Mindfulness is becoming so ubiquitous it can be challenging to separate what the skill is and how to use it to an athlete’s advantage from the stereotypes of culturally appropriating hipsters and crunchy consumerism. Here are some trainable skills to build active and flexible attention in order to more easily induce broad present moment awareness experiences such as flow state.

This post is a companion piece to an education article appearing in the January-February 2019 Professional Skate Magazine entitled “Behavior Analysis for Popped Jumps.” We build off that article and go deeper on form versus function and fading techniques.