Last week I wanted to try some to do some downhill with my brother. He is Guatemala’s junior champion so he told me some tips about how and what to do when you are riding. Here are a couple of the most important ones:
1. Go with the bike and relax. You have to try to let the bike go with you just holding it and not doing much. So if there is a rock or an obstacle you just have to hold on harder and you will get through the obstacle.
2. Don’t be scared. This can be the most important thing for you to do while you are riding. If you are afraid or scared that you are going to fall you are probably going to. So you need to have a good mentality in which you are not thinking about falling.
3. Check that your bike is all good to go. If you don’t do this, there are a lot more probabilities that your bike is not going to work well. And if your bike doesn’t work well you may ruin your bike or fall.
All of the tips that I said above are really important things that you should do every time before you ride or while you are riding, or else, you brakes or something can stop working and this may happen to you as it happened to me…
Alvaro Monzon 