Yeah my armor is outa the bag now as well. LMOA, I brought them but didn't bring em out on the hill. I did wear my fullface and I scuffed the new D2.
How much do you crash?
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Or in my case, many many months of crashing. I don't feel so bad about it, that's how I learned to ski too.
I just wished I healed faster
Word.
I crashed twice in my driveway the other day. Decided to start wearing helmets for EVERYTHING.
Not very much at all, I usually ride alone and can't afford upper body armor, also most trails I ride usually have the nice roll down the hill consequence of crashing. Add in the fact I'm a giant pussy and I don't push it that much hence I don't crash much.
When I first started riding I crashed all the time. I gave myself a 3 crash per ride limit, when I hit it would really try and slow down, and keep in control.
3 years later, hardly ever, only when I push it or get tired. Mostly when I am on a new trail as well. Finding new lines puts me on my ass quite frequently.
3 years later, hardly ever, only when I push it or get tired. Mostly when I am on a new trail as well. Finding new lines puts me on my ass quite frequently.
I crashed in every race I did at Snowshoe last year 
I guess I wasn't doing enough race pace runs in practice so I didn't know my limits everywhere and then I tried to pin it in the race and just ended up stacking it 
lthumbsdown: You gotta love body armour though, it saved my a$$ many times 
Crashing is part of the game and at least you know you are pushing your limits when you hit the deck. Hopefully you don't cop a beating to badly.
I guess I wasn't doing enough race pace runs in practice so I didn't know my limits everywhere and then I tried to pin it in the race and just ended up stacking it lthumbsdown: You gotta love body armour though, it saved my a$$ many times Crashing is part of the game and at least you know you are pushing your limits when you hit the deck. Hopefully you don't cop a beating to badly.
Not so, that jump exists only in urban legend, here's an artist's rendering of what the jump would look like, if it existed.
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My crashing haiku
to crash is to learn
get back up and ride it out
you will become great
cj 2007
to crash is to learn
get back up and ride it out
you will become great
cj 2007
Looks like Paul Bunyan hucking a beaver dam to me...
It seems to me that I know my limits pretty well, and don't really feel like pushing them too hard since I have an 8-5 I have to go back to every monday.
How many of you take the bypass on certain things because you have to show up for work on monday?
I'm gonna print that out and tape it to my top tube.
how many people go bigger because they don't want to go to school on monday?
I miss crashing.
Seriously, I do. I feel like I'm getting a little bit faster every time I ride, but without the crashes, it's harder for me to feel like I'm accomplishing something. Odd complex, ehh? I think we all suffer from it at some point or another.
Seriously, I do. I feel like I'm getting a little bit faster every time I ride, but without the crashes, it's harder for me to feel like I'm accomplishing something. Odd complex, ehh? I think we all suffer from it at some point or another.
oh man, those were the dayshow many people go bigger because they don't want to go to school on monday?
I was sent home once because whatever was oozing from the gauze around my arm was grossing my professor out.
I don't take the bypasses. I may not go as fast as I want to in some of the nastier rock gardens. It's not so much for work, but more because I'm 37 and already have enough arthritis from my motorcross racing days
. On a side note: I have a corporate job and you should see the way those pu$$ies look at me when I talk about DH - they think that I'm
Push your luck (don't go to overboard) and if your boss doesn't like it when you come to work busted up you can always go fight club on his a$$
I don't so much mind the road rash and gnarly bruises. It's the casts and crutches that would ruin me at work.
I haven't sent myself to the ER in a while though, and am now having my doubts if I'm stepping it up enough....
...another pathetic reason - I would really hate to break my expensive @$$ D2
I haven't sent myself to the ER in a while though, and am now having my doubts if I'm stepping it up enough....
...another pathetic reason - I would really hate to break my expensive @$$ D2
Exactly. Whenever I'm injured (knock-on-wood) it makes me wonder what the hell thoese "pu$$ies" do with their time.On a side note: I have a corporate job and you should see the way those pu$$ies look at me when I talk about DH - they think that I'm
I'm bored as hell.
And I pretty much refuse to ever take it easy because I have to work the next day. Work is for recovery.
I crash probably every other ride, nothin too big, just enough to make me take it easy for about 30 min.
Ever consider this:
In high-level DH racing, you get to the top by successfully taking and surviving risks that are inherently dangerous. This is just as much mental as physical. What separates the best from the mid pack isn't so much their skill in the easy stuff, but the tight corners and sketchy drops. So to do well at the high level, it's quite necessary to take excessive risks on the most dangerous stuff. And if you do well, you get paid. Manual labor also involves spending your body away for a profit. Hmmm... is there a coincidence?
Only very, very few riders have been able to stay on the top and injury free for a long, consistent time. Crashing is an inherent part of competitive DH.
In high-level DH racing, you get to the top by successfully taking and surviving risks that are inherently dangerous. This is just as much mental as physical. What separates the best from the mid pack isn't so much their skill in the easy stuff, but the tight corners and sketchy drops. So to do well at the high level, it's quite necessary to take excessive risks on the most dangerous stuff. And if you do well, you get paid. Manual labor also involves spending your body away for a profit. Hmmm... is there a coincidence?
Only very, very few riders have been able to stay on the top and injury free for a long, consistent time. Crashing is an inherent part of competitive DH.
i haven't crashed in awhile, but for me, that usually means there could be one coming around the corner. knock on wood, although i've chipped leg bones by getting smacked by my pedals, i haven't broken anything in my life(i drink my milk). no stitches either, though i should have gotten them a bunch of times. i seemed to get a lot of my crashing out of the way when i was learning, as a crash every ride was very normal. i'm challenging myself a little more now and i seem to be on the verge of hitting dirt or asphalt on many occasions, but my ninja-like reflexes get me out of trouble.
beergression
push yourself past fear
...afriaid?...then drink a cold beer
speed, air, success...YES!!!
cj 2007
push yourself past fear
...afriaid?...then drink a cold beer
speed, air, success...YES!!!
cj 2007
yes, yes, and SC sat in a.m. noexcuses you will go big and bring camera
For me I try to go as fast as I can possiably go all the time, which has led to great satisfaction and great discomfort. 6/17/06 I was put out with a broken wrist that need sugery and clavicle at the same time, and have not been on my DHR since. 05 was a broken arm in a race that I still finished and the list goes on. I would say I expect alot out of myself and I'm confident of my ability "still" and can't wait to go rip again. I will try to find a fine line between sucsess and faliure.
usualy 3-4 big ones during the year, depending where I am riding and how hard. Often i have little slip-ups but thats nothing.