288. Koa Smith: You're Facing Your Fear the Wrong Way. A Top Big-Wave Surfer's Method

“Really? I would bring a hammock and a journal and a book and I'd just fuck off and go in the forest for like eight hours some days. No kidding. And I felt so good.”

“I just went and hug a hammock between two trees and grabbed the book and then all of a sudden I started to feel better. Um, I, I mean maybe a little bit for sure. Like trying to get away and just find peace. Um, like, especially with your phone, like there's so much distraction, like distraction would, would break my brain.”

“chips, it's not going to like destroy me. Right. Right. If I eat bread, I'm going to be okay. Right. There was a time though where I was like so sensitive to everything. Right. But a lot of grass fed steak. I mean, I followed Paul Saladino's program for like six months.”

“and the diet and all these sacrifices, I'm not going to be like, oh, and I drink Celsius and that's why I feel so good. So that was part of it why I got introduced to Gianni.”

“It's called Foreign Waters? Foreign Waters. Yeah. And it's an electrolyte energy drink. We combine like, yeah, hydration, vitamins, paraxanthine minerals.”

“and i just had been healing ever since following that was that the one you put the gopro camera in your mouth um i mean i do that i do that a lot but there was one like famous 29 second wave no that was in namibia Okay.”

“Right. There was a time though where I was like so sensitive to everything. Right. But a lot of grass fed steak. I mean, I followed Paul Saladino's program for like six months. And I felt the strongest, best I've ever felt. I feel like it healed a lot for me.”

“everybody's a capitalist at the end of the day, right? I mean, we have to fund our lifestyle. Like you said, we need our hyperbaric chamber, you know, in our house. Yeah. That's true. But if we can get it from, from leading people to feeling better and more connected, then that's, that's the thing.”

“Wow. Like ice baths, Wim Hof. Damn, you're like the OG of it. I've been into it for six years and it's changed my life. Me and my brothers were like always kind of, I don't want to say like on the, yeah, maybe on the forefront of like saunas, ice baths.”

“not just like, which is fun sometimes. That's why I've always hated pre-workouts like C4 and Ma Huang and caffeine and the NO2 boosters. I mean, I took them years, years ago and coming out of college, and like, what?”

“now you're on this journey, uh, with Paraxanthine... it actually gives the same kind of feeling as caffeine without jitters, without crashes”

“Me and my brothers were like always kind of, I don't want to say like on the, yeah, maybe on the forefront of like saunas, ice baths. I mean, I grew up on Kauai. Laird Hamilton is a nearby neighbor. Yeah. So you kind of, you kind of hear through the grapevine that Laird's doing this thing.”

“I feel like it healed a lot for me. But now it's like a little bit more balanced with a lot of fruit, a lot of, not a lot of vegetables, but sweet potatoes, a little bit veggies, a lot of steak.”