The race season is just around the corner. Could there be a better holiday gift than helping the ski racers in your family to get mentally prepared to ski their fastest (probably, but this is a pretty good gift too!)? Just a quick reminder about the re-launch of my Prime Ski Racing 101: Train Your Mind like [...]
Photo credit: Mitchell Gunn I just returned from Copper where I was working with the USST women’s Europa Cup and D teams and the National Training Group (a great group of young women!). A major goal they wanted to pursue was consistency in their skiing. This objective fit nicely into my own priorities [...]
It’s that time of year again when you will soon be on snow and putting in the time into your gate training to fine tune your technique, tactics, and speed for the upcoming race season. How you use your training time may very well determine how fast you ski and whether you achieve your ski [...]
Credit: Mitchell Gunn The winter is just around the corner and there's still time to get your mind into better shape for race season. I'm excited to announce the re-launch of my Prime Ski Racing 101: Train Your Mind like a Champion online mental training course, now improved with new visuals, embedded exercises, on-demand and [...]
Being a ski coach is a tough job. There is everything you need to know about conditioning, technique, tactics, equipment, and, of course, the mind. There are the logistics of organizing training, travel, and races for a group of athletes, and adapting to the ever-changing conditions inherent in ski racing. There are also the not-very-fun [...]
Courtesy of Mitchell Gunn These days, children seem to be given every opportunity by their parents to experience success in ski racing and every other performance activity (e.g., school, other sports, the performing arts). Many young ski racers receive extra help from personal fitness trainers and summer camps. They are given the opportunity [...]
Setting expectations for your children is an essential responsibility of being a ski racing parent. Expectations communicate messages to your children about what’s important to you and establish a standard toward which your children can strive. But expectations can be double-edged swords. They can be a tremendous benefit to your children’s ski racing and personal [...]
If you’re at all serious about your ski racing, this past summer should have been devoted to the process of making yourself the best ski racer you can be. There is one thing that you better have done and another thing that you likely will have done this past summer: engage in an intensive physical [...]
I'm very excited to announce the launch of Prime Ski Coaching 404: Psychology of Training Champion Ski Racers, a 4-week course that is offered on-demand and self-paced to fit into the busy lives of ski coaches. Prime Ski Coaching 404 provides ski coaches with a foundation of knowledge and practical tools about the impact of the mind [...]
Apologies for tooting my own horn, but the reviews and survey results are in from my first two online mental training courses, Prime Ski Racing 101 and Prime Sport 101, and they were very gratifying (while also providing great feedback on how I can continue to improve them). Though they are a work in progress, [...]