Mastering Your Craft and Qualifying for the Olympics ft. Chris Mazdzer
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Brute Strength Podcast we have guest speaker, Chris Mazdzer. Chris is an American Luger who has been active since 2001 and in 2015, he won the Luge World Cup Men's singles even in Lake Placid. Whether you're training for Regionals, The Games, or the Olympics, there is a lot to learn from Chris and his experiences as an Olympic athlete. We'll be getting into his early Luge career, qualifying for the Olympics, and his mental preparation as an elite athlete. Enjoy the show.
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Topics of discussion:
2:30 - Describing a Luge run
9:00 - Early Luge career
15:50 - Growing up at age 13
20:30 - Making it to the Pros
26:50 - Facing your fears as an athlete
36:30 - Qualifying for the Olympics
43:30 - Working under pressure
48:50 - Beating Felix Loch
51:35 - Facing mental challenges
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Mike Cashew and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | This week's guest is a good friend of mine named Chris Mazder. |
| 0:06.9 | Chris is a two-time Olympic Luge athlete, a seven-time national champion, and has been |
| 0:12.3 | ranked as high as third in the world in Luge. |
| 0:15.2 | Luge is a sport where you ride in a sled feet first down an icy maze at about 95 miles an hour and there's enormous risk |
| 0:25.6 | of injury and even death in some circumstances. So the reason that I set up the podcast in the |
| 0:30.5 | first place and the first topic of this podcast was fear and how to overcome it. And you'll hear me |
| 0:37.1 | tell a story about the first time |
| 0:38.9 | that I met Chris seeing him do a gainer off of an 80-foot cliff. I think, or I know that all of us |
| 0:47.5 | experience fear in some area or all areas of our life, most of us on a frequent basis. And so I'm always curious |
| 0:58.2 | how people are able to take action despite feeling fear. And Chris does that every single day in |
| 1:05.2 | his training in a very big way. So I was really interested to hear his perspective on that. |
| 1:10.6 | Other than that, it's just |
| 1:12.9 | incredibly impressive, anyone that's able to not only go to the Olympics, but go there multiple |
| 1:18.3 | times. On February 10th and 11th, Chris will be competing in Korea for his third Olympics in a row. |
| 1:27.3 | And I wanted to know, how did he get all the way to the top? |
| 1:31.1 | How do you compete with the best of the best and work your way all the way to the top of a certain discipline? |
| 1:39.0 | And then how do you stay there? |
| 1:40.5 | What are the habits and tactics that you have to use to get there and to |
| 1:47.4 | stay there? And that is what we talk about on this show. I hope you enjoy it. Chris, what's up, |
| 1:52.6 | brother? I'm so excited to finally do this with you. I know we've been planning this for a long time. |
| 1:58.6 | You're, you're less than two weeks out from the Olympics and you're |
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