Hopefully, you\u2019ve 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 season with a final period of conditioning followed by getting back on snow and tuning up for your first races.<\/p>\n
I wanted to begin this new season of writing by giving you a refresher course on some key issues that I wrote about in past seasons. As all of my ideas built on the previous ones, you can’t just leave those from last season in the past. Rather, you have to make sure these tools are still in your toolbox before you can add to it with the psychological information and strategies I will share with you in the coming months.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Prime Ski Racing<\/a> should be your goal: Skiing at a consistently high level under the most demanding conditions.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 You need to have the right attitude<\/a> about competition and success and failure before you can begin to achieve your goals.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Just like with the physical side of ski racing, you can use Prime Profiling<\/a> to better understand your strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 Motivation <\/a>is the foundation of all of your efforts to achieve your ski racing goals.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 Confidence<\/a> is the single most important mental factor in ski racing.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0 There are five keys to Prime Confidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0 There are five things<\/a> that I hate to see racers do in training.<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0 You need to know the five themes<\/a> to live by on race day to ski your fastest.<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0 Learn to master frustration<\/a>.<\/p>\n 10.\u00a0 5 tips<\/a> for race-day success.<\/p>\n And for a little inspiration, these two articles about Bode<\/a> and Julia and Lindsey<\/a>.<\/p>\n So, now that you’re up to speed on some of the key topics I\u2019ve written about in past years, let’s look ahead and see what we can do get you even more mentally prepared this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hopefully, you\u2019ve 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 season with a final period of conditioning followed by getting back on snow and tuning up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1516],"tags":[527,58,185,43,149,319,230,59,60,96,153],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ski-racing","tag-attitude","tag-competition","tag-confidence","tag-frustration","tag-mental","tag-mind","tag-motivation","tag-pressure","tag-psychology-2","tag-racing","tag-ski-racing-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}