Mountain biking requires a variety of skills, from physical strength, endurance and speed to concentration, ability, vision and creativity. There is a feeling you get at the end of a long and technical ride: it feels like after you’ve been meditating.
In mountain biking there is only the “now”: your mind is not allowed to wander off and fly free, there is only one thing: your front wheel on the trail.
The moment you think how well you cleared that log or you landed that drop, your mind will get stuck there, you’ll miss the now – and you’ll hit the ground.
It’s only when you enter the mode of now and here, your self, your bike and the trail become one, one single flow of energy thru the forest.
This is what many people refer to as “flowing down the trail” – achieving this state requires a lot work, training and dedication, but it is also a great reward.
In many ways mountain biking is ‘active meditation’ – a still mind in a moving body.
