Ski Racing: Your Children are Listening
Note: This post is excerpted from my latest parenting book, Your Children are Listening: Nine Messages They Need to Hear from You. I have a Ph.D. in Psychology, am the author of two previous parenting books, have a consulting practice that involves working with young people and their parents, and regularly speak to gatherings of parents, educators, and […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Racers: Last Year in Review
Hopefully, you heeded my advice from my second to last column at the end of last season and spent the summer getting ready for this winter of racing. If so, you should be stronger, better technically, and more mentally prepared than ever before. You’re now entering the final stage of preparations for the upcoming race […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Don’ts for Ski Racing Parents
Two weeks ago, I shared with you my list of Dos for Ski Racing Parents. In general, I much prefer to focus on the positives of behavior and, in that article, emphasized what parents can do to help their ski-racing children achieve their goals and have a great experience in our sport. At the same […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Find Your Prime Race Intensity
I obviously believe in the ability of the mind to power your ski racing efforts. At the same time, I can’t say that the mind is the most important contributor to ski racing success. The reality is that all of the mental skills in the world won’t help you if you’re not physically capable of […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Dos for Ski Racing Parents
Winter has officially arrived, with the Solden World Cups just completed and the lifts running and racers getting on snow in Colorado. So, now is the time that racers will be making their final push toward the start of race season. And now is also the time for you to begin to prepare for your […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Intensity in Ski Racing
Intensity may be the most important contributor to ski racing performance once the race begins. It’s so important because all of the motivation, confidence, focus, and emotions in the world won’t help you if your body is not physiologically capable of doing what it needs to do for you to ski your best. Simply put, […]
Read MoreSki Racing: The Best Messages to Send Your Young Racer
The most important thing that you can do to ensure that your young racer gets the right messages is for you to know what those right messages. This understanding is not a given for all parents. To the contrary, many parents don’t give much thought to this level of their children’s development simply because they […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Building Confidence: Part II
Negative thinking that hurts confidence can become a bad habit. Bad confidence habits are just like bad technical habits; the more you practice them, the more ingrained they become and the better you get at being negative. And that negativity is what will come out in a race. Fortunately, like a bad technical habit, negative […]
Read MoreSki Racing/Parenting: Last Year in Review
It’s hard to believe, but we’ll be back on snow in Colorado in just over a month and that rollercoaster ride called another winter of ski racing is about to begin again. I’m especially excited about this winter because I’ve recently accepted a faculty position at the University of Denver, so I’ll be around the […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Mental Imagery: Seeing and Feeling Success
If you do anything to work on the mental side of your ski racing during this off season, it better be mental imagery. Why, you ask. Because there is no more powerful mental tool than mental imagery and it can have a huge impact on your ski racing. I say this with such conviction because […]
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