We're naturally inclined to search for clues with our vision while riding through dynamic environments. Some clues need less of your attention. 

Also, we're on Tuesdays now, folks! Mondays were (are) a whole thing.

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We’re still calling for calling for questions for our first AMA (Ask Me Anything) from paid subscribers, so make sure you get those in by today, October 10th!

Referenced in this episode:

Our Vision episode.

Jacob's Ladder and Rush, Corner Canyon, UT

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Any project, hobby, or avocation carries the opportunity for growth and transformation... if you let it. We chat about what that looks like and how to engage with this process in 33.

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We’re still calling for calling for questions for our first AMA (Ask Me Anything) from paid subscribers, so make sure you get those in by October 10th!

Referenced in this episode:

You Need a Thing, Danielle’s project-based personal growth model

Being Well podcast with Rick and Forrest Hanson

We Can Do Hard Things podcast with Glennon Doyle

Our transfer episode

When Danielle mentions Albert at the end of the episode, she’s referring to Albert Flynn DeSilver from episode 24

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Your core, your center, holds your power. Learning how to generate movement and action from this place keeps you grounded and unlocks your freedom. 

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This episode is a repost. If you listened back then, listen again to focus on or notice something new. If you haven’t listened yet, this one will really help you elevate your experience on the bike.

In the meantime, we’re taking a little fall break from recording and are going to be working on some new perks for paid subscribers, calling for questions for our first AMA (Ask Me Anything), and reaching out to the community more. We want to know you, so watch out for more correspondence!

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P.S. Sorry for the delay on this one, folks.

 

So many skills on the bike are built on a foundation of knowing how to stop well. Braking skills buy you stability, safety, and speed. 

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This episode is a repost. If you listened back then, listen again to refocus and take away something new. If you haven’t listened yet, this one will really help you elevate your experience on the bike.

In the meantime, we’re taking a little fall break from recording and are going to be working on some new perks for paid subscribers, calling for questions for our first AMA, and reaching out to the community more. We want to know you, so watch out for more correspondence these next two weeks!

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Good bike/body separation is key to leveling up as a beginner or even an intermediate rider. When each element of your body, the bike, and the trail work in concert, you achieve dexterity on the bike.

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Referenced in this episode:

Our Braking and Ride Beautifully episodes

Pepe Romero talks about finger independence at about 5:22 of this video. It’s just beautiful.

2023 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup

Rider Brandon Semenuk (check this out)

Centrifugal force is an outward force that pushes away from an axis of rotation on a revolving object. This is why it would be the force that pushes you into a berm, for example, because your force is moving outward away from the direction you’re turning.

Barrel roll trail in St. George, Utah

Paid subscribers will receive a copy of Jamie’s Bike Anatomy doc!

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In mountain biking, the reasons you start are often different than the reasons you stay. This episode helps unpack the motivation and deeper 'why' underpinning our mountain biking practice.

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Note: We spent an exorbitant amount of time talking about the Soldier Hollow Classic International Sheepdog competition. Alas, there is no event this year… and it may be moving away from Labor Day weekend in the future. Danielle will recover, eventually.

Referenced in this episode:

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke

Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing by Pete Davis

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

The Year of No Grudges by Andrea Gibson

Our Active and Passive Pressure episode

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Enhancing how our bodies move through space and time is a major step toward health and longevity. This episode gives a lot on proprioception, touches on racheting, and gets quite anthropological. 

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We talk about:

Labor Day and sheep [1:49]

Knowing how our bodies move through space [8:03]

Proprioception as critical to meaningfully interact with the environment [12:40]

Different starting lines for body awareness [17:11]

We have way more than 5 senses [20:00]

Racheting [22:32]

How space and place inform the human experience [34:12]

The human body as central to understanding space [39:19]

Referenced in this episode:

A reel about postural sway

Exactly how many senses do we really have?

Industry Nine hubs

Our jumps episode and concepts that relate to our Fall Better episode.

Aymara people from the Andes see the future as behind them.

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Rest is an often underemphasized skill that supports, well, everything... including mountain biking. And, as with any skill, we need a systematized way of approaching it. 

About Scott Moore

Scott has spent the past 20 years studying, practicing, and teaching yoga, Yoga Nidra, and meditation. He’s taught everyone from rock stars to recovering addicts, from young to old, ultra-athletes to the ultra-stressed out. He’s the author of Practical Yoga Nidra: A 10-Step Method to Reduce Stress, Improve Sleep, and Restore Your Spirit and several courses and trainings on yoga nidra and more.

We talk about:

What is yoga nidra? [5:10]

‘Samadhi’ moments in mtb [12:30]

Systematized relaxation [19:28]

Yoga nidra and meditation to access the subconscious [27:47]

Extremity as a doorway to clarity [35:18]

How to start incorporating rest practices [48:44]

The science of rest [53:17]

Referenced in this episode:

Yoga nidra

Recovery in the flow cycle (Steven Kotler has a lot out there about this, but this is a good basic writeup)

Scott’s Sanctuary Meditation Practice and Yoga Nidra For Grief on Insight Timer.

The Bannister Effect

Psychologist Jospeh Wolpe

We referenced this episode with Melissa Gill as well as our Transfer episode and our Wayfinding episode.

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There are many technologies and methods to help us navigate the trails, but moving around on a bike is about so much more than getting from point A to point B.

 

“Maybe wayfinding is an activity that confronts us with the marvelous fact of being in the world, requiring us to look up and take notice, to cognitively and emotionally interact with our surroundings whether we are in the wilderness or a city, even calling us to renew our species’ love affair with freedom, exploration, and place.” - M.R. O’Connor

  We talk about:

Planning routes in advance [12:18]

Navigation and a sense of control [15:35]

“Artifacts” and how we use them to navigate [18:32]

What is “wayfinding” [21:57]

Skillfully self regulating through uncharted territory [24:43]

Obstacles to accessing your skills when uncertain [29:38]

Being mutual with your environment [37:31]

Navigation and memory (and London cab drivers) [45:58]

Reading the trail [51:15]

Referenced in this episode:

Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World by M.R. O’Connor

The trails Wasatch Crest (including “puke hill”) and The Whole Enchilada

The tools Trailforks and MTB Project

Transfer: Managing Uncertainty with this Learning Technique

The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter

Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

Totemic geography

London cab drivers and their hippocampi

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There are some basic things that often aren't explicitly addressed. Whether you're a new rider or a self-taught veteran on the bike, here are some things you might not know.

We talk about:

Taking basic things for granted [1:50]

Braking with one finger [12:07]

Setting up your bike [15:28]

Necessary equipment [18:22]

Standing up [34:50]

Trail etiquette [36:21]

Using bells [42:09]

Starting on a hill [44:46]

Moving your bike around [48:29]

If you’re teaching someone how to ride [51:38]

Beginner’s mind [53:40]

Referenced in this episode:

Positioning

Braking

Clips & Flats

Get Up, Stand Up

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