I hope your family issues were not too bad and have been resolved Marie! Good to see you back out on the trails giving us newbies some good info on the trails, confidence and inspiration! :)
Thanks for the concern - Father-in-law had a bit of an episode a few weeks back and has been in hospital since. It’s not going to go away, though- lots of stress and drama to go with it, too 😞 So much so, that I sometimes wonder if it’s worth doing a few fideistic or a dedicated channel about all of it - it’s a lot more common than we thought, but clear info is quite scarce.
@@WussyCatMTB Marie, I hope your father in law has an improvement in his situation, and the stress and drama levels subside for you all. Maybe a dedicated channel would be of help to you and others too, sometimes those who are going through or have gone through such things can offer insight and advice that can be of help when info from other sources isnt forthcoming. Remember to allow yourselves plenty of time for rest and sleep, if possible, no doubt you don't need telling that, but theres nothing worse than dealing with stress and drama when your batteries are flat. Take care of yourselves x
@@WussyCatMTB Marie, i have just watched you zoom around the wall ride again and over the hump at the start of the red trail which drops off and then how you flew around that bend and into that rocky slabby climb and it struck me that your riding is displaying the attribute of fideism (Which i have only just learned what it means) and your hubby's comment to you about carrying speed into the hump feature that on approach initially blind to what is on the otherside regarding the drop off....having faith and being bold in the approach and carrying momentum into it, overcoming fear and hesitancy that could have you come a cropper resulting from anxious reason and calculation or past bad experiences that would have you stall right at the most exposed and critical part of the feature......like me for instance when i get around to riding the the features if not having seen you ride through that bend and up the rocky slabby bit i would probably have been hesitant and not carried enough speed into it and staiing half way up causing me to come off.........though now i have to balance the confidence i have got from watching you with just a little caution.....and not be over confident or get ideas above my station and attempt things beyond my skill level. The three features you showed in this video are great examples of having faith in your bike and momentum to carry you through and confidence in your hubbys faith in you that you would conquer the features!
OK - I had to look that up 😂 Having faith is one thing, but I don't think it's the correct definition. It's not blind faith in my case. I've seen plenty of people just accept that a red trail is completely rollable and just go for it (and get away with doing so!), and in other places, I've seen people just go for it and have horrible accidents 😩 I guess my challenge is about having the confidence to go for it myself. Even if I've had a good look at something and I know that it's within my capabilities, I still get quite scared. It's quite strange - I wonder if there's some form of anxiety that describes this? It's almost like 'imposter syndrome' 😂 You're right though - hesitancy has caused me to come off in the past, and it's something I have to overcome every other ride... When you're better, we'll have to go for a ride together! You'll be able to see just how slow I actually am 😂
@@WussyCatMTB Yep, i think you're right Marie, there's some degree of knowledge going into the features so you're not riding into them blind as such, so rather than knowledge coming from faith it is the other way around. Horrible accidents, that is my fear whether i have knowledge or going into something blind...being too confident, or too hesitant and ending up coming a cropper, no longer a spring chicken i take longer to heal! I think the "imposter syndrome" is very muck akin to what is experienced on the mtbs...when coming across new trails and features and until having done them a few times to reinforce you're in the right place and competent. It would be great to meet up with you both and go riding when i am fully recovered (ahem, trying to keep up with you haha) i know i'll learn a lot and progress through the experience.....i think i'll be alright on the swishy flowy trails like rother valley bigger diggers etc....but the more technical trails i am on a learning curve with the mtbs being much lighter than motorbike MX's i used to ride years ago. When i was younger and used to ride motorcross bikes....after taking advice from friends who i rode with, i would be feeling very planted with the weight of the motorbike carrying me through most things that could be considered technical riding, like on deeply ploughed and troffed fields, i just pointed it in the right direction and with momentum, the suspension, the tyres and the weight of the bike would do the rest. Further down the line with more experience riding on a local quarry i was jumping 20 to 30 feet in the air and landing perhaps 4 or 5 cars away from the take off point eventually(actually jumping over two pick up trucks we used to get the bikes there).....i never thought i would be able to do that....but there was little skill involved to be honest....it was a steep long bank up onto a flat plateau which you could roll if you got to the top of the bank with little speed....or literally zoom up it and fly like a bird if you carried enough speed and you would land perfectly without much rider input, the trick was getting into the right gear and applying the power just before take off because the length of the bank had your changing up gears from 2nd to 3rd just before you launched, so to fly you had to attack the bank early going up it fast so you could change up into 3rd gear and get the power back on before you launched then you would fly and come down with the perfect angle. On a much smaller jump i once got too confident and was riding side by side with a friend who had my girlfriend at the time on the back of him.....i went into the jump and gave it a few extra beans and pulled hard on the bars at take off......i went straight up like a rocket and remember looking back down at my mate and girlfriend who were just off to the side of me looking back up at me with their mouths open.....the bike was more or less vertical in the air and came down veritcal on the back wheel, i was lucky to land it without flipping it....that was a wake up call haha.
