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When we say Better Skating, we are including a wide range of skates and skating styles. The chronology or evolution of skating started with ice skating as far back as 3000 years ago. Roller skating developed from ice skating in the 1700’s. Then skateboarding developed from roller skating in the 1960’s. This in turn influenced snowboarding in the 1970’s.
Better Skating – Roller Skating;
Roller skating has been a popular recreational activity and sport since the 1880’s. It first appeared as far back as the mid 1700’s in vaudeville stage acts, perhaps to simulate ice skating?
Roller skating involves traveling over hard surfaces on skates. Roller skating is the gliding across a hard surface on wheels fixed to the bottom surface (sole) of shoes (skates). Today they utilise the hard surfaces of roads, walking paths, cycle paths or purpose-built skate parks.
- Dance
- Figure
- Speed Skates including both inline and quad skates.
- Jam Skates
- Roller Hockey
- Roller Derby Skates
- Artistic Skates
- Rhythm Skates
- Outdoor Skates
- Inline Skates
- Aggressive Inline
Better Skating – Skateboards:
Skateboarding is the latest incarnation of skating.
“I was given a wooden board with a modified roller skate wheel assembly as a boy in the mid 1960’s. It was the latest craze at our school where boys lined up for a turn rolling straight down a hill through the teacher’s car park. It was dangerous, which made it even more fun. Grazed knees and hands were all part of the experience.” Peter Zapfella
Over the years skateboard wheels and design improved dramatically and so did the sport.
Then in the 1980’s Marty McFly appeared skateboarding in the film Back to the Future films on a thing called a hover board. Everyone wanted one, yet until this day no such thing exists except in the movies. (Okay, there is an electric product called a Hoverboard but it still has wheels.)
Back to reality, skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. In some ways, it is related to surfing more than roller skating.
- Longboard Skateboards
- Cruiser Skateboards
- Mini Cruiser Skateboards
- Carve Skateboards
- Double Kick Skateboards
- Hover Boards?
Skateboarding is a diverse sport with different styles for different conditions and preferences:
- Street Skateboarding involves tricks performed on stairs, rails, ledges, and curbs. Street skaters master flip tricks, grinds, and slides.
- Vert Skateboarders ride in skatepark halfpipes or vertical ramps. They perform high-flying aerial tricks, spins, and grabs.
- Park Skaters use skatepark bowls, ramps, and quarter pipes.
- Freestyle Skaters emphasize fluid movements, and footwork over flat-ground tricks, spins, and manuals.
- Cruising longboards or wider skateboards for relaxed, smooth cruising.
- Slalom Skaters weave through cones with precision, agility, and quick turns in time trials.
- Pool Skaters carve and perform tricks in deep bowls, originally empty swimming pools.
Better Skating – Snowboards:
Snowboarding is not skating. It is not even skateboarding. It is not surfing. It is not snow skiing. Yet it was created and inspired by all of these to some extent in the 1970’s.
Skateboarding was the biggest influence on snowboarding, and I think many snowboarders also skateboard in the summer months. So, I have included it here.
The late former Winter Olympian Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin makes snowboarding look like some form of advanced hoverboarding.
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive sport done by mostly descending a snow-covered slope and standing on a snowboard attached to a rider’s boots.
The popularity of the sport has grown exponentially with 7.61 million snowboarders in the United States alone, with 32 per cent female participation in 2020. The 18-to-24-year age group are the most common snowboarders.
My brother-in-law is aged in his mid 60’s. He has traded his downhill skis for a snow-board. So, the sport is open to various age groups.
Better Skating – Ice Skates;
Ice skating is the gliding across an ice surface on blades fixed to the bottom surface (sole) of shoes (skates).
All other forms of skating evolved from ice skating. It is estimated to have begun in Scandinavia somewhere around 3000 years ago as a practical means of transport.
The Dutch picked it up during the Middle Ages as a way to get around on the frozen canals, which criss-cross the Netherlands. From there its popularity spread across Europe to the world.
Today ice skating as morphed into various sports and activities.
