In this episode, Hazel speaks with free-ride world champion Lorraine Huber about her journey to win. At first, Lorraine had a lot of anxiety around competing and focused all her attention on the podium. Through mental training and mindset shifts she learnt how to find flow and joy during competition and which enabled her to ski at her best. Lorraine is a true testament to how important the mind is in sport and also that we are all capable of training and changing our minds.
In this episode, Hazel speaks with free-ride world champion Lorraine Huber about her journey to win. At first, Lorraine had a lot of anxiety around competing and focused all her attention on the podium. Through mental training and mindset shifts she learnt how to find flow and joy during competition and which enabled her to ski at her best. Lorraine is a true testament to how important the mind is in sport and also that we are all capable of training and changing our minds.
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0:00 | Episode Start
0:06 | Intro
2:14 | Conversation Start
3:34 | Her Ski Career
6:49 | Social Media and Professional Skiing
11:33 | Describing the freeride world tour
15:44 | Visualisation
18:13 | Dangers
21:47 | How she used to get very anxious when competing and focused entirely on the podium and let external stressors affect her
24:18 | How she learned to focus on the process
28:56 | How she emotionally let go of the goal
31:48 | How she found flow by creating the right challenge level
32:48 | How winning became a bonus
34:35 | More advice on how she let go of the desire to win especially for young people at the start of their careers
37:19 | The benefits of big goals
39:35 | Mantras “I’m here to learn, grow, find flow and enjoy the process’
43:56 | The essence of mental training
46:24 | Fear-based motivation
47:13 | Managing attention
49:55 | Pull vs Push
55:26 | Confidence
56:22 | Self-kindness and being a good inner coach
1:06:43 | Deliberate practice
1:09:33 | Self-awareness, being an observer and distancing from thoughts
1:11:36 | Tools to use in the moment to stay in flow such as keywords
1:18:46 | More on visualisation
1:24:22 | Analysis vs letting go
1:26:09 | Pre-performance rituals
1:28:12 | The body is the pro athlete
1:31:47 | Why we neglect the mind in sport
1:39:05 | End Conversation
1:39:10 | Outro