I'll definitely be having a go at the wall ride too......looked quite scary when i walked round the track in the autumn last year, you make the features look so easy! :)
It really isn’t anywhere’s near as bad as it looks - that was the first day I’ve tried it at Parkwood - it’s one of my new favourite features 😂 one day, I’ll find a really big one 😎 This one is actually really good - you can build ride it at any height you want to 😊
Looking forward to coming back here to parkwood Marie, thank you for going over the features and the footage Marie, you make the steep slabby bit look so easy! I've got to get braver haha. Update on my "goink"bladder removal...had it done on Wednesday 16th, no complications so should be good to go back to work back end of next week and maybe the week after get my bike out again. Can't wait to get riding again.....though if i go back up to Greno on the pubrun i will reduce tyre pressures and soften my suspension so i dont get shaken to bits again.....i'm sure that run i did in september triggered the goinkstones and rattled them loose haha. ....ah well, i suppose in a way it was a good thing because until then i didnt know i had goinkstones. Hopefully no more trouble now......maybe i'll rattle my brain loose next time haha, some would say that was done years ago when i used to ride MX. Meeeow! Carl :)
Hey Carl, Really happy to hear that your Op went well 😊 Don’t rush back into things too fast though - take it real slow and steady - any form of operation does a real number on your body!
@@WussyCatMTB I dared to take a little half mile drive late on friday afternoon to a local shop, thought i would be ok as i wasnt in pain due to medication, a combination of dihydrocodiene, paracetomol and ibuprofen.....i try normally to go without pain meds if i can help it but thought with what i have had done i was better to take something rather than being in moderate pain. The pain meds worked their magic and i have been quite comfortable. Getting in and out of the car on friday was a little difficult as still a bit tight around the wound sites, took my time driving down to the shop so i didnt have to jump on the brakes or twist and turn the wheel so sharply etc..defensive driving, but then i had to go over a couple of speed bumps...even at low speed they were too much, not good haha. I wont be ready for driving i guess until at least the backend of next week, not going to rush back to work but boredom may get the better of me, and i may try my ebike(flat road riding only) the week after....in turbo mode for a couple of weeks to remove any strain. I can usually entertain myself no problem, with music, listening to or playing guitar, book or internet reading, podcasts or youtube(rarely watch tv)....but having physical restrictions whilst i heal is a drag, i would love to go for a walk but dont want to pull my abdomen by being upright whilst walking for too long just yet. ...which has been frustrating because we have had some gorgeous weather the last couple of days and nights....clear night skies and beautiful moonlight and the golden hours at dawn have been beautiful too.....and i love walking at dawn on such mornings and under moonlight. Pain wise, the wounds were a tiny bit sore through wednesday(described to my son as not even a bad cat scratch) i was a little tight immediately after the op near the belly button because they had to go through muscle which pulls a little when getting in or out of a sitting position...again which has been ok with pain meds, the worst was on thursday with the residual CO2 gas left inside that they inflate you with putting pressure on a nerve behind the liver sending the pain to the shoulder....that was quite uncomfortable for 24hrs, like a bad dead arm with an impact on the shoulder bone and apparently a very common occurrence after this type of surgery, thankfully after sleeping thursday night and with the pain meds that went away, so only the tightness at the site of wounds really to mention, which isnt really painful just inconvenient not being able to stretch out properly or walk upright for long just yet. ....oh and there was the slight constipation too as a result of not eating from the day before surgery, the surgery itself and the pain meds...thankfully that is resolved now too.......apparently the intestines absorb the residual CO2 gas too...so until i started moving there then that gas was building up which was a little uncomfortable but since i got moving there.....the gas has been coming out too in roof wrecking amounts!.....The Meteorological Society put out localised Gale warnings yesterday up and down our road! haha :)
I hope your family issues were not too bad and have been resolved Marie! Good to see you back out on the trails giving us newbies some good info on the trails, confidence and inspiration! :)
Thanks for the concern - Father-in-law had a bit of an episode a few weeks back and has been in hospital since.
