BUILDING CONFIDENCE

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Dirt School’s coaching app lets you see the right and wrong techniques in slow-mo

Believing in your ability gives you so much more confidence when you ride. You can commit to tricky lines, feel safer on larger obstacles, and ultimately go faster without feeling threatened or defensive. Why is it so difficult then, to just ‘be more confident’ when we’re out riding our bikes? After all, it’s all in our heads, right?

In this article we’re going to look at specific skills and techniques that will lead to a feeling of control. Spend enough time deliberately practising them and in time you will feel more confident on even the most intimidating of trails.

THE CULTURE OF PRACTISE

People say that practise makes perfect, but practise actually makes permanent. If you’re using the wrong technique every time you ride, then you’re getting deeper into a rut and the only thing you’re getting better at is managing your poor technique. In order to make solid, productive progress you need to be practising the correct technique. This will be frustrating at first because you’ll need to