Jonathan Lawson: Daily Journal

In Breckenridge before Dec 18th? Here's the deal...

By Jonathan Lawson on August 22, 2011 6:42 PM | No Comments

Grand Lodge 2 Free nights

They say nothing is free, but this is pretty darn close. If you are able to come to Breckenridge before December 18th. This is the deal. You can stay in a studio unit at the Grand Timber Lodge for No Cost...

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Simplify your teaching - Improving your skiing by focusing on less

By Jonathan Lawson on January 22, 2011 8:46 PM | No Comments

Rules, regulations, laws, and complexity. Since the birth of the constitution there has been no year with fewer laws than the previous year. Simply look at tax law, and realize that there is no one person who knows all the...

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Images and elements of "Good" Skiing

By Jonathan Lawson on November 27, 2010 12:02 PM | 3 Comments

When I was training for my PSIA Full Certification (Level 3) in 1993, and Trainer Accreditation (1999) I would watch good skiers for about 15 minutes every morning. Of course back then it was on VHS video tape. Now you...

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Thank you A.I.

By Jonathan Lawson on November 5, 2010 9:01 AM | No Comments

Genius comes into this world in many forms. So often we think of genius in terms of an IQ test, although this is genius in its narrowest measure. Watching Tiger Woods playing his "A-game", Hermann Maier or Bode Miller on Super...

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EpicMix - GeoTagging, Geolocation, and Facebook updates live from the slopes

By Jonathan Lawson on September 2, 2010 10:10 PM | No Comments

Vail Resort just announced EpicMix for the 2010-11 season. Reliving your ski or snowboarding day into the evening. Bejeweled has nothing on this. The connection with Social Media should be fun for a number of uses. I am excited to see...

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First Snow hits the High Country, Colorado

By Jonathan Lawson on August 20, 2010 8:20 AM | No Comments

We have been enjoying our summer riding, rafting, parades and golf. However, we can't help but think towards the autumn season and golf. And this morning Park County, CO highest peaks saw a little snow.The first snow in Ski Country...

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Dynamic Warmup for Skiing - Elsbeth Vaino

By Jonathan Lawson on August 7, 2010 8:23 AM | No Comments

This is a repost of Elsbeth Vaino's MySnowPro.com Blog. This is an excellent pre-ski day routine. Visit Elsbeth's blog regularly. You may follow it via an RSS feed, by selecting "subscribe to the feed" in the right hand column of...

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Babes on Bumps 2010 - photo review

By Jonathan Lawson on February 27, 2010 7:08 AM | No Comments

I had a great 2 months skiing with the ladies of the Babes on Bumps. We came to the season with diverse goals. 1) Improve our skiing2) Have fun3) Push a few of our limitsAfter the first lesson we talked about...

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Wrapped up MLK weekend skiing in Breckenridge

By Jonathan Lawson on January 19, 2010 9:41 AM | No Comments

We just finished a busy and pleasant weekend in Breckenridge, CO. Skiing and riding was reasonably good. I can't wait for some "horrible" weather to replenish the soft snow on the mountain. It looks like storms are rolling through.I have...

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Zones of Comfort and Fear - Performance Skiing

By Jonathan Lawson on January 12, 2010 1:10 PM | 2 Comments

The contents of this post have been incredibly important to my ski and golf teaching. I have also used the concepts here for other types of athletes and performers. I labelled zones of comfort, performance, and fear in my own...

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