Being a Student of Progression | Snowmobiling Legend, Levi LaVallee

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with snowmobiling legend Levi LaVallee, a 13 time X Games Medalist, Snocross Champion, and World Record holder

Levi first tasted podium success in 2004 when he won the HillCross snowmobile event at the Winter X Games, in Aspen, Colorado and then made the switch to Freestyle competition.

At the 2008 Winter X Games, Levi took gold in both the Speed & Style and Freestyle events and was later named Best Male Athlete of the entire competition.

He also made history when he became the first person to attempt a double backflip on a snowmobile at the 2009 Winter X Games.

After soaring more than 15m into the air, he went long on the landing and was thrown from his sled upon impact. The attempt was so tantalisingly close to succeeding that many people considered it a great achievement.

The X Games medals weren’t enough though -- in 2011, he took the torch from Travis Pastrana, Robbie Maddison and Rhys Millen for one of his greatest feats – Red Bull New Year No Limits.

Levi jumped across the San Diego Bay on a snow mobile, setting a new world record of 412ft (125m).

And that sets the tone for this conversation --- it’s about what led up to that world record-setting moment that gave Levi the confidence, the courage, the hunger to go for that type of feat.

Levi is a student of progression – he’s organized his life that way, from a young age to now, and it becomes evident how that’s allowed him to succeed at just about anything he puts his mind to.

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0:00.0	There I am I'm able to be part of the Rebel New Year No Limits which is this hour long live TV show on this one feet right and it was going to be that feet was going to be me jumping,
0:12.8	world record snow-built jump in San Diego.
0:15.5	And I, you know, I'm like, this is it right here.
0:20.6	This is like what I've, all the racing, you know, I've had X Games metals and stuff like that, but I'm like, this is it. This is all this whole thing is like, you know, I'm on the big stage so I go into this and my mindset at the time was like
0:38.5	I'll do whatever it takes like if I die doing this I die doing it
0:59.8	Okay welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay by Trade and Training I'm a sport and performance psychologist as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create.
1:05.0	And if you haven't had the chance to check out Compete to Create yet, I hope you do in the near future.
1:10.0	And so the whole idea behind these conversations, behind this podcast, is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery.
1:18.4	And we want to understand how they organize their life, both their internal life and sometimes their external life,
1:25.0	but more interested in the psychology of how they think,
1:28.0	how they explain events to themselves,
1:30.0	how they work with obstacles and setbacks, and how they use their mind to build mental skills to be able to build and refine their craft.
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