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In your opinion what are the five most important contributing factors (mental and / or physical) that have lead to Ryan's domination in this years outdoor nationals.
1) Not over trained, not over trained. I.E. Ryan's battery is not taxed.
2) Elite level VO2 max. I.E. Ability to perform at a higher level than his competitors.
3) Riding skills.
4) Has developed a advanced nutritional formula.
5) Willingness to take more risks on race day. I.E No Fear
Note: 100% commitment to #4 allows #1 and #2 to happen. High alkaline diet plays a key roll.
1) Not over trained, not over trained. I.E. Ryan's battery is not taxed.
2) Elite level VO2 max. I.E. Ability to perform at a higher level than his competitors.
3) Riding skills.
4) Has developed a advanced nutritional formula.
5) Willingness to take more risks on race day. I.E No Fear
Note: 100% commitment to #4 allows #1 and #2 to happen. High alkaline diet plays a key roll.
sometimes he was over 3-4 seconds faster than everyone on a passing-for-the-lead lap.
that's fucking insane
Also, two key elements would be work ethic and natural talent. I think a rider with a great work ethic and "average" talent can be a good rider. Also, someone with great talent, and a shitty work ethic can also be a good rider. But you take someone with great talent AND great work ethic, well then you have guys like RV and RC.
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I will add that RV has the mental edge. He doesn't believe he can be beat and the majority hopes he makes mistakes so they have a chance to win. NOTE I said majority, not all.
Since sport psychology is not big in motocross, or something I've ever heard him utilizing, it probably is a gift he was born with.
Aldon just brings so much experience and knowledge to the table.
2. Training/practice
3. Crew or those he surrounds hisself with
4. NFG
5. Equipment
He might be fit, but he has always been faster than the comp by a fair bit... His fitness might be helping him run that for longer, but personally, I think he's riding is better than anything it's been like before. He never fucks up, always on the gas, if he does fuck up, he's on the gas and his line selection is superior to everyone else.
Just like RC's last few years where everyone just wrote it off to fitness, but if you watched him on the track, he's riding way better lines all day
I just love the the effortless way he seems to ride, its almost as though he torques his way around the track...very smooth with amazing corner speed
I'm really surprised no RD lovers or Stewart ball lickers haven't shown up in this thread with the normal answer to this question......" I can't think of anything rational to say......so yeah....He's on PEDS! "
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His Dad, instilling the "if you want it, work for it." attitude.
Natural talent.
Conditioning, he doesn't seem to get tired.
He's a hunter. Kills things on and off the track, without remorse.
But RV has really matured into a modest, humble champion. And the things he's done, how he races(clean),
and said(& not said), just makes him a great champion and ambassador for the sport.
He's got the complete package going on. Aldon training him, full support(and then some)by his wife & family, happy balanced home life/immed family & a fantastic dialed bike & support by all of Kawasaki.
He lets his results do the talking & Villo looks like he's racing into the first turn everywhere on the track.
Ryan Villopoto has raised the bar again in professional motocross. And I don't see anyone heading him off for a couple of years. He's unbelievable. I would've really liked to have seen him and Bubba go at it in both of there primes!
In a straight clinical reaction time test...you might even beat RV. What top riders have done...and we have not...is developed the ability to internalize bike control to the point that it is an extension of their body. They do not do this by having fast reactions and high powered brains. They do this by practicing for thousands of hours...to the point that complex multilayered motor skills are completely internalized. They can control these complex machines...WITHOUT using their brains and WITHOUT consciously reacting They have literally programmed their nervous systems to do things like this automatically. If you never even notice something...how can you 'react', in a conventional sense? How can you think about it. They are able to do this not because they have some innate ability we do not (fast reaction times, etc). They do this because by the time they are 15 years old...they have spent 4000, 5000, 6000 HOURS on a bike...riding.
Ask RV sometime about a near miss, a wild save...where he saved it from a certain yard sale. Most of the time...he wont even remember it...because it never even registered on a conscious level to him. The real secret sauce is pretty basic. Practice practice practice. This is the same of all motor sports. It is NOT about reaction times.....it is about programming your nervous system so that you do not need to consciously react. Understand this...and you are on your way to becoming a better rider.
The thing that makes the very very best what they are...is that they develop this level of mastery, and internalization, with less practice than others. So what might take a normal person 10,000 hours...takes them only 3000. So when they are at 5000 hours...they are coming up with new ways of doing things that the other experts have not even thought of...
And also the performing under pressure thing.
And it looks like he's on a hover bike out there. And of course just pure speed. I watched him -- I forget what track it was, maybe early in Southwick moto 2 -- I watched and counted as he went from 2-3 bike-lengths' lead on Dungey apexing one corner to 10-15 at the end of the straight -- and the majority of the damage was done in the first 100ft out of the corner, like every 10 feet he had another length on him: click, click, click. Float like a float-bot, sting like an automatic stinging machine.
The important keys to that would be to see what his LT Heart rate range is, LT as a % of his Heart Rate and his Crossover point heart rate is. These are important factors as a well trained Elite athlete will have a LT heart rate of 80-90% so aslong has he is in those ranges he is firing and seeing the way he rode all season he is probably in the 95% range.
Monitoring his fatigue levels throughout the weeks would be a important factor and adjusting his training according to that data ensuring he is recovered for each National.
Over and above all that he still needs to twist the throttle!
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