October 22, 2020

Episode 21 | Impermanence, Riding the Waves of Life and Dealing with Triggers

37 minutes

Will and Liam cover everything from sedentary lifestyles, not wearing shoes and how ‘office job’, ‘desk dwelling’ convention gets in the way of our bodies moving as they were intended. Is the fear of labels and kookiness preventing us practicing proper stretching, movement and warming up in public.

Will talks about his dinosaur hands, T-rex style and how they catch him out in surfs and take him away from flow.

There is a shout out to Luke Cederman of the Raglan Surf report who cuts through a lot of the ‘taking surf too seriously shit’ with side splitting humour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjeccgct0Ug

The boys chat about how wearing the label of happy go lucky and upbeat human, can also create unsustainable expectation and how we all need space to not be alright all of the time. It is ok to have flat days as humans. Like waves feelings pass. Good and bad. Often it is in experience of the down, the flat days, that we get to enjoy the up. Like pumping surf returning to lift the stoke levels.

Why surfing and mindfulness go together so well because of this impermanence, its ebb and flow and how to build acceptance of this. That it will come as well as it will go and we simply attempt to embrace the journey, where there may not be a destination.

Will talks about the importance of breath practice and remembering to use breathing techniques to bring calm and deal with stress and fear. Liam relates this to more ‘unnatural’ ‘unreal world’ sensations of fight or flight in the workplace.

Surfskate practice and surf strength training feature in the body segment and Will talks Laird Hamilton quotes and the impact of having close friends around increase joy levels.

Will and Liam also explore how we can learn to enjoy our surfing more by embracing unplanned moments and dropping the weight of expectation.

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By Will Foster & Liam Morgan

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