What are your thoughts during your day of skiing?

[jbotti]

we were videoing some demos yesterday morning. This a really realization I am curious if others have felt the same.

When I sucked at skiing I always felt good, and as I get better I always feel like ****.

3-5 years ago I always felt as if I was skiing in good way, but I really was nt video showed that. Now I always feel like I suck but when I watch the video its is actually pretty good sometimes better than anyone else not all the time but sometimes. It still feel like crap most of the time.  Meaning that even though I feel like my skiing sucks, it has actually gotten much better.

Join the club!! For years when I looked at video of my skiing I found it depressing as our perception of the way we are skiing is rarely reality and video shows this. The last two years I got religious with doing specific work to change/improve my chronic issues. I saw a photo of me carving on my bad side 2 weekends ago and for the first time in my life, I liked what I saw. My chronic issues had improved and possibly even disappeared. Like you through the whole process I was improving each year and often there was improvement each time I looked at video. If you watch ski **** films and watch WC racing, the mental model that we develop for good skiing is a high one. I expect to look like WC racers, so why am I surprised when I don't.

But better to look, judge and use it to improve than the alternative!!

Having said that, after listening to what many have said, I want to put some more focus on having what I will call for lack of a better word, the "Spiritual" ski experience. I think for many or perhaps even most, at the core this is why we ski!!