Hi,
I was once told that I couldn't get a job here, Canada, with PMTS, because I couldn't get insurance, so I looked into insurance, and to get it from the one company that would actually insure instructors I found, you had to have a level 1 CSIA! So it was a bit of a catch 22.
You would need to check with your home school, but consider this. YOu will probably need at least level 1 just to get a job with a ski school. That gets you in the door. Many people who want a PMTS lesson are "'seeking it out". They've bought the books, studied them and PMTS is specificaly
what they want. Many ski school directors, especially ones with a real strong allegiance to the traditional schools simply won't tolerate (or understand) another approach. But, here's a valid argument for the management. (this depends if it's privately owned or resort owned). The ones who want PMTS are there only for that. The traditional instructors will say you're competing with the school. You're not, because the ones who want PMTS are there only for that. If PMTS wasn't offered, they wouldn't take a lesson with the traditional school, they'd go somewhere else. For the management, they may not care, as long as they're selling a lesson. An analogy I use is, if you have a traditional steak house and someone comes looking for seafood, if you say you don't serve seafood, they aren't going to say, "ok, then I'll have a steak." (Especially if steak made them sick last time
)
One PMTS school in Canada had a deal with the resort ( I think this is how it worked) that they would only teach people who they brought in as students to the resort. So they weren't "taking away" the walk ins, and traditional school's clients.
I keep things fairly quiet at my school, and have an arrangement with our manager that they allow me to do it. Some members of the school just don't get it and are upset by it and insist I'm competing or stealing clients. I've said to them if they want to offer the person a traditional lesson, they're welcome to do so and see what they say. None of them call my bluff. You have to feel it out. Mind you, we're a small school and don't get a lot of walk in traffice anyway. In a big resort with big politics and more walk in traffic, it may be a different matter.
The other question is the insurance one, and I would need some legal advice on that. If someone gets hurt in a lesson and you're doing what you're certified to do, it's one thing, but if you're certified in traditional and try to teach PMTS moves, which you're not certified to do, you may be in trouble. To get personal insurance is prohibitively expensive, and even so, though people know they are taking a lesson at their own risk, there is always the question of what if you take them on terrain they're not ready to handle, etc.
Would Natasha Richardson's family sue the ski school for her accident? I don't know. The situation in the States, where people tend to be more litigious than here may have something to do with it. But often it's one of those things where they sue the resort, the school, and you. But again, I'm no expert on this and that is up to you to find out.
I hope that gives you some advice. In some places there is a "school in a school" set up, which HH could explain better than I could.
Ultimately, most resorts are out to make money and if it works for them, they may allow both.
Icanski