Who I've Always Been, A NOBULL Short Film

my story didn't start in Madison or in Carson not on a podium or on her inch my story started before that [Music] there's certain things that I've gone through that I've enjoyed because they put me in a position where I feel uncomfortable great [Music] I grew up on a cane farm running around the headlands entertaining myself loving every moment that I got with my mom and dad and my sisters the beauty about living in Queensland Australia is you have the best of everything I think of sunshine I think of beaches I think of farmlands and I think of down-to-earth very free-spirited people that are constantly challenging themselves but also playing hard and working hard [Music] I'm not an inside person I was always outside embracing the environment that I was in I was just trying to be adventurous [Music] my mom and dad were 100% supportive of whatever I wanted to do every single morning we would run around the cam head lens and dad would time me and then eventually as we started evolving dad would get me to swim laps across the river we would just try and incorporate what we had at the time to have variety within my training as I was growing up my dad is definitely the one that has shown me and got me in learning how important it is to be comfortable with the uncomfortable when I think of hard work I think of my mom my mom is not someone that is always in the spotlight she's dancing aside and watches everything play out she's always been there on the sidelines cheering me on she's definitely someone that I aspire to be [Music] Shane is my coach but he is also my everything rest sixty Seconds sorry and three two one let's go one of the ways that Shane and I would hang out when we first met was when my dad was at work so Shane would be there on the stopwatch helping me train working with Shane on a regular basis is a lot of fun but it can also be hard no there's days where we're at each other's throats but it's those particular days that builds us into being a better and stronger team so job is too low that heart rate and get back into comfortable stay I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for Shane Shane believes in me more than anybody in a place in the operator show you sty struck three well trust me sir you got a girl come up there's definitely days where I'll go into the gym and I don't want to be there because as I'm writing the workout down on the whiteboard I'm processing what it is I'm about to endorse that is going to be challenging that's going to hurt and it's going to be very heavy I remember one day when dad and I we went scuba diving and you couldn't hear a single thing except for the coral popping underneath the water that piece of happiness it's a calmness [Music] because I had don't care in the world darling oh my relentless and what I did nothing was given to me I had to work for I'm Icelandic and here girls aren't afraid to be strong [Music] Iceland has 300,000 people we're very much a herd country we come in a pack we stay together when someone accomplishes something it's so close to us it doesn't seem so distant it doesn't seem so impossible if she can do it so can i if he can do it so can I [Music] I'm the most centered in comm one I own my mornings when I was a kid I was very competitive very regimented I was a perfectionist my days were structure and the weeks were the same as I get older I have more responsibilities if I think too much about the things that I have going on that day and the training that I have it causes me a lot of stress and I don't feel like I asked senator don't feel like my breathing is as good so being able to have those moments that are just for myself that I just focus on being and being here and being now and breathing I feel like those always calm me down and just bring me back to reality I started gymnastics when I was six but I was never very good at gymnastics I was a big gymnast it was not very coordinated and it did not come naturally to me I love the exercising ever known that I would sit there and ask the coach if we could have a conditioning thing and you can see all the other girls around me literally staring me down shaking the heads I wanted to do more push-ups than them I wanted more sit-ups I want to do more things in a minute that's when I realized that I loved a discipline I loved being there for four hours six days a week [Music] the people that I looked up to the most definitely my grandparents but I always grew up and I wanted to be exactly like my grandpa he's very proud in a very very hard worker I feel like he's driven my work ethic [Music] I feel excited before a workout but I also feel nervous one of the things that I always want to make sure that I do is my best but I can't be just going as hard as I possibly can because I'm gonna fade out real quick it's more than I'm asking myself is this a pace that I can keep going at I'm constantly asking myself those questions as like I can sustain that's how you can go faster I can recovering how you're gonna get from this place and exactly start let's open hacking me settle into them is there a place for you between you could I My Mind's at a million miles per hour [Music] I was probably around 20 when I think I realized that I worked very hard on a lot of things but I wasn't working very very hard on anything I think a lot of people can convince himself that they're working really hard and giving what they have but I think the magic really starts happening when he give everything that you got [Music] when I went to four and I know that I did my absolute best I know that I pushed but everything else in my body wanted to stop I feel proud and I feel happy I've always been strong I've always been unafraid to try what I want to do I want other people to feel that way you know whether it's my mom or my sister my little niece I want them to feel like they can chase whatever dream they have and be unafraid to do it there's this saying in Ison - look it's gonna be fun I thought at best we don't have that fear of taking leaps we add more excited and like you just know that it takes failures and know that it takes hard work [Music] my favorite parts are the work hour when my lungs are bleeding when I'm suffering the one thing that I say to myself is this is when it counts [Music] tulsa is not a tourist destination but for me Tulsa is a good place that doesn't have any distractions and I can put my head down and work really hard I think I've just found a really good routine here I feel like a lot of people look for like motivation but if you have a good routine down and you're very disciplined about it that's all you really need [Music] [Music] hey I just always loved hanging out with my dad but I was just had a special bond we could do anything together I just remember always looking forward to like Saturday and Sunday breakfast because he would go all out we still trying to make breakfast like that but it's a little bit different now I feel like I pretty much became competitive out of the womb having a twin sister I said he was the smarter twin he was the faster twin we were pretty inseparable growing up together we did softball dance cheerleading together but things got really serious when we started being competitive in gymnastics [Music] I didn't even care how I was doing all I wanted to do is beat Sydney [Music] [Applause] [Music] the gym is about 15 minutes from my house when I get to the gym and have a pretty long warmup what some people might consider an actual workout after my warmup that's when the intensity picks up at the start of the workout music seems super important to me the first Jana my competitive slam has already come out I don't even realize that there's something on or not I feel like a lot of people just go to the gym to move through the motions and get a workout in but it's much more than that to me I am thinking and focusing on every single movement and I don't just do a workout to check it off the list when I did school and training at the same time it was like I never got an hour to breathe I think a lot of people wanted me to not do college because it was just time consuming and I had kind of already found the career that I was born to do I never considered dropping out of school I think just being across it out that you know how hard it is and how much work goes into it and that you will not be able to do this your entire life my friend saw that I was literally crazy it was a lot of saying no to things but also it was one of the things that I can really think for my discipline and time management my mom is like the sweetest most selfless person I've ever met she joined a gym so that she could learn and understand exactly what I was doing I remember her telling me that she would pull up to the gym and this sit in the parking lot just because she was so intimidated by it I think that she really fought those feelings just in order to make me proud Sydney is more than a best friend I mean like she's literally in my other half hey was your hero uncle just got here there's no way I would be as competitive as I am today without having her push me the whole time [Music] I remember one time my friend introduced me as their Instagram famous friend I was like I'm not Instagram famous I'm a professional person athlete I didn't just wake up in 2015 as across a Games athlete I've been building to this my entire life I'm not doing this for likes I work hard for me my story started way before that before you're falling [Music] is screaming look at me [Music] no that's not [Music] every single day [Music] I am NOT an Instagram Oh I am much more than an influencer [Music] I am an athlete [Music] that is who I've always been [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: NOBULL

Views: 285,141

Rating: 4.9311628 out of 5

Keywords: #IAMNOBULL, #JustTheHorns

Id: JLOCAspDR_Y

Length: 21min 11sec (1271 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 06 2019