Using Beach Volleyball As a Way To Get People to Pay Closer Attention to Their Own Lives
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In an effort to get more people involved in a sport that seems quintessentially California, a Bay Area Olympic gold medalist is launching a series of events that\'s a combination competition, music festival and health expo. As KCBS reporter Holly Quan tells us in this weekend\'s In Depth, she\'s using beach volleyball as a way to get people to pay closer attention to their own lives.
The South Bay\'s Kerri Walsh Jennings is one of beach volleyball\'s better known names but despite the popularity of the sport especially during the Olympics, not many players can make a career of it year round.
The event in San Jose at the end of the month mixes athletic competition with health and wellness--helping regular people and weekend warriors with paying closer attention to how they spend their time.
"If you are in the present moment, if you are firmly planted where your feet are, mindfully, do you know how powerful you are? If you\'re living in the past, you\'re probably sad," said Walsh Jennings to Quan. "If you\'re living in the future, you\'re for sure anxious. But if you\'re in the moment you can deal with anything so much better. You\'re so much more powerful and in tune with yourself."
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