Finally, let muscle memory and your basic athletic stance lead you towards your sweet spot. Practicing other sports will make you a better athlete in any sport. For instance, yoga, rock climbing, and ice climbing have taught me how to use my skeletal structure more than my muscles to prevent injury and have more strength and endurance. These sports also lessen the chance of me freaking out in a frightening situation by drawing on skill, breathing and focus.

Mountain biking, surfing, skateboarding, and dirt biking have given me more confidence at speed, better balance and skill looking ahead at where you want to be. These sports mimic the feeling of skiing. When turning, you counteract the centrifugal forces that pull you to the inside of a turn by moving your body weight to the outside. You also have to fight to stay forward instead of back, as this keeps you in the drivers seat and not in a runaway car.

This discovery of the sweet spot is against human nature. How often have you leaned up the slope instead of down, inside the singletrack switchback instead of away, and backwards instead of forward in the skate park or on a wave?...