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…
I notice on many ski forums the relevance of thinking in skiing is often talked about, as in I know it’s my thinking, but that doesn’t help. Well, that’s an understanding of thought at an intellectual level. As if it’s a concept. Like in the Alan Coren joke: Question: What’s the Read more…
Definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing time and time again and expecting a different result! Albert Einstein I’ve just read an interesting article referring to the red and blue pills taken in the Matrix movies. In the movie you can either choose to take the Red Pill or the Read more…
In skiing, and particularly at last week’s London Ski and Snowboard Show, I hear the word FEAR used a lot, such as: Fear of heights Fear of ice Fear of other skiers Fear of being out of control And there are a lot of well-intentioned people out there promoting various Read more…
I’ve been researching what’s available for nervous or fearful skiers and they all have a fundamental flaw: They try and change behaviour, by changing behaviour which is like trying to scratch glass with glass. For example: Practice on gentler slopes Visualisation Thinking positively, trying to replacing negative thoughts Making a Read more…
Yesterday I put up on my flipchart a series of questions, including: Are you a nervous skier? Fearful in your skiing and lacking confidence? Wanting to overcome a bad skiing experience or returning after a break? And within minutes skiers were reading it and sharing stories of bad falls, accidents, Read more…
Today is the first day of business for Skicology. Working with skiers is something I’ve been doing for 10 years now, that started with my brother introducing me to a ski instructor who was interested in NLP and would it help with teaching skiers. Well, that winter I ran a Read more…