Two people. Two services.
Ski for life is where Louise Pode’s coaching and Sven Ski Clinic meet. Here is who we are, what each of us does, and why we built the club together.
Body · Strength & Knowledge
Consultant trauma & orthopaedic knee surgeon, Bristol
Sven qualified in 2002 and trained in trauma and knee surgery at University College London Hospitals and on an Australian Orthopaedic Association fellowship. He was appointed a consultant in Bristol in 2019, where he works at Nuffield Health Bristol and Spire Bristol and in the NHS at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead.
He skis every winter, and every winter he sees what a fall costs people who were not ready for the mountain. The Strength and Knowledge pillars are his answer.
Sven Ski Clinic — trauma prevention & management
Sven’s clinic covers the other side of skiing: £35 Trip Protection for the week, video consultations from the chalet, and the consultant letter that books your scan and specialist for the day you land. Club membership is included with Trip Protection.
Mind · Inner confidence & Support
Ski mindset coach · former NHS and military physiotherapist
Lou spent thirty years as a physiotherapist in the NHS and the military before becoming a coach. She created the Access to Work Mental Health Support Service, now a national programme, and works with people whose confidence — on skis and off — has slipped.
She has watched good skiers give up after one bad day because nobody helped them through the wobble. The Inner confidence and Support pillars are her answer.
Louise Pode — mindset coaching
The club gives you Lou’s tools. Her coaching practice is where you go deeper: one-to-one ski mindset coaching, personal development coaching, and courses and retreats.
Why together
A knee that went. A wobble nobody answered. A family that got faster. Between us we have seen every version — and between us we can answer all three.
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Both of us, all four pillars, one membership.
