The typical drill here is to pick stumble on a topic, do the minimum of research, then pass it along to you with enough information so you can dig deeper into source material. Every so often, though, we’ll glom onto a single story that offers particularly good insight and just refer you to it.
Seniors Skiing.com, a website that’s been around for six or seven years and offers some interesting material, recently posted Lessons Learned From 25 Years of Coaching Seniors, a short but helpful story by Bob Trueman, a ski instructor, author and blogger.
Some of this is obvious but bears saying out loud. Case in point: Among other tips, he urges skiers to ski only very short distances—say, 50 yards—when working on a skill. For anyone who has tipped over the edge with every intention of refining some small movement, then forgotten about it after two turns because I’m skiing dammit this is so much fun, 50 yards seems like a good place to stop and regroup.
Photo of Echo Mountain skiing by Rob Lee via Flickr
