by Annette
29. May 2007
After a long winter of anticipation, my fourteen-year old daughter started the summer season of wakeboarding. She ended last summer a strong beginner, still shaky and tentative across the wake. But this weekend, she surprised everyone with her one-handed stunts, her jumps across the wake and speed in her turns. It was clear she had been "working" on wakeboarding in her mind, long before she got in the water.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "We learn to swim in the winter and skate in the summer". A testament to the power of our imagination to guide and teach. It is this mental capacity for anticipation that helps instruct and allows us to believe something can be possible. Of course, not everything we imagine comes true. But it is true that if we don't imagine, it will never be so.
