Fran & James - Ride Mtb

Something like this I imagine?

Oops 😂

It’s pretty inevitable with mountain biking that sometimes mistakes happen and sometimes we don’t get the pleasure of riding them out.

To stop myself getting scared in future if I am physically able I like to go again and here is why.

I like to give my brain a positive feedback loop.

If I didn’t it could go something like this

- Trigger a crash something bad has happened and your brain worries about the mistake or an injury happening again

- Your body reacts to this, muscles tighten, higher heart rate you stress the fk out

- You start to play it to safely, hesitate, ride to slow at a feature, brake at the last minute

- This can then lead to a REAL mistake happening and then your brain then logs that as proof that it was right and it’s pretty hard to pull yourself out of that rut.

Here’s what I did instead, I went back to try again. Was I scared? Well yeah I just hit the deck. But I knew where the issue was and here’s how I was able to drop in.

Ultimately when I set out to do that run before I crashed the plan was cruise the line with but that didn’t happen.

- Replace negative thoughts with facts, I have the skill to do it I know where I went wrong just ease off the speed and change my line slightly.

- Control my breathing, relax my body, don’t drop in tense.

- Stop thinking about the final outcome you can’t control that just think about one jump at a time and the next physical movement to get you there.

That’s basically it! And yes I have had crashes I haven’t been able to just jump back on and try again when this happens I just watch videos of myself riding where it’s all gone right and if I have a clip of the crash just don’t watch it until your back at it.
Stay delulu and you will be fine!

Anyway enjoy me eating s**t 🫶