realskiers

well said John! I will only sugest this, remove the "form" and ski or golf or whatever in the formless. When you attach form to the formless (formless is the skiing in this case not the phyiscal aspect but the mental aspect when you are skiing) we create and attach preconcieved expectations: fear, doubt or a set path of expected outcome; the skiing now becomes a set of instructions or rituals and the mind your "mind" now goes into action.? Ski "now" with what you know and not ski to the formed expectation.? Yeah too deep for a Friday?? so for instance, if when standing on the ridge dropping in, if i just did it, knowing that I can, i wouldn't have thought of the pitch or the fear of crashing or how my feet work or where my upper body should be or where to plant my pole..... Get it? It would be fluent and automatic.

I bolded a few key words above, hope you don't mind. Yes, I do believe I am there with you!

Just thought of a great event from the week:  Dan was talking to us at the start of the week.  What he said was this: We are all here skiing, we are skiing today and now, we are not skiing last season and anything that happened then is in the past, we know you (meaning all of us in the clinic) have the skills so we need to clear our mind of what was in the past and just ski.