Our goals are:
Create major changes in our clients
Give clients skills which they can use
anywhere, in any snow condition to be more effective
Have more fun
These changes are taught in a manner
that gives our clients a better understanding of what
they are doing, why they are doing it, and a clear understanding
of "how" to find it again.
Through this process we create knowledge
rather than just information and give you the ability
for self improvement, without continuous coaching.
We approach every client with the following
3 concepts:
1. Equipment: Provide a full assessment
of your entire equipment setup and make needed changes
to optimize stance, balance and performance.
2. Mental: Challenge and refine your
basic mental concepts of what and how you think you should
be doing
3. Physical: Assess and redirect your
physical movements to be more effective.
Equipment
With every student we do a thorough stance and movement
assessment and make the necessary changes to allow the
person to maintain a strong stance. It is from a strong
stance that athletes can create continuous natural movements.
Many skiers and snowboarders are extremely restricted
in movement by incorrect equipment set up, often without
knowing it. To counteract this handicap, the athlete uses
forced, unnatural movements. This often creates frustration
because the athlete reaches a plateau in their performance
which they can not pass through, and often they give up
the sport in their 30s or 40s. In truth, with modern equipment
that is properly set up, most skiers can keep on improving
their skills and performance to a higher level than they
have ever achieved throughout their 50s, 60s, and even
through their 70s.
Mental
We believe a disconnect between what a person thinks they
should be doing vs. what actually should be done is the
primary mental block which stops major change in most
athletes (especially at the higher end). These thought
patterns limit the athlete’s physical ability to
make movement changes. We explore, through various means,
a student’s basic beliefs of the sport. We help
clients take away internal rules and boundaries that limit
their performance. We guide them to establish a new set
of rules and boundaries that often result in huge and
immediate improvements in performance.
Physical
We look at the actual movements as they happen, and create
changes through building strong awareness of sensations,
thoughts and visual keys. The student develops a simple
understanding of these keys and can find them again by
themselves.
Stance and Free Movement rather
than carve
Our ultimate goal in developing any skier or snowboarder
is to maintain good stance from which a skier can freely
move and adjust his or her skis (board) to do anything
at any time. This is a sharp departure from the age-old
goal of having a pure carved turn be the only desired
outcome. Seeking to carve every turn limits many skiers
to a continuous fight between themselves and the mountain.
A focus on maintaining good stance increases versatility
and allows our clients to produce many outcomes, the carved
turn just being one of them,
Natural body movements
We believe that all movements in skiing are natural movements
to the body rather than contrived movements or positions.
At Snowperformance, we teach you how to use feedback from
your sensations, muscular awareness and imagery to bring
out these natural movements.
Actions rather than many words
You learn by doing and all our coaches will give
you a lot of fun, focused mileage.
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