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The mountains are a big place. Huge plaza to explore. But what we can lose is that the mountains are a game of inches, ”says Zahan Pelimuria, professional guide, father and founder Samsara experienceIt is a training program designed for mountain adventures.
Not likely the majority Backcountry Mentors, Z, as he is known to most people, prefers to talk about his faults rather than his major accomplishments. He admits to having received a lot of close calls. It is through them that you learn that literal inches are what separate the right side and the wrong side of the line – and stay the same. “It’s hard to remember in a big arena. All accurate decisions matter.”
Pelimuria’s relationship to stakes is captured in a movie from Patagonia called Solve Z, Calculate Risk. What is unique about the movie is how candid he is about the miscalculations he made.
Admitting mistakes is the beginning
The act of admitting mistakes is not an empty gesture for Bleymuria. He believes that sharing mistakes is a step towards knowing that we are all bound to make them; We cannot be perfect in the mountains. “We need to start looking at ourselves,” he says. “Just like the biggest issues in the world at the moment, a lot of this problem is driven by men and the male way of thinking. Thinking, humility and building consensus are traits that many of us have to work on developing. It seems that these traits have become easier for the women I have traveled with.”
Males believe that they can organize, organize and understand mountains. “But this is nonsense,” Pelimuria says. “We will not be able to do this. The mountains will always be a mystery. They will always be a mystery. That is exactly why we are so attracted to them.”
Relinquishing the idea of controlling the environment (especially in a modern world that provides more information and data about it), can lead to serious benefits: “Now I see how more self-doubt can help reinforce the kind of humility that I think is essential to staying on. Surviving in the long game. “
Understanding the intelligence of an athlete
Billimoria definitely understands how lucky he is to have survived a dangerous career as a mentor in another country. He re-evaluates how precious time is, puts in the family, trying to reshape the skateboarding culture, while continuing to direct a little bit, but also with a renewed curiosity about the human body, movement and sports. This research has been a passion since he broke his back in 2003, resulting in his extended recovery. Two years later, he became a father, with an increased interest in “the flexibility of the body and how quickly it adapts to new environments.”
After Bellemoria was forced to stop climbing during this recovery, he spent the greater part of a decade studying the art of endurance, winning long-distance marathons, qualifying for the 2008 US Figure Skating Team and competing in the World Ski Mountaineering Championships. Ultimately, he returned to focus on strength training to improve his climb. With this shared knowledge, Samsara, began to train athletes one-on-one. Recently, he realized the third dimension, highlighted by the gap between maximum strength and the ability to climb at the highest level. This athlete calls intelligence.
This is where the body becomes intoxicating as well. The common denominator is that everything is linked together in complex three-dimensional motions, and the focus is on the connective tissue that represents the fascia. “Muscles are single units and one piece of the puzzle,” he says. “The fascia is a body-wide organ. It is complementary to the various systems responsible for the complex movement.” The reason why elite athletes move the way they do is because they exploit the power of their fascia system.
“Very few mammals on this planet have a lower leg structure that enables us to have such a good recoil. What the science reveals is that the recoil is not a muscle function as much as it is a function of the fascia and tendons. If we improve the fascia matrix, then we gain more thrust to Forward without the metabolic cost. Understanding this better is the next chapter in human athletic performance. “
To do this, athletes need to train in a way that reflects our bodies’ bias for integrated movement patterns, and emphasizes the elastic flexion of the fascia. Samsara is launching its first publicly available program this month to help share what they have learned in this research.
While most ancient training techniques stress muscles, this comes at a price. “Larger muscles require more energy to function, just as a Lamborghini needs more fuel to run fast. I’m interested in integration rather than splitting these different components.” Our interest in training is a fascia-driven perspective, creating more powerful, agile and fusion capable athletes. To meet the greatest sporting challenges in the mountains. “
Celebrating risks tempts us
As a culture, we tend to celebrate taking risk, and then celebrate that we are better than it, that we discovered it. This can lead us into thinking that if we get involved enough, we can outdo it. But what we see is that more education does not always correlate with safer outcomes. “If we can control the risks completely, it will ruin the experience of being in the mountains,” says Pelimuria. Instead, the outdoor community encourages respect for the mountains and forgetting the illusion of control. “I am learning to admit that I was lucky. Yes, I am a dedicated student in the mountain environment, and I hope to be always, but that did not guarantee my safety; good luck has played a role as well. I made a lot of mistakes and many of my friends who were smart are not here yet Now. I was just lucky. “
Pelimuria believes that change is afoot. COVID is rearranging the entire world and this has had a major impact on remote countries as well. Trailheads are getting busy more than ever, often with new user groups, including more women and people of color. “There is a new audience in the mountains and our first reaction is to teach them everything we know and certainly there is a lot to share, but we don’t have that space, and we haven’t discovered it. I think we should listen to what some of these new voices are saying, they are the future players.”
This influx of other cultures may be a ticket to better understand our mentality in high-risk environments. “We need more discussion and less unwarranted firmness and confidence,” he says. “Less control and more focus on finding ways to move through the mountains safely. More women and people of color will lead to new conversations, which we hope will lead to change.”
If we’re not proud of our current culture, we need to open up the conversation and incorporate new perspectives, says Bellemoria. “I was recently working with a group of women, and many of the traits that I try to practice and teach have come very naturally to them. Building consensus, cooperating, and listening to decisiveness. This is a much better way to travel in the mountains and manage risks. We are currently built on this idea that if We’ve made enough effort we will take control of the mountains. This is masculine talk. We think if you learn everything and master the checklist, you will be safe, but this can control the results. This is the thing that is risky: the more you think you figure it out, the more likely you are to get caught on you “.
In short, be prepared to live with uncertainty with our environment and how the future will unfold in it. That’s why, after all, we’re looking for places that are wild, real, raw – and ultimately uncertain – to start with. “Uncertainty is inherent in risk,” says Pelimuria. “Mountains don’t make any promises, and will always be a risky place.”
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