Lara Colturi: balance

Balance

We all know the image of the glass sphere with snow falling inside it.

This one we are talking about, however, is special. The snow that has fallen here is beaten and pressed until it becomes ice. On this one, Lara has been drawing her turns since she was born. With hard work, dedication, and the help of her family, she built this microcosm around herself: a safe and serene place where she devotes herself completely to the pursuit of perfection in every detail.

Inside her world, the “bubble,” as she calls it, she feels she is doing what she was born to do. The snow, the mountains, the cold are expressions of her feeling alive.

Lara builds her confidence day by day with perseverance, determination, but above all with the serenity of knowing that she is in her own world, the place she chose for herself, with the people she wants beside her.

A world where she can focus on pushing the limits every day, committing herself to the painstaking search for that detail that makes the curve a few thousandths of a second faster in the eternal struggle with the stopwatch and with herself.

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Playing sports at a professional level requires total dedication.

The rhythms of training mark the times of an athlete's life. In skiing, you also follow the seasons, looking for the ideal conditions to train around the world. When the World Cup races begin, you have to bring your own ideal world with you to best face each challenge. Mom Daniela at the starting gate and dad Alessandro on the course have always been a constant presence.

A relationship as strong as the buckle of his boots on his bindings, able to open at the right time and not become constricting, avoiding stress in critical moments. The training, the technical care, the preparation of the skis, everything is entrusted to a team that is also a family. And vice versa.

A shared goal, and working together to achieve it, is the wax that makes the soul run, just like the running base of her skis.

Balance is every skier's companion, but it is not enough to only maintain it on the edges.

Balance starts from the inside, from the soul state and concentration. Lara and her team understand this well and defend this condition every day. Keeping balance requires constant small adjustments, the ability to face the forces trying to destabilize it.

Those same tightrope skills of her body as an athlete must also be expressed on a mental level. Despite her young age, indeed, she demonstrates already that precious focus for those who must perform at the physical level, but with the serenity to understand her mistakes, take her own space, and live even the life of a simple 17-year-old.

Day after day, Lara grows the ability to leave out of herself and her bubble what distracts, what puts pressure:

hurry, stress, anxieties as an athlete but also those common to every teenager. Inside, however, she preserves balance, concentration, the ability to focus on the goal without losing the human and personal dimension. Every day she must deal with being both professional and teenager, focused but calm, self-critical and positive.

Opposing forces between them that, like those released in bends on skis, keep you balanced and glide fast on the edges.