{"id":431,"date":"2012-04-14T18:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T18:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2012-04-14T18:20:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T18:20:35","slug":"10000-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"10,000 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I was riding for three hours today &#8211; uni is an awesomely addictive hobby and a great escape.  One hour or so in the morning down at Cramond &#8211; enough riding and freemounts to start getting properly used to the new muni, plus some hopping practise up and down a staircase next to the beach.  In the afternoon, I rode out to Ocean Terminal and practised riding off kerbs, riding off kerbs <em>avec grande vitesse<\/em>, hopping up kerbs and my first attempts to rolling hops (ie. riding forward and launching up into a forward jump).  I tried about ten times and landed it properly once &#8230; for an airborne journey of about a foot!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always fun trying new hard stuff, because the <i>other<\/i> stuff suddenly feels easier.  When I&#8217;m focused on riding down drops, I don&#8217;t really think about the hundreds of freemounts and hops and little balance-recovery moments I do as setup.  But they all contribute.  Nowdays, 180 jumps aren&#8217;t a trick per-se .. they&#8217;re just a useful way of changing direction to set up and try another attempt at a rolling hop.<\/p>\n<p>Going down kerbs fast was interesting.  Going off fast is much easier than going down slowly, because there&#8217;s less of an along-down-along transition.  And it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve had to deal with freezing the pedals whilst in mid-air .. something that I need to nail for rolling hops.<\/p>\n<p>The new muni is great.  The big tyre is way bouncier than the old uni&#8217;s &#8211; great for drops.  It&#8217;s way stronger too, which is good news given that I broke the old one!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I was riding for three hours today &#8211; uni is an awesomely addictive hobby and a great escape. One hour or so in the morning down at Cramond &#8211; enough riding and freemounts to start getting properly used to the new muni, plus some hopping practise up and down a staircase next to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}