It’s not going to go away, though- lots of stress and drama to go with it, too 😞
So much so, that I sometimes wonder if it’s worth doing a few fideistic or a dedicated channel about all of it - it’s a lot more common than we thought, but clear info is quite scarce.
@@WussyCatMTB Marie, I hope your father in law has an improvement in his situation, and the stress and drama levels subside for you all. Maybe a dedicated channel would be of help to you and others too, sometimes those who are going through or have gone through such things can offer insight and advice that can be of help when info from other sources isnt forthcoming. Remember to allow yourselves plenty of time for rest and sleep, if possible, no doubt you don't need telling that, but theres nothing worse than dealing with stress and drama when your batteries are flat. Take care of yourselves x
@@WussyCatMTB Marie, i have just watched you zoom around the wall ride again and over the hump at the start of the red trail which drops off and then how you flew around that bend and into that rocky slabby climb and it struck me that your riding is displaying the attribute of fideism (Which i have only just learned what it means) and your hubby's comment to you about carrying speed into the hump feature that on approach initially blind to what is on the otherside regarding the drop off....having faith and being bold in the approach and carrying momentum into it, overcoming fear and hesitancy that could have you come a cropper resulting from anxious reason and calculation or past bad experiences that would have you stall right at the most exposed and critical part of the feature......like me for instance when i get around to riding the the features if not having seen you ride through that bend and up the rocky slabby bit i would probably have been hesitant and not carried enough speed into it and staiing half way up causing me to come off.........though now i have to balance the confidence i have got from watching you with just a little caution.....and not be over confident or get ideas above my station and attempt things beyond my skill level. The three features you showed in this video are great examples of having faith in your bike and momentum to carry you through and confidence in your hubbys faith in you that you would conquer the features!
OK - I had to look that up 😂
Having faith is one thing, but I don't think it's the correct definition. It's not blind faith in my case.
I've seen plenty of people just accept that a red trail is completely rollable and just go for it (and get away with doing so!), and in other places, I've seen people just go for it and have horrible accidents 😩
I guess my challenge is about having the confidence to go for it myself. Even if I've had a good look at something and I know that it's within my capabilities, I still get quite scared. It's quite strange - I wonder if there's some form of anxiety that describes this? It's almost like 'imposter syndrome' 😂
You're right though - hesitancy has caused me to come off in the past, and it's something I have to overcome every other ride...
When you're better, we'll have to go for a ride together!
You'll be able to see just how slow I actually am 😂
@@WussyCatMTB Yep, i think you're right Marie, there's some degree of knowledge going into the features so you're not riding into them blind as such, so rather than knowledge coming from faith it is the other way around. Horrible accidents, that is my fear whether i have knowledge or going into something blind...being too confident, or too hesitant and ending up coming a cropper, no longer a spring chicken i take longer to heal! I think the "imposter syndrome" is very muck akin to what is experienced on the mtbs...when coming across new trails and features and until having done them a few times to reinforce you're in the right place and competent.
It would be great to meet up with you both and go riding when i am fully recovered (ahem, trying to keep up with you haha) i know i'll learn a lot and progress through the experience.....i think i'll be alright on the swishy flowy trails like rother valley bigger diggers etc....but the more technical trails i am on a learning curve with the mtbs being much lighter than motorbike MX's i used to ride years ago.
When i was younger and used to ride motorcross bikes....after taking advice from friends who i rode with, i would be feeling very planted with the weight of the motorbike carrying me through most things that could be considered technical riding, like on deeply ploughed and troffed fields, i just pointed it in the right direction and with momentum, the suspension, the tyres and the weight of the bike would do the rest. Further down the line with more experience riding on a local quarry i was jumping 20 to 30 feet in the air and landing perhaps 4 or 5 cars away from the take off point eventually(actually jumping over two pick up trucks we used to get the bikes there).....i never thought i would be able to do that....but there was little skill involved to be honest....it was a steep long bank up onto a flat plateau which you could roll if you got to the top of the bank with little speed....or literally zoom up it and fly like a bird if you carried enough speed and you would land perfectly without much rider input, the trick was getting into the right gear and applying the power just before take off because the length of the bank had your changing up gears from 2nd to 3rd just before you launched, so to fly you had to attack the bank early going up it fast so you could change up into 3rd gear and get the power back on before you launched then you would fly and come down with the perfect angle. On a much smaller jump i once got too confident and was riding side by side with a friend who had my girlfriend at the time on the back of him.....i went into the jump and gave it a few extra beans and pulled hard on the bars at take off......i went straight up like a rocket and remember looking back down at my mate and girlfriend who were just off to the side of me looking back up at me with their mouths open.....the bike was more or less vertical in the air and came down veritcal on the back wheel, i was lucky to land it without flipping it....that was a wake up call haha.
