The Body Follows the Mind with Taylor Knox

This is the new generation of sponsorship, older folks with wisdom and experience maximising life well beyond the previously considered scrap heap. Meditation, mind and body symmetry is critical and TK has been developing this for decades. So great to see and a wonderful path for us all to ponder.

"Who you are vs. what you do." Powerful idea. So easy to get caught up in what we do that we forget whats most important. Respect for Taylor Knox and those who produced this film 🤞

"How you feel is, how you are going to heal" is so inspiring !! Great video, thank you

Anyone know the song that starts playing at 5:10?

Thanks to all involved for making this and getting it on YouTube so that I could find it at 2 AM. Much needed and perfect timing. 🙏

"... It's gone from getting through things with stubbornness and will, to getting through things with patience and focus..." - Taylor Knox. Thank you (and all the production behind) for such a inspiring video!!!

Thank you Vuori for making this video, it’s one of the best things I’ve ever watched and a very smart choice in supporting someone like Taylor Knox. I met Taylor years back and in only a 30 minutes conversation with him, he made me look at life differently and this video has inspired me to be a better person. So much gets put online of the latest surf clips and the next day, it’s forgotten, but this video will make an impact on the way people look at life. Well done and an amazing job 👏

I started surfing at 60 and 2 years later just when I thought I was ready to move into the intermediated level I ripped my pec major tendon off the bone. Rehabbing from surgery as I watch this inspiring video. Mahalo.

I completely agree with and fully embody this philosophy. Who we are is far more important to the world than what we do. I'm glad to see a soul brother out there a few steps ahead of me, clearing and blazing the trail. Thank you Taylor! ✨🌄

Wow, I just want to express my admiration and respect to the creator of this short film I would call it. YOU, whoever created this did an amazing job. Absolutely beautiful visual, auditory and contextual work. I even forgot that this is such a small channel yet, so I can be sure you will grow much bigger if you give it time and effort like you are doing now. Also big respect to Taylor Knox for his wise words and insight on his life. All in all this production was a great piece of work. Thank you!

Style & power. One of my favorite surfers of all times! And a wise guy too.

I HAVE A DIAGNOSED MOOD DISORDER. I TAKE A LOOK AT MYSELF DAILY ALSO. I ALSI REALIZED ALL THE CHANGE I WANNA SEE AND BE COMES FROM , AND STARTS FROM WITHIN! LIFE'S AN AMAZING CANVAS TO PAINT ON

Happy to see this guy still ripping! Really inspiring.

There is no separation between a good surfer and a better person...they are one. The extraneous thoughts and actions that we bring into the surf have nothing to do with that connection. Taylor has worked hard and managed to integrate the two. His love and drive for the experience of surfing, that connection, has motivated his drive to complete his internal growth. A true champion of his "self". I remember when Taylor caught his winning wave at Todos. I was just breaking in to the deeper and more meaningful realms of surfing. I was inspired for sure. But it also started me on my quest to explore Baja....a trip that has no end. Thanks Taylor. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for demonstrating by example true methods for mind and body and soul upgrades. Thank you!

I’ve had a similar experience. I was pretty sick for a decade. Specialists couldn’t help. It took four relapses and more and more fine tuning, but eventually, with regard to the spirit of our thoughts and my physical strength and agility improving, it turned out to be all related to diet. I was forced to eliminate everything but meat and animal fat essentially to heal. And boy did I. I hadn’t the slightest clue that prior, my spiritual void and negative thoughts were the product of plant toxins. As I purged them, my thoughts healed and so did my body. I’ve been very clear headed and even keeled for years now, and I feel more upright and physically strong than I ever have in my entire life. I don’t wish what I used to feel, mentally, nor physically, upon anyone. I don’t know how else to explain it. But something as simple as not eating anything but meat and fat changed my life. The divine focus I could never sorta achieve before is easy now. My mind doesn’t wander to distract me negatively anymore. I wish I would’ve figured this out years ago, but everything Taylor describes has also come to be my understanding now too, and I’m pretty sure it’s why our ancestors drew Bison and Buffalo on cave ceilings. Diet evolved us and then, sadly, devolved us, and that’s too clear to me now. Say what you will, but you can’t un-believe it or un-feel it once it clicks. The trinity is real. That I know. The more pure the more clear it becomes, and I think we knew that for a long, long, time. Wishing you all the best. 🤙✌️

I have the EXACT same story (except I never made the tour). Spondylolysthesis, insane sciatica pain, operated at age 19, same scaffolding in my spine, told I would never ever surf, even by my local chiropractor who was the contets director of the boardriders club! I accepted it, made peace with it. But then luckily one of the surgeons said "maybe we can get you back in the water in 6-8 months. Maybe". 20 years later, just booked my first Mentawai boat trip, before I get too old and my spine crumbles!!

Thanks Taylor, I’ve just turned 56 and it’s ,been hell watching my surfing and mobility ebb. I work hard but there’s this undertow to give up and just be old… seeing this was inspiring -thank

Great Video and much Food for Thought !!! Fine solid surfing at Black's Beach, especially the good water shot at 15:27. It is not quite the Magic spot it once was before the Crowds. First started getting Great Waves there in 1964 when it was rare to see anyone around until Surfer magazine wrote it up in July of '65 right after the Mushroom house was finished.

Old guys that rip😎 I'm 100% on the train to move to surf. Everyday! Best surfing of my life through my fifties. Stoked!!!