billski
Active member
@ Alta:
" There is no talk of stance or edge angulation—it is your mind that is getting trained.
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"It is ungraspable," she said. "You can't understand it."
Kristen Ulmer, extreme sports pioneer and former U.S. Ski Team member, was teaching us how to ski. Sort of.
The all-in-your-head program is supposed to make skiers, snowboarders and telemarkers into better athletes, but also better people. During the first session, Ms. Ulmer proclaimed: "By the end of the camp, you'll feel freer than you ever have."
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Our group had varying levels of skiers, and there was a palpable air of apprehension about our first day on Alta's advanced terrain. We started by practicing to ski in each voice—doing a run as if one feeling ruled our world. We began with fear, a big one in skiing. I picked the most advanced of our three groups for more challenging runs, and tried to ski around feeling afraid of everything. I pretended each rollover or curve was terrifying. I felt like an idiot.
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Source, WSJ March 5, 2012
" There is no talk of stance or edge angulation—it is your mind that is getting trained.
...
"It is ungraspable," she said. "You can't understand it."
Kristen Ulmer, extreme sports pioneer and former U.S. Ski Team member, was teaching us how to ski. Sort of.
The all-in-your-head program is supposed to make skiers, snowboarders and telemarkers into better athletes, but also better people. During the first session, Ms. Ulmer proclaimed: "By the end of the camp, you'll feel freer than you ever have."
...
Our group had varying levels of skiers, and there was a palpable air of apprehension about our first day on Alta's advanced terrain. We started by practicing to ski in each voice—doing a run as if one feeling ruled our world. We began with fear, a big one in skiing. I picked the most advanced of our three groups for more challenging runs, and tried to ski around feeling afraid of everything. I pretended each rollover or curve was terrifying. I felt like an idiot.
...
Source, WSJ March 5, 2012
