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Skiing the Now

You know those slopes where everything seems to click into place, your skis, body and mind were in the right place at the right time, causing the outcome to be a pure pinnacle performance. Yes? Then you stopped dreaming and found the reality…
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Skiing Ready 2025/2026

Improve and Enjoy your Skiing. We are just two months away from the skiing season start and I for one am eager to be back on skis, upon the mountains. The summer here in Sardinia has been long and hot; plenty of time for being in the sea,…

Accepting Without Preference

Be accepting of what you are as a skier, now in this present moment, and you will become the skier you know you can become. Letting go of the fighting with your judgemental critical self can be the most liberating, valuable process in your…

All.I.Can Film Clip

Here’s a couple of links to films by Sherpas Cinema, who have won a host of awards, you’ll know why when you see them. I really like them, and see in them an attention to moments, sometimes slowed, which when explored moves our experience…

Inside – Out Instructor Workshop Notes

‘Inside – Out’ an Instructor training session at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead. It was great to meet you all last week, thanks for coming along to the session and engaging with the content, it made it a pleasure for me. Here are…

Cognition To Sensation

Mindfulness is much about being centred in one’s own body, in one’s being, moving through one’s day with a focused knowing of who one is and what one is being. We are aware of each present moment remaining conscious of our internal domain,…

Attitude at Altitude

Making the transition from piste to powder is the aspiration of many skiers who have spent their fair share of time grooving their skills on the red and black graded slopes. This article looks at the ways we approach the adventure of venturing…

Mindful Skiing

In this blog John summarises some of the mindful skiing methods he uses to improve skiers’ performance. As they are methods for learning and coaching, they apply to all ability levels, from beginner to expert and in all terrain, from piste…

Breathe and Perform

It’s all there within us already; we often have the tendency to look outside ourselves for the way forward, ways to live our lives and searching outward to find what it is we desire and achieve. The problem with this is that what we find…

The Power of Purposeful Practice

Here’s an article I wrote in the summer of 2016 about how ‘practicing on purpose’ adds value to the quality of your training. The article was published last Autumn in the Annual Publication of the National Schools Snowsport Association…