Understand the mind when riding 

This is one of the most intelligent motorcycle ..and life related videos on RU-vid today..

Turn off the brain and get into the flow, this is where riding a motorcycle becomes so special. It takes a couple days of riding and I find myself flying and relaxed and totally focused. Great advice to focus on, thanks.

came in to know how to ride better, came out with a nice piece of a life lesson

That was short and sweet, but so valuable. I haven’t ridden a motocross bike in 40 years, but do Mtn bike like crazy and the same thought process or lack of applies….smooth and relaxed, concentrating on riding and that’s it. One thing I constantly fall prey to is tunnel vision or not looking ahead enough and just concentrating on the immediate trail ahead of me. Thanks so much for these videos Ryan and you are truly a great teacher!

Only man that truly understands being one with the bike best advise in the world to use on and off the bike thank you brotha

The Bruce Lee of Motocross

This is so helpful... not only for motorcycles, but for my life. I wish I could turn off my military trauma every day, but it controls me most of the time until I pray and exercise. I've been a loner all my life, and only got worse after military & govt service...used to think it was a curse, but it has been a blessing in surprise!

Awsome explanation . . Think outwardly not inwardly is how I try to detach at speed

You are the best ryno!

Great life lesson. So true.

I have just realised after watching this that I'm a feeler. That front end feel is so critical for me to relax, flow, gain confidence and with that comes speed. There have been many aspects that I have picked up watching your channel from body position through to the psychology of riding. Many thanks for your paying it forward from Australia.

I watched your training DVD before my first race 15 years ago, I haven't ridden in like 14 years and you inspired me to get another bike and get back into it. I love your thought process as well man

...and see if you can find anyone in the sport with my level of understanding and explaining motocross!...Sigh

Awesome!

Brilliant. I ride Trials and this is totally applicable to it. Thanks Ryno 😎👍

THIS IS GOLD !

Excellent tip! Thank you!

Everyone learns in a different way and some better with other people. There are some absolutely amazing instructors out there. The focus should be on growing the sport not worrying about shared information.

I really gravitate to a lot of his philosophies naturally because they are rooted in logic. Most just aren’t in tune with themselves so they don’t pick up on the unnatural things they have began to now do naturally.

Feel what it is. Great take on present moment awareness, really important point about forgetting the mistakes. The more we attach and judge an experience, our focus immediately redirects all forces of energy to manifest the past/future hope/fear.

Thank you Ryno you have helped me alot over the years!

Your riding techniques especially riding on the toes and dropping your heels etc have helped me so much. Thanks for everything you do

Holy Shit Ryan. You blew my mind. We easily think about the past and future but the NOW can be hard to be present in, let it go. Unlike thoughts, our feelings are living in the moment. Thanks for the great information you provide us brother. God Bless 🙌

Thanks for sharing very good information it all makes a lot of sense 👍🙏

Best advice out here... valuable Pro info 👌 👍 🙌 👏 💯

Too funny. I was doing exactly this today. My mind kept wandering to negative stuff and I'd bring it back. Now I come across this vid same day. I remember Ryan when he was like 20 in the 90's racing with Jeff Stanton and Damon Bradshaw, JMB. Those were the days.......

It's funny, I don't get much saddle time, but I am always thinking about riding. When I go out I feel all tight. At the beginning of the day, I am a thinker. By the end of the day, I am a feeler. Great advice on the mind games. That works on a lot of stuff . . .

I could listen to you talk all day. Something about your voice and your experience I just love. Keep up the good work man. It’s not what you take when you leave it’s what you leave when you go. Such a good example to the young mxers like myself

Best video so far! Since I start racing, the Green Flag moment was the worst thing for me ( AND I LOVE RACING), feeling the pressure of making a good start, make the holeshot, not desappointing my family, not having a crash o bike failure. My hands start to lock up, and my heart almost out of my chest. Now i want to go back to the track and see who is the new me, with the new mind set and new technique. Thanks master Ryno!

When I get into the zone, a lot of the time I sing songs to myself, when I was a little kid on 65s was told people could hear me singing “Up To Me- Pennywise” from the first Terrafirma movie going by. Keep it in my head now but it’s interesting how it works, like it occupies the inner-monologue so I don’t break out of the flow

Love these videos!!!

Very Great Point!

thanks for the insights!

This dude is the philosopher of dirt bike. That was so deep.

