Episode 27 | Nice People and Knobheads

In philosophers corner, Will and Liam walk through Lookalikes, nuance, cancel culture in surfing and the world of woke, before getting deep into meditation and mindful living. They discuss whether we have lost the understanding of intention, context and nuance. Looking at how  we are so quick to take offence and leap into extremes of reaction.  Does the ferocity of reaction to everything undermine the power of words and reaction for when we all need to stand up and be counted? 

Can surfing connect friends who hold different points of view and that getting along, understanding each other and being able to walk around in someone else’s shoes for a while is a good thing for empathy and understanding. The only dividing line in this world of ours being ultimately that there are Knobheads and Nice people.

Will talks about his growing surf addiction the more abundant surf sessions become and the eventual and inevitable impact of over training on the body. With the social side of surfing now often driving this desire to jump in the water as much as the endorphin rush of riding waves.

The boys mull how the back doors into meditation like music and surfing compare to simply being still and working only with mind and body.

Will and Liam look at the small steps required to make big gains and how starting with as little as possible in either exercise or meditation can build long term healthy habits. Being kind to yourself and being present enough to not get overwhelmed by the enormity of any task or improver journey and letting each micro move lead to macro gains over time. Everyone has to be begin somewhere, even the pros, but doing the little bits of practice and getting to a place of good enough leads to all those incremental gains adding up to mega improvements.  Remembering too that every day takes care, attention and practice.

Will runs the Mindful Surfer Mindfulness segment with a 4/8 breathing technique.

Liam talks about treating the fractures in his spine through a combination of physical therapy and meditation through mind/body healing. And yes there is some of Will and Liam’s woo-woo stuff in here! How movement, energy healing and care has helped him back into surfing without pain. http://remedialtherapyclinic.co.uk/

Will talks about how mindfulness needs an aware student and can’t simply be pushed onto someone and Liam highlights it is about opening up to newer experiences ad how a younger version of himself would have taken the piss out of him. The guys, chat about how all of the deep stuff intertwines with surfing to bringing it back to how effecting meditation learned from this can help deal with perceived states of fear, anxiety and mind activity.          

Will  raises delves into his insights on sleep and how surf media, if you cruise it too much, can start to eat into sleep patterns or your evenings.  Ending up in a click bait scrolling vortex. Liam discussed how he didn’t really do Social until launching the show and how he gets dragged in by this vortex too but when you do pick up a book, or a longer more meditative form of entertainment like a podcast you notice the difference in brain activity.  It is all too easy it is to fall into bad habits even when we know, as adults and mindfulness enthusiasts what the pitfalls are. We are human after all.  There are not the same spiritual and mental gains surfing social or the internet than real surfing!

Will and Liam agree that The only certainty is uncertainty and how surfing hard but being nice to people is the way to go.

Coming on next weeks show were we have Priscila Guedes dropping in to talk big waves and surfing in Hawaii. https://www.instagram.com/priscila_guedes_official/

Surf hard and be nice to people, people x