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Travis Mewhirter
@Travis_Mew
All things beach volleyball: Playing for the AVP, commentating for @volleyballworld, podcasting with all the beach players. It's a beach life.
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Two springs ago, one of our athletes made a big breakthrough after reading @DrBenjaminHardy and @DanSullivanSC's The Gap and the Gain. Intrigued, I read it (then read it again). My biggest five takeaways from the book:
There's a word I learned this summer: Mudita: "A pure, unselfish delight and pleasure that comes from watching other people experience happiness, success, or good fortune."
That is what commentating has become for me – a week-long experience of mudita: sandcastvolleyball.com/mudita-comment…
That is what commentating has become for me – a week-long experience of mudita: sandcastvolleyball.com/mudita-comment…
sandcastvolleyball.com Mudita, Commentating, And Lives Worth Living MONTREAL, Canada – There’s a word I learned this summer, on a podcast with John Mayer and Billy Allen. It’s called mudita. It’s a Sanskrit word denoting a “pure, unselfish delight and pleasure that... After a year of adverse travel and many #Mechanicals this is the only shirt I now travel in @_SVPod @notthefakeSVP
Martins Plavins had the most counterintuitive, backwards -- and absolutely sage bit of wisdom for Kristians Fokerots prior to winning their first gold medal: Be ready to lose.
And then they won: sandcastvolleyball.com/martins-plavin…
And then they won: sandcastvolleyball.com/martins-plavin…
sandcastvolleyball.com Martins Plavins, And The Gold-Medal Advice of Beach Volleyball's Sage Veteran RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – In the four hours between his semifinal and gold medal match on Sunday at the Rio Elite, Martins Plavins had a most peculiar bit of advice for his young partner, 21-year-old...