Skiers with no confidence

EmmaEvs, Glad to hear the book is increasing your confidence already. The more you read it, the more the jigsaw snaps into place. Take it with you on your trip as bedtime reading, pending of course your alcohol levels )and you will be hucking before long :D

Hucking :lol: yeah :lol: I had to look it up :roll:

Why not 8) :lol:

My wife had no confidence whatever for years, no surprise as she suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, but over the last 2 seasons all changed and now she is the one suggesting little off piste excursions. I've no answers as to how this happened, I'm just delighted for her.

Hey Ryan

I know how frustrating it can be - but I would like to say "How cool is your Mum?" for going snowboarding in the first place!? I don't know what happened on that fateful trip (and perhaps we shouldn't go there!) but good for her. In 18 seasons of teaching skiing and snowboarding - you don't get many mums on a board.

Still there are things in us girls that gives us a much more fine tuned awareness of danger. I believe it is an instinct that comes from the need to protect ourselves to be able to continue looking after our children. Studies have shown this and my dear mum said that she went from being a daredevil to not being able to go on tame fair rides after having me and my brother.

The thought of that fear creeping up on us is a really horrible, debilitating feeling. So that flat "NO" that you get when you suggest the blue run is them just saying "NO I don't want to go there, to feel bad sensations, bad expectations, nerves, worry etc etc when I'm actually on a nice holiday in the beautiful mountains and I can enjoy that".

So they will probably never be as gungho as you guys - but I can understand that you want them to feel like they've really achieved something and they clearly are able.

Are they still having lessons? This is the best bet as it gets them committed to something and it won't be YOU pushing them.- That's another pressure that women tell me about so often. I'm sure Arinsal has a good school with a few brits right? You need to book and make sure you ask for someone really good with boosting confidence and nervous ladies.

But then you need to watch out - because when they get their confidence with technique they can over take you! My mum used to hate skiing anything more than a gentle blue, petrified, and now, at 64, she's better than my dad, which we think is quite funny!

The other thing is a G&T at lunch :D , (or brandy hot chocolates over there isn't it!) Haha! - but I never suggested that ok!!

There is a free email course on my website which you could pass on or I will send them direct. It is 6 lessons to get the head back into skiing before you get on the slopes.

Hope this helps )
Kt

robauxgets wrote:My wife had no confidence whatever for years, no surprise as she suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, but over the last 2 seasons all changed and now she is the one suggesting little off piste excursions. I've no answers as to how this happened, I'm just delighted for her.

That's so awesome! x :-)

Katie, I've emailed Mum your website so hopefully she'll take a look - cheers!
I'm pretty sure the plan is to have more dry slope lessons over the next few months and probably some more in resort. Fingers crossed.


I bought the Inner Skier book for her as well and I know a good chapter or two were read immediately so maybe that's got a few little gems in it as well.

Fingers crossed!!

I've only been skiing once and found that the only thing that builds any confidence is success - no matter how small the improvement, it always has a positive effect. If I could do something that I couldn't the day before, or two hours before then I was good to go on. Success is undeniable proof to the beginner that further improvement and success is possible. It's a snowball effect (no pun intended!), the more success, the more belief, and so on. If you can get your beginner to make these small visible improvements then they will only move forward.

Wow

28 month bump!!!