Risk requires a constant reassessment and if you're going to take them you need to be in the moment and be able to relax under the pressure of that moment and not have panic reactions. It helps being able to back off and "reset" between risks even for seconds or fractions of a second at a time. It gets easier with practice building up slowly pushing the panic reaction zone farther away from you.
Recently I heard about the heart rates of Rossi vs. Biaggi during competition and this made a lot of sense to me. Rossi never got over 125 bpm but Biaggi was riding often at 125 bpm.
Enjoying the flow of a really great ride and smoothly executing a skill is beautiful thing be it at 25 mph or 130 mph. I enjoy hearing "you're lines were so smooth I had no qualms about passing you because I knew exactly where you were going to go," from fellow riders at the track, because I enjoy their camraderie and don't want their blood on my hands.
I've got LEO's, fighterpilots, firemen, and underwater welders in the family who regularly go into dangerous situations they have trained for, as a result I was given much more lattitude to experiment with risk as a child. Yet emotional risk was emphasized to me much more so than physical. Dad would say "don't be there," and "listen to those red warning flags." Wildcard personalities were frowned on but happy-go-lucky personalities were encouraged.
I've taken many financial risks such as being an entrepreneur but I don't gamble in casinos because the house always wins.
Recently I heard about the heart rates of Rossi vs. Biaggi during competition and this made a lot of sense to me. Rossi never got over 125 bpm but Biaggi was riding often at 125 bpm.
Enjoying the flow of a really great ride and smoothly executing a skill is beautiful thing be it at 25 mph or 130 mph. I enjoy hearing "you're lines were so smooth I had no qualms about passing you because I knew exactly where you were going to go," from fellow riders at the track, because I enjoy their camraderie and don't want their blood on my hands.
I've got LEO's, fighterpilots, firemen, and underwater welders in the family who regularly go into dangerous situations they have trained for, as a result I was given much more lattitude to experiment with risk as a child. Yet emotional risk was emphasized to me much more so than physical. Dad would say "don't be there," and "listen to those red warning flags." Wildcard personalities were frowned on but happy-go-lucky personalities were encouraged.
I've taken many financial risks such as being an entrepreneur but I don't gamble in casinos because the house always wins.
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