A short piece on the time/effort to gain some of the Instructional qualifications i hold

BASI level 2 Snowboard instructor
This was almost a year of work, The BASI level 1 course was a 5 day long training and assessment course, i did this in Xscape Yorkshire The coach was Nathan Craig, little did he know but that course changed the next decade of my life.
BASI 2 was 2 weeks in Zermatt, Switzerland, this was a step up in every way from the L1, a hard 2 weeks, Mark Petty was the trainer, and similar to Nathan, my life changed after that course. The main change being i was now qualified to coach snowboarding around the world, in every country apart from France. i took time in the Italian Alps every winter for about the next 15 yrs.

MIAS L5 Mountain Bike instructor/tutor
A number of courses, starting with 2 days in Wales with Craig Nelder we went through the MIAS pathway together, progressing through the levels to L5 in around 12 months, this allowed me to run courses to train and assess other people to become MTB instructors

Snow Sport England Ski instructor level 1
A course taken in Snozone, 3 days long, with a month of consolidation and mentoring from Brian Ayres. I took this qualification mostly because my employer at the time paid for the course, they needed instructors with multiple snowsports qualifications. I must admit, I snowboard for love, ski for pay. It was never going to be the obsession my other sports where.

Climbing Wall Instructor. CWI and Rock Climbing instructor RCI
Training and assessment in Foundry Climbing centre Sheffield. The manager there, Mike Adams had told me, get a qualification and i will give you a job. I did. He did. a fantastic bloke to work for, under his support they paid for my next 2 qualifications,
Climbing Wall Development Instructor CWDI and Rock Climbing Instructor RCI. Climbing became an obsession, and still is.
I now work freelance and get to visit many climbing walls weekly, plus regular work outdoors in the Peak District.

Paddle Sports.
After experience with multiple governing bodies and qualification awarding bodies. My comments on PaddleUK are quite negative. The pathway to qualifications is not clear, and the website is a pit of long links that lead nowhere.
Paddle Sport Leader, this allows me to take people on differing crafts for a paddle with some restrictions, limited to under 200m from the shore, and winds under force 4.
Paddle Sport Instructor, this lets me give taster sessions and basic beginner level instructions.