The theory of evolution implies a dynamic idea of our skiing reality. The interaction with the environment facilitates the development of our abilities and potentialities, that is, all that we are.
Our different technical elements become obsolete as they are replaced by more efficient ones in a process of continuous change. In our evolution as skiers, the principle of transformation is paramount.
In the pragmatic philosophy of skiing, from the beginner stage, we discover a permanent interaction with the environment, since we are always acting and taking advantage of, or suffering, the consequences of our actions. The ultimate goal of these actions is to search for equilibrium, which is the elimination of a tension field. Nonetheless, the restoration of equilibrium results in the emergence of additional fields of tension in other domains and their corresponding imbalances. This chain of continuities and discontinuities allows us to achieve the notion of a skiing reality of flow, that is, a continuous movement in which unbalancing situations follow one after the other.
In our beginner’s stage, and even now, we are sometimes confronted with our precariousness and our weaknesses. In this situation, sometimes we feel that we lack ‘the ground beneath our feet’. The sooner we accept this uncertainty in order to deal with the void, the sooner we will stop straining our bodies and compensating for the wasted effort.
To become true skiers, we must understand that what we know about skiing is due to automatic mental and bodily processes influenced by external factors (environment, education, society, etc.). To come to new perspectives and new ideas about our skiing, we need to step back from our old beliefs and think about the root causes. If we free ourselves from our ignorance, we will be able to evolve.
So what is our vision on progress? Or rather, what kind of skiers would we like to become? It would seem reasonable that, from a practical position, every skier is simply what he or she is meant to be, as the Nietzschean perspective states. So, if we do not possess the ability to be great skiers, it is not worth punishing ourselves and feeling miserable.
As a final reflection in relation to our evolution, it is to determine that, if we are the best skiers on a slope, it is because we are on the wrong slope.
