What's on the MTB Practice Lab horizon?
A teaser post about stuff in the works. Real. Soon. Now.
I’ve been busy behind the scenes for the past month and it’s time to tell you what’s going down:
A 5-Day Challenge
About the time I finished up having conversations with
and about the three polls on rewards for an MTB practice session (mid-January), I discovered an online service called Framework.so.
Framework specializes in helping people create online challenges for their students, customers, followers, subscribers, members, etc. So when I read the Framework blog, I knew I had to roll up my sleeves and investigate.
Within a couple of weeks, I had a working prototype of an online challenge. And it now includes a section on the pros and cons of rewarding yourself for a practice session.
I’m putting the finishing touches on it today, and later this week, I’ll invite you to take (free) what I’m calling the 5-Day Online Practice Strategies Challenge.
Another Online Practice Jam
Our first Jam last November/December was not half-bad. (I speak Minnesotan).
I’ve been searching for another platform to host the next one, and I’ve found it. Details forthcoming on the next Jam, tentatively planned for March/April.
A mini-course on Sessioning
In December 2022, I published a post titled, MTB sessioning: Why it's good for your practice regimen and how to do it better.
I have finished a micro-learning course on MTB sessioning, to be released next week.
More practicing for me
I developed a run-of-the-mill case of impingement in my right shoulder last November. When winter finally arrived and put an end to practicing outdoors, I thought it would get better by just taking it easy. When that failed, I tried a few exercises from among the hundreds of YouTube impingement videos and finally found one that seemed to help.
During these weeks of a wonderful winter, I stuck to snowshoeing and leisure fat biking to minimize aggravating my shoulder. See my Strava activities for my ride maps and photos.
This week the sun came out with warmer temps, allowing me to chip the hard ice/snow pack off my driveway. And today, I gently got a short and gentle practice session in. I nailed my one-handed track stand on my first try, but it took me a dozen or more attempts to get a slow fakie that was not too bad (again, the Minnesotan.) So yeah, the slow-fakie needs consistency practice. Gamification? 30-second video: