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Old May 10th 08, 04:43 AM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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Anyone read it? What'd you think? I'm reading the other ones (tennis
and golf) but am not sure it applies to skiing that well.
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Old May 11th 08, 04:06 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
lal_truckee
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The Dream of Butter wrote:
Anyone read it? What'd you think? I'm reading the other ones (tennis
and golf) but am not sure it applies to skiing that well.


"Famous book" (- not the same as "good book") but a book you should know
if you're interested in skiing abstractly.
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Old May 11th 08, 04:58 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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On Sun, 11 May 2008 09:06:47 -0700, lal_truckee
wrote this crap:

The Dream of Butter wrote:
Anyone read it? What'd you think? I'm reading the other ones (tennis
and golf) but am not sure it applies to skiing that well.


"Famous book" (- not the same as "good book") but a book you should know
if you're interested in skiing abstractly.



What the hell is, "skiing abstractly?" Does it involve swords?




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Old May 12th 08, 02:54 AM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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The Dream of Butter wrote:

Anyone read it? What'd you think? I'm reading the other ones (tennis
and golf) but am not sure it applies to skiing that well.


I read all of them. 2 paragraphs of theory and the rest convincing you
that it will work. It worked for tennis, which I played a lot of. It
worked for golf, which I have never played ever -- a cow-orker had a
putter and ball and cup-analog in his office and told me to try. I sank
a 10-foot putt by doing whatever it was I was supposed to be doing. I
stopped right there -- if it was luck, I don't want to know about it.

Not sure about skiing. I have to remember to breathe, and that seems to
be sufficiently distracting -- but thinking about breathing means I get
going faster than I can stop in the distance I'd have to stop in if
something untoward jumped out of the bushes. His "guess the angle"
thing was totally useless, but reciting poetry or song lyrics seemed to
work.

What DID do the absolute best for my skiing was fog. When I couldn't
see what I thought I had to avoid (lumps, etc., not rocks or trees or
REAL stuff) I could ski way better. Same with dirt motorcycling in the
dark. I think that's the same concept.

Sometimes we're our own worst enemy.

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Old May 12th 08, 11:37 AM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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The Real Bev wrote:

What DID do the absolute best for my skiing was fog. When I couldn't
see what I thought I had to avoid (lumps, etc., not rocks or trees or
REAL stuff) I could ski way better. Same with dirt motorcycling in
the dark. I think that's the same concept.

Sometimes we're our own worst enemy.


So true. I got given a copy of Weems Westfeldt's book about the sports
diamond for skiing, and thought (as you do) "new age crap" but read it
anyway, and mulled over it (as you do) while teaching and skiing. And bugger
me, it had something. I found myself using some of the concepts... if
something wasn't working ie I was skiing like crap, I focussed on another
part of the diamond, got out of where I'd been, and things were good again
and sometimes better. It's bizarre stuff, sports psychology, but there's
quite a bit in it.

I particularly liked the stuff about "the plateau". We've all been there,
been frustrated in it, thought we'd be there for ever, and then the next
bound upward happened. Weems' explanation made sense: the plateau is a time
of consolidation and preparation for the next advance. You can't take
someone from beginner to advanced in a week, no matter how good they are.
they'll learn, and be good, but if you get them again a year later, they've
backslid a lot as they never consolidated their skills and knowledge. The
Plateau is where we do just that, and build a really sound platform for our
next lot of improvement.

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Old May 12th 08, 11:42 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
The Real Bev
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ant wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:

What DID do the absolute best for my skiing was fog. When I couldn't
see what I thought I had to avoid (lumps, etc., not rocks or trees or
REAL stuff) I could ski way better. Same with dirt motorcycling in
the dark. I think that's the same concept.

Sometimes we're our own worst enemy.


So true. I got given a copy of Weems Westfeldt's book about the sports
diamond for skiing, and thought (as you do) "new age crap" but read it
anyway, and mulled over it (as you do) while teaching and skiing. And bugger
me, it had something. I found myself using some of the concepts... if
something wasn't working ie I was skiing like crap, I focussed on another
part of the diamond, got out of where I'd been, and things were good again
and sometimes better. It's bizarre stuff, sports psychology, but there's
quite a bit in it.


I think The Inner Guy just discovered the left brain/right brain thing
before anybody else did. A trick I discovered accidentally: unfocus my
eyes (not exactly that, but close) in sudden traffic situations, which
seems to enable me to take in more information quickly. I don't know if
it actually works, but it feels like it does. Possibly an example of
the same thing.

I particularly liked the stuff about "the plateau". We've all been there,
been frustrated in it, thought we'd be there for ever, and then the next
bound upward happened. Weems' explanation made sense: the plateau is a time
of consolidation and preparation for the next advance. You can't take
someone from beginner to advanced in a week, no matter how good they are.
they'll learn, and be good, but if you get them again a year later, they've
backslid a lot as they never consolidated their skills and knowledge. The
Plateau is where we do just that, and build a really sound platform for our
next lot of improvement.


If you say so. I don't think I spend enough time skiing to hit a
plateau. Best year was maybe a dozen times and I could feel a lot of
improvement happening. 3 or 4 times a year, not so much.

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difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
--Gene Spafford (1992)
 




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