Intuitive Goal Setting For Mountain Biking and Beyond

[@JoyOfBike]

Nice man! Great approach!!

[@casestudymtb]

Thanks Alex! I've been so focused on my cornering that I've been letting some of the other skills slide, I really need to take your 15 minutes a day approach and start chipping away at a few more of these!

[@rubberside3969]

I totally agree! Great goals! As for deadlines, meh, most are totally arbitrary. Unless there's an event that we have to be ready for!! Great videos! Man they're a lot of work!

[@casestudymtb]

Thanks Ken, definitely hoping you can help give me a leg up on a couple of these goals!

[@AkatarawaJapan]

Well said. Subscribed and looking forward to your wheelie progress. I decided last season to learn wheelies. Hit it hard for a week and apart from learning the skill the best thing was learning about learning and goals and the stupidity of my arbitrary deadline. Uploaded a vid on it a few months back, and like your hop video that I just watched and your comments here, my thoughts were mainly about the mindfuck. Amyway, thanks and see you in the air.

[@patrickgoogle4011]

Nice goals and very similar to mine. For years I wanted to learn rear wheel hops then last year I bought a trials bike and put in the effort and now I'm pretty decent at them. You can do it if are tenacious, I am not a gifted athlete. Similar with wheelies, one winter I was bored and consistently went out and practiced till I got pretty good. Both skills I could improve on but I'm now impressively good and isn't that the point of these lol! This year I want to get 20" bunny hop. My long term goal is to hop onto a picnic table (probably never happen). I also want to clear 2 jumps at a local trail. They aren't the biggest jumps but difficult and scary to me. On my trials bike I currently have 2 goals: hop 180s, and be able to link a bunch of pedal kicks together so I can hop all over the place on my rear wheel. Good luck on your goals!

[@casestudymtb]

Thats so rad! I'd love to get my hands on a trails bike but for the time being my xc hardtail will just have to do! Thanks for sharing your goals and progress dude! I love hearing from people who are out there getting after it!

[@patrickgoogle4011]

I found a used trials bike about 2 hours away after looking for months. I didn’t have the $ for a new so a months long search is what it took. Rear wheel hops will be very difficult on a MTB, I can’t do it on my 29 but I’m pretty small so maybe that’s the issue for me.

[@TwoGuysOneVan]

Nice mate! Good to have a few goals for the year. We set up a few as well and are slowly working through them. Some of those skills though... Do take a frustratingly long time to get under control. Will be cool to see how these develop over the year... :D

[@casestudymtb]

It's a good thing I'm in no rush, skills come when they come, setting the goals just makes sure they do indeed come. I just plan on managing my expectations, I learnt a consistent 16" bunny hop on concrete in 8 days last September but I know those wheelies might not happen until the end 2022 haha, just gotta keep at it to see.

[@TwoGuysOneVan]

@@casestudymtb Yeah... I've been working on my wheelie for a while... And it's getting there. But it did not take a hot minute to learn... I put a video up of some of the things that helped me along the way if you're interested...