I'll definitely be having a go at the wall ride too......looked quite scary when i walked round the track in the autumn last year, you make the features look so easy! :)
It really isn’t anywhere’s near as bad as it looks - that was the first day I’ve tried it at Parkwood - it’s one of my new favourite features 😂 one day, I’ll find a really big one 😎
This one is actually really good - you can build ride it at any height you want to 😊
Looking forward to coming back here to parkwood Marie, thank you for going over the features and the footage Marie, you make the steep slabby bit look so easy! I've got to get braver haha. Update on my "goink"bladder removal...had it done on Wednesday 16th, no complications so should be good to go back to work back end of next week and maybe the week after get my bike out again. Can't wait to get riding again.....though if i go back up to Greno on the pubrun i will reduce tyre pressures and soften my suspension so i dont get shaken to bits again.....i'm sure that run i did in september triggered the goinkstones and rattled them loose haha. ....ah well, i suppose in a way it was a good thing because until then i didnt know i had goinkstones. Hopefully no more trouble now......maybe i'll rattle my brain loose next time haha, some would say that was done years ago when i used to ride MX. Meeeow! Carl :)
Hey Carl,
Really happy to hear that your Op went well 😊
Don’t rush back into things too fast though - take it real slow and steady - any form of operation does a real number on your body!
@@WussyCatMTB I dared to take a little half mile drive late on friday afternoon to a local shop, thought i would be ok as i wasnt in pain due to medication, a combination of dihydrocodiene, paracetomol and ibuprofen.....i try normally to go without pain meds if i can help it but thought with what i have had done i was better to take something rather than being in moderate pain. The pain meds worked their magic and i have been quite comfortable. Getting in and out of the car on friday was a little difficult as still a bit tight around the wound sites, took my time driving down to the shop so i didnt have to jump on the brakes or twist and turn the wheel so sharply etc..defensive driving, but then i had to go over a couple of speed bumps...even at low speed they were too much, not good haha.
I wont be ready for driving i guess until at least the backend of next week, not going to rush back to work but boredom may get the better of me, and i may try my ebike(flat road riding only) the week after....in turbo mode for a couple of weeks to remove any strain.
I can usually entertain myself no problem, with music, listening to or playing guitar, book or internet reading, podcasts or youtube(rarely watch tv)....but having physical restrictions whilst i heal is a drag, i would love to go for a walk but dont want to pull my abdomen by being upright whilst walking for too long just yet. ...which has been frustrating because we have had some gorgeous weather the last couple of days and nights....clear night skies and beautiful moonlight and the golden hours at dawn have been beautiful too.....and i love walking at dawn on such mornings and under moonlight.
Pain wise, the wounds were a tiny bit sore through wednesday(described to my son as not even a bad cat scratch) i was a little tight immediately after the op near the belly button because they had to go through muscle which pulls a little when getting in or out of a sitting position...again which has been ok with pain meds, the worst was on thursday with the residual CO2 gas left inside that they inflate you with putting pressure on a nerve behind the liver sending the pain to the shoulder....that was quite uncomfortable for 24hrs, like a bad dead arm with an impact on the shoulder bone and apparently a very common occurrence after this type of surgery, thankfully after sleeping thursday night and with the pain meds that went away, so only the tightness at the site of wounds really to mention, which isnt really painful just inconvenient not being able to stretch out properly or walk upright for long just yet. ....oh and there was the slight constipation too as a result of not eating from the day before surgery, the surgery itself and the pain meds...thankfully that is resolved now too.......apparently the intestines absorb the residual CO2 gas too...so until i started moving there then that gas was building up which was a little uncomfortable but since i got moving there.....the gas has been coming out too in roof wrecking amounts!.....The Meteorological Society put out localised Gale warnings yesterday up and down our road! haha :)