Wholistic Fitness

“yet True Speed is Warrior Speed,
True Speed is Wholistic Speed;
True Speed requires self propulsion and an
ongoing demand of Inner Spirit and Sweat..”
– excerpt from the below DL entry by coach ilg

photo of coach training in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California by Wayne Williams.

Dear Coach,
i know from your DL’s (it’s my FIRST stop during my Internet Surf!) and from your AMAZING HP Yoga Prop Workout� (INCREDIBLE WORKOUT!!! i LOVE IT!!! THANK YOU! PLEASE MAY I HAVE ANOTHER, SIR!!) that you are way into Nordic skiing (which i have finally figured out is cross country skiing). I have tried it, but i crave SPEED, man! Guess i am missing something, eh?

you are amazing and please don’t leave the Planet too soon! stay here and keep doing what you are doing!

sign me,

Sam I Am A Snowboarder and (Alpine) Skier

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Noble Shishya Sam,

i almost left the Planet this morning halfway through my Nordic Skate Ski Intervals…

One day, my young warrior,
you will be filled with BLISSFUL INSIGHT when you realize that
Speed is Relative.

i have a Kawasaki z1000 sport bike. i crave speed too, and every now and then when i am in LA, i take my sport bike and
soar up Pacific Coast Highway then dodge right into the Santa Monica Mountains and torque up and down and through those canyons with my heart in my throat. Gawd, i love speed!

yet, the most scintillating speed i have experienced on a bike was not a motorcycle.
it has been on those canyons and many more throughout the country on my racing bicycle.
lemme tell ya; clocking 60+ mph on my bicycle, descending off Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado,
in a rain/sleetstorm while attacking to bridge to a 3-man breakaway that attacked on the descent…
phewweeee….those tiny little tires, wet pavement, cold, and racing adrenalin? you kiddin’ me!?!?
THOSE are the Moments that build up Bardo Merit; not sitting on a fancy motorized machine.

i love Alpine skiing. Downhill and Super G were my best events as a Varsity racer in Durango, Colorado. CRAVED the sound of soaring skis ripping down groomed racecourses and ducking past gates to reset the next edge as the high speed wobbles shook my ski tips as if in epilepsy. LOVE TO SKI and ‘board fast!!!!

yet, alpine skis and snowboards have metal edges, big boots, fastened heels, and chairlifts to cart them up to the top of the hill. that shit ain’t Bardo Merit stuff. fun, don’t get me wrong. however, anytime you are not Self Propelled and as close to Mother Earth as possible…there is a big ol’ spiritual KINK in the Transmission of CHI. Adrenalin is fine, however, CHI is refined and far more potent and healthy to cultivate instead of getting to be 30 years old and having adrenal glands exhausted and broken bones gained without an understanding of CHI and Higher Energetics. The true extreme athlete is the Pranic Athlete who has come to understand an Inner World of Cosmic Life Force than does the athlete who fixates his or her life to a chain smoking syndrome of adrenalin fixes. In the long run, that shit is boring with a capital “B”.

to REALLY experience CHI on SKIs (or a Board), you gotta get REAL and get back to where the sport began;
No Metal Edges, No Heel Fastener, and no Chairlift…

this morning while cranking off the k’s up at the Nordic Center…
it has been utterly fantastic in the most sickest of ways, bro!
this morning’s workout including “V2 intervals” at 8,700’…followed by a get this..
Bode Miller like kamikaze downhill tuck descent for a whopping 5 minutes and 1,800′ descent!!
dude…LEG BURN in the tuck BIG TIME! way more intense than in racing even a Downhill in an alpine event!
soooo much fun! way tight turns, sketched out carrying humungo speed trying not to wrap myself around a ponderosa,
all the while never allowing myself to scrub speed through the dodgy corners as the pristine snowy track reeled
away behind me like a white ribbon of Pran!

Hey,
it’s all GO(o)D in the outdoor sports…whatever gets people out and breathing with Father Sky while dancing upon Mother Earth is totally GREAT by me, Oh Noble Tribal Brother!

Enjoy the Speed,
yet Perfect Speed is not about just going fast…
it’s about the Wholistic Effect; how many physiologic systems, mental focus capacities, willpower, endurance, agility, reaction, et. al, does it take to create that Speed?

anybody can “go fast”…
especially if all it takes to go fast is a twist of a throttle or a little pressure from ankle flexion…
whippty doo, big deal!

yet True Speed is Warrior Speed,
True Speed is Wholistic Speed;
True Speed requires self propulsion and an
ongoing demand of Inner Spirit and Sweat.

see you up on the Mountain…smiling within shared Speed!

namaste from the tiny Temple beneath the Sacred Peak…

coach ilg