I felt like I was getting older, and I hadn’t been in a start gate or felt those weird feelings you get for a long time, and then when my skiing started getting really strong three or four years ago I was starting to think about it a little bit and then, two winters ago, it was just time [to do the Freeride World Tour]. Time in my body. Time in my mind.
Especially in a sport like this, man, where there’s a lot of young kids and it’s like I’m getting hit up everyday by like jib kids, or pipe kids, or big air kids, or people who want to go ski tour, or people who want to go up and build some backcountry booters, people who want to go sled. So, you know, it’s like I’m surrounded by very active people all the time.
Just keeping things on a consistent basis, with my training and with my stretching, and just knowing, with the injuries that I’ve had, if you’re not on a routine with even how you talk to yourself all throughout the day it’s going to end badly. Knowing that it’s going to get better, knowing you can come back. You’ve got to be really positive with yourself and that’s the biggest thing I’m learning right now.
你知道我的意思?But when you’re older and you have an ACL problem, you know exactly what that ACL is, what it’s connected to, how you’re going to get it back, what foods to eat, how much to ice, how many anti-inflammatories to take, how much to do this, how much to do that.
The best thing about skiing is that even if you just want to walk, with skins on the bottom of your feet, all the way up and just now snowplough down the mountain… just the fact that you walked up a whole mountain… you’re doing way better than most people in the later years of your life. With exercise and, you know, peace of mind.
我的意思是,也许。而且,当天,我失控了。Like, at some points, I’d be really out of control and I would give people a sense of who I am with just that one run in. People might see me out drunk, at a bar or at a premiere or something, and so I sort of brought some of those misconceptions onto me I feel.
我所能做的就是尝试成为一个比前一天更好的人。而且,只要尝试变得更好。而且,在长大后如何使自己成为一个更好的人来滑雪。You can’t just be like this idiot, fucking, mid-30-year old who gets fucked up every night doing blow, and drinking beer, and just trying to fuck everything that moves, and then go and be really good on your skis.
For any athlete, as they get older, the more you have your shit together, the more you don’t lie, the more you don’t cheat, the more you don’t steal, the more you try to do everything you can for your friends, your family, and your community, and your sport… once you become really good with yourself, that right there is when you’re going to be someone who skis at the very, very, top level they’ll ever ski at.
而且,这很酷,因为我认为像Henrik Harlaut这样的人真的接受了这一点。您可以连续看到他只是“那个家伙”。Because he is really good with himself, he is really good with his friends, he doesn’t lie to himself, he doesn’t lie to his friends, if he says he’s going to stop smoking tobacco and weed he stops smoking tobacco and weed. If he says he’s going to stop drinking, he stops drinking. It’s cool to see people internalise things, work through things, and be successful at the same time.
您是否回顾过任何时刻,现在真的很遗憾?
你知道,在这一点上,没有后悔。我所做的一切,每一个决定都将我带到这里,我不想为世界改变它。
Even like my injuries, right now I wouldn’t want to change that because that whole experience has brought me a true sense of “You gotta be strong, you gotta be smart, you gotta be on point if you’re going to keep pushing your body and your brain to the limits.”
对我来说,人们仍然真的不知道这真是太神奇了。It’s amazing how everyone is going to watch the news, everyone’s going to watch social media, and then everybody in a ski town is going to give up their two cents about what they think about someone like Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, when they’ve never even been to Ferguson, Missouri, or places like Ferguson, Missouri.
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