Sunday was so amazingly beautiful... warm, clear sky, more like a spring day, than January.
The new boot thing continues to challenge. Alignment is still off, skis are not flat, and thus, it's more work to tip and turn to one side than another. Worse, with boots/skis not standing flat, the skis grab, when ideally they're designed to flow. This can hurt if I don't pay attention. Another "worse", because my boots don't "stand" aligned, my body has to move in ways that are not bio-mechanically efficient or effective. Not only is this a pain in the !$@!, but very embarrassing too when I am in fact supposed to know better, and model effective movement for those I am training.
The irony of all this boot stuff is that to the average person, my skiing is just fine thank you, not much to moan about. In the big scheme of things, NOTHING to moan about... krumb bumb, I'm skiing in the sun shine, how bad can it be? At the same time, my body knows, my brain is tracking, and something is really off albeit subtle.
How are these boots in the moment, vendors who don't follow through? How are these stupid white boots, the Economy that's so out of my control? Like me, I'll bet you're doing all you can do in any given moment to survive, thrive if creativity can find a way. And, at the same time, a blind side hit, awkwardness at best, keeps showing up!
Life ain't fair... okay, my boots are what they are. Poor rudy, new boots, boo hoo. I could be on worn out boots or no boots at all. Enough victim.
How do I move with them in flow, anticipate a little differently than before, get used to new feelings and frustrations that I've never noticed before? Well, on one level, I am aware:
1. I need to own the boots are what they are for the moment.
2. Do what I need to do, as fluidly as possible, but pragmatically too, simply do what I need to do to move with the skis/economy...
3. Keep conscious and aware, what's working and what's not, even though all I know to be true ain't so true anymore...
4. Find the resources I need to keep tweaking the boots until I get them dialed in...
5. Appreciate that after all these years and the skill set that I own, one thing alone isn't going to be a solution... headline on change: the solution ends up being the next thing that needs to be tweaked, because the solution will create chaos in it's own right!
Faculty members at grad school don't often talk about this by the way... more soon!
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