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 / breath and effort / momentum and pause/ fast and not in a hurry

The ABC’s of smooth riding
Anticipation

·      Seeing, noticing the people and vehicles ahead.

·      Anticipating the most oblivious (or worse) and not getting angry.

·      Imagining that you are invisible to others.

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 on uphills, regulating your speed to the breath

·      Breath as a measure of smoothness

Communication

·      Eye contact and other non-verbal skills

·      How you communicate calm awareness to everyone around you.