Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Finding your Flow

The most amazing feeling in any sport is when you enter the Flow zone. Although there are many esoteric and enigmatic ways of describing a state of Flow in sport, I like to use a very down to earth approach. For me, you know Flow when you achieve the greatest possible result in any task using the least possible effort. The harder you have to work to achieve a given outcome, the farther you are from your Flow.

As this blog evolves, I hope to share with you, incrementally and progressively, some of the ways that I have found useful in helping my clients and students find their Flow. I hope you enjoy the process and benefit from the advice. Allowing yourself to enter the Flow zone is about the most amazing thing that could ever happen to your skiing.

Originally, much of the material you will receive in this blog was to be part of a DVD production in collaboration with Circular Strength Training and RMAX, which are the originators and masters of all things "Flow." But since virtual delivery of media is the future. And because I agree with RMAX that the last thing the environment needs is more plastic wasted on DVDs, more gas wasted on delivery, etc, I have decided to repackage the entire project as an online endeavor. What you see here is entirely free. Please enjoy it and take full advantage of it. As we speak, a member based website is in the works and the full project and unabridged project will continue to unfold there at some point in the future.

So without further ado, to get the ball rolling, here is a little clip which gives a birds eye view of the roadmap to finding SkiFlow. It sets the stage, if you will, for what is to come.