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    Freedom: Ski Performance Breakthrough, #5
    Freedom: Ski Performance Breakthrough, #5
    Freedom: Ski Performance Breakthrough, #5
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    Freedom: Ski Performance Breakthrough, #5

    By Hugh Monney

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    Freedom
    When you see someone skiing smoothly, freely and simply, even in complex circumstances, you know that they have tuned into something special.

    This section shows you many ways to gain access to these elusive aspects of performance.

    Freedom in skiing is partly about having options and the ability to choose the correct option for your circumstances.

    By getting this far through the Ski Performance Breakthrough programme, you will have developed very many options and the experience to make the right choices.

    So you're half way to being free, already.

    Charlie Parker, the great jazz musician had an interesting view on this. He said:

    "You've got to learn your instrument.
    Then, you practice, practice, practice.
    And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just play."

    That's a great way to describe one of the profound truths of performance.

    And, if you've already applied the principles in the earlier sections of Ski Performance Breakthrough, you've already done the hard part.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHugh Monney
    Release dateJan 14, 2014
    ISBN9780992800895
    Freedom: Ski Performance Breakthrough, #5
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    Hugh Monney

    Performance coach and author of Ski Performance Breakthrough - the series of e-books. Hugh is also the Director and founder of the BASS Network of elite snowsports schools, operating in: Chamonix - Chatel - Courchevel - Les Gets - Les Contamines - Les Deux Alpes - Megeve - Meribel - Morzine - St Gervais - Tignes - Val d'Isere He runs advanced skiing clinics and off pistes courses in the Alps, as well as off piste adventures across the globe, having previously trained thousands of skiers and hundreds of ski instructors. Formerly a research chemist, for the Cancer Research Campaign, Hugh has a degree in Chemistry and a Master's research degree. He is also a qualified science teacher. He spent 10 years in the science departments of British universities before switching to a career in skiing. He began skiing in 1975 and became a full time ski teacher in 1984, to get out of the lab and into the mountains. He has skied extensively throughout Europe and his off piste skiing and Heliski clinics have taken him to Argentina, Canada, Chile and Greenland. He was a Trainer and examiner of instructors for the British Association of Snowsports Instructors, for 22 years, from 1989 to 2011, and contributed to the development of BASI's system of instructor training. He represented Britain as a member of the GB Demonstration Team, at the 1991 Interski Congress, in St Anton. For many years, Hugh was invited to train the British Mountain Guides in Off Piste skiing performance. Hugh wrote and presented the 1991 Channel 4 TV and video series "The Complete Skier" and in the same year he founded BASS, The British Alpine Ski and Snowboard School. The BASS Network of elite snowsports schools now extends to 12 resorts across the Alps. His main interests, in addition to his family, are: Alpine & Telemark skiing, developing the quality of service to clients of the BASS Network, Photography, Science, Tai Chi Chuan, Motorcycling, Cycling, Balance trainiing, including slack line and playing guitar. Qualifications include; BASI ISTD Level 4, International Ski Teacher Diploma BASI Telemark Teacher Full certification in France M.Phil, B.Sc. (Hons), PGCE Some comments from Hugh's clients and colleagues: "Hugh is a technical expert and an innovator, continually pushing the boundaries with his exciting and dynamic ideas, many of which have put BASI at the fore...

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      Freedom - Hugh Monney

      The right state of mind

      Lesson number one from the world’s greatest performers, is that it’s very important to be in the right state of mind.

      You can easily learn how to create this for yourself, now that you know that it’s important. One way of doing this, effortlessly, is to use music.

      Before you ski off, you can listen to music that helps you become relaxed and alert, key qualities of great performers in all activities.

      Achieving this state will really help you to learn more quickly and to perform more effectively.

      This is a very effective process, that anchors your performance and promotes excellence.

      You will experience some of the benefits of this process straight away, and it will become even more effective for you, the more often you use it.

      When you have done this often enough, you’ll be able to summon up your great state of mind, just by imagining the music, effectively playing it in your head. When you have achieved this, you will have your own anchoring technique, ready to use to your advantage in any situation, in any walk of life.

      Your ideal performance state can also be anchored to visual images (real or imagined) and physical sensations or gestures.

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      Skier: Sean Langmuir, Olympian, formerly Coach for the British and Canadian ski teams.

      Photo: Hugh Monney

      An anchoring process that combines

      image based cues,

      sound based cues and

      physical cues

      is likely to become very effective, reliable and resilient.

      If you need to perform at your best in highly stressful circumstances, this combination of anchoring techniques will help you.

      There’s another point here, too, as you use your anchoring techniques, you’ll reinforce the effect if you smile!

      When you smile, your pineal gland releases serotonin, which makes you feel good and enhances the quality of your performance.

      Serotonin seems to help memory and the learning process, as well as helping your muscles and cardio-vascular system to function.

      So, smile, feel good, be free!

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      Skier: Gavin Kerr-Hunter, Director of Snowperformance.

      Photo: Hugh Monney

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      The right place

      Lesson number two from the world’s greatest performers is:

      choose the best environment for your

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