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Message: [QUOTE="lbk, post: 810395, member: 55269"] Ok so I got my RM125 after getting hooked the first time out, so we headed back out this weekend with someone who has experience. He did a good job showing us around and keeping the pace comfortable. But I'm really struggling with the differences between street/roadracing (Organized not street racing) and dirt. So first of all, I bit it on the MX track because I wanted to slow down for the next birm and well I'm so used to using the front brake, that's what I did and the nose went right into the soft stuff and I went over the bars. Got up no problem, but then had another incident with the front brakes too. So I started trying to get use to using the rear brake more (Pretty much NEVER do this roadracing). So my the guy I was riding with suggested doing, what one of the track day orgs had us do when I first go into that, which is try riding around at a pace that you don't have to brake at all. Basically causing you to just focus on other areas while eliminating that one. Then get comfortable with those things, then add the brake back into. But I was curious is there any other training techniques that can help with, braking, turning a dirt bike (Completely different than road racing) I can slide the rear to turn but then in the back of my head this little voice says "That's not good" now I know this has to be done, so how do people transition, and get use to the differences between the two styles of riding? [/QUOTE]