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Saturday, April 4, 2008
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TIMES COLONIST
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Vic Lindal, left, and
diviner Hans
Furcht discuss a
"cell" designed to
block negative
earth energies |
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Camosun College Chargers volleyball team worked hard and got turned on to a full spectrum of new ideas such as
guided imagery, essential oils, acupuncture and positive affirmations to finish their year on a winning note
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Camosun women's volleyball team members unkink muscles while doing sun salutes, led by certified yoga instructor Michelle Lepage.
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LIKE THE SUN, Victoria's Vic Lindal radiates intense energy and a full spectrum of brilliant ideas.
"I'll use what ever it takes," says the Camosun College women's volleyball team coach.
And it works. Last year the Chargers' record was no wins and 16 losses. This year, when Lindal took over, they won 11 and lost only five.
Guided imagery, essential oils, acupuncture, positive affirmations -- and oh yes, physical fitness training -- are just some of the trucks up Lindal's sleeve.
He's into mind mapping, radiant thinking and reconfiguring belief systems. He taps into vibrational frequencies, geopathic earth energies -- and drinks green tea.
"The players know I'm weird" he acknowledges, bold as bras, but they lap it up.
He has them doing yoga sun salutes as warm-ups -- "they involve breathing and stretching, working on the whole mind body connection" -- and he tells players
to stand tall, like matadors.
"When the bull fighter wants to send a message of courage to his body, that's what he does."
Lindal, a master coach with the National Coaching Certification Program, is himself a dynamic athlete.
He has taught the theory of coaching to people involved in everything from water polo to kick boxing and has personally played at the B.C. championship level in soccer,
badminton, hockey, lacrosse, diving, swimming and gymnastics, while a youth.
His career started when he was just 15 and began coaching an under-12 boys' softball team. When he turned 16 they won the B.C. championships in 1953.
Since then he has worked as Canadian national coach for women's volleyball, been a provincial government consultant for all sports, a high school teacher and
mentor to many college and university coaches.
"Without realizing it, he's always been on the cutting edge," said former UVic Vikes coach Paul Smith.
"Vic doesn't close any door, he's never in a box."
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Lindal's winning ways include onsite realignment with Dr. Stuart Love and regular puffs of pepper-mint to reinforce good plays.
Lindal is considered a little "fringy" by some and even a few players balked when he invited chiropractor Dr. Stuart Love to come to practices and give courtside
tune ups. A former national pole vaulter, Love regularly checks alignments on backs, shoulders and hips -- to the team's delight.
"We're on top of injuries almost before they happen, before they become chronic." explained Lindal.
The Chargers also work with natureopath Dr. Jaun Rohon who prescipes carbohydrate and electrolyte drinks for them, and gives acupuncture and allergy treatments.
(Players pay for all the treatments, but each practitioner has agreed to be part of the team and keeps his charges to a minimum.)
Lindal believes most people today are sub-normal when it comes to fitness.
"I'm not sure they are even aware of it, because if the majority of the population is slightly unhealthy, all the time, then you don't know the difference.
It's like going through life with a hangover, feeling off balance, fatigued, depleted."
He believes regular checkups with chiropractors, naturopaths, homeopaths, nutritionists and other experts can keep atheletes, or anyone for that matter, performing
at peak levels.
He also believes in essential oils.
"There is no major research done on this, but if somebody does something well I think we should reinforce that, anchor it in the mind."
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