Gabe Jett: Breaking the Yips, Elite Underwaters, and Finding Identity Beyond Swimming | Episode 287
3/1/202648 min
Gabe Jett is more than just a 1:54 butterflyer; he is a film major, a quiche enthusiast, and a man who has looked the 200 fly yips in the eye and won. In this episode, Gabe joins the Social Kick crew to discuss his evolution from a collegiate standout at Cal to a seasoned professional.
He gets remarkably honest about the mental plateau that followed his early success, the fear of the last 50 meters, and how building a life involving film and personal relationships actually made him a faster swimmer. We also dive into the technical details of his...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 1· Host0:00
I'm excited to watch him eat, eat his breakfast here for 45 minutes.
Brian Lundquist· Host0:03
Yeah. Yeah. Let's just, let's just not even talk.
Speaker 1· Host0:04
We'll just [laughs]... John and I, we'll, we'll- Breakfast with Gabe [laughs] [laughs] Yeah. So we'll just- Do we release a whole show of you just eating and Brian and I talk about the Super Bowl?
Brian Lundquist· Host0:12
[laughs] [laughs] Yeah. There you go. Welcome to Social Kick. I'm Brian Lundquist. We got a partial crew. Luke's out of the country, but we've got Dr. John Mullen, me and him in our post-Super Bowl, uh, hangover. Not really. You know, we had a few beers, but, you know. And then we got Gabe Jett joining us. What's up, Gabe? How are you, man? What's up, guys? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1· Host0:34
What's for breakfast this morning?
Brian Lundquist· Host0:35
So today I have for you a little quiche with some ham, um, from the bakery down the street. And then they do daily fresh raspberry croissants, so.
Speaker 1· Host0:47
Wow.
Brian Lundquist· Host0:47
Yeah, when you guys start asking questions, I'll dig into this.
Speaker 1· Host0:50
Damn. That sounds pretty good to me. Yeah. Yeah, you just eat and we'll, uh, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll carry on from here. It's all good.
Brian Lundquist· Host0:57
Yeah. Just take it.
Speaker 1· Host0:57
Um, all right, we are gonna start with a few audience questions- Oh ... uh, for Gabe Jett. You actually... I'll, I'll let you know, we always ask our, our, uh, guests, usually off-air, so for the listeners, uh, after the show ends, we usually say a little adios to the, to the guest that we have on. And, uh, lately we've gotten a lot of requests or, um, mentions from guests that, um, that they would like for us to interview you, which you've been on the show before once as part of a, a panel, but not for like a solo interview. And, um, so we've had, uh, prior guests mention that they