Mermer blakeslee skiing games
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Same Blood
Houghton Mifflin
1989
Ballantine Books
February, 1990
Part One,
Chapter 1
Page 15
Synopsis
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A conversation about fear with Mermer Blakeslee.
For many of us, skiing is a head game. Get past the fear, and suddenly things become a lot easier. So who better to talk to about this than Mermer Blakeslee, the ski industry’s recognized fear expert and author of In the Yikes! Zone: A Conversation With Fear (Dutton, 2002).
Mermer started skiing at the age of 3. After training at Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont, she competed internationally. For the past 20 years, she’s trained instructors as an examiner for Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA). In 1996, she became a member of PSIA’s elite National Demonstration Team and now serves as a selector for that team. Mermer travels all over the country educating industry professionals. She also leads women’s seminars at Wyndham, NY, and Snowbird, Utah.
SD: Mermer, I know you’re also the author of two novels [In Dark Water and Same Blood], yet you do all this work with skiing and fear. How do you reconcile the two?
MB: I know they seem diametrically opposed, but both of these disciplines come together in the core of my being. A lot of what I’ve done with fear and skiing is also what I’ll do with fear and writing. When you have a writing block, it’s because your expectations are high. Y
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53’s Journey
It was cool, took a lesson and then skied another couple of hours. The chair lift was a bit slow, so used the Poma lift after the first time. It was a bit different, but once I got the hang of it not a problem. The snow was good, rental skis were some type of Rossi ski, but they were good enough. I brought my own boots, helmet, pants and gloves as I did not want to use the “rental clothes” except for the jacket. It was an amazingly efficient operation, and not overly crowded. There was a wide variety of skier abilities on the hill. There is a cafe “mid-mountain” and the slope splits there, “Expert Only” to the right, and everyone else is supposed to go left. The left was ok, but had a couple of flattish pitches that sometimes I struggled to maintain speed before the next drop off. I liked the expert only side, but the speed was faster due to the steeper pitch and afforded me less time to work on my turns.
I did not feel like I skied very well today, but did have some good runs at times. I seemed to lack the rhythm I had when we were at Deer Valley. Had one near fall, but for the most part I was in balance.
The lesson concentrated on getting my skis more parallel.... Imagine that right? Did lots o