hey guys Meleda Jackson here and today I want to talk to you about the
one thing that everyone cannot live without I'll let you take a second to
think about that
hi i'm melina jackson here again did you have time to think about what the number
one thing is that everybody cannot live without did you say sex no that's not it
did you say food no that's not it clothes shelter a car no that's not it
did you say money yes that's it money that's the number one thing that
people cannot live without but guess what we find it so hard to get it and
with today's technology you can get money right from your phone you don't
have to get up and go to work burn your gas run your car ragged you
can do everything right from your phone and people just like you and me who are
mothers teachers sisters brothers husbands wives or making money right
from their phone because guess what that's the number one thing that people
cannot live without we need money to survive we need money to get food we
need money to provide a shelter we need money to provide clothing for our loved
ones and for ourselves so money is something that no one can live without
so if you need money and you need money fast quick and in a simple way and the
most simplest way as possible it bucks me comment below I can't live without
money okay well you don't have to put all of that but comment below I want in
and I will send you the next step to getting towards the money something that
people cannot live without I have simple steps that'll take you where you want to
go and that's to the money my name is Billy
Jackson and thank you for checking out this video
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I posted an article on my tumblr last week from CNN Tech about how YouTube may
be facing the adpocalypse part 2? 3? Eleventy? because it's still running ads against
extremist videos "ads from over 300 companies and organizations including
tech giants major retailers newspapers and government agencies ran on YouTube
channels promoting white nationalists Nazis pedophilia conspiracy theories and
North Korean propaganda" so how did this happen? again? and why can't youtube stop
it? well let's look at some of the things they've done since last time one of
YouTube's previous responses through the whole adpocalypse mess was to restrict
channels with fewer than 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch
time from being able to monetize and also requiring that you keep your watch
time above a certain level to stay monetized to say that this was not a
popular move among small creators would be something of an understatement
but it does at least partially solve the problem of people starting up YouTube
channels immediately monetizing them and then proceeding to post videos about how Hitler
is a really nice person who likes dogs or how Daesh is awesome. one of the
other methods that YouTube has brought in to make sure that all of the videos
it runs ads against are brand safe is its Demonetization algorithm the
algorithm scans videos as they're uploaded to the site for potentially
inappropriate content and may demonetize them on that basis. and YouTube brought
this feature in without really announcing or explaining it but
YouTube's failures of communication are not the topic of this video. Now it's
true that if your video is Demonetized by this algorithm you can appeal it but
it may or may not work the odds that you'll actually get your video seen by a
human are relatively low unless you're already a large channel and if your
video is demonetized it's almost certainly going to be during your first
day or two which is when you'd expect the highest number of views and thus the
highest ad revenue because all of your subscribers are coming to check it out
so for creators not helpful however the advantage of the algorithm is that it
learns so the more we submit appeals the more it can learn whether or not that's
actually unsafe content or inappropriate content or whether it's actually okay
and hopefully that means there will be fewer false positives in future which
may not be good news for you of everything you do is deemed brand
unsafe by YouTube but does at least that the more obvious bad actors are
probably going to get caught. so there is some utility to it but why do you need
an algorithm at all is it just that youtube are unwilling to put in the money
to hand check every dodgy video well I don't know if they're unwilling to spend
money but given the demands of the platform they would be physically unable
to keep up with all of the videos on here because so much content is uploaded
to YouTube every day I looked up some estimates which run from 300 to 500
hours of content being uploaded to YouTube every minute even if only a
fraction of a fraction of those videos were going to cause problems that is a
higher workload than any human moderation team can handle so you need
the algorithm but by the same token you can't rely solely on the algorithm
humanity is a creative species if we perceive an obstacle we are ingenious at
figuring out ways around it and people are willing to put in a whole lot of
work to do so I mean those Nigerian prince scams don't write themselves now
do they? so say you want to start a channel which you know that YouTube
would immediately want to crack down on you know neo-nazis
pedophilia North Korean propaganda I mean you could just put up your videos
which are obviously about neo-nazis or Daesh or whatever and you could tag them
with neo-nazi or Daesh or whatever but YouTube reads your title and your
description and your tags it looks at your thumbnail for inappropriate content
