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HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE
Wyatt Mads Thurmeier
by KRISTA TURCASSO
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Tennis has been on the rise in Fernie (and beyond) thanks to a couple of individuals from the UK, passionate about the sport. Charlotte Willis started Fernie Tennis Coaching around 2010, and was instrumental in exposing our younger cohort to tennis through programming in schools and coaching all ages and levels. “This was the start of the junior tennis movement in Fernie,” says Lucy Harrup, who took over the business in 2019.
“The numbers of players just keeps growing. This year was a record entry number of 40 youth players in our annual junior tournament and the ages range from 5-17. I now have three qualified assistant coaches as the demand is high. We have a junior development squad that trains every Monday through all three of our seasons. They even want to come and train in Kimberley with me over the Winter on a regular basis! We have had well over 100 juniors join us this summer for tennis camp and my goal is to find a way to build an indoor tennis facility here in Fernie so our athletes’ potential can be reached by yearround play,” she adds.
Wyatt Mads Thurmeier is one of these athletes, and here is what he has to say about his love of tennis. Emily Park Photography
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Wyatt Mads Thurmeier, age 12 1. What attracted you to tennis?
My Dad introduced me to tennis when I was around three years old, and I’ve loved it ever since. He’d bring me along to the courts, which are conveniently close to my house, and we’d have lots of fun playing.
2. What do you most enjoy about it?
The people I play with are super nice, and because the feeling of smashing a forehand into the back-left corner is pretty satisfying.
3. How do you train for this sport and what does a typical week look like for you during the tennis season?
Well, just keeping active is a big thing. I do a couple other sports - I’m playing school volleyball now, then basketball and badminton, and ski in the winter. But for tennis I play with my Dad at least once a week and have practice once a week.
4. What accomplishments have you made this year, and do you have any goals for next season?
My biggest was winning the U18 tournament and coming in 2nd place with my Dad in the Adult Competitive Doubles in the Raimey Zoboyovsky Memorial Tournament (my coach Lucy came in 1st with her partner). My Dad and I won 1st place in the Generations Doubles, too! That was one heck of a day, I played 8 sets. My goals for next season are to improve my speed and accuracy, and to beat my coach! I came close in the Adult Doubles, it was great!
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Comfort Through Planning
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Comfort is defined as a state of physical ease free from constraints and pain. That contented well-being and comfort when travelling comes from exhaustive planning. It is important to be thorough, and you want to make sure that you have the important things like travel and accommodations fully planned out and booked.
I hear people say that they want to be spontaneous and that they don’t like to plan too far ahead for their travel. I hear lots of frustrating tales from people who didn’t book accommodation and ended up in a dump of a place for a lot of money, or they waited too long to book their flights and now all the seats are sold or the price is triple that of six months ago. Planning is the most essential part of travel and it can also be the most fun. It lets you live the trip before you go. It accelerates the release of endorphins that gives us the feeling of happiness and pleasure. It also reduces the level of anxiety and increases the level of comfort that people feel about their trip because they have the main things set.
The first step in planning for a budget slow travel trip is to have a destination in mind. Sometimes it is a bucket list destination, a place of interest or because of the deal. I book a lot of trips because of the deal.
My last deal was a trip to Puerto Vallarta. It was a 6000 sq. ft condo in a mega resort that rents for up to $15000 a night. I was
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Once the destination is decided on you need to plan your travel and accommodation. Either your dates are fixed or they are flexible. If your dates are flexible, you can pick the cheaper dates for your travel and accommodation. This can make a difference of thousands of dollars. Flexibility is the key to getting the lowest prices available.
For our trip to southern Italy in the fall of 2023, my dates are flexible. The airline prices that I found today for a direct flight from Calgary to Rome shows $1225 one day, three days later $989, and five days after for $1424. The saving of $435 pays for a week’s rental.
In the Puerto Vallarta example, my dates were fixed but because of the pandemic sales, I was able to get business class seats for the price of economy seats with full cancellation rights.
Pre-pandemic, the best time to book International flights was 9-12 months out. Now, with the reduction of flights, the shortage of personnel, and the overbooking and cancellation of flights, I am holding off for a few more months before making a decision on booking the Rome flights. In the meantime, I put an alert for Rome flights for notification when the price changes.
Go to my Tool Page (budgetslowtravel. com/tools/) and use the four flight links there to explore prices and to set an alert for any flights that you may be looking for in the next 11 months. Get an idea of what a good price is for your destination. Watch the alerts, wait for the lowest price and book it. You could save enough to pay for your accommodations. Now that’s a level of comfort we all would enjoy.
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Seeking Discomfort
by TYLA CHARBONNEAU
I learned the term comfortable misery from Oprah Winfrey about 25 years ago. She said that so many of us choose to live in comfortable misery rather than seeking to find uncomfortable joy. Never in my life had I ever imagined that misery was a source of comfort and yet when I looked at my life, I was living patterns I did not like and was terrified to change them because I did not know what that might look like. I later learned that our brains will always search for what feels like home. Home, a word that for many conjures up thoughts of fresh baking, parents eager to provide hugs, oversized sweaters in the back yard watching the leaves change. Unfortunately for far too many others this word and the feelings attached to it can equals a sense of chaos.
Homeostasis is a way that our body systems function through finding a steady state. Ideally this is calmness, but rarely in this society is it represented this way. Our brains are like data entry systems. They only know what gets inputted and unfortunately there is no filter for unhealthy or healthy behaviours or systems. This means that if you grew up in an unsteady environment with inconsistent caregiving or high expectations, chaos may feel like the norm and you may be drawn to it. Sometimes this can show up in seeking jobs with a lot of adrenaline, high risk sports, or complicated or unhealthy relationships.
If you were to take a good look at your life, what would you say your homeostasis is? Would you be able to say that you find peace and calm on a regular basis? That you exercise consistently for the mental and physical benefits and enjoyment only and not as a place of escape or to calm your nervous system? Are your friendships healthy, conflict is dealt with respectfully and when you leave your friends or partner do you feel good about yourself and at peace? What is your work situation like? Are you overworked, putting out more energy than you have? Do you feel beyond drained at the end of every day? If your answers lean towards misery and yet you have an odd comfort in it, because it is what you know or what you feel you have to do I would encourage you to consider the following: How would you like your life to be different? What would your world look like if you chose discomfort in order to experience more joy?
Do one thing every day that allows you to lean into discomfort. This might be saying no to someone when your comfort level encourages you to always say yes, even when you do not want to. It could be trying a new sport or a new group exercise class. You could cook something new and different for dinner, call that person you just met who wants to meet for coffee, or try an art class you have been observing from a distance. Take a breath and think about times in your life you were so afraid to do something you knew you really wanted to. Then remember how it turned out in the end. More often than not when we push ourselves out of that comfort zone amazing things can happen, and we find that uncomfortable joy.
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