- Figure skates
- Ice hockey skates
- Bandy skates
- Racing or speed skates
- Touring skates
- Recreational skates
- Double runner skates
Most people ice-skate for recreation. Ice skating for hockey, dance, form, and speed are highly competitive international sports.
The Welcome Better Skating Album Cover image shows a guy ice skating on a frozen lake. The experience of skating on a natural frozen watercourse is very different from skating on a machine manicured ice rink. He appears to be wearing ‘touring’ or ‘ice hockey’ skates, which are far more appropriate than ‘figure’ skates in that environment.
Better Skating – Health Benefits
It can be daunting, even scary, to venture out on to the ice for the first time. Standing and balancing at the same time feels so foreign. Then as you try to move forward of course you naturally try to walk – and that usually ends in disaster.
Yes, you will fall over. The ice is hard so lean forward a little so that you will fall forward on to your face. It wont hurt as much as falling flat on your back and hitting your head on the ice. Don’t worry. Everyone ice skates for the first time and everyone falls over – many times. The good news is you will learn quickly, and before your first session is over you will be holding on to someone for dear life and making your way around the rink.
Those first few sessions are a great way to make new friends. You can learn from a few more experienced skaters. Then you can decide if you want to learn figure skating or hockey skating or speed skating.
Any and all skating works nearly every muscle group in the body. Gliding requires balance and synchronized movement of the arms and legs, which is important for joint flexibility. It strengthens the leg and abdominal muscles. Skating is great for cardiovascular health.
“Way back in 1976 I drove into Pine Lake in my Toyota Landcruiser to try skating on the frozen lake. We put on our cross country skis and made the short journey from the road to the edge of the lake (as seen in the photo above). My sister put on her ice skates and started skating about near the shoreline. I decided to explore the whole lake on cross country skis. I noticed that when I skied over the ‘dark ice’ I could hear it cracking behind me. Obviously, the dark areas were thin ice, so I kept to the thicker white ice areas. I later returned to my sister near the lake edge and put on my skates, but having been spoiled by manicured ice rinks I could not enjoy the rough frozen ‘waves’ on the lake surface. Eventually, we put on our skis and started off for the road. It was then I saw a dark patch near the edge of the lake so instead of prodding it with my ski poles I stupidly kicked off my skis and prodded the dark patch with my boot. Next thing I overbalanced and fell into the lake. I managed to find an unsteady foothold on a rock, which was rocking about unsteadily under my feet. The surrounding ice surface was up to my chest. I managed to lean over the ice and pull myself out. Back at the four-wheel-drive, I changed into a dry set of clothes, and we enjoyed a thermos of hot soup before heading home.”
As a skater, your greatest competition is your own mind. Now you can listen to your Welcome Better Skating subliminal affirmation MP3 to develop your confidence and focus while skating.
‘Welcome’ Subliminal Affirmations: Better Skating
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Just like Homer Simpson, we all have those intrusive thoughts from time-to-time. If we choose to listen to them and tag them with emotion, they can become more powerful. When we add self-talk – they can grab control by becoming deep unconscious beliefs. These beliefs drive our behaviors. We call automatic behaviors – habits.
So which thoughts do you choose to listen too? The ‘good’ which are focused upon happiness, and better surfing? Or, the ‘bad‘ which are focused upon past fears and anxiety?
The Welcome Better Skating subliminal affirmations are a resource to deliver targeted messages to your deep unconscious up to 1200 times a day. That’s powerful enough to change deep unconscious thinking, therefore beliefs and behaviors!
Subliminal Affirmation Text; Welcome Better Skating
“You might notice throughout the day you constantly visualize yourself skating perfectly.
When practicing, performing, and playing in reality, in the mind you can really enjoy stepping into your visualization and repeating it, over and over again. You are more focused and motivated about skating more consistently better than ever before.
The reputation of other skaters means nothing to you because you know even the champions have their ‘bad’ days, and today is your ‘best’ day ever.
You might not have noticed you are now more clear in the mind, more relaxed in the body, and you are coping better with everything and everybody. You are more confident. You have greater self-control… the way you feel is becoming better and better… because the burdens have been lifted forever and ever now that you are a better skater.”
