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Prime Ski Racing: Triumph of the Racer's Mind
As America's premier racing ski racing psychologist, Dr. Jim Taylor knows what it takes to ski fast. The lessons Dr. Taylor has learned from working with some of the world's best racers, coaches, and juniors will change the way you ski race.Prime Ski Racing introduces you to the essential mental factors that impact ski racing including motivation, confidence, intensity, focus, and emotions. You will learn simple and practical techniques you can use to be your own best ally on the hill, stay cool when the pressure is on, and ski your fastest consistently.You will learn about the secrets that make the world's best ski racers great and how you can incorporate those into your own racing. Prime Ski Racing will teach you how to take your ski racing to a new level. Ultimately, Prime Ski Racing will show you how to experience the "Triumph of the Racer's Mind!"
180 pages, Paperback
First published October 3, 2000
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Jim Taylor
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Jim Taylor, PhD, CC-AASP, is an internationally recognized consultant and presenter on the psychology of sport and parenting. He has served as a consultant for the U.S. and Japanese ski teams, the United States Tennis Association, and USA Triathlon. He has worked with professional and world-class athletes in tennis, skiing, cycling, triathlon, track and field, swimming, golf, and many other sports. He has been invited to lecture by the Olympic Committees of Spain, France, Poland, and the United States, and he has been a consultant to the athletic departments at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Taylor has authored or edited 18 books, published more than 800 articles, and given more than 1,000 workshops and presentations throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East.
A former world-ranked alpine ski racer, Taylor is a second-degree black belt and certified instructor in karate, a marathon runner, and an Ironman triathlete. He earned his PhD in psychology from the University of Colorado. He is a former associate professor in the school of psychology at Nova University and a former clinical associate professor in the sport and performance psychology graduate program at the University of Denver. Taylor is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco.
Jim Taylor, PhD, CC-AASP, is an internationally recognized consultant and presenter on the psychology of sport and parenting. He has served as a consultant for the U.S. and Japanese ski teams, the United States Tennis Association, and USA Triathlon. He has worked with professional and world-class athletes in tennis, skiing, cycling, triathlon, track and field, swimming, golf, and many other sports. He has been invited to lecture by the Olympic Committees of Spain, France, Poland, and the United States, and he has been a consultant to the athletic departments at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Taylor has authored or edited 18 books, published more than 800 articles, and given more than 1,000 workshops and presentations throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East.
A former world-ranked alpine ski racer, Taylor is a second-degree black belt and certified instructor in karate, a marathon runner, and an Ironman triathlete. He earned his PhD in psychology from the University of Colorado. He is a former associate professor in the school of psychology at Nova University and a former clinical associate professor in the sport and performance psychology graduate program at the University of Denver. Taylor is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco.
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November 16, 2017
The book Prime Ski Racing gives lots of good insight on how to control your emotions and what it takes to get to the highest level of ski racing. Jim Taylor took me through a huge plan in how to do this. There is a very step by step process that would take many years to master, but tin the end, he said “it will all be worth it. The next paragraphs will give you insight on what this book was about and what I took away from it.
The book Prime Ski Racing was not only a book that could be used for ski racing, but could be used for life. One of the main ideas that Jim establishes in the book is that if you want to get to the highest level of ski racing (World Cup), then you must win the mental side first. If you can’t control your emotions, if you can’t believe in yourself, then you will never be successful in the sport. I thought about that for a while and recognized that it is true. I could ski my best in training with no pressure on my shoulders, but when I got into the starting gate of a race, the attitude of racing is so much more nerve racking.
How Jim helps use with controlling our emotions and our mind was what really fascinated me. What he did is was is he broke all of the aspects of the psychological portion of ski racing into sections and chapters. The first section is taking about what goes on in the mind that typically prevents skiers from skiing their best on race day. He categorized them into motivation, confidence, intensity, focus, and emotions. Then he had a little chart with these five factors on top and had numbers from one to ten on the other side. I would then have to rat ourselves on how strong I felt in that factor on race day. Jim said that if any of my scores were below a seven, then those skills would need some work Much of my scores were below a seven, which sent that I had to work on them. The next section would have different chapters on that specific factor and had exercises to help master them.
Prime Ski Racing is a book that has helped me so much in preparing the mind for the mental challenges that I face on a day to day bases. Jim Tayler (a world cup racer himself) gives a massive plan on how to take control of your mind and help block out any unnecessary emotions that ski racers encounter. To be able to triumph in the racer’s mind, Prime Ski racing is the book that will help you get you there.
The book Prime Ski Racing was not only a book that could be used for ski racing, but could be used for life. One of the main ideas that Jim establishes in the book is that if you want to get to the highest level of ski racing (World Cup), then you must win the mental side first. If you can’t control your emotions, if you can’t believe in yourself, then you will never be successful in the sport. I thought about that for a while and recognized that it is true. I could ski my best in training with no pressure on my shoulders, but when I got into the starting gate of a race, the attitude of racing is so much more nerve racking.
How Jim helps use with controlling our emotions and our mind was what really fascinated me. What he did is was is he broke all of the aspects of the psychological portion of ski racing into sections and chapters. The first section is taking about what goes on in the mind that typically prevents skiers from skiing their best on race day. He categorized them into motivation, confidence, intensity, focus, and emotions. Then he had a little chart with these five factors on top and had numbers from one to ten on the other side. I would then have to rat ourselves on how strong I felt in that factor on race day. Jim said that if any of my scores were below a seven, then those skills would need some work Much of my scores were below a seven, which sent that I had to work on them. The next section would have different chapters on that specific factor and had exercises to help master them.
Prime Ski Racing is a book that has helped me so much in preparing the mind for the mental challenges that I face on a day to day bases. Jim Tayler (a world cup racer himself) gives a massive plan on how to take control of your mind and help block out any unnecessary emotions that ski racers encounter. To be able to triumph in the racer’s mind, Prime Ski racing is the book that will help you get you there.
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