Australian Olympic skiers train at a mix of specialised facilities in Australia and high-performance bases overseas, depending on their discipline and the time of year.

Home base in Australia

  • National Snowsports Training Centre (NSTC), Jindabyne, NSW – A dedicated, multi-million-dollar hub in the Snowy Mountains with strength and conditioning gyms, acrobatics setups, medical/performance support, and an outdoor airbag jump for skiers and snowboarders to practice new tricks safely before taking them to snow.
  • Mt Buller Olympic Training Centre, Victoria – An officially recognised Olympic Training Centre where aerial and mogul skiers can live on the mountain and train on a dedicated moguls course and upgraded aerials site, with night lighting to allow training into the evening.
  • Geoff Henke Olympic Winter Training Centre, Brisbane (Sleeman Sports Complex) – A year‑round aerial skiing facility using ramps that launch athletes into a pool instead of onto snow, allowing them to rehearse jumps in all seasons; it is training home to a dozen current Winter Olympians in aerials and moguls.

Think of Brisbane’s water ramps and Jindabyne’s airbags as the “giant practice notebook” where Australian aerial and moguls skiers write and rewrite their tricks before performing them on real snow.

Overseas training and European bases

  • Because Australia has a short winter and limited natural snow, national-team skiers spend long blocks of time in the Northern Hemisphere (Europe, North America, and Asia) to train on Olympic-standard slopes and courses.
  • Cross‑country and alpine skiers typically use European training bases that function as a “home away from home” in the lead‑up to Winter Games, combining on‑snow training with gym, recovery, and team support services.

Where different disciplines focus

  • Aerials & Moguls – Split their time between Mt Buller (on-snow), the NSTC in Jindabyne, and the Geoff Henke Centre in Brisbane for water‑ramp and acrobatic training, then join international camps in Europe and North America for competition-season snow time.
  • Alpine & Cross‑Country – Rely more heavily on overseas snow for race‑specific work, using Australia’s alpine resorts in winter but spending the bulk of their high‑intensity, pre‑Olympic training months on European and North American tracks and race hills.

Key training locations overview (HTML table)

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      <th>Location</th>
      <th>Type of Facility</th>
      <th>Main Disciplines</th>
      <th>Role in Training</th>
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      <td>Jindabyne, NSW – National Snowsports Training Centre</td>
      <td>High-performance dryland & airbag centre [web:1]</td>
      <td>Aerials, moguls, snowboard, freeski [web:1]</td>
      <td>Gym, acrobatics, airbag jumps, sports science support [web:1]</td>
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      <td>Mt Buller, VIC – Olympic Training Centre</td>
      <td>On-mountain Olympic Training Centre [web:3]</td>
      <td>Aerials, moguls [web:3]</td>
      <td>On-snow courses, night training, athlete accommodation [web:3]</td>
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      <td>Brisbane, QLD – Geoff Henke Olympic Winter Training Centre</td>
      <td>Year-round aerial ski water-ramp facility [web:5][web:7][web:9]</td>
      <td>Aerials, moguls [web:7][web:9]</td>
      <td>Off-snow jump rehearsal into water, skill progression in all seasons [web:5][web:7][web:9]</td>
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      <td>European & North American resorts</td>
      <td>On-snow training camps & race venues [web:2][web:4]</td>
      <td>Alpine, cross-country, freestyle, snowboard [web:2][web:4]</td>
      <td>Main pre-Olympic snow training and competition blocks [web:2][web:4]</td>
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Mini story: a season in motion

An Australian moguls skier might start the year rehearsing new jumps on the water ramps in subtropical Brisbane, perfecting aerials safely into the pool. In the southern winter, they shift to Mt Buller and Jindabyne, living on the mountain, running moguls courses and airbags, and building strength in the NSTC gym. As Australia’s snow melts, they then chase winter north, joining the rest of the world’s elite on European and North American slopes to fine‑tune their runs and compete on Olympic‑style courses.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.