The fear factor..

Fear (along with being well past the teenage years) means I won't be
able to do trials altogether.

As a curiosity I'm trying to learn to hop up steps. Four months latter
I still cannot hop up more than four steps without getting scared and
bottling out of it. Can I be any more of a coward than that?

forrestunifreak said:

If you overcome the instinctive 'fear' you have in the back of your
mind, you would learn things so much faster.

I don't believe fear can be overcome, it's an automatic reaction to the
situation.

I don't know what I'm doing here amongst you skilled trials riders, so
I'd best exit now...

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i know i could do bigger drops than i do, and clear more stairs than i
can, but that little voice of "what if you miss and crash? that's gonna
suck" won't shut up sometimes. gaps usually aren't too scary for me,
unless there's a really huge penalty for missing, like a 10 foot drop.

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Yes, it can hold me back but what I like about unicycling... trying to
beat the fear for trying bigger and bigger stuff.... I love it.

But i also love you too guys ! specially chosen 🙄

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I am risk adverse when it comes to physical risk. It's just my
personality. I've never been one to just go for it when the penalty of
failure is physical harm (or worse). It does affect my unicycling, the
types of skills I do, and the style of riding that I do. I don't take
big risk which means I don't do muni lines that I could most likely do.
I pass up things on the trail without trying them. I'll walk sections
of the trail I'm not comfortable riding (like a few sections of the
canyon on the Porcupine Rim Trail in Moab). I still have much fun, but
I would be going bigger at this point if I didn't have the fear
factor.

I'm not so risk adverse that I'll chicken out doing things like riding
an elevated skinny as long as I can bail safely, but I do have my
limits to what I consider acceptable risk.

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with me, i think fear is a good thing and a bad thing. It warns you when
youre about to do soemthing that you could hurt yourself on, but if you
know you can do whatever it is then you need to get over your fear.

most of the time fear gets in the way for me, im sure theres lots of
stuff i can do but im to scared to try them.

rem

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i knew i could hop up onto the stairs in my yard but everytime i pedaled
up to them i just couldnt jump, but then at the skate park there was a
ledge that was taller that i tryed because i didnt want to look like a
wimp and can now do it

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i know i can land a 360 spin if i put my feet in but its too scary to,
like my above post ill try to once i go to the skate park next.

i also learned to grind at the s-park!(fear and lack of obstacles heald
me back on that one)

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I wouldn't necessarily call it fear. There are very few things that I'm
actually afraid of. Although, I do have a great deal of "respect" for
things that might injure me!!!!!:eek: I choose not to ride beyond my
comfort zone to prevent further injuries to this old, beat up body as
I've still got to get a few more years out of it 😄

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gkmac said:

Fear (along with being well past the teenage years) means I won't be
able to do trials altogether.

As a curiosity I'm trying to learn to hop up steps. Four months latter
I still cannot hop up more than four steps without getting scared and
bottling out of it. Can I be any more of a coward than that?I don't
believe fear can be overcome, it's an automatic reaction to the
situation.

I don't know what I'm doing here amongst you skilled trials riders, so
I'd best exit now...

dont be so hard on yourself....

anyway... fear is a large factor for me. i know i have the skills but
sometimes the fear is what makes me bail out of a 8 step..... ive gone
off of it but im afraid of hitting my *hmmhmmhmhm*.. you know what that
is.

but if there wasnt fear i bet i could do it

also without fear i would probably be dead..🙄

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Fear, for me, has always been a big part of a lot of the things i do,
but for me, i don't let it effect me that much, I'm always one to push
my limits and to just go for it, if gotten hurt a lot in the process
but from being able to get over my fear I've done some crazy things too
=p

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can you give me a shoutout in your sig. some thing like i love
jonny....or jonny is the coolest. or be creative. but pleeeasssee can i
have a shoutout from you?

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im a total chicken.. it took me forever to lear how to free mount.. cuzz
i was like EEEP IM FALLING... but.. i probably want really.. and ive
been trying the rolling hops..and... yeah i do a few tries.. but after
falling and bending my leg weird... i sorta freak out.. and am afraid
to break somthing...

bawk bawk.. haha im a chicken

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We call it the chicken-out factor and frequently make the cluck-cluck
sound just before we bail on a doable but scary stunt.

My favorite was trying to learn to ride skinnies long ago. I had an
ideal wall with an 18" drop on one side and level grass on the other.
The wall was at least 8" wide and probably more. I tried riding it and
fell off into the grass over and over again. I figured I was just
biased that way that particular day so I went to the other side and
tried to ride it the other way. I fell off into the grass the other
direction over and over again. It was just my brain telling me, "don't
go off the side, fall in the soft grass." Definitely a series of
chicken-out events.

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i used to try stuff that was outside my skill level because i wanted to
do it regardless of the consequences... this mentality means you get
accelerated learning, with an increased risk of injury... injury sucks
as it stops you from riding, and progressing, untill you eventually
start to go downhill. i have recently decided to practice and get my
skil levels higher than my attempt rate at harder riskier tricks,
therefore when i do do them i have the required skill level to be
confident in myself that i will land what i wanna do.

you shouldnt be scared, it stops you from feeling confident and will
limit your abilities

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I am all about The Fear. Not only does it keep me from trying stuff I
could probably ride, it virtually guarantees that the first few times I
muster up the move to try something harder, I'll bail prematurely out
of fear, possibly getting injured in the bargain.

If I was smarter, I'd pick some things I really WANT to be able to
conquer, like skinnies, and then figure out some way to really focus my
practice, starting with non-threatening lines and slowly working my way
up. Since I just ride and don't practice, the skinnies I encounter "in
the wild" often seem to be above my confidence level.

TB

-Those who can, do. Those who can't, take the pictures.-

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your mom scares me...

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eccentric.uni said:

im a total chicken.. it took me forever to lear how to free mount..

same for me.
qwak qwak qwak.
having hurt myself with My Coker is terribly impairing my use of it. I
still do not use it much because of the fear factor! that's terrible
because when I overcome my fear the reward is huge. But I'm still rigid
when I freemount and as a consequence I miss more freemounts!
I don't give up but still continuing to hurt myself by lack of
relaxation🙁
qwak qwak qwak .....

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i think fear holds me back a little while i ride

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Fear is the base of banger footage. If it's not scary it's not worth
filming.

-Shaun Johanneson

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When I was in my twenties I did pushed dangerous limits, mostly on my
motorcycle. I was regarded as one of the best (most reckless) road
bike riders in my town. 50 MPH wheelies were fun. Now in my forties
with 5 kids and a wife counting on me I tend to see physical risks in a
different light. Consequently my unicycling skills are advancing
slowly. And I no longer ride a motorcycle.

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