Taking more risks.Well should you?

[Headshot]

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/opinion-should-you-take-more-risks-2016.html

 

Obviously! Duh!

 

Or maybe not. What you peeps think?

[Grebel]

The first comment after the article pretty much sums it up. Have a go but make sure that there is a good chance that you'll actually pull it off! 

[popcorn_skollie]

I feel we all need to push our boundaries. At a rate of progression we are personally comfortable with. I would never attempt a 70 foot canyon gap for the same reason I would never drop in on a 70ft wave at Nazare. Its far beyond that which I am capable of. I'll stick to trying to go a little faster, a little bigger, a little higher bit by bit and extend my comfort zone at a rate I am comfortable with. 

[AlanD]

I feel we all need to push our boundaries. At a rate of progression we are personally comfortable with. I would never attempt a 70 foot canyon gap for the same reason I would never drop in on a 70ft wave at Nazare. Its far beyond that which I am capable of. I'll stick to trying to go a little faster, a little bigger, a little higher bit by bit and extend my comfort zone at a rate I am comfortable with.

^^

This. Then end

[Super_mil]

Boundaries and limits are all specific to the individual pushing them. 

My own personal rule is if I can't visualize what ever I'm attempting from start to finish (including landing and rolling away) I don't try it. 

 

Rolling in blindly and hoping for the best never stacks the odds in your favour.

[Duane_Bosch]

I feel we all need to push our boundaries. At a rate of progression we are personally comfortable with. I would never attempt a 70 foot canyon gap for the same reason I would never drop in on a 70ft wave at Nazare. Its far beyond that which I am capable of. I'll stick to trying to go a little faster, a little bigger, a little higher bit by bit and extend my comfort zone at a rate I am comfortable with. 

As Kai Lenny says. Everyone is a big wave surfer. If you get a huge dose of adrenaline dropping in to a 6 foot wave then that's great. He gets his adrenaline looking for the barrel at Jaws.

[Headshot]

Boundaries and limits are all specific to the individual pushing them. 

My own personal rule is if I can't visualize what ever I'm attempting from start to finish (including landing and rolling away) I don't try it. 

 

Rolling in blindly and hoping for the best never stacks the odds in your favour.

 

Thats a very good way of approaching a new or more challenging obstacle or feature. 

 

In order to overcome  possibly crippling fear, I tell myself to apply the skills I already have to the new situation and remember how it worked out the time before. The knowledge that if I do xy and z a particular positive outcome will occur ( or is highly likely to occur)is the best way I have found to progress to bigger, riskier features.

[Duane_Bosch]

If you guys can try to get the movie The Search For Freedom. It's about the growth of the so called "extreme sports"

 

What i love is that these sports have redefine what it means to be an athlete. Robby Naish is still a professional windsurfer at over 50. Kelly Slater is well into his 40's and is still one of the very best surfers on the planet. Lynne Hill was in her 40's and had a child and still climbs hard.

 

The movie also talks about a sense of glide. Which for me is something that binds my riding and surfing even tho they are very different sports on the face of it.

[Boerklong]

Its a common thing for me to have OH S#IT moments. So I will just stick to that for now

[nigelhicks]

Skollie and Mill said it the best, but there is always someones nemesis. Mine was Dr Evil on the world cup track - even though we built it - it took me 2 years to get up the courage to hit it ... and afterwards I kicked myself as it was so simple.

 

Its therefore all in your head as well, if you have any doubt you have a great chance of making a boo boo.

[Super_mil]

Skollie and Mill said it the best, but there is always someones nemesis. Mine was Dr Evil on the world cup track - even though we built it - it took me 2 years to get up the courage to hit it ... and afterwards I kicked myself as it was so simple.

 

Its therefore all in your head as well, if you have any doubt you have a great chance of making a boo boo.

 

That's why I try to separate positive visualization from just general negative feelings. Rolling into something new will pretty much always give you doubts.

 

Also, know your bail points on the run in... If you beyond a certain point accept that you have to commit and accept the outcome.