From Record-Setting Athlete to Recording Artist
Olympic long jump legend Bob Beamon returns to his first passion: playing the drums.
Beamon notes that
the key to learning something new is total commitment. You’ve got to shut out the part of your brain that finds excuses.
He recalls his experience at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where he
won a gold medal and set an Olympic record — 8.90 meters (29 feet, 2.5 inches) — that hasn’t been broken yet.
However, Beamon's first passion was not sports, but percussion, which he discovered at a young age. He remembers that
one Saturday when I was around 9, I woke up to the sound of drumming. The sound was so incredible, so powerful, I had to find out where it was coming from.
Author's summary: Bob Beamon returns to drumming.
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