Tom GellieBig Picture Skiing Pty Ltd · Coach/Director

Focus on what’s WORKING in your skiing not on the NEGATIVE. Here’s an idea that helps #ski #skitips

6 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Tom Gellie suggests treating each good turn like collecting a coin in a video game. Bank the clean, crisp turns and count them instead of dwelling on the ones that felt off. This keeps you confident and breaks the habit of fixating on what went wrong.

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I've been using this phrase saying like, collect coins, or think of a run like a video game. So if you did 30 short turns after doing some hockey stops, just focus on the 6 that you felt were good. You're like, oh, that felt like a really clean, crisp edge set, and I got a really nice float from it. In that run, I got 6 coins up in that top corner like Sonic has. And then, and then I'm going to stop, reset, maybe do a few hog stops, and then we're just going to go down and try and get a few more. And so rather than going, that run was crap because in 30 short turns only got 6 right, I'd write off the whole run. No, great, I just collected 6 coins, bank it, keep going. Next run, maybe only get 2 out of 30, doesn't matter, there's still 2 more. Focus on that. Humans focus on negativity. Don't let that happen.