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Ski instruction: don't believe them – why do I say this? I have a good friend, a very nice chap. I want to keep him as a friend. He likes...

This is just a short and I hope handy summertime (soon, honest) reminder about ski boots and what the unwary do with them. I can still...

Are ski instruction, ski coaching and ski learning different? SUMMARY: Ski instruction is an element of the tourism industry. Training...

Bob Trueman. Development Coach, Skiing Recently I wrote a small piece on how to handle tough skiing situations and used the word “arcs”,...

How to handle those difficult moments In the blog I posted prior to this one, I said I would address handling difficult moments during...

Learning to ski is a mind game and some things we can learn from special forces training.

As a finale to this recent investigation into the secrets of 'confidence', we can discuss the fourth element. You can find links to my...

This is a three part series View Part 1 here View Part 2 here Part 3 - Skill Football managers talk about their players “skills”. They do...

How to improve your parallel skiing How to improve your parallel skiing ? Let's talk motor cars! In recent blogs I have been addressing...

How to learn to ski with confidence (Part 2) In part 1 of this series on how to learn to ski with confidence I focused on the physical...

SKIING WITH CONFIDENCE This is a topic that I have addressed on many previous occasions, but I feel one can almost never over-do it. It...

Why I took the ski teaching road I did by Bob Trueman How I became a Ski Coach out of the love of skiing and helping others. You can...

Last season a woman emailed me about skiing off-piste and such. It set me to thinking, as I chain-sawed my way through a recently fallen...

How skiing goal setting is like building York Minster! Skiing Dream Goals There seems to be an amount of confusion over “goal-setting”....

My coaching weeks have one primary goal - to help pupils progress toward becoming skillful skiers. It was my friend and colleague John...

BY DAVID TAPLEY - SKI COACH My history in skis Pictured above is my 'history in skis'. One of the things the picture documents is the...

Skiing blogs are not in short supply There are many people in cyberspace publishing many blogs and some of them are skiing ones. Because...

Let's talk about ski bindings ? Haven't we done that before? Yes but it's a key element – perhaps THE key element in your skiing...

How to ski with confidence - It's like the Chicken and the Egg – which comes first? There seems to be a prevalence amongst ski...

There is a huge body of observational evidence that suggests the majority of skiers only ever make slow or no progress towards skillful...