3 Amazing Life Lessons from a World Champion
What kind of person decides to devote their life to becoming world champion at aerial skiing?
You know, that crazy sport that involves strapping yourself to skis and hurling yourself into the air as high as a three-storey building at 80kms an hour? While doing air breakdancing and https://portaldeactualidad.com
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then attempting to land again?
According to Jacqui Cooper, winner of 24 World Cup gold medals and first Australian woman to make five Olympic teams, to be the aerial skiing world champion you need to be 3 things:
Competitive
Acrobatic
A little bit crazy (or a lot crazy)
In her barnstorming, funny, and incredibly inspiring keynote at the SL22 Conference, Jacqui Cooper said all of these character traits were obvious very early in her life.
As the first born of triplets she won the “race” to be born,
she has always been obsessed with acrobatics,
As a toddler she climbed onto the roof rack of her parent’s moving car, and they didn’t notice until they got home.
These character traits led to a chance encounter that would alter the course of her life.
A chance encounter leads to lifelong mentor
Every single day for five years, Jacqui would do her two sister’s homework if they agreed to accompany her to a local park with an Olympic sized trampoline that she would practice on for 15 minutes. Every. Single. Day.
That’s a massive commitment, not just to trampolining but also to homework!
But this daily routine led to a chance encounter with a man who she describes as “complete blend between Mr Miagi and Yoda” who would become her lifelong mentor. This man’s vision for Jacqui would change the course of her life.
Full of excitement after that first encounter she (without prior approval) invited him over for dinner the next evening to meet and convince her parents.