Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival & What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, & Success Book

Part I Above all Else 1

1 Waking Up 3

2 Following Your Dreams 13

3 It All Starts at the Beginning 15

4 Finding My Passion 21

5 Growing Up 25

6 Another Passion 29

7 Defining Spirituality 33

8 The Process of Pursuing a Dream 37

9 It's a Sport? Discovering the Competition Sport of 4-Way Formation Skydiving 51

10 The Greene County Sport Parachute Club 57

11 The College Years 61

12 Greene County Fusion, My First National Competition, and Learning How to Reproduce My Peak Performance 67

13 Going into Business 73

14 The Game Changer 83

15 Wanting to Be the Best: Winning 85

16 Dreaming Big 89

17 A Goal with No Plan 93

18 When I Started Following My Gut 97

19 The Coolidge Fource 103

20 Finding Work 105

21 Discovering Arizona 109

22 1989 National Skydiving Championships 113

23 What's It All About? 117

24 The Fource 1990-1991 119

25 The World of Competitive Skydiving Had Changed Forever 123

26 Perris Airmoves 127

27 California Dreaming 133

28 Let the Training Begin 139

29 "Skydiving Plane Crashes in Perris" 145

30 Out of the Hospital 161

31 Back to Apache Lake 171

32 Losing my Halo 177

33 The New Airmoves 181

34 Finally, Back to Training 187

35 1992 U.S. Nationals—Game On 193

36 Moving On 201

37 Till Death Do Us Part 207

38 Arizona Airspeed 211

39 The Ultimate Power of the Human Spirit 221

40 World Champs225 Epilogue 231

Part II Playing to win 235

1 The Goal of Winning 237

2 You Have to Believe 241

3 Make the Decision 245

4 Overcoming Obstacles 249

5 The Team 259

6 Training for Peak Performance 285

7 The Power of Visualization 299

8 The Goal of Personal and Team Best 307

9 Competitive Magic 319

10 You Win the Competition before It Starts 325