Earlier this year I made a goal of learning how to freeride or do trials on a bike. After seeing 2 people taking biking to the next level, Fabio Wibmer and Danny Macaskill. I like to play a lot of sports but some sports get me addicted like trial biking. It’s like anything else, practice and learn from the mistakes, and you eventually become better.

Photo credit: Graham Ó Síodhacháin via Visual hunt / CC BY-SA

Aside from the other sports that I like, none of them is as sketchy and risky as trial biking, one fall could change your life, and that’s the urge for me to master this skill. I hate the feeling of failing or losing, that’s the feeling of sadness which is also not being happy. No skill is easy enough that people can master on the first try. I can’t stand the boring basics of the process of mastering something. For example, I’ve never been successful when learning an instrument, practising how to play a note for 1000 times seems like wasting time to me. So when I do things that I like and I actually want to do, I’m happy when I do it and I am willing to spend time on it and learn.

 The process of learning will be tough, it will be fall after fall sometimes I might even want to quit since I can’t get the trick to work. Recently the pedals of the bike scraped a piece of skin off my shin, and that happened after I landed a jump, I was about to celebrate with my friend but I felt pain in my legs. The moment I look down, the skin was gone, blood was rushing out so I sat on the side and got some bandages to protect the wound. I had a thought in my mind, this injury is not that bad, there are worse injuries that could happen, I either quit or move on and get better. So I stood up and told my friend that we can continue and I’ll be fine. As I got older, I understand the line people always tell me, failing is apart of learning, I finally see an example for myself.  There will always be a learning mindset in me, and I hope this mindset will continue throughout my life and I hope it will apply not only to the things I like to do but everything that I need to learn.

Here’s a video of Fabio Wibmer freeriding, that is the kickstart of why I wanted to start freeriding.

                         Video by : Fabio Wibmer via Youtube