like gore or weapons and it listens to your audio so it can generate automatic
captions what I'm saying is if your video is obviously about a topic that
YouTube has deemed unsafe or inappropriate it's not gonna happen
they might not ban you and delete your account but they won't monetize you but
if you had time and you were willing to play the long game and as we have seen
from the Russian tumblr bots thing governments are, then you can make a lot
of videos most of which are fairly innocuous and then when you want to
sneak your not so innocuous videos past YouTube you have this whole backlog
of appropriate content plus you can scrupulously avoid using any of the
words which might ping the algorithm in the video itself. There was a good
example of this from Facebook actually. there was a group on Facebook called
Britain first which got banned after coming to global attention having been
shared by Donald Trump the reason that Facebook ban
is for inciting hatred by posting videos like "Muslim migrant (who wasn't actually
a Muslim migrant at all) beats up Dutch boy on crutches!" at the time that they
were banned though Britain first had more than 2 million likes on Facebook
how does a page which posts videos comparing Muslims to animals get more
than 2 million likes well because Facebook doesn't show you
everything a page does right and while Britain first posted the occasional
video which should have gotten them an insta ban mostly they posted really
innocuous stuff we love this british sports star like if you do too! share if
you love your military family! give this post a thumbs up if you're proud of our
veterans! look at this cute picture of a dog! okay I'm not sure about that last
one but and then every so often they'd put up something like Muslim migrant who
isn't actually a Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches but Facebook being
Facebook only shows a fraction of the people who follow a page each post that
the page puts up it would be entirely possible to be a follower of Britain
first for years particularly if you don't use Facebook all that often and to
have seen nothing from them but cute pictures of dogs and poppy wreaths
Facebook knows what you like remember
so to bring this back to youtube they can crack down but it's really hard. when
something comes to mass media attention obviously they'll remove it but there
are thousands and thousands of channels which are basically akin to the Britain
first Facebook page and they're not being taken down because they're just not
getting flagged that often keeping bad actors off your platform when you're the
size of YouTube is not hard it's pretty much impossible but you can cut down on
the numbers of bad actors. and so you have the algorithms because you can't
possibly manage the quantity of content on YouTube without them and on top of
that you have your moderation team because people are smart and will figure
out ways around your algorithm.s but the moderation team needs someone to tell
them about the bad actors they need people to report the animal abuse and
the pornography and the beheadings unfortunately that's a difficult thing
to incentivize well because what you actually want is for good people with
good intentions to flag videos which are actually inappropriate while
discouraging bad people with bad intentions from flagging things because
they don't like it YouTube Heroes which you might remember as one of YouTube's
2016 controversies was supposed to be YouTube's way of getting the people who
use the site to provide them with free labor ie we will gamify the system by
giving you points for doing this grunt work and as you get higher up the ranks
we will give you things like a small amount of power over others mwahaha
which was possibly not the best idea in the world given that it actively
incentivized flagging videos I mean if YouTube agrees with your flag and takes
a video down you get a point but if YouTube disagrees then nothing happens
so why not try it? so this is the problem why can't youtube just find all of the
bad actor channels and delete them? because people are smart even bad people
and so it's basically an arms race. but what do you think? how do you reckon that
YouTube should solve its problems? the ad problem or the terrorist content problem
or any of its many other problems leave a comment let me know and I'll see you
next time!
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How Can A "Closet Apologist" Bolster Their Courage? - Duration: 4:21.
I've actually been asked by people who would call themselves "closet apologists"
how they can build their courage to engage people on issues that really
matter. And my first thought is there is no such thing as a "closet
apologist" because apologist is someone who defends,
and you've got to kind of get out of the closet to defend, but I get their meaning.
They want to defend their own convictions. They may have done some
study, and they know a few things, but they're just a little bit nervous, and I
understand that, okay, so I'm sympathetic, no problem. But what I suggest is that
the tactical game plan that I talk about in the book, Tactics, is really
perfect for this kind of thing, especially the first two steps of the
game plan. You're using questions to gather information, and you're using
questions to reverse the burden of proof. So we would use questions like, "What do
you mean by that?" to gather information and get clear on what their view happens
to be, and we will ask a question like, "How did you come to that conclusion?" or
"What are your reasons for that?" etc. to get their reasons for their point of
view. Now, I want you to think about those two questions.
