"Sessioning". What is it? ❓

what scenesters call "riding somewhere new several times"

Its when you keep riding the same part of a trail/same jump until you have the fastest line or landed the jump perfectly.

repeatedly riding/skating the same ramp/obstacle/bit of trail

Just doing the same thing (Drop, trail, jump etc) Over and over until you get good/better/hurt!

riding a bit of trail over and over to get better at it.

Repeating the same bit until…

a) You're Mr boom knarly to the power of rad, then move on.
b) You crash and bleed, give up and move on.
c) You get bored and move on.

Giving the same answer to a question about sessioning over and over again until the OP understands what it is.

Or sessioning this thread?

Giving the same answer to a question about sessioning over and over again until the OP understands what it is.

😆

Although some mtbers seem to call it "sectioning" – which just sounds weird

practicing

sessioning: adj, (verb: to session) the act of minceing down/past an obstacle repeatedly untill that you can tell your buddies you "sessioned that jump" when in reality you just rode upto it 10 times and took the chicken line past it each time.

Spoon – 😆

Just like new "rad" word "ghetto" when referring to bodging a tubeless tyre. Oh dear.

When i was a skater (skateboard) we used to session anything for hours.
A curb, a bank, even a pile of dog sausage could be sessioned by trying different tricks whilst ollieing over it.

I can only assume it is crap 'american' terminology used by (I sincerely hope!) people under the age of 15…

Going out and getting absolutely pissed out of your brains or is that just up here?

dunno but you can't do it unless you've got a 'rig'.

once you have partaken in 'sessioning' to such a point that you have reached satisfaction with both your aesthetic and technical performance and possibly until such a time as to have received 'props' from your fellow bicyclists, you can categorise that particular trail or trail feature as having been 'owned'. In the case of a trail feature which necessitates your wheels leaving the ground e.g. a jump or a drop, which is of sufficient difficulty or 'gnar', common acceptance of ownership comes after the 'sessioning' of said trail feature three times over. hence the expression 'three times and owned'.

instead of trying a section/obstacle once on a ride you can stop and try it several times = sessioning

I thought it was when you add salt and pepper to your chips?

Going out and getting absolutely pissed out of your brains or is that just up here?

Same down here too.

What the fat over-biked kids in body armour do rather than riding the whole trail in one go.

it's doing the same tiny thing for longer than anyone would have thought humanly possible.

Its having umpteen pints.