About the Book : Gnar Country : Growing Old, Staying Rad
Cutting-edge discoveries in embodied cognition, flow science, and network
neuroscience have revolutionized how we think about peak performance aging. On
paper, these discoveries should allow older athletes to progress in supposedly
"impossible" activities like park skiing (think: jumps and tricks.) To see if
theory worked in practice, Kotler conducted his own ass-on-the-line experiment
in applied neuroscience and later-in-life skill acquisition: He tried to teach
an old dog some new tricks.
Recently, top pros have been performing well past a previously considered prime:
World-class athletes such as Kelly Slater, the greatest surfer of all time, is
winning