Aggression and fury implies to me being out of control. Intensity and focus are more down my alley.
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Does anyone ski with aggression and fury?
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Or this guy..
Had a coach one time who went out with an injury for something like a month. Thirty days in she comes hobbling out to watch me practice, and I started telling her my built-up list of complaints – this thing isn't going well, this is an issue, I'm mad about this, left leg won't do this, on and on and on. Finally after much contemplation she looks at me and very politely goes "well... have you ever tried putting some effort into it... or...?"
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Yeah, aggression + fury sounds an awful lot like anger. Bad things will happen.
Intense, laser beam focus, however, gets it done.
Intense, laser beam focus, however, gets it done.
As I have said before, depends.
On stuff like below, crank up the testosterone all you want.
When Mother Nature gets cranky. Best to find the peace and stay on her good side.
On stuff like below, crank up the testosterone all you want.
When Mother Nature gets cranky. Best to find the peace and stay on her good side.
Agression and fury, no. With intent, yes.
Not so much aggression and fury. Purpose and drive. Pressure and flow. Reaching and learning. Heart rate and a bit of adrenaline. Hall and Oates. Loggins and Messina. CSN and Young. Alan and Jimmy. Amy & Emily. Willie and Trigger. Bruce and E Street. Paul and Art.
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I used to ski aggressively in tougher spots. Now I sometimes ski fast but I think flow and smoothness.
Nothing wrong with attacking the hill on occasion. It can be fun and effective.. I'm just too old for that now.
It behooves on to learn to ski with flow and grace so that one can continue to ski to a ripe old age.
If you're talking about my lovely wife then yes
I hear you bruv, oh I hear you so well…
We need to form a club-The Survivors-the big strong silent men, married to miniature women having all the intensity of 50MT of nuclear goodness whose moto in life is:
And when you hear that you know it is time to run for the hills.
It is not even that although yes, it is a part of it. It is The Flow-that elusive state when you ski (ride the bike, cast the fly…you name it) in absolute precision without thinking about it, when every move is pitch perfect, pressure on the edges is just so, leaning and countering happen by themselves. Everything works like in a dream.
But yeah, The Flow is hard,hard,hard to find and enter.
Aggression and fury with rhythm and flow.
Probably because all the crayons got used for ski wax, so they're hungry?
best I could come up with...Excellent point. I definitely ski better when I am focused and committed on groomers, but I have to sort of detach from "aggression" and relax a bit more in challenging terrain.
As most note, there's "skiing aggressively" and being "aggro." Don't be aggro.
I am not talking about flow, I am talking about The Flow, The Zone, The Stream…that elusive state of body and mind when you feel invincible, when everything happens by itself, when your fly lands in the coffee cup from 30ft every single time, your turns are perfect Ss and nothing bad can happen no matter how hard you push.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river/ski piste runs through it.