Neither question puts you as a believer, as an ambassador for Christ, in any
risk at all. You're being a student, essentially, trying to discover what
other people believe. You are not in a situation where you're putting your view
forward where it could be attacked. Instead, you're inviting other people to
put their view forward. Now, you might be thinking, "Well that doesn't get me
very far," and my response is, you'll be surprised how much progress you can make
by you asking them questions about their own view. But the point here is, how do
you get a closet apologist out of the closet and into play in a way that
builds their courage? And this is the way to do it. You use one of those two
questions, and usually there's a sequence. First, you get their ideas. Then, you get
the reasons for their ideas, and you don't have to go
any further. You're just taking a small step of courage to step out and ask that
first question. Be a student. If you ask the second question, then you're gonna
get an education on how they actually think. Okay? Now I tell people, just go out
and practice the first question, but I suspect if you ask people what they
believe, sometimes you're going to have a hard time not asking the second question,
which would be kind of, "Why would you believe that?" because what people believe
sometimes a little bit odd. Now, you want to be careful that you don't sound
condescending when you ask the second question, but these two questions are a
great one-two punch that allows you to get involved in conversation with people
in a relational way in which they do most of the talking, but you are
gathering valuable information. And so it takes a small amount of courage to get
out of your closet and start engaging other people, and here's what you're
gonna find: You're gonna find it's not that hard. People aren't as scary and
also, people are not as smart as you thought they were. And I'm not saying
people are dumb, I'm just saying a lot of the objections that people raise against
Christianity, even by smart people, educated people, PhDs, professors, lawyers,
professional types of all kinds, turn out to be kind of foolish objections when it
deals with spiritual things. And you don't have to put them down or roll your
eyes or anything like that, but I think you're gonna find if you just step out
of that closet, a small step of courage, you begin to ask people what they
believe and why they believe it, and don't take it any further,
that that will really get you rolling as a defender of the faith.
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[ENG] 그래도 성공할 수 있더라고 /방탄소년단 제이홉 (BTS j-hope) 'Airplane' / But still we can achieve our dreams - Duration: 4:47.
There is a saying 'When you follow your dream, money follows you.'
But even after you have achieved the dream, got wealth and fame, wouldn't you want more?
Today, I want to introduce an artist's mixtape which took 2 years to produce, but released for free.
Say hello to my hope world, it's J-hope's 'Airplane'.
'Remember myself from those days again, when the barren land set me on fire.'
'I looked at that blue sky and ran. I wanted to fly on that airplane.'
Whatever we try, the first time is the hardest. It feels like what I am doing isn't right.
It even feels like everything is completely wrong.
Even when I try my best, it's like everything is in vain.
When I felt this way, this song 'Airplane' encouraged me.
I am majoring in literature, but now I am writing a book.
So whenever I face some difficulty, I compare myself to those who have majored in writing, and think I am not talented at all.
I first heard 'Airplane' in this situation.
The reason why it was so encouraging for me is not only because its quality was amazing,
but also because I knew that J-hope didn't started as a rapper. He was a dancer at the beginning.
He, a dancer, must have tried very hard to succeed as a rapper.
So he studied music diligently and these efforts became his talent which proved his musical ability through the mixtape and BTS' album.
He made everything possible through his amazing effort.
Now it seems as if he, and his song 'airplane' is talking to us.
When nothing is working out and you face the 'barren land', still, look at 'that blue sky' and continue running.
When you have achieved your dream in the future, then, 'Remember myself from those days again'
Then, when we have achieved the dream, would everyone recognize my effort and be my friend?
'Somebody still curses me'
'Their jealousy makes them lonely.'
'I don't care, they just make me laugh.'
'Drink Champagne in my airplane.'
There are still hundreds of people telling worthless criticism.
It might be very similar to what we have gone through.
However, now I have changed.
Those criticisms cannot hurt me anymore, and I have experienced the beauty of success, so I worried about how other's think of me anymore.
Now we can say,
I will 'enjoy my first class in the plane and look out the window, keep myself at the first class.'
I first mentioned 'dream' and 'money' because the one that disturb may be some things like money instead of human.
