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Skiing Ready 2025/2026

Improve and Enjoy your Skiing. We are just two months away from the skiing season start and I for one am eager to be back on skis, upon the mountains. The summer here in Sardinia has been long and hot; plenty of time for being in the sea,…

Breathe and Perform

It’s all there within us already; we often have the tendency to look outside ourselves for the way forward, ways to live our lives and searching outward to find what it is we desire and achieve. The problem with this is that what we find…

The Power of Purposeful Practice

Here’s an article I wrote in the summer of 2016 about how ‘practicing on purpose’ adds value to the quality of your training. The article was published last Autumn in the Annual Publication of the National Schools Snowsport Association…

From Winter Skiing to Summer hiking and meditation

On the move to Italy in January this year I was welcomed with two metres of snowfall, Champoluc and the Monterosa mountain range were looking magnificent. Everyone skiing in the Alps this winter had the best snow conditions we have seen for…

From Happy Hills to Mindful Mountains

This is the story about a journey from hills to mountains and how, 40 years ago, a handful of teenagers made the journey from their local dry ski slope to the European Alps. In the 1970’s there were no performance pathways, sports institutes…

Newsletter November 2018

We are almost there, the autumn colours faded and first snows appeared this week in Champoluc, presently a foot of snow at 2000m. The main gondola lift out of the village has been renewed this summer and mid station upgraded to enable speedy…

Newsletter December 2018

While waiting for the snow to arrive at below 2000 metres I’ve been organising the summer and autumn weeks and here’s what we have so far; In June a Monterosa hiking week taking in 7 mountain refuges and traveling from Champoluc towards…

Mindful Learning Research Findings 2014

I would sincerely like to thank all the staff and members of the Aberdeen Snowsports Centre who took part in the coaching sessions. You all had so much enthusiasm, interest, humour and an open approach, for which I am very grateful, thank you.…

Mindful Learning Research Abstract 2013

This research looked into mindful based learning in a sport, Alpine Skiing, context.  Its focus is the learners experience of mindful learning. What motivated the need to research this subject was the recognition that a significant block to…