Every single crash I had was when I was thinking and not feeling. Thats 100% true

This video is next level that most wont even stop to think about or watch enough times to even get it. Ive become a huge fan over the past year once i got into your videos. i just with this was all put into a course that was production level and could be sold. Ive been racing since is was 4, so 29 years and was a big Gary Semics fan and did his drills and vhs tapes with my brothers but now your info has helped me more than anything and has brought a new love for it all by doing it right. Would love to connect and see what we could do together.

Riding motocross is the only thing I ever did where I had to be switched off from all the shit in my life yet when I rode my best I didn't think about a thing it just happened naturally only time in my life I ever felt truly free.

Controlling where your mind is the last pice of the puzzle. I had my own track and rode 4 to 5 hours every day. I would still fall at times, I started to analyze why ,it was a momentary slip of the mind. I was thinking about dinner while hauling ass when I discovered my mind was not focused on where I wad & what I was doing

Thanks Ryan for the great advice. I will start working on some of these techniques and start putting them in to practice.

Nice new intro Ryan ...classy 👍👍👍

Really Valuable words thanks so much

Get into the flow, it's a great feeling.

100% correct feel react. thinking slows ya down.

Hi Ryan, it often happens to me, after many years of motocross racing and suberbike racing, to try to anticipate what the bike will do before it really happens. During my motorcycle career in motocross and then in the SBK world championship, I was able to be in complete harmony with the moment without thinking about things in the past, that could happen, or those that could happen in the present. I know many years have passed but I can no longer find that feeling of concentration that gave me positive tension and fun. Being completely in accordance with my mind set makes it difficult for me to live those moments of freedom and to live only that moment. What could I do to not be so distracted and grab the momentum. The mind thinks it can do it and then the body on the bike becomes rigid and there is no fluidity in the ride and it all becomes a problem that pisses me off. Bye Ryan thanks for your suggestions, remember when you pass Italy my doors will be open to chat and meet mutual friends, perhaps for the reopening of the Assago Seprio track that of the Fast Cross which will not be far from the reopening and do four chat with you. Hi Ryan and Good Life.

I could spend the entire day with Ryno absorbing endlessly valuable information.

would love to know how you do both. To think about making sure your riding with correct technique whilst not thinking at the same time and being in the moment. Is just something that you have had to do for so long that technique comes naturally ?.

Stay in the moment. Remember your training. Avoid distractions. Be aware of your surroundings. Peripheral vision helps.

Great video as always.

Many thanks!!

I'm sorry but I can't help it 😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

That is exactly what i always said when training, slow the heck down you cant do it fast if you struggle doing it slow!!

It takes a bit of time at the start of a ride, but eventually I just focus on my tires & their bite , try to get to that zone of perfect execution ( woods rider, very little airtime , but mud, slop, frost, loose wet brush, I eat that stuff alll.day long ) Feel the tires, become as one with the tires

Ryno stepping up the game again, some really good thoughts there 😎👌 And I know I have a really bad memory, but was a quite fast rider. Soo this really can have a point 😂 Anyway if you focus on old mistakes, you will be held back for sure. Keep em coming 👍

Ryno was feelin' the past on that '86 CR250 at Loretta's! Touche! edit: I still have your Bell Moto 6 #5 replica next to my trophies!

Sometimes it's not as bad as our minds make it seem. I've got a yz250f was my first time and was scary but in the end wasn't that bad

That camera guy must really like Ryan!All that heavy breathing lol

Damn, my man studys stoicism

This guy is more than MX. what he’s saying about the bike can be said for all things in life. Far out and heavy.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence, and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.

Are you serious?? 😂 😂 😂

I believe that to an extension but when your reminders focus and you’re not breathing, you’re not feeling right arms pub everything gets out of Of control after two laps, even though you can throw down the fastest lap time???

Is it possible to be both? When I rode mx I definitely use to be a feeler but also thinking too much not really focusing on the momentum. I realize only today that when I was really riding good was when I was kinda not thinking at all and being like in a limbo world surrounded by only one thing: The joy of riding.

Genius Ryno pure Genius 💪

Meditation

The more I feel the less I think. The more clear I think the better I feel. Something like that?

TMI

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Ryan Are you on Strava?

Ryan Watts

Come on Ryan you were talking a lot of s*** 😂😂😂😂 on and on and on and on Jesus Christ 😂😂😂😂

What plastic kit is that? Never seen red trim on air box intake

what the hell is wrong with this dude.

Awesome!