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Do You Learn From Your Crashes?
Latest Ski Magazine had an article by Jay Cown.
However, what follows below is my musing, if you want Jay's get the magazine one way or another. I was reading the recent issue of Ski Magazine and there was an article on crashing. Do you learn from your wipeouts? The author (Jay Cowan) pondered about learning from crashes. Do you learn from your crashes? I do not. I tend to have two wipeouts. One is the small "oh $#!+" I might get out balance while crossing a flat on the way to a slope. It happens. The other wipeout is the full on yard sale. I don't have to explain the full on yard sale to you. For the rest see: http://www.wi-ski.com/article.php?st...61120192132542 |
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Do You Learn From Your Crashes?
The Wisconsin Skier wrote:
Latest Ski Magazine had an article by Jay Cown. However, what follows below is my musing, if you want Jay's get the magazine one way or another. I was reading the recent issue of Ski Magazine and there was an article on crashing. Do you learn from your wipeouts? The author (Jay Cowan) pondered about learning from crashes. Do you learn from your crashes? I do not. I tend to have two wipeouts. One is the small "oh $#!+" I might get out balance while crossing a flat on the way to a slope. It happens. The other wipeout is the full on yard sale. I don't have to explain the full on yard sale to you. For the rest see: http://www.wi-ski.com/article.php?st...61120192132542 I did my lesson was Just say no to skiing slow! |
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Do You Learn From Your Crashes?
"down_hill" wrote in message ... The Wisconsin Skier wrote: Latest Ski Magazine had an article by Jay Cown. However, what follows below is my musing, if you want Jay's get the magazine one way or another. I was reading the recent issue of Ski Magazine and there was an article on crashing. Do you learn from your wipeouts? The author (Jay Cowan) pondered about learning from crashes. Do you learn from your crashes? I do not. I tend to have two wipeouts. One is the small "oh $#!+" I might get out balance while crossing a flat on the way to a slope. It happens. The other wipeout is the full on yard sale. I don't have to explain the full on yard sale to you. For the rest see: http://www.wi-ski.com/article.php?st...61120192132542 I did my lesson was Just say no to skiing slow! Well, yeah. The underlying premise is correct, if you do not crash you are probably not learning anything but the extension, learning from your crashes, is false. Your crashes are not what you learn from they are an indicator. If you never crash you are spending too much time too far within your comfort zone, and as a result you are not learning anything. If you wish to learn, and I grant you not everybody necessarily does, you need to spend at least a little time pushing the envelope, and when you do that, from time to time you will crash. |
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Do You Learn From Your Crashes?
Norm wrote:
"down_hill" wrote in message ... The Wisconsin Skier wrote: Latest Ski Magazine had an article by Jay Cown. However, what follows below is my musing, if you want Jay's get the magazine one way or another. I was reading the recent issue of Ski Magazine and there was an article on crashing. Do you learn from your wipeouts? The author (Jay Cowan) pondered about learning from crashes. Do you learn from your crashes? I do not. I tend to have two wipeouts. One is the small "oh $#!+" I might get out balance while crossing a flat on the way to a slope. It happens. The other wipeout is the full on yard sale. I don't have to explain the full on yard sale to you. For the rest see: http://www.wi-ski.com/article.php?st...61120192132542 I did my lesson was Just say no to skiing slow! Well, yeah. The underlying premise is correct, if you do not crash you are probably not learning anything but the extension, learning from your crashes, is false. Your crashes are not what you learn from they are an indicator. If you never crash you are spending too much time too far within your comfort zone, and as a result you are not learning anything. If you wish to learn, and I grant you not everybody necessarily does, you need to spend at least a little time pushing the envelope, and when you do that, from time to time you will crash. I push pull and fold the envelope on a regular basis. How much you learn from an accident depends on the time spent in analysis of the incident. When your on crutches and missing events you have much time to review it. But speed ski's and high DIN setting are bad news at slow speeds on the flats. There is a new downhill series NADS (North American Downhill Series) open to everybody with speed need issues it will be 4 or 5 races in VT and NH. |
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Do You Learn From Your Crashes?
Norm wrote: "down_hill" wrote in message ... The Wisconsin Skier wrote: For the rest see: http://www.wi-ski.com/article.php?st...61120192132542 I did my lesson was Just say no to skiing slow! Well, yeah. The underlying premise is correct, if you do not crash you are probably not learning anything but the extension, learning from your crashes, is false. Your crashes are not what you learn from they are an indicator. If you never crash you are spending too much time too far within your comfort zone, and as a result you are not learning anything. If you wish to learn, and I grant you not everybody necessarily does, you need to spend at least a little time pushing the envelope, and when you do that, from time to time you will crash. Norm, That is the exact conclusion I come up with. Learning doesn't follow crashing, but instead, learning and crashing walk hand in hand. |
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Do You Learn From Your Crashes?
The Wisconsin Skier wrote:
Norm wrote: "down_hill" wrote: The Wisconsin Skier wrote: For the rest see: http://www.wi-ski.com/article.php?st...61120192132542 I did my lesson was Just say no to skiing slow! Well, yeah. The underlying premise is correct, if you do not crash you are probably not learning anything but the extension, learning from your crashes, is false. Your crashes are not what you learn from they are an indicator. If you never crash you are spending too much time too far within your comfort zone, and as a result you are not learning anything. If you wish to learn, and I grant you not everybody necessarily does, you need to spend at least a little time pushing the envelope, and when you do that, from time to time you will crash. Norm, That is the exact conclusion I come up with. Learning doesn't follow crashing, but instead, learning and crashing walk hand in hand. If you crash, you learned something wrong previously. In my last crash I learned that, contrary to my previous experience, it is NOT safe to ski too close to the inside edge of a trail where it meets another trail. -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== =============== "A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses." -- C.M.Cipolla |
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Do You Learn From Your Crashes?
In message , down_hill
writes There is a new downhill series NADS Presumably that hasn't the same meaning where you live that it has here ! -- Sue ]8( |
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Do You Learn From Your Crashes?
"Sue" wrote in message There is a new downhill series NADS Presumably that hasn't the same meaning where you live that it has here ! Not as common as some other terms for the same thing, but we are familier with that meaning of the term. -- Sue ]8( |
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