Garazi Sánchez: “For the first time in history, human thought decreases” | Sport

From reproduction, Garazi Sánchez (Getxo, Bizkaia, 33 years old) found founded at sea. The daughter of the mountainous parents, who was discovered on the beach and in the waves, the site of her vacation when she started to ride the waves for seven years. Emotion turned into a profession that she quickly led to the top of her sport and made her mature stream. Galonan’s multi -faceted biography victories and injuries followed by all a visual audio project to direct his energy and fears. In 2020 Row ” shameA documentary film to raise awareness about preserving oceans. And now it offers Plane (YouTube), “experience” on the effect of technology on mental and physical health.

Ask. Last year, after a knee injury prevented him from competing with the Olympic Games in Paris, he resorted to the Mexican coast in Oakaka. But he could not take off his recovery until his mobile phone was placed in the plane …

answer. Yes. I went to a wonderful rural environment that I knew years ago. However, when they got there, things did not succeed as I thought. They had already had the Internet and they were only the days when games started. My energy was to see what happened in Paris, in punishing me because of the distance that I was there. I was born, I was negatively … I have arose the idea of ​​this digital separation experience. I turned off the mobile phone for 15 days and documented the result in Plane.

D. What are the conclusions you got?

R. I do not want a device of networks or separate from them, because they have many good things, but I want to do a conscious exercise to be better connected to these platforms. If you go away, they feel satisfied, not in the head or body.

D. How did the separation live?

R. Anxiety should not only be associated with the crisis or panic attacks. Anxiety is also the silent dependence created by the mobile phone, which does not allow us to focus … people read less and there is a phobia. For the first time in history, human thought decreases. The problem is that we have normalized this anxiety. I discovered how much I felt talking to people, helping yourself to help without always asking Google. Real life makes us better than default.

D. Is it possible to rationalize the mobile phone?

R. Portable devices and networks are designed to generate accreditation. In our mobile phone we have everything and this is its great power. We must study and post problems associated with their excessive use. I am still looking for balance. I don’t want to spend six hours a day looking at the screen. Six hours a day is the average and this is more than 90 days a year, we are not aware!

D. During the blackout there was more uncomfortable because WiFi was more than light.

R. Now it seems that we are not without a mobile phone. You don’t have to have to blackout, but it was good to see people gather as happened before. During the experiment, I had the rotor when I turned it off. However, the process was very normal. The real anxiety came when again.

D. How was your body reaction without a mobile phone?

R. I grew more and better. My body was very distorted and that inflammation came from stress and cortisol. In those 15 days, it improved everything, in membership and social. Technology makes us not need. We are alone.

D. Is it optimistic about returning to the feeling of society?

R. It is not easy, because People are afraid and afraid of separation. Spain is the country in the world where more anxiety is described. We are in nature to be wrong … The locals told me: “All foreigners who come here are sick.” Some of that there. The rhythm of life disrupts us. But it seems that there is more awareness. Now people pay for going to decline to separate the connection, to be silent … my reference is my grandmother. It is when you read, read. When he takes, he directed … he is not looking for pictures or looking for what a athlete did.