LAin Bichli begins every day with a visit to her happy place. Ideally, she spends at least an hour, engaged in a local break in fresh water on the northern beaches of Sydney, after the “portfolio gangsters and schoolchildren” were and left. Today she sets up the morning routine to find time to meet in the royal botanical garden on the other side Sydney Harbor.
With 12 surfing boards in the garage and almost five decades of the daily ritual in her arms and legs, the seven -time surfing champion is preparing for all conditions in the water. When the waves are not quite, she likes it, or in the rare case, when she admits that she has too much to do, she still finds time to slip into the ocean.
“I am prioritizing in surfing most of the things,” says Bichli. “This is my happy place. It is here that I am open. It is there that I fill my own cup. And this helps me feel inspired and motivated, which then helps me inspire and motivate others.
“But I have an approach to this or something, something. If I do not have time for surfing, I will need five minutes to run and jump into the water, immerse yourself, ground myself and clear my mind. ”
The gardens around the cup began to bloom. This means more visitors to the green spaces of internal cities, so Beachley chooses an empty path. She goes like a woman at a mission, or, probably, just someone pressed the time when we keep the descent to the water.
Beachley pauses next to a dozen times to collect pieces of plastic and other garbage along the way. “I always disappear on Earth,” she says. “I have no problems with my hand. If something seems to be plastic, paper or banks – any garbage – is in the range of 20 km from the ocean, this is ultimately ultimately. ” The beetle slowly makes his way through the pedestrian path, saved and placed in a tree.
Chairman Surfing Australia insists that we meet far from the best breaks in the city in order to enjoy the calm and quiet space, and not to avoid any local celebrities around Manley or Fresh Water. “They are just used to seeing me, no one cares,” says Bichli. “Sometimes, if I get to a new place, I could get:“ Oh, that You Do you do here? The answer is always the same, “surfing like you.”
Beachley had to learn how to slow down – in the water and outside it. She won seven world titles, including a record six in a row from 1998 to 2003, with tireless determination to become the “best of the best”. Now she admits that she paid the price, as well as her opponents, for her mentality for costs.
“My peers marked me like compassion for a tiger shark,” she says. “I was very tough. I was very focused. I was very moving. I had expectations from myself, which I then designed to other people. All this was very toxic, and I was hard work. ”
Considering which of its many sports and personal successes, which include the appointment as an officer of the Australian Order in 2015, is now felt as its crowning achievement, scourges split its seven world titles into two buckets. The first and last is what she calls “world names based on love” when she was able to focus on the process. Between them are five “titles of the world based on fear”, when any joy was sucked out due to “management of the results”.
“I literally remember only the titles of the world that I won based on how I celebrated them,” says Bichli. “So I don’t remember won my second. I did not even celebrate him. It was just a question … Next. “
Beachley began surfing at the age of four. Together with her family, she became known on the courageous scene of surfing. By 15, she competed and won against men when the strength and style developed that would take her around the world. But even when she set the highest standards and broke records for the titles of the world and riding the largest waves, the scourge was still looking for a sense of satisfaction.
“I got to my sixth title, my sixth consecutive, and I realized that something that I was going to a not brilliant thing was going to,” she says. “These were not trophies, these were not the titles of the world. It was self -esteem, it was love. And this happened from the old story when I was eight years old, and dad said: “You are adopted.”
Mother Beachley, Valerie, transferred the postoperative hemorrhage to the brain and died when Line was six years old. Two years later, her father, Nile, said that she was adopted when she was six weeks. Her mother was 17 years old. In the end, the scourge was looking for and met her mother, who claims to be raped by her biological father in California in 1999.
“I created the story:“ What will make me worthy of love? Well, I will have to become the best in the world. ”
“I became the best in the world after my first title of peace. But I say: “I am not worthy of love. What about if I become the best of the best? “That's when I went after six.
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“When I got to the sixth, I say:“ Well, now I have enough. But let's go seven. ” And when my body broke. ”
Beachley not only carries mental scars from decades of competitive surfing. She has physical reminders about the years that she spent, pushing her body to a turning point – and sometimes beyond. The spinal injury obtained in a frightening fall during surfing in Hawaii remains the most dramatic. But the problems now begin with her hips and in the lower back and spread further.
“All my pains and pains are the result of self-service,” she says. I broke my body, and I have never really, until I became older and wiser, so to speak, I allowed myself to heal.
“Now I am over 50 years old, and I am in constant pain management. This happens through various modalities, such as meditation, breathing, yoga, massage, chiropractic, physio and acupuncture. This is a lot. “
It took the beach after she retired for competitive surfing in 2008, and not very soft pushing from her husband Kirka Pengelli to correctly pay attention to her mental health and well -being. The first of her two significant “awakening calls” occurred during her surf career, when she “broke 80% of my spinal cord, continued to compete and did not belong to it at all”.
The second came when Penjelli – the guitarist, the saxophonist and founder of Inxs – stopped the scourge in her traces when he asked: “Why do I always get broken launa?”
“I reserved the most broken, exhausted version of myself to my husband and my loved ones,” she says. “I did not devote time to him, I had fun with everyone else.”
Currently, the scourge is a motivational speaker who relies on his experience in overcoming problems and failures in order to try to expand the possibilities of life through connection, confidence and care of oneself. She cooed the Academy of wakefulness with Tess Brauer, specialized psychology and a healing coach, in 2020, and this month will release a podcast called The Wake-Up Call. “We literally ask the question:“ Why are we waiting for awakening before we start taking care of ourselves well? “
A 53-year-old teenager can still spend as much time as possible in the waters that she grew up in and around her, but much has changed, since she was one of the barely from any girls who studied surfing. Australia had four more women applying for world surfing dishes since the last in 2006, including Stephanie Gilmore, who continued Break Beachley's Record with the eighth crownPole last month 22 -year -old Molly Piklum joined honorWith a beach predicting more success.
“At first I met Molly when she was 15 years old,” she says. “She won the Lane Prize in my camp to identify talents. To see someone like this, realizing my potential and, of course, to know what is needed, I feel all possible admiration and respect.
“But this morning the girls surpassed the number of boys. This is a huge shift. This is a holiday. I like to see girls in the water. I have a small fist when I choose it and see it. ”
