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Five-time Olympian Kerri Walsh Jennings has announced plans for her new beach volleyball circuit that will bring a sports and music festival to eight cities.
Jade Howson admits she’s a “water baby.” She surfs, swims, competes in stand-up paddleboarding and has been romping around in the ocean waves near her home in Laguna Beach, California, since she could toddle around the beach.
To keep her body injury-free for the next three years, the 38-year-old has been focusing heavily on conditioning. On her list of resolutions this year: perfecting the dreaded pullup.
It was a surf contest like no other before – a historic event that would give a glimpse of how surfing’s best competitors would fare far from the ocean on waves created by a machine.
“She’s got balls!” exclaimed the guy on a shortboard paddling next to me at a Dominican Republic reef pass, as Anna Santoro started scratching into an oversized set wave.
A huge part of surfing at your optimal level of performance is turning off your negative self-talk. The thoughts in our head influence our behavior, attitude, and actions in every walk of life. They are either empowering and enable us to take positive actions or limiting and stop us from achieving our goals.
Surfing has become part of Airbnb in a big way: The home rental and travel company recently introduced more than 75 surfing-related activities in its Experiences category, a service where travelers can book activities and tours with Airbnb hosts in more than 20 destinations worldwide.
“In performance the essence is linkage and connections, not isolation. Therefore the training should reflect this and focus on muscle synergies and connections.”
Everyone* knows that the key to victory in any sporting event is taking care of the 1%ers.
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