The Surfers Mind & Ostrich Man
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The Surfers Mind book launch
Psyching Surfers for the Ultimate Ride - A World First
After four years of pioneering research and consultation with the world’s best surfers, renowned surf psychologist, Richard Bennett launches a seminal guide to maximising each surfer’s ultimate potential.
The book “The Surfer’s Mind: The complete, practical guide to surf psychology” combines Richard’s deep passion for surfing with his unique professional experience, sound sport science research and elite surfer wisdom to provide simple ways for surfers of all ability levels to consciously reach their innate potential.
“Every surfer wants to experience a bigger, faster, more exciting ride and while surfing is a free spirited pursuit, real surfers take their surfing performance quite seriously. The ocean presents many risks and challenges that surfers must rise above each session and this is a passion that takes a lifetime to master”, says Richard Bennett.
The Surfer’s Mind presents all the key mental factors and strategies for optimal surfing performance as well as specialist sections on free surfing, competitive surfing, big wave riding, professional surfing, surf coaching and the surfing life. Several practical activities are also included throughout the book to facilitate surfer awareness and development.
“The more aware a surfer is of the challenges before them and how to prepare for and approach each challenge, the more they can respond in a confident, intuitive and successful way. This is the simple path a surfer must follow to master their passion and experience the ultimate ride”, adds Richard.
Richard followed his own passion for surfing and psychology to create the sole private consulting practice on the world surfing tour. His unique professional experience includes three years of global travel on the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour consulting with elite athletes of all nationalities. He has also conducted several research projects and scores of in depth psychological interviews with the world’s top free surfers, competitive surfers and big wave riders. In addition to enhancing surfing performance, Richard states his book is also about enhancing life performance:
”There is much more to surfing than simply riding a wave and the ocean continually provides core lessons for life. So throughout the book the reader is guided towards prime opportunities for personal development through their surfing as well as on how to apply the strategies for optimal surfing performance, to achieve optimal performance and fulfilment in wider life”.
“The Surfer’s Mind gives every surfer of every ability level practical, effective techniques to reach their full potential in surfing and in life”
Richard Bennett
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Demise of the Ostrich Man
by Glenn Hollands, raconteur extraordinaire and surf guide with www.dawnpatrol.co.za
Roger ‘I’m too sexy for my cowboy hat’ Smith recently graced the quiet pastures of Ocean Glen with his nationally acclaimed rendition of the ostrich mating dance. Smith complained of the poor turnout by the OG locals who are usually game for any new thrill from diving sinkers out the rip current to drag racing the municipal honey-sucker. Smith’s young apprentice and son, Adrian, can be seeing hugging the verge before plunging into the welcome shelter of some convenient fynbos.
Adrian denied any blood ties to the lanky Smith but did venture the opinion that the veteran Ostrich impressionist had been bounced off the OG sandbar once too often. More experienced members of Dawnpatrol are confident that Smith’s real sporting future awaits him in the small Australian drag bar that achieved fame in that great Aussie epic “Priscilla .Queen of the Desert.”
Meanwhile other members of the Dawnpatrol team sought refuge behind their trusty surf-wagon and tried to distract Smith by hooting at the odd left and right barrel that casually folded over the shallow OG sandbar.
Unfortunately for the intrepid wave-seekers, Smith had already confiscated all available leashes in order to fashion himself a set of highly elastic suspenders. Disaster was narrowly averted when the ageing cow-queen tried to appropriate the throw-net of 179kg Francois Holdstock in order to fashion a pair of fishnet stockings. Holdstock, who still turns out occasionally for the Kaisers Beach fifteen advised Smith that while the local community adopted a certain tolerance towards cross-dressing, they were “certainly not going to sit still while their beloved ‘Volstruis’ was lampooned by some over-the-hill surfer.”
In a desperate attempt to console the now distraught Smith the Dawnpatrol team rushed him off to the reassuringly named Queensberry Bay where he was allowed to execute his creaky bottom turns…. and flounder around near the lip …
Pumped up after his Queensberry session, Smith managed to shake his ‘protectors’ to wonder demented through the lonely East Coast dune fields for 3 weeks. Fortunately the Dawnpatrol team was able to easily track Smith’s Ostrich like spoor -shown on left...
Finally the DP team decided that the unfortunate Smith was beyond redemption and should be returned to the scene of the crime (in a shiny Toyota to avoid recognition by the locals). Smith is pictured here looking imploringly into the camera whilst trying vainly to release the 40kg weight belt welded shut around his waist.
Apprentice Adrian bows his head in a short prayer before casting the troubled bird-man into the Ocean Glen rip-current. Word has it that following this not -quite -human sacrifice, the point at OG has been epic for at least a month.
Louis and Roger run Dawnpatrol, a surf tour operator based in East London on South Africa’s south east coast. They and their support team move up and down the coast, surfing the best waves on offer between Jeffrey’s Bay and the Kwa-Zulu Natal South Coast. Check out their site on www.dawnpatrol.co.za
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