i pussyfoot on my bike. i get angry at myself for not trying tricks more agressively.
bmx is kicking my ass right now.
i'm pissed.
I'm going mountain biking tomorrow with a friend who used to do BMX and he does the extreme mountain biking stuff. Crazy. I told him I want to try a little drop or something and he was like, "I'm not gonna let you do a drop. You can really hurt yourself."
I'll figure something out.
Yeah, I chilled out. I went back out on a little ride, with the mindset of instead of trying stuff and screwing up and getting stressed I'm just gonna aim to do what I know I can do best and relax.
I just biked along at full sprint, railed some turns (20" wheels are fun), and hopped a few storm drain covers. Got my energy out and reminded me that this is recreation. I'm beat.
I've only been riding bmx maybe 3 weeks total but as slow as progress is, I do seem to get better every time I go out. Just needa chill out some.
It would be stupid to just go out and rag doll over stuff I can't do. Day at a time.
I'm not a fan of physical pain.
Yeah me too...
I sometimes get my fun out of philosophical debates by making an argument for a view that's completely counter intuitive and try to see how many buttons I can push before it fails. The INTPs in my class were like "Why are you doing this!? The argument would face sooo much less opposition if you just take out that one word" and I was like, "Yeah no, I'm keeping it."
Three weeks!?! Reading you speak of it, yeh...I hear you completely.
That scrit is so much fun!
I'd beat myself up too, get mad...thinking not pushing enough.
But, kind of circled back to what you're thinking now.
My friend had already taken a couple of people out at a point where I didn't have a bike yet. So there I am, and I'm laughing at the stories he's telling me of how the bike scooted forward at a fast pace under one dude that didn't "get" throttle. How somebody else ended up on their arse. Another guy just flew on over the handle bars.
I didn't care what my friend thought, I'd just get frustrated at not progressing as fast as I thought I should.
Yet, on the first time out I rode through the woods better than he did. I also jumped the thing a full round on the track.
Three weeks out I got frustrated thinking, oh I should be doing this or that...but still getting comfortable knowing when to change gears on a four stroke in a given situations?
So my friends off to the side talking with some dudes that are asking how long I'd been riding? He tells them three weeks.
Those guys are like you're crazy...if it's only been three weeks we can't believe he's jumping like that.
I'll bet your really "great" at it, considering the time frame and damn is it fun!
i pussyfoot on my bike. i get angry at myself for not trying tricks more agressively.
bmx is kicking my ass right now.
i'm pissed.
Nice to read you had a good time.
Yeh, I get bored with some progressions pretty easily.