Inner Skiing: Mastering the Slopes Through Mind/Body Awareness

by W. Timothy Gallwey, Timothy W. Gallway

A New, Completely Revised Edition of the Classic Guide to Better Skiing

Have you been searching for a way to overcome your fear, trust your instincts, and ski to your greatest potential? Inner Skiing will help you do all this and more. In this newly updated edition of the skiing classic, W. Timothy Gallwey and Robert Kriegel offer advice on and examples of how to gain the "inner" self-confidence needed to ski well and have fun on the slopes.

Inner Skiing will help
Focus on each step of a particular technique (like the parallel turn), then put it  all together so that the motion seems effortless
Analyze your fears to distinguish between healthy fear and unnecessary fear that you can overcome
Achieve "breakthrough" runs in which you experience natural and coordinated  movements
Move to the next level in your skiing ability and feel in control


Gallwey and Kriegel are two of the leading innovators in sports, and this new edition refines the techniques they have perfected over their long careers. Their easy-to-follow examples and anecdotes will help skiers of all abilities--from beginner to expert.

Inner Skiing will change the way you ski.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Genres: Sports, Nonfiction, Psychology, Health, Self Help

208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

W. Timothy Gallwey is an author who has written a series of books in which he has set forth a methodology for coaching and for the development of personal and professional excellence in a variety of fields that he calls "the Inner Game". Since he began writing in the 1970s, his books include The Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game of Golf, The Inner Game of Music (with Barry Green), Inner Skiing and The Inner Game of Work. Gallwey's seminal work is The Inner Game of Tennis, with more than one million copies in print.

Reviews

[Jason Landau]

much more than about skiing

teaches you how to let go and be in the moment

[Kate McKinney]

Conquering your mental state, to enjoy skiing & excel at it. This book isn't just about skiing; it's about an approach to living! Very enlightening. Occasionally, the author tends to belabor his points slightly, & also ironically seems to over-intellectualize his proposed approach (which is supposed to de-intellectualize the skiing process), w/his "Self 1" & "Self 2" prototypes (which I wish he would've given names to instead of numbers: maybe Intellectualized Self & Experiential Self). There was repetition (perhaps intentionally) & I suspect this book could've probably been even shorter than it was & still have made its point effectively. Having said that, this is still an excellent book for anyone training for anything, or someone just wanting to reframe their attitude & lead a better life. Very Inspiring.

[Lisa Bowman]

The small type in book was difficult to navigate. But I appreciated the content and it did help me connect with some of my issues.

[Wildwomble]

A great book about mindfulness and skiing. I found it really profound and I think it will help my skiing and also my overall perspective on life.

[Shannan]

Like his other book, The Inner Game of Tennis, this one reinforces the idea that when you’re actually “playing” the sport (or, in this case, going down the hill), maximum enjoyment comes from letting go. It is best to stop the urge to control everything and allow your body and muscle memory to take over so you can be fully in the moment.

[Karen]

Picked this up from a Little Free Library and got way more good information than I expected. Time will tell if it helps my skiing, but it's already helped me understand why I never quite connected with doing positive affirmations.

[Greg]

Good book the concepts in the book can be applied to more than just skiing.

[Ian Channing]

Great follow up to inner tennis, describing the inner / outer fear, which is a great way to describe it, seeing the good and bad in fear

[Joel]

This book changed my life - I went from being able to ski well 40 - 50% of the time to 95% of the time

[Mary]

As I'm off skiing soon this was a practical choice. Not my favourite type of book. I prefer to lose myself within the pages than take mental notes.

However it does seem that it will be very useful. It is about the psychology of skiing and how to improve on the slopes by controlling that rather than the physical aspect. As my biggest problem skiing is a lack of confidence I'm hoping reading this will help me. It goes into a lot of detail about 'Self 1' and 'Self 2' which worried me at first. As I read deeper though it, on the whole, made a lot of sense. So much so that I downloaded the Kindle edition to my phone so I can dip into it whilst I'm away.

If you're a skiier I would definitely recommend this book. The snowboarding element is a little sparse though. This is a book about skiing with a chapter on trying out snowboarding after skiing.

[Cole VanEtten]

This is one of my favorite books of all time, it has helped me so much not in just skiing but life overall. This book goes in detail on how so overcome obstacles of skiing, the metal side of skiing, as well as give you way in get over those obstacles. The author does a great job give his experiences skiing and turning them into words for us to read. I would recommend this book to any advanced skier looking to improve their metals state while on skis.

[Dale Churchett]

Great book. I always read this before going skiing, and take it with me. By now I think I have internalised the material but there are some important concepts I remind myself about.

The book greatly helped me improve my skiing without any lessons. It helped me re-program my attitude towards skiing and many aspects of my attitude to learning sports in general.

[John Mattson]

Inner Skiing unlocks the mental aspect that is so necessary to master the sport of skiing. Mental confidence is a big factor in any sport, but for skiing the factor is huge. Inner Skiing reveals many of the secrets needed to unlock the secret that is hiding in most of us. I read the first edition in the late seventies, when I was learning to ski and found it very helpful.

[Bologna_frog]

I may revisit this book after I have read The Talent Code by Coyle.

How to learn complex activities with Deep Deliberate Practice.

He also writes on Tennis, Stress, and Work

[Suzette Kunz]

Cool ideas about the power of the mind. I don't ski.

[Cathy]

This book gets into the mindset of the nervous skier and teaches you to let go.. Without crashing! In theory very good. In practise, will have to see the next time I hit the slopes...