{"id":1174,"date":"2016-07-29T14:05:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T21:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2016-07-30T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T22:37:00","slug":"your-only-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/29\/your-only-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Your only competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dv1mp\" data-offset-key=\"8h7ro-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8h7ro-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8h7ro-0-0\">The most insightful part of this super cool article (and video) is at the end:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dv1mp\" data-offset-key=\"avi7p-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"avi7p-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"avi7p-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dv1mp\" data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\"><strong><span data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\">&#8220;Ultimately, your only competition is yourself.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" style=\"text-align: right;\" data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\">Jason Stephens, owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azsoaring.com\">Arizona Soaring<\/a><br \/>\nFive-time national US glider aerobatics champion,<br \/>\nwho is described here as the &#8220;most accomplished American competition aerobatic glider pilot of his generation.&#8221;<br \/>\nQuote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aopa.org\/news-and-media\/all-news\/2016\/july\/pilot\/zen-masters\">AOPA Pilot magazine, Zen Masters, July 2016<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" style=\"text-align: right;\" data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aopa.org\/news-and-media\/all-news\/2016\/july\/pilot\/zen-masters\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Stephens\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-200x113.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\">&#8220;<strong>The motivation is to get better. And learn more. And be more precise. And just enjoy it too.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" style=\"text-align: right;\" data-offset-key=\"8bm11-0-0\">Lukas von Atzigen<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O6DdB22IMvI\">Unlimited glider aerobatics pilot<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most insightful part of this super cool article (and video) is at the end: \u00a0 &#8220;Ultimately, your only competition is yourself.&#8221; Jason Stephens, owner of Arizona Soaring Five-time national US glider aerobatics champion, who is described here as the &#8220;most accomplished American competition aerobatic glider pilot of his generation.&#8221; Quote in AOPA Pilot magazine, Zen Masters, July 2016. &#8220;The motivation is to get better. And learn more. And be more precise. And just enjoy it too.&#8220; Lukas von Atzigen Unlimited glider aerobatics pilot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,113],"tags":[153,34,96,58,46,119],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-link-to-articles","category-link-to-videos","tag-aerobatics","tag-competition","tag-glider","tag-mindset","tag-perpetual-pursuit","tag-zen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}