Customer Reviews
Essential reading for skiers at all levels - By: K. Clark, 05 Apr 2006 
The inner sports series brings advanced sports psychology techniques, previously only available to elite athletes, to us all.
There are plenty of instructorsin the mountains who can guide you with exercises to improve your technique, but this book goes much deeper than that.
By understanding the psychology of sport & how we learn new skills you can greatly increase your development as a skier. Clear explanations, backed by excellent anectdotal examples, help us understand how we can make the best of ourselves & our time on the mountain.
Thanks to this book, within 2 years (ie 2 weeks spread over 2 years) I have gone from an average skier who often wound up flat on his back to a very proficient & confident skier - my technique is now the envy of all my skiing friends.
Indispensable!
Another thing to get wrong - By: , 11 Nov 2004 
This book will add a new dimension to your skiing mistakes. Not only can you ski with your feet too close together, handsin the wrong place, bad posture & all those other things ski books go on about, but you can also thinkin the wrong way. Excellent. Another thing to think about.
A small number of classic text that can guide skiing - By: , 04 Jul 2000 Many great professionals strive to spread the exilleration & potential that existsin the mountains. It is no enditment on the majority that there are so few truly great books, but here we have one. I have been lucky enough to have a coach who has had the appraoch detailedin Inner Skiing for a number of years, although without any labels. Reading Inner Skiing I was pleased to discover the background to my coaching to date. So simple is the premise of Inner Skiing that if the reader is able to let their mind free their performance can develop to their own personnal highs. To attempt to explain Inner Skiing is meaningless. Just read, take note & try it out. Having seen similar techniquesin practice,in Europe, I can vouch for the look of joy on a friends face & the quatum increasein their performance. A must for all skiers from beginners to instructors, just as long as you are not expecting a technical manual. Your mind has a greater effect on your performance.
An effective and inspiring guide to freeing skiers from fear - By: , 26 Nov 1998 I have been reading this book for about twenty years(first publication was November 1977); it was the first of two Inner Game books which, although differingin details, both transformed my attitude to & my performancein the sports I love. I was fortunate to have been given it by a patient who was an Inner Game instructor (or rather, facilitator). If Inner Skiing has only now (1997) become widely available, thanks to the Internet, a generation of British skiers has lost out; for years it has been available onlyin the USA & to members of Inner Game workshops. With examples from life & from Inner Skiing workshops which are encouraging, inspiring, & often emotionally touching, the book helps skiers of all standards to confront their fears & to tap into the mind's & the body's unconscious store of knowledge & skills; the fears of "flying", falling, speed, injury, failure, & the fear of looking stupid; the knowledge locked into Gallwey's Self 2, a Self which, he teaches us, is ours too. Where his Self 1 is trying, tense, unsure, scared & controlling, Self 2 is free, relaxed, effortless, powerful, & instinctive. Gallwey & his co-author Bob Kriegel, a more experienced skier than he & a psychologist, equip their readers with simple but highly effective keys to Self 2, enabling us increasingly to findin skiing the exhilaration of the breakthrough run, & unlocking the confidence without which the sport can be an exercisein anxiety. Most of usin the UK only get to ski once a year. I reread Inner Skiing annually as an essential pre-ski exercise, & if I don't read every word I never fail to take a dose of inspiration from the paragraphin the last chapter which begins "Inside us all is a mountain with no top & no bottom. The skiing there is perfect. The snow is made of pure peace & there is not a trace of Self 1 interference.................Skiing this inner mountain has the power to satisfy the human longing to know oneself & the reason for which one was born." You may guess from this that Timothy Gallwey's is the inner game of life, with applications far beyond the realms of sport, as his other writing attests. Dr. Basil Lee, London, England.
