Luke’s Surf Journey and Competitive Mindset, with my son, Luke
Luke is sharing how faith, family, and mindset have shaped his surf career.
This is part 3 of my summer mini-series on parenting and youth sports. Be sure to tune into the last two episodes if you have missed them! In today’s episode, my son Luke (20,) joins me talk about his experience pursuing a professional surf career. For context he explains a bit about how competitive surfing works, where he is now, and his ultimate goals. He talks about how he got started, some of his early inspiration (thanks, Bethany!) and the twists and turns of youth surfing. Luke talks honestly about some of the ways our parenting shaped his competitive experience (good and bad,) and how his faith has impacted his perspective.
At the end Luke and I chat a bit about the competitive mindset and some sports psychology principles he has learned more recently. I think this part can apply to most athletes and well beyond the world of sports.
This is a long one – but I think your kids might enjoy and I hope it encourages you in some way too! PS Luke is currently looking at starting his own podcast, so stay tuned and look for where you might follow him below!
NOTES:
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Book mentioned: Finish First by Scott Hamilton
Other books that have helped Luke with his mental game:
The Inner Game of Tennis (not necessarily about tennis! :))
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I’d love to listen to a podcast by Luke! I hope you’ll announce once it’s up if he does it!
Thank you I will! (He’s actually working on it now!! :)) yay…
Monica and Luke-Loved your podcast that you did together!!!! Sent it to both my kids! Thank you! Reading Raising Amazing (so good) now and looking forward to someday reading Luke’s book 🙂 Love listening to all your podcasts, Monica! Hope you enjoy the rest of your summer
Mary Bacha
Thank you so much! And Luke will love that comment 🙂 big hugs to you!
Monica, I really enjoyed this podcast with Luke and found it so helpful! So impressed with his maturity and commitment to developing his mindset. I’m glad you decided not to cut anything out! You mentioned that Luke has read several books about sports psychology. Can you share what other ones he has found helpful?
Thanks and look forward to future episodes with Luke! Would love to hear how he deals with disappointment during competitions.
Hi Connie! Thank you so much. 🙂 I will ask Luke for a list of books and try to add to the post. ALSO!! Luke is working on things to start his own podcast soon perhaps so hopefully he’ll cover many of those topics there as well! :)Blessings to you- PS. IF we can add the links soon I’ll mention it in my Thursday Q and A on IG! But if you can check back by the end of the week that would be great!
Where do we find the resources/book titles, etc. That you talk about in the podcasts when you say, I’ll link them in the show notes? I can’t find them.
Thanks!
I’m so sorry I think we spaced on including the link.
I just added link to Finish First (by Scott Hamilton) If there’s another book we mentioned that you are thinking of please let me know. 😉 (such a long chat I forget now!) Here’s the amazon link if that works:
https://amzn.to/4c5mnw2