07/06/2024
https://www.facebook.com/100007490587975/posts/3690263747899942/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
Very true. Many riders get frustrated with slow progress at times, especially if they have a good trainer who teaches correctly—no short-cuts! Riders who are patient and diligent about learning correct basics will reap rewards in their riding for a lifetime.
I read a theory about why so many riders lack a deep command of basics, and it was explained like this---
Correct basics are hard to master because there is an enormous amount of repetition involved, and if someone has tried something hundreds, possibly thousands of times, and still can’t do it, it is easy for the person to conclude that he/she is taking on an impossible challenge.
In his book “Mastery,” George Leonard wrote that on the quest to become good, there will be long stretches of “seeming non-improvement.”
Like watching grass grow, change is happening, but so slowly that it can’t be measured daily, weekly, or even monthly. But at some point, for those who stick with it, “suddenly” they can do things that before they couldn’t do.
The issue is giving up in frustration before putting in those many many many many months of practice.
That is ONE theory. I am sure there are many others, but this one does ring true.
