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"SKIING
IS A SLIDING SPORT":
Conventional Skiing Wisdoms (CSW's)
by Bill Jones, Ski Instructor
Certified Professional Ski Instructor (Registration #110478)
CSW #12:
"Practice makes perfect."
The famous football coach Vince
Lombardi is said to have noted that "practice does not make perfect." He noted
instead that "Perfect practice makes perfect." So be sure when practicing a new
ski maneuver so that it will be drilled in that you practice it correctly else
you will drilling in the wrong movement. Then you will have to work even harder
to "un-drill" it and "re-drill" the correct pattern.
Ski lessons are designed to give
time to practice new maneuvers so they are understood and experienced. But there
is rarely enough time for students to declare ownership of new maneuvers, so it
is important for students to practice on their own later. Ideally, perhaps, they
would stay with their coach-instructor all the time to monitor progress. At
least it is good if students come back to their mentor for periodic evaluations,
for our own eyes and minds often trick us into thinking we are practicing well
when we are not.
It is especially frustrating for
instructors to watch their former charges out on the slopes skiing just as they
did before their lessons and not practicing perfectly. Instructors need to see
they have helped. In the long run, progress toward skiing goals will likely to
occur sooner with continual or renewed feedback from an instructor-coach.
main CSW contents
prior CSW #11: "Skiing faster is the way to learn how to
ski faster"
next CSW #13: "Don't wax skis; they would then go too
fast"
"SKIING
IS A SLIDING SPORT"--a skiing web manual:
Skiing Web Manual
Contents Why Read
This Skiing Web Manual
That First Lesson A
Little Skiing History Motion in
Skiing
CONVENTIONAL SKIING WISDOMS
Skier Excuses
Fear in Skiing
Conditioning for Skiing
Equipment and Technique
Skiing Equipment
How Skis
Work
How
to Develop Balance on Skis
A Skiing
Turn Simplified Tactics for Terrains and Snow
Textures and Racing
Skiing Tips and Tales--a potpourri
Exercises for Developing Skiing Skills
Children and Skiing
Age and Skiing
Gender & Skiing Culture
& Skiing
Skiing Ethics and Survival
Slope Safety Skiing
Environment Glossary Acknowledgements
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