When you participate in a niche sport, you can expect to unearth a small cadre of hardcore participants. Because more is sometimes better, especially when it comes to competition, and because enthusiasm likes to spread, people involved in fringier endeavors tend to proselytize, to seek to bring new members into their fold. Unlike with professional [...]
Becoming a Surfer Girl
February 20, 2012 By 6 Comments
Lying on my chunky blue surfboard, I craned my neck back to the right to see a wave growing higher and closer to where I was floating in the shallow water. “See that one?” asked my surf instructor, Nicole Pratt. “You’re going to catch it.” On my first day surfing in Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit at [...]
The Road
February 15, 2012 By 12 Comments
I am so thrilled to be an Athleta Sponsored Athlete this year! My delight at receiving this improbable honor and being included among such amazing women is only surpassed by my excitement for training women from my Upper East Side New York store to participate in the More+Fitness Women’s Half Marathon this April. I could [...]
Partner Yoga
February 13, 2012 By 7 Comments
Ok, so you got yoga down, you can hang with being present, managing your emotions, flailing limbs, dripping sweat etc… but it’s a whole different thing when you add another person into the equation — someone else’s sweat, limbs, and ideas about how things should work. Dealing with yourself is one thing; adding the element [...]
Steep & Deep
February 12, 2012 By 6 Comments
A confession: I live in Jackson, Wyoming and am not an awesome skier. I am far from awesome, in fact. Not really starting to ski until moving here at the ripe age of 21, then skiing in the backcountry 99% of the time — where you have to first climb up something before you can [...]
Operation: Bali Body
February 7, 2012 By 7 Comments
I recently received an offer I could not refuse to visit Amankila and Amandari in Bali, Indonesia. I have only seven days to go before my first tropical luxury vacation! As I start to pull out the bikini’s I haven’t worn since summer it hits me – only seven days to go until Bali! Gasp. [...]
Early Morning Runs
February 4, 2012 By 16 Comments
I am SO a morning person. One day last week, while driving my children to a doctor’s appointment I had conveniently (for me anyway) scheduled at 7:45 a.m., my son commented out of the blue, half-dozing, half awake. “I just don’t know why you do that.” Hank is in tenth grade. “I just don’t know [...]
The “Art” of the Martial Arts
February 2, 2012 By 7 Comments
When I started in the martial arts, over six years ago now, I did it to have fun with my (then) four year-old son. I’ve always been an athletic person, but the martial arts was not something I ever really considered doing. Growing up in a traditional Asian-American household, it was uncommon for girls to [...]
Climbing 101 – New Adventures for a New Year
January 31, 2012 By 21 Comments
When people find out that I’m a rock climber, the usual reaction is something to the effect of – “Wow, I could never do that!” My response is almost always “What’s stopping you?!?” So many times we as women refuse to undertake new adventures because of fear – fear of the unknown, of failure, or [...]
Starting from Scratch
January 27, 2012 By 14 Comments
If you read my bio you know that I compete in three-event barefoot waterskiing. Our three events are wake slalom, tricks, and jump — all done on our feet! Before you tune out because you aren’t interested in (or familiar with) barefoot waterskiing, let me say this: my story is your story. Barefooting may be [...]
