On Saturday another thesis developed in my head. About riding technical trails and how it is similar to playing a complicated piece on the Violin. Now there are amazingly talented people who can sight read the most difficult music and make you think they've been playing it for years. Same as there are some riders who can be dropped into an incredibly technical trail they've never seen and ride it perfectly and cleanly the first time.
Those people are special and not normal. Most of us have to work hard at what they do easily. That's the cool part about humanity. Hopefully you find that thing you're best at and make look easy and at the same time enjoy it. even better if you can get paid doing it.
So if you've played music, had music lessons, at some point in your life you probably can have a good idea where this is going.
I know a lot of people session difficult sections. Either with an instrument or on the bike on the trail.
Doing the difficult section over and over until you get it.
And that certainly isn't a wrong way to do it, but it is just one way to do it.
I always preferred to go from start to finish. In my mind it helps be more intune with the whole thing, the transitions betweem the flow, the next note or turn, each flowing into the other, setting up each better and smoother and then slowly eventually the difficult parts come together. Maybe only tripping up on one rock or a note.
But doing it this way, on a trail you're trying to learn, the unconscious can take over, the flow becomes more natural, more ingrained and i think better.
More fun? I dunno. Better? Probably not as fast, but i think the end point is the same, but by the time it is smooth and flowy w/o breaking it down it is better to do the whole thing each time.
Is this making sense? Not sure.
Anyway - just one of those sidebars in my head.
heddwch
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