What's up!! 819S. Today is a pretty exciting day! Today, I'm going to meet
Motor Psych Japan and we're going to ride Yabitsu Togue together.
I'm really really excited! Looking forward to it!
Almost couldn't sleep last night. And, now I'm heading out to meet him. We're going
to meet at the 7-eleven right outside the start of Route 70.
Today I really want to talk about riding as therapy. It's a topic that I think is important for me
because it's one of the reasons that I wanted a motorcycle in the first place.
It's, ah, just to clear my mind and to kind of get into a better headspace. And, one
of the reasons I think that it's really good therapy is when you're riding it's
just you, your machine, and the road. You know, you can kind of block out and
forget everything... everything else that's going on in your life and just
focus on the road. Focus on the ride. In fact, it almost makes motovlogging not
good, in a sense, because it means I have to focus on the ride and think about
what I might want to say in the vlog too. But actually for me there's no problem
with that. Not at all. The days that I ride just for fun, I ride just for fun.
The days where I want to motovlog, I'm going to motovlog.
I can mix the two together and still be fine.
The other reason I think it's good is it helps you to meet people. In my life I
don't really have anything that helps me to meet people on a daily basis so
riding somewhere... I mean, just today I was waiting for Motor Psych Japan to
show up at the convenience store and I talked to two different riders. One guy
was 70 years old and he rides a 125 off-road and the other guy I helped push
start his bike.
And you know, everywhere... everywhere I go I seem to run into people that I can
chat with and I can make friends people who want to ride or people who are
interested in motorcycles. That's one thing that's really really awesome. Helps
me to kind of expand my social circle, in a way. Which is good for, you know... Human
connections are good for your mental state.
So in that sense, I think I can compare motorcycling to meditation, in a way.
Because meditations point is to clear your mind, right, so that makes writing to
me, kind of like meditation, right. Meditation is to clear your mind and
then you can kind of get out all your thoughts in order you can get everything
kind of straight.
And that's what happens when I ride. I can think about the road
think about the bike and in a lot of cases and a lot of situations you form
instincts, right. The longer and longer you ride the more experience you have in
the saddle, you don't even have to think consciously about all of your actions.
You tend to think about... think consciously about what it is you want to
accomplish with your ride. There is some conscious thinking involved but I think
the skills are like riding a bicycle in a way. You don't think "push left, push
right, push left, push right." As soon as you get enough seat experience you just
sort of do it. The same with motorcycles so I think that means too, you have to have
enough seat time
and you have to have enough of the proper practice...
in order to understand exactly what it is you want to do.
And then your body sort of takes over naturally.
I just clear my mind think of the road...
...and all is well!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
the tried meditating before to kind of clear my head and get get my head
straight and it didn't really work for me because I think my gears spin too
fast in my head I think fidget spinner is the new thing I've never actually
seen one in real life but I think they may be a good thing for me if I wanted
to meditate because I think I always need to be doing something my brain is
always always active which is why I think instead of sit down meditation
where it's kind of trying to clear your mind or chanting a mantra or something
like that it's not really going to do anything for me because soon my mind
will start spinning some people say that's the point
it's the practice of doing it will clear your mind it'll get easier and easier
the after decades it will get easier and easier the more you do it but I I just I
don't think I'm willing to dedicate that kind of time to do meditation and do it
the right way but motorcycling does a similar thing to me
I don't think about problems and stresses and the things that are going
on in my daily life I just go
and that's what I think makes motorcycling so amazing gives me
something to do with my body gives me something to do with my mind to keep my
gear spinning and also lets me free the thinking part of my mind
you know what I mean I can ride this road the whole way from beginning to end
which is about 30 kilometers and just not think about anything except the road
and the ride and the smell and freeing
now from time to time I might think about police I might think about where
I'm actually going to go if I'm lost I mean there are things that I do think
about that that breaks that kind of freedom but really I think in the 30 30
kilometer stretch maybe one kilometer of that is probably going to be you know
concentrated focus thinking or distraction and distractions are
definitely something that should take me out of it if I'm just on autopilot
that's not good either like before when the cars were really really close to us
to be on autopilot I guess if you have the right training and the right
experience that's no problem
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