 Poster: A snowHead
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So why is it that your mind doesn't talk to your body?
I can see me in my minds eye me shooshing down that slope all the edges correct, lovely S shaped curves, separated upper and lower body etc. I know in theory a lot of what is required and can imagine me doing it. So why is it that if your mind is so certain it can't communicate that to your body?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I can see myself a stone lighter and ten years younger - not likely to happen
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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You need to let your body take your mind by surprise, before it realises whats happening and starts worrying too much. The key to lower body/upper body separation is a lack of coordination, but you try and get the pros to admit...
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Megamum, You are obviously not well balanced. Work on your stance and you will be swooshing in no time
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Inhibition through fear mainly.
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| Kramer wrote: |
| Inhibition through fear mainly. |
That, plus poor body awareness. I'm always disappointed when I get video feedback because there is a fairly large gap between what I think (or feel) I'm doing and what I'm actually doing.
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Megamum, imagery is a powerful tool, but only one part of the formula that gets one to Carnegie Hall.
(is that expression to American for comprehension?)
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Classic Disney. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The above, is my favourite post ever. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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It's because, like most skiers, your perceived ability is far better than your actual ability.
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You know it makes sense.
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| I'm always disappointed when I get video feedback because there is a fairly large gap between what I think (or feel) I'm doing and what I'm actually doing. |
I got some video feedback for the very first time last season and was very pleasantly surprised by what I saw. There was a large gap between what I imagined and what I saw but it was the other way round. Not sure what, if anything, that says about my mental state! 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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ha h a quality thread !
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Poster: A snowHead
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Megamum, take stock in the thought that you will be there, some day.
You didn't go to school and automatically start reading. You needed to learn the alphabet first then put the letters together, sound them out and THEN you could read.
There is a phrase used in golf that can be used in skiing as well:
Its that last 6 inches that is the toughest to overcome. The 6 inches between your ears. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| SnowHot wrote: |
Megamum, take stock in the thought that you will be there, some day.
You didn't go to school and automatically start reading. You needed to learn the alphabet first then put the letters together, sound them out and THEN you could read.
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ummmm well actually I did not go to school to do it but I did automatically start reading... was just too young for school... only 3 years old
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| little tiger wrote: |
| . only 3 years old :-D |
Nice. I couldn't have managed reading in english at 3.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Course if you want to get really disney about it then you can improve performance by imagining positive outcomes - I haven't read them but I imagine there's a whole barrage of books on mental ways to improve your skiing, golf etc.
Just hope this works for Jonny & the country as he/they imagine each glorious kick sailing over the bar tomorrow...and the Wallabies as they imagine what shrimp they are going to throw on the barbie back home
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comprex, my ex's son started reading at 2... many children read well before school age... it seems to be reasonably common amongst reasonably bright children with parents that take the time to read to them...
Also many children read by recognising whole words and that is another method of teaching reading (as opposed to sounding out)...
at least my friend, who is an education specialist in teaching small children, tells me this is the case... IIRC
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little tiger, I was fortunate enough to grow up with 1:1 orthography so have no good sample.
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comprex, me neither - I was stunned when my brother went to school and started sounding words out. It was like "what the F is that stuff he is doing and why... just READ it damn it!" ... took me a while to grasp that he actually did not understand HOW to read.
I would sometimes need help with a word I could not "recognise" .... the first one I remember struggling with was "Delilah" ... but having been "told" the word once I usually remembered it for subsequent sightings (and its meaning)... Of course I did not KNOW anyone called Delilah when I read the story of Samson in my school reader... so I needed to have her name pronounced so I could "read" that...
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let your mind lead and let your body catch up through practice.
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little tiger, there are many words that it's difficult to "sound out" without knowing what the word says. "Sound", "the", "word", and "out" are some examples.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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hyweljenkins, yeah - that is why I found it a weird way to read! I simply learnt that a certain "pattern of squiggles" was a certain sound(word).... as I knew what the sound meant I recognised the pattern to mean something....
It was totally bizarre to me when I found my brother sounding out words to try to read.... I had never conceived that one might do this... it was just not how I read...
My friend was interested when I was recalling my mystification at my brothers learning to read... she is naturally interested in how a "natural reader" would learn to read - as I have no "school of teaching" vested interest or bias...
It is still a little hard to remember learning to read... because I was too young to clearly remember.... but I remember reading well before school age... reading was my favourite past-time....
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You know it makes sense.
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