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2/3/2017 5:49pm
2/3/2017 5:49pm
Ive been riding for a couple of years now and this wasn't so much before hand when I first started but after a year of riding I just started having these negative thoughts as soon as I got my bike such as "what if I fall off" and I just keep thinking about crashing when I'm riding and it really isn't good as I feel it knocks my confidence when riding hugely and I feel like I ever can improve I love this sport so much but I don't know why I feel like this riding bikes is my favourite thing to do and makes me so happy but recently I don't know why I've started to think so negatively I see my friends and I'm the slowest out of all of them as well which doesn't help I wanna be up the top battling it out with them! But I can't seem to I always end up being in a bad mood on a good day of riding
does anyone have any advice to help me over come these thoughts i would
Appreciate it extremely!!!
Appreciate it extremely!!!
so if you not ready to say fuck it then try golf
"Life has a 100% fatality rate so no one gets out alive" Think about it and then quit worrying about bad stuff because the bottom line is we are all gonna die.
The Shop
Put your focus in the moment, not the what if. When you're in the zone you won't worry about anymore.
I've been riding since I was 4 or 5 and it wasn't until I was in my mid teens that I started learning and practicing real techniques, like weighting pegs and gripping the bike with my legs. I never had a problem with big whoops and big jumps, but I was just a huge pussy in flat corners, especially big long sweepers. I just didn't have the confidence to let it go fully cocked through a turn and twist it.
My first job was a tech at a H-D dealership and the owner was an AMA Pro flat tracker. He had a little 1/16 mile circle track behind the shop and a pile of Honda XR100's set up for flat tracking. He showed me the ropes of riding sideways. Within a few short months and few hundred laps I could get completely sideways on any bike without any trepidation.
The moral of the story is, If I hadn't learned the techniques from someone who knew them, and if I didn't spend the time to practice those techniques, I'd still be a huge pussy in flat corners...almost 15 years later.
Learn to ignore them.
Pit Row
It's dark, but those are all a realistic possibility. To me it's gotten to a superstition level like I have to accept the possibilities so my world isn't shattered if it happens. Like my buddy lostboy819 said above. We are all going to die someday it's better to just accept it and move on.
Thoughts are powerful, and we learn with age "if you think it, possibly it will happen".
30 years ago I asked someone with wisdom about this very subject, this was their explanation.
(Thoughts are powerful and negative thoughts about yourself, or your loved ones can creep into the mind.,
After the bad thought say in your mind CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL, this in fact cancels the bad mojo.)
Been doing this forever, driving to the track I think we could flip our truck, why would I ever think this?
No big deal, I just say CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL and go about my day.
I've always been grateful I believed that person and they told me that bit of life knowledge. Hope it helps you.
Of course we have to train the mind to think positively, meditation is rad for that.
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