The more the Welcome Better Skating messages are repeated over and over, the more they are uncritically accepted by the deep unconscious. If you listen to the Welcome Better Skating MP3 while sleeping, on ‘repeat’ or ‘loop’ your unconscious mind will hear this message almost 400 times every night. You could listen to the ‘Theta Binaural waves’ or ‘Environmental – Lake waves’ MP3 while sleeping. Or, you could choose to also listen to the ‘Pleasant piano and guitar melody’ and/or the ‘Zumba’ – Latin style dance music during the day. Your deep unconscious would then hear the affirmations repeated around 800 – 1200 times, while your logical conscious mind would hear it around 60 – 90 times. That’s powerful because a message repeated enough will become a new unconscious belief.
Also because we all have different listening preferences, Welcome Better Skating has a choice of foreground variants for you to choose from. ‘Click here’ to hear samples.
Prime Hypnosis; Welcome Better Skating
PRIME HYPNOSIS MP3’s incorporating these affirmations, following a Classic hypnotic induction with professional hypnotherapists Peter Zapfella and Coral Conrad will be added to the line-up during 2024. They will not be annoying and bothersome because they are delivered following an advanced hypnotic induction. They are abreaction free. Internet Hypnosis. Shop is the only web site with hypnosis MP3 downloads in English English language video , Chinese Mandarin 中文普通话视频. and Spanish Video en español.
Hipno Hop Rap; Welcome Better Skating
Rhythmic, rhyming Rap speaks to the ‘street culture’ across different genders, ages, languages, nationalities, races and religions. They may not understand or trust ‘therapy’, and ‘hypnosis’. But they do understand Rap. In time, these therapeutic Hipno Hop Raps become new deep unconscious beliefs leading to new positive behaviors and emotions. They are hypnotically powerful.
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Every Hipno Hop Rap has a corresponding Prime Hypnosis and Welcome subliminal affirmation and can be combined for even more effective change.
These are building into an amazing Hipno Hop Rap as Therapy resource for individuals, parents, teachers, coaches, professional counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists everywhere.
Hipno Hop Rap Text; Welcome Better Skating
- “I lace up my skates, I’m as cool as ice.
But my balance is tight, I’m ready to slice.
I glide on my blades, I’m feeling so high,
I’m the winner on the rink, cause I can fly.
Chorus
I’m focused and motivated, I’ve got the drive.
I’m pushing my limits, I’m feeling alive.
Stepping into my mind, it’s like a dream.
In reality, it’s as real as it seems.
My focus is sharp, my motivation’s high.
Skating consistently, my skills amplify.
2. My board’s on my feet, I’m ready to shred,
I’m carving the snow, like a hot knife through bread.
I see myself on the board, it’s a perfect sight.
Visualizing tricks, I’m flying like a kite.
Chorus
3. I roll on my wheels, I’ve got the drive,
Always pushing the limits, I’m so alive.
Clear in the mind, relaxed in the body.
With every move, my confidence is tidy.
Chorus
4. As I stand on my board, my balance is right.
I slide, then I spin, my tricks are tight.
I flip and grind, then I grab the air.
Other skaters stand still, mouths open they stare.
Chorus.”
An alternative option is to consult with Peter using Skype to complete diagnostics and a one-on-one therapy session.
There are many benefits to using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy. It all starts with learning a new way to think, therefore creating a new pattern of thoughts and behaviors that remove the negative and stressful effects previously experienced. The old pattern is broken and in its place, the sufferer learns new patterns that are positive and constructive.
Unlike counseling and some other psychotherapies, NLP and hypnotherapy do not dwell on the past, that approach to therapy only traps the sufferer in the past, causing them to ‘relive’ event over and over again. Those other techniques simply perpetuate the destructive pattern of thought.
Hypnosis works in combination with NLP, targeting your unconscious mind and teaching it how to make the very deep, inner shifts in thinking that support the conscious actions of your mind. The two techniques work with each other rather than against each other, helping to create real and lasting change.
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