Kay’s Blog
Half Term Horrors
So half term is over... and I need to ask, how was it for you? Did you spend yet another year wishing you were anywhere else but the ski slopes? Did you spend your hard earned holiday yet again crying, angry and scared? Well PLEASE! Let that be the last time! I have...
Watch your language!
If you know anything about me at all you will know my strong belief around how the language you use, to both yourself and others, influences and directs your life. Recently I’ve been listening to different programs ranging from meditation to mobility for exercise and...
Do you believe you can change your beliefs?
Do you believe you can change your beliefs? Now there’s a question… A while back I was a distributor for a well-known UK based, Magnotherapy company and had been asked to give a talk on Beliefs and the place they hold in building your business. The concept of...
Beware the Skiing Bullies
Back in the day, when I was a quaking wreck out there on the slopes I noticed something very sad about skiing… It appeared to bring out the inner bully in some people. I skied with many mixed groups. Groups of people I didn’t know and therefore had no idea of what...
You know that moment when something has to give?
I’ve been re-reading some coaching notes from my past one to one, Skiing with Confidence coaching clients when I was reminded of something someone said that really hit home for her… Her then boyfriend was a constant source of her pain on the slopes...
How to increase your confidence with perfect balance
I know you know this and I might be stating the obvious but skiing is all about balance! Dynamic balance to be exact, aka the ability to maintain equilibrium while in motion. So surely, it makes sense that if you are in perfect balance in your boots and...
Five Top Tips for buying a Ski Helmet
Feeling safe and comfortable goes a long way to improving your confidence and reducing anxiety when you’re skiing and one easy way to help achieve this is to wear a helmet. When I first learnt to ski only kids wore them, then they became the domain of...
“Bend ze knees!”
“Bend ze knees!” How many times have you heard that expression, either from the mouths of fellow skiers or even a pro instructor? Now I don’t profess to be a full on qualified instructor even though I have had training in the past and once held a dry...
What’s my most effective tip?
I skied recently with a group of lovely ladies out in Tignes Le Lac, France. All of whom admitted that their main challenge when skiing was their lack of confidence. They asked me for my best tip – so I gave it to them… BREATHE I said! Really? They said...
You can only think one thought at a time
Yesterday I took a trip over to The Chill Factor near Manchester, UK with a client of mine who hadn’t been skiing for 6 years because she had lost her confidence on the slopes. She’s now booked to go on a family holiday over the New Year and was dreading...
Constant and Never Ending Improvement!
I’ve just returned from a week of skiing in Tignes – huge fun, great snow & wonderful company. Now I have a goal to continually improve my skiing, even though many people assume that ‘at my age’ this isn’t something to focus on! And sure enough… this...