Its not really talked about much, even though everyone knows that its often the most important part of riding. Just wanted to pick your brains on what you guys do to work on this side of riding.
For me, I fail at two bits. Braking when you shouldn't be and lately just scared of going big on jumps.:
jumps, i can slowly work on and work my way up. its the big step downs that get me, when you cant see the landing until you are in the air. and all you see when you approach the lip is the lip and sky. screws me up big time.
braking is really getting annoying, i know i can do a section brakeless and much faster but something in my head just goes: OH SH!T and brakes. i know its supposed to be your reptilian brain that just things you are going to die and goes into survival mode, but i am sure there are ways around it. when i can i ride death grip, but that only works sometimes.
what do you guys do to get around things like this?
the main thing that comes to mind for me is manning up and start riding moto x, everything is faster and jumps are bigger. dh wont seem so bad after that.
another thing is to ride tracks that are much faster than what you would normally race on, get used to the speed so that you can stay calm when racing on what would then be slower speed tracks.
of course there is also what fabien barrel does and just gets into this whole state of mind before races and worlds. i dont know anything about that so cant comment.
For me, I fail at two bits. Braking when you shouldn't be and lately just scared of going big on jumps.:
jumps, i can slowly work on and work my way up. its the big step downs that get me, when you cant see the landing until you are in the air. and all you see when you approach the lip is the lip and sky. screws me up big time.
braking is really getting annoying, i know i can do a section brakeless and much faster but something in my head just goes: OH SH!T and brakes. i know its supposed to be your reptilian brain that just things you are going to die and goes into survival mode, but i am sure there are ways around it. when i can i ride death grip, but that only works sometimes.
what do you guys do to get around things like this?
the main thing that comes to mind for me is manning up and start riding moto x, everything is faster and jumps are bigger. dh wont seem so bad after that.
another thing is to ride tracks that are much faster than what you would normally race on, get used to the speed so that you can stay calm when racing on what would then be slower speed tracks.
of course there is also what fabien barrel does and just gets into this whole state of mind before races and worlds. i dont know anything about that so cant comment.