Phil Smith, director of Snoworks Ski Courses, is one of a new breed of ski schools and instructors forging ahead with a different approach to teaching skiing. He explains the difference. Skiing has changed. Maybe snowboarding kicked the revolution off. Until then skiing was the winter sports answer to ‘ice dancing’. Skiers would spend painstakingly...Read More
For any ‘Matrix’ fans out there you’ll immediately recognise the above quote. The quote is from a young boy early in the film when Neo enters the Matrix. The boy is holding a metal spoon, then the spoon bends in front of him to Neo’s surprise. The boy responds. “Do not try to bend the...Read More
Phil Smith. Director of Snoworks Ski Courses reports on the many conflicts that seem to appear in ski teaching and the reasons why. After years of frustration in watching and listening to the many conflicts that appear in how skiing is taught I’ve finally been able to put my concerns at rest. I’ve now accepted...Read More
I love this quote. I first heard it when watching Kung Fu Panda. Master Oogway shares his words of wisdom to Po who is too pre-occupied with the future and the past and thus unable to fulfill his true potential as the Dragon Warrior. Yes, if you’ve never watched Kung Fu Panda then this is...Read More
We can all walk and we can all run and we can all speed up, slow down and change direction whilst walking or running. We can also all walk downhill, run downhill, speed up, slow down and change direction. As a child you learnt to walk, run and change direction and now you just do...Read More
Are you an ‘Open’ or ‘Closed’ skier? And is this the key to why ski schools may have literally got it all wrong…? Could this be at the core of why thousands, perhaps millions, of skiers around the world develop learning plateaus, unable to progress no matter how many times they sign up for ski...Read More
SKI FASTER AND SLOWER AT WILL Ask almost any skier how they control speed or slow down and 99.9% of responses would be ‘turn’. Now get ready to change that concept completely and finally give yourself more control than ever over your skiing speed. Let’s take some other forms of transport and their methods of...Read More
