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Anyone read it? What'd you think? I'm reading the other ones (tennis
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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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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? My T-shirt says, "This shirt is the ultimate power in the universe." |
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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. -- Cheers, Bev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, 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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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. -- ant Don't try to email me! I'm using the latest spammer/scammer's email addy. |
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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. -- Cheers, Bev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, 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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