, 2 and 3 through the NZ system.

After some time I decided to try the Canadian system and did my level 2 and 3 and freestyle coaches qualification.

Finally, I settled on the British system and completed my level 3 ISIA and Level 4 ISTD

Through each of these courses I had to correct habits I had picked up and found each system complimented the other in some way and added more to my understanding!