John John Florence, two-time world champion surfer, shares how mindset prepares him for elite performance

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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John John Florence, two-time world champion surfer, joins the WHOOP Podcast for a discussion on mindfulness, visualization, and the mental skills needed to be successful in sports and in life. He explains how his mindset helped him recover from a torn ACL in 5 months in order to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. John John also discusses how the best surfers in the world inspired him (5:20), the mental side of surfing (7:57), controlling the controllables (10:09), mindfulness in spor...

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0:00.0	What's up, folks?
0:05.5	Welcome back to the WOOP podcast.
0:07.4	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of WOOP, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:11.7	human performance.
0:13.8	We got a great guest this week, who I'm going to get to in half a second.
0:18.2	First, I want to let you know you can get 15% off a W-W-M-M-E-M-B. If you use the code
0:22.9	Will Ombed, that's W-I-L-L-A-H-M-E-D. WOOP membership includes hardware, software,
0:28.6	analytics, and it's designed to help you improve your health. I also want to give a big
0:34.4	congratulations to Hadeki Matsuyama, who just won the Masters.
0:39.6	I happened to be at Augusta on Saturday and Sunday.
0:42.7	It looked amazing.
0:43.9	It was pristine.
0:44.8	It was beautiful.
0:46.3	And Hadeki Matsuyama played with enormous courage, with, I think, the weight of his
0:51.3	country on his back.
0:53.1	And I think is our first whoop member to win
0:56.5	a master's. So all new meaning for In the Green. Thank you, Hedekhi, and we're here if you
1:03.5	ever need us. Okay, this week's guest is world champion surfer John John Florence. John John was a prodigy in the surfing world, becoming the
1:13.5	youngest person ever to win the World Cup of surfing at the age of 13. And 15 years later, he's a two-time
1:19.8	world champion, and he's now preparing for the Olympics this summer. I think the road to getting
1:26.3	there wasn't as easy as quite it sounds. John John
1:29.1	tore his ACL in the middle of the 2019 season that jeopardized his qualification for Tokyo.
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