When learning to ski, our actions are limited by our technical restrictions, the inclination of the slope, traffic, or snow conditions. Through our experiences, we establish our own space, determining references that we take into consideration such as our own body, distances, terrain shapes, and fixed and moving objects.
In our initial skiing attempts, we had a tendency to limit our visual field and concentrate primarily on our motor capabilities. We operated in a restricted and uncoordinated space, and we gradually acquired control of our motions through the use of sensations. As we incorporated more technical elements, we broadened our motions by spatially adjusting to other locations in the mountain, referred to as functional space. In certain situations, and for technical or psycho-affective reasons, we are prone to structure ourselves in a restricted skiing area, limiting our own functional space.
As we gain familiarity with the skiing environment, our vision facilitates the perception of a broader area for action. Through motions and establishing relationships with objects and, especially, with the fall line, we learned to occupy the mountain space and place ourselves. Additionally, we established the basic elements for the temporal organization of our displacements, such as duration and continuity. We also became cognizant of time through the simultaneity and succession of our motions.
Concluding this subject, we can manifest that every action when skiing occurs in a specific time and space, and that this time-space relationship is the information of when and of where.
In order to successfully manage our actions during our motions, we must perceive information from the time-space structure. We consider that, in skiing, space serves to coordinate our motions, whereas time serves to coordinate our movements and actions.
