www.crosstrainingenduro.com You know those days (or weeks!) you can't seem to ride well and get your dirt riding technique together? Here are some tips from the sports psychologists about how to get out of your funk! Into enduro riding? See all our dirt bike videos for more hard enduro dirt riding tips. So your riding sucks and blows? Here are seven sports psychology tips for enduro technique! Do you quit while you're ahead, and go home? Go hard until you hurt yourself with extreme enduro? Or just volunteer to be the sweep rider and limp along at the back of the hard enduro pack? Some days it's obvious why you are riding badly. A hangover. I know the sort of riders I prefer to be around and work on dirt riding technique! I just hope I can become one of those riders too. Our channel now had hundreds of dirt bike videos covering reviews, and dirt riding techniques. Search our extreme enduro channel for dirt riding gear and enduro techniques too. Our dirt riding tips also include wider topics such as the best dirt riding boots. Your partner just dumped you last night for someone way more attractive and wealthy. It's very normal to have a string of great days, then a big slump in hard enduro. Bad days are normal. Also, most of the time it's mental. Instead of trying to blame an external cause, see it as an opportunity to learn some mental toughness in extreme enduro. Accept it. Move on. Don't react emotionally. Perhaps your arm was amputated in a freak beer can opening incident. Or if you are into astrology, perhaps Pluto and Mercury are in Uranus. But then you get those days you are riding like a dyslexic hippopotamus and there's no obvious reason. So how do you deal with it? In our riding group I have seen a range of reactions. One guy will just keep throwing his bike at things and get increasingly frustrated and depressed, sometimes ending the ride saying it might be time to give up dirt bikes and hard enduro. And they present us with opportunities to develop some mental toughness and grow up. And if you have ever had a bad injury on the extreme enduro trail, you can see a clear difference between riders who go to pieces, and those who calmly go about doing what needs to be done in the emergency. One of the other guys will simply go home if his riding doesn't improve within the first 15 minutes. His explanation is that he will probably just hurt himself if he continues. And he knows from past experience he won't improve, so why spend three hours being unhappy and at risk of injury? The rest of us? We usually just volunteer to be the sweep rider. If the group is riding fast, we just let them go and catch up at the next intersection. One of the things I love about dirt riding is that you can learn skills for life too. In every day life, we all hit bad times. And so often we revert to being like children again. Tantrums. Blaming anyone or anything but ourselves. Or completely blaming ourselves and falling into a pit of depression. But bad times are perfectly normal. Or if it's slow tough terrain, we just take the chicken track. Sometimes we get our mojo back within 30 minutes then it's all good. Other times, it might take two hours. And of course sometimes it just doesn't come together at all. So just go into cruise mode and admire the scenery instead of trying to be Graham Jarvis. I suspect that mind games are usually the real issue here. There is a strong psychological component to how well you perform. It's why sport psychologists exist. If you start the day with a negative mindset, there's a good chance it will get worse, especially for males.
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