As I have mentioned before as a qualified coach, my aim is to help people to reach their skiing dreams and ambitions, to help you achieve your highest potential, by skiing better, stronger for longer.
As a coach I see things from a different perspective than a ski instructor. Coaching is about building long term relationships with individuals developing their abilities and improving their performance over a long period of time. Whilst in the skiing world an instructor is primarily focused on teaching people over short periods of time one or two hours a day over a week through a ski school for example. That does not mean that instructors can't coach or coaches can't instruct. This means that in our sport instructors are mainly used in the lower levels of the sport and coaches tend to work at the higher recreational levels, instructor or coach development, or race performance levels.
Being a coach and working long term with athletes of varying abilities involves using a different learning processes which revolve more around asking open questions rather than just telling them what to do or what went wrong. By asking the athlete what they are experiencing when they perform a task, finding out where their attention is, and what they are attending to, followed by engaging help produces a degree of athlete ownership of the learning process, a responsibility to improve, awareness of movement patterns and actions taken, leading to greater involvement and engagement in the improvement process.
So the power of coaching, unlike instruction, is that the focus is more on ASKING them about their performance of a task rather than TELLING them what they did wrong.
During the coaching process we used many tools to engage you and help you achieve your goals, however this is a two way process, individuals very greatly in their approach to learning depending on their character, circumstances and past experiences etc. However there is a model than can help you understand yourself and be better able to interact with the models that myself and other coaches have been trained to use.
This model is E+R=O, Events plus Responses = Outcome. When an event occurs, which can be either viewed positive or negative, it is how we respond to the situation that will affect the outcome. Your response to the events outcome could be anywhere in the range from highly satisfied or very dissatisfied. If you don't like the outcome then you need to change your responses to the event to improve the outcome. Although a life style model about success or failure it dovetails nicely into the coaching models we use but puts the emphasis on the person being coached to make change happen. We as coaches, who probably have greater knowledge, experience and training can help you decide what to change by refinements using the TTPPEE model by looking at the aspects and circumstances being used that contributed to making the Event happen. Learning from both good and bad event outcomes to make continuous improvements creating better event outcomes in the future. TTPPEE = Tactics, Technique, Physical, Psychological, Environment and Equipment. The Event could easily be race position, course result or simply a training task set by the coach, or a particular turn in a slalom run for a racer or how turns in a mogul field were accomplished for a recreational skier etc.
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COACHING FOR SKI RACERS
On Artificial Surfaces (Dry Slope and Indoor Snow): SKIbetter provides year round race coaching on week day evenings for Midland Ski Club and CESA Region at either Ackers Adventure in Birmingham on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays or at Swadlincote Snowsports Centre on Mondays and Wednesdays. Also occasion weekends by arrangement when not at race meetings and daytime race camps during school breaks. We have also run camps at the larger European indoor slopes such as Snowworld Landgraaf in Holland which has snow slopes of 400m in length.
On Alpine Snow: SKIbetter independently or regularly runs, in conjunction with Midland Ski Club as Head Coach and English Schools Ski Association - ESSkiA as a Senior Coach, Race Training Camps in Europe to coincide some of the major British competitions. Every year Roger coaches in Pila/Aosta for the Anglo/Scottish Champs.
SKI RACING is a FUN, FAST and EXCITING way to develop you skiing where you can pitch your skills up against those of others in various competitive formats.
Get int o racing... Feel the BUZZ, hear the CLICK of the bindings, the TAP of your ski sticks, the BEEP of the timer, hear the SLAP of the gates, and the ROAR at the finish.
Through Midland Ski Club children normally get introduced to ski racing through fun race series that are around small obstacles like brushes and cones, progressing on to stubbies when their confidence and skill levels are judged to be right. A stubbie is a short rubber tube mounted on a base about 60cm tall. As they get older they will move into full gates. Good quality equipment, rather than hire equipment, will be needed such as boots, skis, poles, helmet, gloves, back protector, pole, shin guards and ski maintenance gear.
Our minimum requirement for race training is to be able to use a button lift, do linked basic parallel turns whilst controlling speed and line, and also be able to stop in a controlled manner.
