Aloha!
Surfing and yoga are completely different disciplines, at least a priori so it seems.However, a deeper view shows us that the differences are not so many, and may eventually be complementary ways of life. Both integrate the practitioner in nature. Both surfing and yoga bring the practitioner to the present moment, experiencing it with total surrender.
Yoga intensifies the surfing experience.The relationship with the sea is strengthened by putting the practitioner in full tune with the cosmic surroundings.
The "dynamic meditation" that the practitioner experiences, catching and surfing a wave till the end of the ride can be greatly enhanced by the application of yoga techniques for surfing.surfing becomes highly productive through:
- A heating directed to a better performance at sea. Flexibility and muscle stretching capabilities are improved by avoiding injury and cramping. There is an increase in strength and muscular endurance, without, however, giving rise to muscular size, avoiding muscular hypotrophy. Also the consciousness of the body, which provides greater speed of reflexes, and the balance is worked and acquired through specific postures, the asanas.
-Pranayama (yogic breathing). Cardio-respiratory capacity is increased via these exercises. A lung capacity and resistance are increased, resulting in a stronger paddling and an increase in confidence. Concentration and tranquility are magnified and directed through the breath, avoiding situations of fear or panic in situations of great sea, the bursting shop etc.
Also, heat or cold can not be increased or reduced by specific pranayamas (breaths).
- Meditative and concentration exercises that act in the reduction of anxiety, motor coordination, tranquility in the choice of waves and decrease of errors, increase of focus, and consequent "better reading of sea", that is a number of numerical converter of waves caught by Surfing
- Visualization and mentalization exercises. They are the most effective way to surf in the way that we have idealized.
Also after surfing there are physical and mental care, which properly executed, besides relaxing the whole muscular system leaving the practitioner completely restored to the activities of daily life or to the next surfing, prolong the feeling that is brought Of the surf, whose best defense, in my view, remains the American "stoked."
The application of these age-old techniques from yoga to surfing is a powerful combination. One discipline as another, separately, is a powerful tool at our disposal that has the power to give us access to a kind of happiness impossible to describe who never Surfed or practiced yoga.
Also after surfing there are physical and mental care, which properly executed, besides relaxing the whole muscular system leaving the practitioner completely restored to the activities of daily life or to the next surfing, prolong the feeling that is brought Of the surf, whose best defense, in my view, remains the American "stoked."
The application of these age-old techniques from yoga to surfing is a powerful combination. One discipline as another, separately, is a powerful tool at our disposal that has the power to give us access to a kind of happiness impossible to describe who never Surfed or practiced yoga. Namaskar