8 Questions to Ask Yourself at the End of a Sport Season
Every sport has a competitive season that ends. For winter sports, it’s recently concluded and for spring sports, it is rapidly approaching. After a long and demanding season, you’re probably tired of your sport (regardless of whether the season was a triumph or a disappointment). It’s time to pack away your gear, kick back, relax, […]
Read More8 Questions to Ask Yourself at the End of the Race Season
The race season is finally over. After a long and demanding winter, you’re probably tired of skiing (regardless of whether the season was a triumph or a disappointment). It’s time to hang up your skis, pack away your gear, kick back, relax, and forget about ski racing for a few months, right? WRONG!!! Being the […]
Read MoreHow Do You Define Your Race Season Success?
With the season now over (well, almost in some parts of the world), it is, for every racer, a time of reckoning in which you look back and evaluate what kind of season you had: one to be proud of or one to reflect back on with disappointment and perhaps regret. One of the primary […]
Read MoreThe Funny (and Brutally Honest) Side of Being a Sport Parent
I just came across a very funny article titled “17 Tweets for Parents Who Both Love and Hate Kids’ Sports Season.” If you’re the parent of a young athlete, you’ll both totally relate to and get a good chuckle out of the tweets. As the parent of two young ski racers, I would like to […]
Read MoreWhat’s Right with U.S. Ski Racing
I’ve been involved in U.S. ski racing for—Yikes!—more than 50 years. I started ski racing as a “Chipmunk” at Mad River Glen, then moved on to the Valley Junior Racing Club (at then Glen Ellen, pre-GMVS), Burke Mountain Academy, Middlebury College, the University of Colorado, and even two seasons on the old pro tour. Since […]
Read MoreVlog: Seven Reasons Athletes Don’t Do Mental Training
In the 12th and final segment of my vlog series devoted to the psychology of sport for athletes and coaches, I explain the seven reasons that prevent athletes from making a commitment of time and energy to mental training. As I’m sure you would agree, the mind plays an essential role in athletic success. Yet, […]
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