This quote is from ASU coach Bob Bowman, talking about Michael Phelps and everyday excellence. The most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals, Phelps didn’t miss a day of Bob’s training in 6 years. (Interview in Livehhappy magazine, June 2015. Photo London 2012 Olympic butterfly, CC BY-SA 3.0 Madchester)
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.” ~ Confucius, The Analects, Book 17, Chapter 2.
It takes work, a lot of work, but eventually you’ll land the plane with the ease of a child’s toy.
When I first started thinking about the Inner Art of Airmanship, I was looking for the common connections between all kinds of flying. Sometimes we find deeper truths that connect more diverse activities. Like how how search for the simplicity of a single line links a seventieth century French painter, Zen brush art, the trajectory of space missions, Formula 1’s racing line around a bend — and flying. See the wind, the energy, the traffic, and draw a line in the sky.
In anything that has some level of risk I like to be well practiced.
~ Vicky Benzing, aerobatic and Reno air race pilot.
Quoted in Flying magazine, March 2015.
