Recommendations for a decent skills/improve your riding book? Can cycle over around and through most things. But often by luck. Can't jump, in control at least. What's good to read to help, esp on long dark winter evenings when practising is not so easy....
[url= http://www.leelikesbikes.com/mastering_mountain_bike_skills_2nd_edition ]Mastering Mountain Bike Skills II[/url] - bloody brilliant!
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Ordered, ta!
books depend on whether you learn visually 🙂
i dont
books depend on whether you learn visually
Does that mean some people find it hard to take in what they have read and benefit more from being shown how its done?
yeah some need to hear it, some need to watch it, others need to try it
jedi - Member
yeah some need to hear it, some need to watch it, others need to see it
Don't forget some need to do it (or try to do it). Three main learning styles.
Auditory.
Visual.
Kinaesthetic.
Most people can take info in using all three, but have one dominant one. Trick is finding out which is their preferred one and keying into that.
But then you knew that.
Anyway, yeah, the Lopes book is meant to be pretty good as a visual starting point.
slainte ➡ rob
Ahh that'll be NLP then.... 🙂
Isn't NLP more about therapy than learning styles?
slainte ❓ rob
I got one of them lopes books useless going cheap if anyone wants it
I found the Lopes book an interesting and useful read - it may not make you a riding god but does isolate points for you to think about in your technique, the explanations are clear with useful illustrations...
...Also has the added bonus letting you play 'BL Bingo' on threads asking for technical advice
My favourite chapter is about riding in mud, something along the lines of "I don't like mud, that's why I live in california!" 🙄
Really liked the Lopes book. Though you can think you're doing what it says in the book but not be doing it quite right, or not doing enough of it, or too little of it. Can't beat the feedback you get from having someone who knows what to do watching your riding.
As Jedi said, people take in information differently, and what he refers to is NLP. I've worked with a lot of NLP practitioners in my time and I can safely say that the times I've visited Jedi, he's not come across as somebody who is practising - instead somebody who is enthusiastic about seeing people progress in their riding and very adept at identify how they take information on board which allows him to do the fantastic stuff he does to peoples' riding.
colournoise - you're right, NLP is more about providing people with another way to look at things - some might think that it's more therapy related.
David Kolb is well known within the adult learning space and cites the Lewin Cycle as the one that adults learn best from (the Open University bases its courses on this style of learning). The Lewin Cycle starts with concrete experience suggesting that adults learn by doing. That in conjunction with Tony's skills Jedi or otherwise are in my opinion what make the coaching route, and his in particular, so effective.
kind words druff 🙂
Ringo - ygm
just to say that the Lopes book recommendation is a good one - if you can survive the language - swueeeeet! - in it 🙂
would recommend it onwards.....