144: Jose Luis Abajo | It's in the Mind
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Knowing your opponent wins championships. For Olympic fencer Jose Luis Abajo this has been paramount to his success. Self-knowledge too, knowing what will bring out the best in himself. It's what's in the mind that wins the match. This has meant being prepared for the unexpected, for just about anything that comes his way. How do you get ready for unfathomable circumstances? Abajo has a few secrets you can follow.
Lessons:
1. We're still animals and have the survival instinct; discovering that part of ourselves can be transformative.
2. Let "no" motivate you.
3. The moment you are prepared to lose is also the moment you start to win.
CREDITS
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, Dr. Delle & David Deluca
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
© 2017 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We are in Boston at Brooklyn Bolders. A lot of |
| 0:03.7 | noise going on behind us and a lot of kids are hanging around if you get it. |
| 0:06.7 | Oh, that's a dad joke. So hey, you're rocking it. I am rocking it. Hey, speaking to people people are rocking it, we've got Jose Luis Abajo. |
| 0:16.0 | He's a Spanish guy that Joe met in England. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.0 | And I had Delle with me. |
| 0:21.0 | I had on hell with me. Olympic fencer. Olympic fencer. |
| 0:25.0 | Olympic fencer. |
| 0:27.0 | We are in Pippingford, UK. |
| 0:30.0 | We should do the weather again. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, it's actually blowing about 20 mile an hour gale now and it's freezing cold and there's black clouds right up there. |
| 0:37.4 | It's gonna rain. |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah, up there is the same. |
| 0:39.4 | You know what, the weather, the weather changes a lot around here fast. |
| 0:43.0 | That's why we talk about weather all the time, |
| 0:45.0 | it's because we have a lot of weather. |
| 0:46.0 | We have a lot of weather. |
| 0:47.0 | But it is beautiful. |
| 0:48.0 | Let's get back to fencing. |
| 0:50.0 | So I don't really understand the sport. |
| 0:51.0 | I watched you over there and you're lifting up pieces of fence |
| 0:53.3 | there's some Olympic sports that just don't make sense ping pong bad mitten and now this |
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