When the stakes are high
Valeria Tsoy
KNOW WHAT TO DO UNDER PRESSURE.You can’t control what happens in competition.You can prepare your response.Altitude is an 8-week pre-competition protocol built around you and the competition ahead.We identify the situations you may face.
Decide what you’ll do.
Practice it.
Test it under pressure.So when competition asks “What now?”You already know.⸻THE MIDDLE OF COMPETITION IS A BAD TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO.You’ve trained the technique.You’ve built the strength.You’ve done the reps.Then competition introduces something you didn’t expect.A bad start.A mistake.A change in conditions.A result you weren’t expecting.Nerves.A decision that suddenly feels much bigger than it did in training.Or the realization that you actually have a chance to win.Now what?Altitude moves that decision out of the moment.We make it beforehand — when you have enough information, distance and mental space to think clearly.Then we turn it into a procedure you can execute under pressure.⸻THE PROTOCOL01 — IDENTIFYFirst, we map what can happen.The situations that affect your performance.
The decisions they create.
The places where emotion, pressure or uncertainty can interfere.Know what you’re looking at.⸻02 — DECIDEThen we decide what you’ll do.Before the stakes are high.Before emotion is making the decision.Before you’re standing there asking yourself what happens next.If X happens → you know Y.⸻03 — INSTALLThen we turn those decisions into your protocol.A clear sequence built around you, your sport and your competition.I teach it.We practice it together.You practice it without me.⸻04 — TESTThen we put it under pressure.Can you identify what’s happening?Can you locate where you are in the process?Can you execute the procedure without needing me to tell you what comes next?If something breaks, we correct it.Then we test again.⸻05 — EXECUTEThen you compete.The conditions may change.Your emotions may change.The result is never guaranteed.But you don’t have to invent your response in the moment.You know where you are.You know what comes next.You execute.⸻YOU DON’T NEED TO FEEL A CERTAIN WAY TO PERFORM.You can be nervous.Excited.Confident.Disappointed.Unsure.Altitude isn’t designed to manufacture the perfect emotional state.It gives you a procedure that still works when the emotional state isn’t perfect.Identify.
Decide.
Execute.⸻WHY A PROTOCOL?I’m Valeria Tsoy-Chambers.Olympic snowboarder. Commercial helicopter pilot.In aviation, you don’t want to encounter a high-pressure situation and start deciding from scratch what to do.You prepare.You identify the situation.You know the procedure.Then you execute it.I bring the same principle to competition.Not because sport can be made predictable.It can’t.But you can eliminate the uncertainty that doesn’t need to be there.⸻WHAT YOU LEAVE WITHNot motivation.Not a collection of mindset tricks.Not dependence on me.A pre-competition protocol you know how to run.Built around you.Practiced before you need it.Tested under pressure.Yours to keep.So when something happens and the question is—“What do I do now?”—you have an answer.⸻ALTITUDE8 weeks.
1:1.
Built around a competition already on your calendar.You know what you’re going after.Let’s prepare for it properly.
Focused, because you know what you are doing