Inspiration from the Fringes
April 22nd, 2010 1 Comment » RSS 2.0 Pingback
I was sifting through a backlog in Google Reader this morning when this image, taken by Chip Carey, popped up on Dougald MacDonald’s Mountain World Blog. It’s John Trudgen, who was multi-time heavyweight ski champion through the 1970s.
Dougald comments: ‘this is one of the most inspiring ski photos I’ve ever seen‘, and I tend to agree. I can’t imagine the heavyweight ski championships are like the heavyweight boxing championships in terms of recognition and rewards. I mention this because I’ve been thinking a lot lately about motivations. It seems that it’s one thing to push yourself when you know you will get a lot of recognition from it – say for example an Olympic medal – but it’s another entirely when any recognition will be negligible.
To me it seems these stories are almost more interesting, inspiring and admirable. Some people need to battle through their entire lives just to survive.
May 9th, 2010 at 7:39 am
This dude would certainly create some serious momentum although his aerodynamics would not be too efficient.