Bulgaria Ski discussion board

I don't class myself as a great skier by any means, but I can hold my own and last year in Killington I skied for 10 days on mainly blacks and reds without a single fall to my name.

The reason can be summed up in one word - CONFIDENCE.
If you can be confident of keeping your edges and weight right then you will not fall, or if you do it will probably not be due to your skiing ability.

For years I skied the same old way, at the same speed, and thought I was getting better at it -- I wasn't!
Confidence can be attributed to several things. Ability yes, but belief in your ability is far more important, as is the courage to ski through your comfort zone. Once you have raised the bar and feel comfortable with it - then you can really say you are a better skier. Just try it, stay in control but believe in your ability - And you WILL SEE a marked difference. Speed is all about control, and if you've got it then go for it!

PP

It's only your own restrictions that prevent you from being better - much better. Great skiers are not super-human, they just believe in their ability. Hold the turns keep the weight and your body pointing downhill and let the skies flow. Try it first on your favourite run, and do not look at the tips of your skis, but look at the path you are taking.

Believe me, this is not me just being gobby and being a knowall, because that couldn't be further from the truth, but even my friends could not believe how my skiing improved last year all because I belived I could do it.

PP

"do not look at the tips of your skis, but look at the path you are taking"

That is EXACTLY what I use to do for a long time and one of my ski instructors (private lessons on that occassion) pointed it out to me and gave me a right telling off for it. He recommended that I go on a slalom run with the posts set fairly close together and on a red run so that I would be going so fast and making loads of short turns that I wouldn't be able to look down at my tips or I will miss the next post and get pooped out of the line. Worked a treat and I felt so much better for it.