Smooth Ride Principles

Smooth Ride Principles

Smooth Ride goals

1.        To add zero anxiety to myself or any other human being or living thing.

2.        To see the world around me.

3.        To have as many positive interactions as possible.

Smooth Ride components

1.        Human interactions

2.        Traffic

3.        Pavement

4.        Opportunities to look around

5.        Construction and other off-road-style challenges

Smooth Ride Skills

Balancing speed and calm / effort and breath / momentum and pause/ fast and not in a hurry

The ABC’s of smooth riding
Anticipation

·      Seeing, noticing the people and vehicles ahead.

·     Expecting obliviousness from people and still not scaring them*
(*You can’t control others’ fears or actions but anticipating and avoiding them is the key to goal #1)

·      Imagine you are invisible.

Breath

·      Each pause is a chance to breathe and look around, take in the surroundings, check in with the body

·      Finding breath within sustained effort

·      Regulating speed and gear with your breath

·      Breath as a measure of smoothness

Communication

·      Eye contact and other non-verbal skills

·      How you communicate calm awareness to those around you

·      Lights and bells