Hi From Brazil!
Hi Steph,
How are you?
Before anything, let me say that I admire your ability and am perhaps your craziest fan. I watch your videos almost every day … Especially the one where you solo the Diamond. Much the same mass! I always watch the THE SHARP END. I sit with my wife and I am touched always as if for the first time I watch … Laughter!
I started climbing a little over a year. But I always had admiration for the sport, but had no time to practice … Not to mention that the equipment is hard to find here in my state (Alagoas – Brazil). But with much effort I’ve been overcoming some challenges and spreading a little more about this wonderful sport, which is climbing. A few months ago I suffered an accident while withdrawing some protections of a climbing wall Indoor. I broke my nose and one of the bones (scaphoid) my right hand. I am recovering, I will have surgery soon …
Dream every day with the day that I can go to the United States of America and maybe very, very lucky but even I will have the opportunity to meet you. And more personally witness one of its great and wonderful deeds. Ah! That would be incredible …
You know? I have a million questions to make you do not even know how to begin.
What goes on in your head during one of those amazing solos as Castleton or Diamond? How does it feel to know that doing things that maybe nobody else can?
Sorry for bad English, I missed several classes in the course … Laughter!
Next time tell a story.
And come visit us here in Brazil, has many wonderful places and rocks with good levels. It will be a great pleasure to have you in our country
That God bless you and you continue to accomplish great feats.
Hugs! Samuel
Ciao Samuel!
Thank you for writing to me! I would love to come to Brazil someday 🙂 I speak very little Spanish, and not so much Portuguese either 🙂
It’s funny the things that go on in your head. Sometimes I have a hard time turning off my thoughts….if I am nervous when I am doing something committing, I see flashes of bad consequences in my head, like movie images or little short phrases. That is really bad, and it’s dangerous. I know if I envision bad outcomes, I can actually envision myself into having them, and also the same goes for good outcomes. So if I am having that problem, I have to change the channel, with words. That usually works, but it’s not how I want things to be, but sometimes that’s how it is.
When things are good, I feel at peace, and confident and good, and it is a window into the best way of being. When it’s like that, everything is perfect….but you never know how you are going to be when you leave the ground. So far my experience has been that it’s not like one day you arrive at that ideal place, and then it’s always like that forever and now you’re done!….for me, there are times of real peace and goodness, and then there are times of struggle, and I think it’s a lifelong path. I want to be in the ideal mind state all the time, but I am not the Buddha 🙂 This is a big part of why I am drawn to do things that are committing. I guess that’s what makes it always interesting, to see how much your reality is affected by what is happening inside your head. To try to learn how to be positive and confident all the time, because that is the ideal state.
Thank you for writing to me, and for all the great pictures!! Recover fast, and I hope you are climbing again very soon.
🙂 xxSteph
