[python] Re: riding attempts

Olaf,
you wrote, that you have learned that technique plays a bigger role than balance. I wonder if balance isn´t the final goal, to reach with the technique of being able to release the tension of mind steered actions? So my way to do it is to try to make my mind free of the things i learned before. I sit on the python like a wet sack, look to the horizon, feet up to pedals, hands down on the ground and just go. Go while concentrating to nothing but the feeling of balance. OK, behave like a wet sack is a kind of technique too, but i think releasing is the point. 

Still learning,
Stephan

Olaf Johansson wrote:
With an ending like that I feel the need to be humble. I have not ridden mid steered bikes for many years but I have found great pleasure in challenging my balance (mental & physical) in different ways; by practising tai chi, riding regular recumbent bikes, riding mid steered recumbents and also unicycles. What I have learned is that in all those activities technique plays a bigger role than balance. This means for instance that I have little benefit from being able to ride my unicycles when trying a new mid-steered bike. Every skill has to be larned on its own prerequisites. Balance is of course improving over time but what really matters is your will and eagerness to learn. You know, beginner's mind ... being a child all over again. So either you go from two wheel to three or in the opposite direction you will have to learn and relearn. Why not start with the thing that feels most tempting? 


olaf


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