Women Only Personal Performance Course

We'll help you achieve your goals in a non-stressful environment.

· Courses are led either by International ski coaches Bob Valentine Trueman or John Shedden
· Maximum coached in any one group is six people
· Maximum number of people on any one skiing course is twelve people
· Courses are not suitable for complete beginners
· Ski coaching is for 3 hours per day for each of six days so you have time to relax and practice what you've learnt each day.

Our ski learning will be done on gentle slopes, not on steep, highly variable, or otherwise difficult skiing terrain. The reason for this is that in order for us both to focus on one small incremental improvement at a time, we need to create a skiing environment in which we are not being distracted by any more apprehension, tension, or other distractions than are unavoidable.

The objective of our play together is to help you improve, not to just ski you about the mountain ticking off pistes, or seeing how much adrenalin we can create. However, we will use plenty of piste, and you will get plenty of skiing.

It is good to remember this simple rule - the best place to develop new skiing habits and behaviours is on gentle, predictable slopes. The best place to learn to ski well on Blues is on Greens; the best place to learn to ski well on Reds is on Blues, and the best place to learn to ski Blacks is on either Blues or (perhaps) Reds. After all if you cannot do on a Blue, the things you'll need to do on a Black, you shouldn't be on the Black!

After recapping what you know, we work from the known to the unknown in small incremental steps.

At each stage we will be concerned first with planning the step, then as much as possible imagining the step, then some attempts at it, followed by brief discussion and feedback, and further attempts until it is learned. Because the process is gentle and incremental, you will be able to achieve your goals, and these successes will build into further successes.

Quite often you may find me not even skiing, but instead carrying out my duty of watching you, so that any feedback I share with you will be precise and meaningful.

This all sounds a little serious, but I assure you it is even more fun than just "blasting about".
My starting (and indeed finishing) standpoint is :

Dates for Winter 2006/07:
March 02 - 09 (Sun-Sat) if numbers justify

IMPORTANT: Any ski course will only run if we have a sufficient number of clients booking by the deadline. In the event of forced cancellation through lack of numbers we will either immediately refund all monies, or offer you an alternative date/venue. The decision will be yours.

Cost: £250.00 (Six days of 3hrs each day). XE.com Personal Currency Assistant [The price does not include lift pass, equipment rentals or accommodation/lodging.]
Membership of British International Ski Coaching Club is a requisite and costs just £12 for a year's subscription.

Contact details:
Bob Trueman, BobSki, Ceunant Farm, Llanfair Caereinion, Welshpool, Wales SY21 0HB
Phone: 01938 810430 or 01938 811309
Email: bob@bobski.com

Please mention skilikeawoman.com when you contact BobSki.

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