Ep. 35 Some strategies for ‘What if’s?’, difficult emotions, and rising trot mechanism.

I suggest some metaphorical MRs to reduce the ‘sting’ of your less-than-stellar rides. Realise too that thinking ‘What if?…’ is a mental rehearsal, and if the rehearsal ends with you in a ‘black hole’ you are probably more scared of the difficult emotions it generates than you are of hitting the ground. Realise that you can take sensible precautions before you get on - perhaps by doing some ground work. This doesn’t mean that you’re scared, it simply means that you’re sensible - it’s like looking both ways before crossing a road. We return to a revision of rider biomechanics, and ask, ‘why is this so important?’

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