The Land

                       Jordin Tootoos sheer mental and physical toughness stems from the land the Inuit live on. The land the Inuit live on is barren and desolate and the definition of inhospitable. The land has very little vegetation and is completely empty and is intimidating as hell to look at and go out on let alone to live and hunt on. There are no roads, no lifelines and no help unless you are in the community itself and you are as isolated as you can be out on the land. For example Jordin talks about how people whom come up north to visit and see and hunt on the land do not leave without guides as there are no lifelines out on the land and any mistake our loss of direction can be fatal.This is the kinda place where if you are not properly prepared you will die. If you do not know your way around and are not physically and mentally tough enough to handle the weight and adversity the place will throw at you than you will die. You have to be keep going through anything and prepare for anything out here or you will die and this deadly but beautiful land is where Jordin Tootoo draws his toughness and his spirit from. His ancestors have lived and hunted here for thousands of years in a land where a mistake or a poor hunt can mean starvation and even extinction for your family and your people. This desolate deadly place allows Jordin too think of his own experiences out here on this barren terrain and his ancestors experiences back in the day on the land and use his experience and his toughness to drive him and his toughness. If you can survive fighting against the land in order to obtain food and water and survive on the land then you can survive and win a fist fight or make a big hit in a hockey game or play through a hangover or even all three at the same time. The land and what you have to do out there too just survive let alone thrive means that you can easily thrive in a situation such as hockey and you can take the toughness you gained from being on the land and use it in a hockey game to thrive and excel. The toughness required to play hockey is nothing compared to the toughness needed to survive on the land so as a result of this the toughness Jordin Tootoo is way tougher than his competition from his experience on the land and can keep going through things that would break and kill any person whom does not have a harsh land and a history of thriving on it to drive them and teach them.