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- All right, landed in Denver.
Stopping to catch my breath.
I've been up since 4:00 am Pacific Time. It's 11.
So we are here in the Denver Airport,
about to go pick up the car.
We're gonna head to Boulder, where I'm meeting up with
the one and only Jane Erbacher from Australia,
and we got some cool stuff in the works.
We are just meeting with a ton of people here,
and we're thinking about hosting a pop-up clinic,
so we'll see how that goes.
I haven't done that before.
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Car pick-up time. We should get an SUV, right?
Especially if we're gonnna be carrying around equipment.
Oh! It's cute.
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We're about to go meet Jane Erbacher, first time.
We're gonna have an awesome week.
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- Hey! - Hey!
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- How are you? - Great, how are you?
- Great! It's good to see you. - Everybody this is Shane.
- [Shane] Hi everyone.
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So we are here at the Alpine Training Center
and there is a Skierg competition going on right now,
and I am lucky enough to be able
to jump in with the Alpine Training Center team.
It's basically head-to-head 20-minute races for max meters.
This is super exciting.
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We have a very special guest with us today.
This is Jane Erbacher. Jane say hi.
- Hi everybody.
- We are here in Boulder, Colorado
because we are kind of kicking off
a little something exciting that's coming down the pipeline,
and I don't want to reveal it all just yet,
but if you guys know Jane at all,
or if you don't, I encourage you
to go look her up and see everything
that you have going on.
Jane, tell everybody about yourself a little bit.
- Great, okay. So the first thing Shane said
was to keep it short here, because he already
knows how much I love to talk.
I love to talk way too much,
but long story short-- - That's okay, that's fine.
- It's okay? I'm allowed to talk a lot?
- Talk, yeah! People want to hear from you.
- Well they like watching you run up mountains with rowers
so they can listen to me.
Long story short, I am actually a coach,
and I absolutely love coaching,
and I do it because I love seeing people get better
in any capacity, and I use the rowing machine
and the Skierg as my tool to teach people
how much better they can actually be,
but the absolute basis of everything I do
is I wanna make people feel proud of what they can do,
confident about what they can do,
move well, and actually enjoy training
and just enjoy their life.
- Awesome. You guys will find
that especially if you've listened to a lot
of our stuff with Dark Horse,
and the more you hear from Jane,
you're gonna start to understand
that we share a lot of communication patterns.
- Completely.
- We very much believe in a lot of
the same philosophies when it comes to coaching,
to your attitude in life, to the way
that you approach fitness.
We have that in common, for sure.
- Definitely, and we felt that the first time
we actually spoke is we both realized
that none of this was just about rowing,
or just about coaching, or just about fitness.
It was all about being better
and teaching other people to be better.
- [Shane] So yeah, so we jumped into this
two-man, two-woman team in this fundraising competition,
which was 20 minutes of Skierg,
as many meters as possible.
That was the determining factor,
and you flow however you want, mixing through your team,
and we came in fourth?
- Fourth, yeah. - Fourth!
- [Jane] I would've really liked to have won.
I was kinda like, I teach everybody.
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I feel like I should be performing better.
- [Shane] She was supposed to win.
- This gym, it was on fire tonight,
with all their members, it was amazing,
and it was so cool being a part of it,
and it was so cool having Shane on my team.
- It was really inspiring, by the way.
I wanna learn from you, and that was like...
How do we kick off the night?
Jane, tell me what I'm doing wrong.
- Yeah! - Teach me.
- [Jane] And it was so interesting
because I look up to Shane.
I've been following you for such a long time,
and when you said to me today,
- Stop it, stop it. - I know, I know!
- When I was talking to you today
and you were like "critique my ski technique,"
I was like "could I?"
I'm not sure I can actually do that,
and it's so easy for a coach or somebody
who's achieved what you've achieved
to not take advice from somebody,
because you do know a lot,
and I think what makes you so great
and so approachable is that you're so happy
for someone to help you be better.
There was not tickets on yourself,
there was no ego attached to it,
and he was skiing at 121 for 500 meters.
He was powerful and strong, but he was so open
to getting even better from that.
- Thank you. But it was an awesome time.
- The best. - It was a fantastic
competition. Like she said, it was on fire in here.
It's not the biggest space,
but what really brought it through
was the community, and I think
that was the cool part about it.
- It was the best.
- Competitions like this and fundraising events
really give people an opportunity
to come together and support each other,
and I think you and I both agree
that that's such a huge part of fitness,
and it all comes down to having a support system.
- A hundred percent.
- I mean, maybe not all,
but there's a very strong component
of having a support system around you.
In a night like this, I feel supported,
and I didn't know anybody here when I walked in the door.
- Completely. I actually want to train here,
I would love to be a part of this community. I love it.
And I think that you always meet the best people
in these training contexts,
people who are generally trying
to do better in their life. What I loved...
In Australia, we have what's referred to as
the tall poppy syndrome.
Basically, it's based on this metaphor
of when a poppy grows too tall in the field,
the other poppies cut off its stem.
It's like crabs in a bucket, that's what I think.
But it's basically if somebody is successful,
everybody else tries to hold them back
so it doesn't highlight their mediocrity.
It was so empowering for me being in this space,
that yes it was competitive,
but it was only competitive to get more out of everybody,
rather than to keep everybody else down,
and I love that.
- So it was a great time.
Guys, expect to see more of Jane going forward.
We're gonna get a ton of footage
while we're here in Colorado by the way,
so expect to see some more fun videos as well.
Also some more formal stuff.
Thank you for tuning in, thank you for joining us.
Jane, thanks for joining us.
- Thank you so much.
- Absolutely. And guys, make sure that you
subscribe and share these videos.
There is nothing better than spreading the message
of fitness to your friends, your family,
bringing other people along.
Right? Not cutting somebody off
when they start to succeed.
- Exactly.
- Right? All right guys, we'll see you on the other side.
- Bye! - Thanks for tuning in.
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