Going faster is all in your head. To go faster and be more comfortable, you need confidence. Confidence comes from trusting your skillset to deliver consistently when it’s required and that the deployed techniques are correct. This can be developed by widening your comfort zone, and the best way to do that is through some skills coaching or at least analysing your own techniques and performance to improve it, perhaps by video and review. If you ‘just hold tight and go fast’ this is where the accident/injury inevitably occurs. If you attempt to ride out with your comfort zone, accidents will happen. If you learn to extend your comfort zone safely and wisely, you can go much faster by practicing and having confidence you’re deploying the correct techniques instinctively. If jogging was out of our comfort zone, we’d be at risk of running down the street and falling over, but because it’s well practiced at a young age, we typically have full confidence in our ability to navigate obstacles while jogging and therefore can go fast and still feel safe. Accidents still happen, but usually when you push too hard or take your eye off the ball on the easy stuff.
Hire a good skills coach and you’ll see a massive difference!