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…
[here’s an article I’ve just written for Skicology’s sister business Headstuff. I thought I’d reproduce it here as it’s so relevant to skiing] Yesterday, I was listening to local band The Buskers playing a gig in Les Gets. They were sounding really great. And pretty much everyone would assume Read more…
Some people consider skiing to be a dangerous sport, which leads to accidents. But what’s the true cause of these accidents? A recent survey by law firm Irwin Mitchell of 1200 British skiers put their accidents down to a range of factors. The top 5 causes given by people surveyed were: Read more…
It’s very natural for our moods to go up and down. Recognising them and when and how to act is the important thing. Take last week. Monday I went skiing with friends. I was feeling great and my skiing was great and I had enormous fun. My mood was high. 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…
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…