Simple moves for feeling of success in BMX Flatland and Calisthenics

Go Simple, Feel Fine:

Simple Moves for Feeling of Success in BMX Flatland and Calisthenics

There are days when I decide to keep (some) of my BMX Flatland riding and Street Workout as simple as the mug (or two) mushroom coffee I drink in the morning.

It refreshes my mind and has an excellent effect on my soul to practise some simple moves after drilling difficult moves. It is both valid for Flatland and Calisthenics. 

I start my session with riding Flatland for about one and a half hour. It is very little comparing to the average 6-hour-practices I did back in the day when I did not have 3 dogs to walk 3 times daily and before I decided that my current standard of living and future perspectives with my current job suck pretty bad.

Now I limit the time I spend with both riding BMX and bodyweight traiing in order to be able to build my online mushroom coffee business, that does not require any investment or any special skills when one starts. I can get tired in this lesser amount of time for sure. Just think about doing supersets without resting.

You cannot go hardcore all the
time.

Practise easier moves for sense
of achievement

I always say: ’Ride hard, or don’t!’ but it does not make any sense to always torture myself till exhaustion and frustration from not being able to improve on some tricks. This is why I add some ’ol skool flava’ to my riding: I practise easier moves for sense of achievement.

I learnt those two rolling tricks you see in my video pretty fast, but I have to tell you, it is partly because I have a 15-year-background in BMX Flatland. If I started to practise these rolling tricks at the beginning of my Flatland ’career’, it would have been just as hard as any new tricks.

These rolling tricks – I do not know if they have names – are a bit friendlier to both bike and rider when it comes to bails/crashes. It is easier to simply jump off the bike to the back or front if I lose balance. As my not-so-favourite Murphy’s Law might have a say in things here too, some unlucky crashes can happen here too, but they are less likely than for example when practising nose wheelie or cliffhanger.

Simple bodyweight workouts also
bring results

When I am tired for windshield wipers, pull-ups, or anything, I can always simplify my Calisthenics training to some basic moves that can also make me sweat, with sense of achievement and feeling of success, without the anger from frustration when it is one of those days when I am not in such a great shape to go-all-out-war with da hardcore moves.

BMX Flatland and Street Workout
should be fun

Take it seriously, train hard, but not till the point of getting sick and tired and frustrated from the more difficult moves. I am constantly reminding myself of this. For me it is very hard to accept that one day a trick works out fine, and on the other I just keep on faltering.

One day high, the other day higher

Here I do not mean getting high from any drugs. Hell no! I am straight edge, I do not drink alcohol, smoke or do drugs. Here I mean having ups-and-downs, but I would say this like: having higher ups and lower ups. By being high I mean being in shape, being in control, being in the ’zone’. These all feel awesome, right? 

Unfortunately not every day is our day, so to say. The ’lower ups’ can be cause by whole lotta different things starting from the quality of food and sleep I had or the weather, etc.

I have to make friends with the days when I am not so much in the ’zone’. These days are a great opportunity to do some easier, yet challenging stuff that brings a smile on my face. You know, that kinda that goes all the way from one ear to the other when I pull a trick for the first time. Even a very simple trick did well for the first time can make me jump up and down from joy.

My advice is to do simpler tricks and moves every day.

They boost your self-confidence and sense of achievement.