How fear makes us forget technique

Two days ago I was discussing the problems heavy spring snow creates for, among others, (weaker) older skiers. 

Because it makes things much harder on us, it’s easy to get apprehensive, if not scared at each new turn and by so doing renounce speed, become tachophibic and also forget the essential elements of technique.

So we end up slowing down, and, as a result, doing bizarre contortions to produce a turn. The result is that we end up having to work twice as hard and getting exhausted twice as fast. 

Instead, we should remember that in heavy snow, speed is more important than ever before and has to be combined with the best skiing technique we’re able to remember and deliver. 

This won’t come naturally and is an attitude that we must think consciously about from the very first turn until the end of the day and the bottom of the last run!