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Message: [QUOTE="altagirl, post: 591596, member: 40384"] Wow does that sound familiar! We mountain bike a lot and I'm the queen of wrecking. Last year we rode Porcupine Rim in Moab and I made it all the way to the singletrack runout without falling (you have no idea what a rare thing that is...)- and then slid out for no apparent reason and landed with my butt/tailbone on a pointy rock right before the end of the trail. It's literally like the only easy section in the entire 14 miles from the trailhead to the road - I just sat there dumbfounded that I could manage to flop over on THAT. :think: And I totally agree that my worst wrecks are usually the slow speed ones. Momentum is your friend and I know it - I think we all know it - it's just hard to actually believe it when you're looking at a really tough section of trail. Anyway, if you're riding with the goal being "not falling" you're never going to improve (I don't anyway). I've made it through rides and trips without falling (injured or recovering or something and don't want to add to it so I stick to super easy terrain), but when I'm focusing on NOT falling, I definitely don't feel that I'm learning anything. It's better than sitting on the sofa, but what I really live for is that feeling of accomplishment of doing something I wasn't sure I could do. I think most of us have been in the situation where you think "This is ridiculous, I'm falling nonstop today" but the way I see it, as long as you're not seriously hurting yourself, those days are just part of the game. Don't let other people impose their standards on you and tell you you're falling too much or not enough. You know how much you like to push yourself better than anyone else can. [/QUOTE]

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