The Game of Balance – Junior Athletes. Dieter Runge & Sifu Slim Part 1
Conversation about Sifu Slim’s book:
The Game of Balance – Junior Athletes.
What Elite Athletes Wish Their Parents Had Told Them.
Vital Information For Your Junior Athlete
Sifu Slim in conversation with former elite sailor and current Yoga man Dieter Runge.
In the late ’70s, Dieter was one of the first German members of the punk rock scene in New York.
1:00 An artists who likes to move around
1:30 World-Class Sailor
1:50 As a Rock ‘n’ Roller, I moved around
2:00 I first started with meditation and Tai Chi… movement with consciousness is very central.
3:50 Sifu’s books: Sedentary Nation. The Aging Athlete.
4:38 What happens to the peak performers as they age?
5:20 When they leave peak performance, they mostly leave regular physicality behind and they tend to deteriorate.
5:36 The competitors tend to hurt themselves in training and in competition. It’s the rule of the road.
6:11 There is still the unspoken philosophy of No Pain, No Gain.
6:15 The recent book for people who deal with junior athletes.
6:42 How do we teach junior athletes about wellness and balance?
7:17 I have to demonstrate the proper lifestyle.
Be the living proof.
7:38 We have to show them we are not working 80 hours per week, that we live in balance.
7:54 The long-lived, happy people eat mostly a vegetarian diet. They do vertical living, getting up off the floor 30 times per day. Walking up and down the stairs.
8:43 Multi-generational family living; whereas we Westerners tend to live separately.
9:07 What we consider exercise, they do for fun.
9:34 Some people I see exercising don’t look like they’re having fun.
10:20 Some wear knee braces, some run without balance and with tense faces.
11:03 Some people would be better off on a bike or swimming.
11:36 We brush our teeth as a normal part of our lifestyle, that’s how yoga should be.
12:00 When you do yoga or tai chi, you bring out awareness. From there, the young athlete can make their own, informed decision.
12:44 The first rule in yoga is non-violence.
13:23 If there is something wrong, don’t repeat it.
13:40 You can see the violence in their faces.
13:50 The whole approach needs to be reexamined.
Junior Athletes
Awareness
Balance
Take the middle road