For more information please do not hesitate to contact us.
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SUPPORTING YOUNG SKI RACERS
As part of the SKIbetter Race Programme with Midland Ski Club we offer Race Support. Race support is looking after the athlete during competitions such as:
- Giving advice and encouragement.
- Agreeing competition outcome goals.
- Course inspection.
- Making sure the athlete is focused and ready to start.
- Checking equipment.
- Being at the start at the right time and right place.
- Helping to get the right approach mentally, physically and tactically.
- Giving appropriate course feedback updates and analysis.
- Giving appropriate run analysis and feedback
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This gives the athlete the time and space to mentally focus on the race ahead with conviction and confidence.
I can help you achieve your goals
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INDIVIDUAL 1-to-1 SKI COACHING
Are you looking for your development as a skier to be more focused on you, giving you the right amount of attention to accelerate your learning and experience, putting you in control. Roger through the SKIbetter 1-to-1 Coaching Programme can you really
Tailored 1-to-1 coaching sessions can help you reach your full potential faster and encourage a life-long love of skiing and ski racing and sport in general.
1-to-1 coaching is ideal for racers, aspirant ski instructors and coaches, recreational skiers who want to benefit from academy level coaching that really have great ambition to succeed, achieve great performance levels, skiers who want to improve their technical ability through targeted skills coaching and, perhaps most importantly, have fun and increase confidence both on and off the ski slopes.
We offer bespoke, individual coaching sessions which may target fundamental movement patterns as well as move advanced techniques that ensures where possible a pathway of continual learning. As a Master Personal Trainer Coach we can also focus on the physical attributes such as the ABC's (Agility, Balance, Coordination and Speed) of movement as well as strength and conditioning to enable controlled execution and endurance of repetitive movement patterns involved in skiing and ski racing. These sessions are highly linked in to the areas of the four pillars of sport, Technical, Tactical, Physical, Psychological plus two other particular to our sport Equipment and Environment - TTPPEE.
Roger can provide inspirational and personalised 1-to-1 coaching to skiers of all abilities through a structured development programme aligned with the maturity of the skier which is truly individual and can have a powerful transformational impact on skiers of all ages.
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RECREATIONAL GROUP SKI COACHING
Over many years SKIbetter has committed itself to the the betterment of all skiers by offering affordable 1-to-1 Coaching sessions that are tailored to the individual to enable a more powerful coaching system for those that want to get to even higher levels and be in control of their coaching plan. To compliment this we have a new online coaching system that combines Technical coaching and fitness.
The benefits of this programme will give you, your spouse, or your children...
- detailed recorded performance analysis
- more in-depth feedback and video analysis
- personalised coaching and profiling
- tailored coaching to your needs
- increased knowledge and understanding
- delivered outside of normal group sessions
- enables you to keep your skiing performance and development on track
- achievable short term, medium term and long term goal setting
- keep you focused through recorded agreed goal setting feedback and interventions
- benefit from continuous and periodised coaching throughout the year
- direct coaching link in to group sessions
- accelerated learning opportunity
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INSTRUCTOR & COACH, TRAINING & MENTORING
SKIbetter can also arrange group sessions outside of Midlands Ski Club Sessions at various locations such as indoor snow facilities like Chill Factore as well as outdoor artificial slopes in and around the Midlands.
What Where and When... Please contact us to find out what we can do for you where and when.
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INSTRUCTOR & COACH, TRAINING & MENTORING
Have you ever thought I'd like to become a ski instructor or coach and in so doing expand your knowledge, learn how to teach and appreciate a deeper understanding of skiing development. Roger can help you through his master performance and instructor training sessions for either Snowsport England or BASI.
Help me with my Ski Instructor or Coach Qualifications.
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STRENGTH, FITNESS, AGILITY & ENDURANCE COACHING
IMPROVE YOUR BODY... to IMPROVE YOUR THRILL
YOUR BODY is a vital part of your EXCITING adventure EXPERIENCE regardless of your sport.
So TRAIN YOUR BODY to be BETTER, SAFER, STRONGER for LONGER
Help me with my Strength, Conditioning and Fitness.
