The Mental Toolbox | August
The Mental Toolbox | August
By Limitless Mental Performance
Welcome to our newsletter! Here, we offer a condensed overview of the resources shared throughout each month coupled with some updates on our latest endeavors. With this monthly piece, we’re looking to spark curiosity and deliver practical knowledge that can be integrated into your daily routine. Thank you for being a part of our community, and we hope you enjoy the read!
🏅 The 2024 Paris Olympics may be wrapped up but the inspiring performances are still fresh in our minds!
This week, we're highlighting several of these stories, which are the focus of the newly released series "Skate-hers." An Olympics Channel original, Skate-hers shares the unique stories of seven female skateboarders at different levels of the sport.
🛹 "Follow their adventures, challenges, and triumphs as they make their mark and elevate skateboarding culture. From city streets to famous skateparks, see how these women are shaping the sport's future and inspiring a new generation."
📺 Skate-hers can now be streamed free and without a subscription by clicking here. With each episode lasting ~15 minutes, this is a rad piece of free media.
🥇This week we’re sharing an inspiring message from renowned author and speaker Brad Stulberg, sourced from his recent opinion piece for the NY Times, entitled "What the Olympics Can Teach Us About Excellence." (🔗 here)
As Brad shares, "Excellence is a process. That process can, and must, be renewed every day. The real reward for excellence is not the medal or the promotion, but the person you become and the relationships you forge along the way."
🎯The Olympic Games are no doubt a captivating spectacle, and while the performances may seem out of reach for most of us, they also offer a chance for personal reflection. As Brad goes on to say, the Olympics offer us an opportunity to look inward and reflect on our versions of excellence. This lens comes through three questions:
- How should I spend the time I have?
- How do I summon the focus to pursue my interests with care?
- What does this say about the values I hold and my desire to practice them?
🎥 This week we're excited to share an episode titled "Freediving as a Sport or a Means of Surviving," from the HBO series titled 'Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.'
🤿 Within these ~14 minutes you can learn so much about both the sport of Freediving as well as the extraordinary water-oriented people of the Philippines: the Sama-Bajau.
🏝 We'll leave the rest up to you. All we can say is it's an incredible watch and it'll tend to how awesome humans can be.
🤸♂️ This week we're excited to feature USA Olympian gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik. Namely, a recent interview conducted by Nick Remsen of Vogue that involved him sharing his perspective and elite pre-performance routine.
🥉 Upon winning a bronze medal for USA Gymnastics in the 2024 Paris Olympics, he had some wisdom he was willing to share about his pre-performance routine. The different ways that he gets his mind right are textbook high-performance psychology in action. In this interview, he dives into his Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning (IZOF) (Hanin, 1997, 2000), or his preferred (and perceived as his most favorable) emotional and mental state when immersed in a performance.
💭 What does your pre-performance routine look like?
💭 What is your "IZOF?"
🛹This week, we're stoked to announce our next venture and partnership within the action sports space - The Rockstar Energy Open!
"The future of competition is here! We’re thrilled to unveil @rockstarenergy’s fresh take on skateboarding with its all-new Rockstar Energy Open, coming to Portland, Oregon on Aug 23-25."
"Portland’s deep roots within the skateboarding community serve as a prime location to celebrate the newly minted Rockstar Energy Open, bringing street and park competitions, live music, art installations, and more to the historic Waterfront Park in the heart of the city."
"The Rockstar Energy Open seeks to invite over 100 top-tier and up-and-coming street and park skateboarders on imaginative courses purpose-built for displaying the world’s best skateboarding. Leading up to the event, street skateboarders worldwide will have the opportunity to compete with invited pros through an innovative Video Qualifying Series (VQS) hosted on thePlatfrm.com, offering a true open invitation format."
We're thrilled to be a part of this event and to be a resource for the skateboarding community! You can check out the live stream replay and more here!
🛹This week we're stoked to feature a message from pro skateboarder, Tyson Bowerbank, sourced from his recent digital portrait for The Platfrm, entitled Tyson Bowerbank, A Genuine Powerhouse.
Shoutout to Skyler Wilder for this awesome description:
"Tyson Bowerbank is a genuine powerhouse. On the board, a total powerhouse of ability both technical and of impact. Off the board, he is a truly genuine individual—a quality that has described him his entire life. But that’s only the beginning of his story.
Over the years Tyson has struggled on and off the board, as well. Between picking up sponsors, chasing the dream of someday turning pro, realizing the dream and then watching it slip away—it’s enough to drive anyone away. Then you tack on the rest of what life has in store for you and who knows where you net out. Tyson opens up about his own bouts with mental illness and the toll it took on his ability to chase his dream.
That’s when family and friends came into play. For Tyson, it was both. With the constant support of a tight family, it was after his friend Ryan Decenzo reached out and offered a second chance that the fire reignited."
🤙Check out Tyson's digital portrait when you have a moment. A few themes that shine through are authenticity, leaning on your support network, learning from struggles, the power of purpose & reconnecting with your 'why'.
Before you go…
🌟 Last weekend’s inaugural Rockstar Energy Open in Portland, OR was a blast!
Shout out to @rockstarenergy & @theplatfrm for having us. Big-time respect to the athletes who threw down, and a sincere thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth. Your stories and support mean the world to us.
Click the play button above for a quick weekend recap from our POV. We’re excited to continue being a resource for the skateboarding community and can't wait to see you all back in Portland next year!
#skateboarding #competition #portland #oregon #rockstarenergy #theplatfrm
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🎵 Steve Biko (Stir It Up) - A Tribe Called Quest
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