The Zen during the tumble is humbling and can tick by for breathless minutes. Hamilton’s lungs might burn and his body might be brutalized by the swirl around him. “But at some point,” he says, “if you make it far enough, the grip will loosen. You have to keep your mind still while you are in the midst of it all, knowing that your chance will come.” And when it does let up, Hamilton taps into all of the stored up energy in his body to make his move. That’s when he lets the fight-or-flight response take over. He uncoils like a jack-in-the-box and sprints with every shard of energy in his body
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