Joakim Noah

And, you know, I had to go dig deeper and like, okay, what's my why?

What are the tools that are going to help me?

I felt like therapy didn't really help.

The things that really helped me was, you know, connecting with the right people.

I give a lot of credit to Laird Hamilton, Gabby Reese for, you know, opening their home to me that summer.

I think it was different than what I was used to.

It was an unorthodox style of training.

And I remember taking these heavy dumbbells and being under, you know, 12 feet of water.

And the first reaction was, get me to the top so I can get a breath.

I feel like I'm going to die.

and the more I did the training, the more I realized that I had to, you know, just relax in this immense amount of pressure.

Um, everything in my body was telling me to go up, but you have to just learn to be in a relaxed, calm state.

Um,

And as the workouts kept going, I feel like I got better and better at it.

It really translated onto the court.

It was very healing because there was nobody out there telling me anything.

No noise.

It's just you and your thoughts.

And sometimes the demons are between your ears.

And peace of mind.