You don’t have to be new skier to be nervous or fearful. I’ve seen experienced skiers, including competition skiers and ski professionals become fearful and nervous. So this week I’ve been doing research in to some of the suggestions and strategies to over-coming fear and nerves in skiing, and they Read more…
Without a change of mind, there is no change of behaviour As today is World Mental Health Day sponsored by the World Health Organisation I’ve written this article on how the Principles behind Skicology™ have been applied in a slightly different setting: preventing young people being radicalised in to extremist Read more…
I’ve met a lot of people of people these past few weeks, and there’s one thing they consistently talk about…and surprisingly this isn’t the cause of their experience and feelings. And that’s the SNOW! The comment’s I’ve heard are: It’s patchy It’s really good It’s really bad It’s brown It’s Read more…
And it’s nothing to do with fear! That’s just something made up by adults, not kids! A lack of fear is something they won’t even have considered. The same about a lack of confidence. That will never occur to them. And fear is actually the hard wired mechanism in all Read more…
Have you finished the ski season on a bit of a downer and experienced: Freezing up? Freaking out? Hurt, injured or lost confidence? Losing the fun? Fortunately you now have 2 choices:- Spending the summer having a hard time worrying and getting anxious and stressed about your skiing just by Read more…
Article by Alison Sutton, relationship specialist at Skicology Have you ever perused any dating websites? I have to admit that I have, off and on. In their effort to impress it is very common for men to present their best action shots- of them sailing, running and skiing and for Read more…
The content of your thinking looks and feels real but there is no answer to be found in the content. If it was, all the analysis and action you have done would answer the problem you see in your skiing. When in fact, answer is behind all of that. The fact Read more…
There’s a huge misunderstanding of where feelings come from that gets people in to all sorts of trouble or leaves them troubled. It’s commonly misunderstood that feelings come from other things: people, circumstances, spiders, and in skiing the likes of snow and ice, the weather, injury, family responsibilities, the colour Read more…
When your mind is open and trusting the unknown you’ll start to see new things around you. You point yourself in the direction you want to be going and you discover. If you’re getting bogged down being analytical and trying to work out the ‘how to’ that’s just playing around Read more…
Most people are used to having to work at: Building confidence, or Finding confidence As if it’s a mythical object or quality we somehow mislaid. Oddly, those people who have it don’t talk about it, and those that think they’ve lost it and it’s the holy grail to skiing keep Read more…