Yesterday I was out on the trails at the back of Castel Coch in Cardiff and I bumped into a guy called Leon. I don’t normally stop and talk to people who carry spades with them into the woods. But I made an exception for Leon.
Leon, was building ramps, berms, and jumps.
I told him about my lack of faith in making gap jumps and that I felt I was probably too heavy to make it across the really big gaps.
Leon gave me a physics lesson. I think it was his way of telling me to pedal faster and commit. He explained that he measures the distance between take-off and landing and that by keeping my heels down and compressing on take off I would create an arc in the air rather than my usual straight-up, straight-down trajectory.
And that point of all of this?
Be more Leon. You don’t need to have “coach” in your title to invite people to be curious about what you do. The student chooses the teacher.