The Why

As you may have been able to infer from the homepage, my idea for this blog is simple:

I want to create a space where athletes and people interested in skiing can read, discuss, bounce ideas off each other, with anything related to skiing.

Ever since I was a kid, growing up in the sport of ski racing, I’ve been taught to not look at what others are doing, and focus on myself. While that still applies in many areas of the sport (and is a valuable thing to do, in some sense), those bubbles of ideas have multiplied - and those bubbles, might actually just be planes of ideas encircled by a thick, large wall; no one in, no one out.

Who’s to blame for that? I don’t know. And it doesn’t, really, matter. Whether you’ve had bad coaches, good coaches, too involved parents, too-little involved parents (or anything else) - your experience, although unique, may have similarities with someone else’s.

For far too long, now, we’ve been retrieving into our own “tribes”, so to speak; “Us vs. them”. I’d like to see some change with that.

Just because someone does not share your opinion, doesn’t mean that they are wrong.
Just because someone disagrees with you, doesn’t mean that they consider you stupid.
Just because someone does things differently, doesn’t mean that you cannot learn from them.
Just because someone agrees with you, doesn’t mean that you are right.

“To look for information that can eventually invalidate what one believes in, is often the most effective way to test out both the weaknesses and the strengths of personal opinions.”

- Kirkebøen, G., 2009, p. 182, para. 4