After the mixtape was released, J-Hope said at an interview the reason he released his songs for free is that he valued music more than money.
After seeing the interview,
I realized that if you have set a firm aim and continue on, little obstacles cannot interrupt me.
Then I can try harder with confidence.
Therefore, 'Airplane' feels like J-hope's biography, who have faced lots of difficulties being BTS,
but never gave up, and now they became a record breaker who are writing a new history in k-pop.
'When I was young, my dream was to board a plane.
I wanted to be there and fly in the sky.
It's hard to believe what is happening to me.'
Now we have experienced how success feels like,
and still clearly remember how it was like in the past.
This is why we feel more thankful for my circumstances.
Dear listener, I have no idea if you are walking on the barren land or flying in the blue sky.
However, I do believe wherever you are, whatever you're doing will lead you to your dream at the end.
Even when somebody criticizes or lets you down,
I hope these won't stop you from achieving your dream, but be the last one to smile at the end.
This is Damojo Fm Thank you for being with us today.
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Can I Massage Cold Oil, For Arthritis Pain Relief Of Knee, And Other Joints?
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Ilja Grzeskowitz - How Can Passion Help You Deal With Change? - Passion Sundays - Duration: 6:52.
hello everyone and welcome back to passion Sunday's the best way to end the
week and start another our guest today is a best-selling author speaker and
coach who helps you dream big act bold and get the results that you want
Ilja thank you very much for being with us today hi Mustapha thank you for
having me on your show I'm really excited about all these things that
you're promising so first tell me what does passion mean to you passion is the
inner drive that lets you do the things you do my topic is changed this is what
I do every single day and I'm not so much interested in what people are doing
or how they're doing it it's it's why they're doing it because that WHY is so
important and maybe that WHY could be transferred to to passion as well
because that WHY that passion is so important when when things get tough
when things get tough and when you're facing resistance when you're making
mistakes then that passion helps you to move forward and to improve yourself
amazing yeah so tell me more about your book and what you're promising people
I help people to use the power of change to use their their attitude to get
better results in life to live their dreams and of course I work a lot of
with organizations and I have organizations to to adapt to the
changing what around us because change has become a permanent condition that
has no longer beginning and an end but changes everywhere and it's getting more
intense it's getting faster and so many people struggle with it because they
don't know what should I do how can I deal with it and there's so
much uncertainty and I have people to to get them the tools they need to adjust
their mindset to be proactive about it it's beautiful so how would somebody be
able to adjust their mindset it's easier said than done you know you tell
somebody you got to change your mindset or change your behavior yeah of course
of course it's it's a long process first it's important to have that passion to
know why you want to change change is not something you do for changes sake
because change always needs to have a purpose you need to know why do I want
change and mostly it's because you have some kind of a goal you want to solve a
problem or you have that big dream of vision in your life and then in a
condensed version my approach unchanged is you have to start with a decision you
have to make the decision I'm going to make a change which implies that
commitment the second one is you have to have something like a goal you need to
know where you want to go and the third one is you have to build habits strong
habits which means better change small but on a consistent daily basis then to
do one big and one time change and then forget about it
so decision goal habit that's my basic approach to change I like that decision
goal habits yeah now decision is great we say that okay set the target which is
the goal that's beautiful habits oh my god yeah if there's something hard in
life to break is have it developing new habits yeah how do you deal with
with developing new habits and getting rid of old bad habits actually the
passion helps because building up habits is easy when you start up let's say
someone wants to lose weight or like I'm going to jog every morning from now on
and the first few days it is easy you're motivated and then you put on your
running shoes and you go out and everything do you really pumped up but
then a week goes by two weeks go by and then Thursday morning it rains outside
it's cold and you're lying in your bed is it come on let's make an exception
and you make the first exception actually you make the second exception
and and before you know it you've been trapped and you don't do your new
behavior but you could back in your old behavior and to prevent that from
happening that passion is so important because when you're lying in that bed
that morning and just you look outside and say should I really go outside and
four-run and then the passion kicks in you know I know for what I'm doing you
know why I'm doing it and you're doing it anyway and so you overcome these
resistances and you you do it anyway this is how I try to help people to
build these these habits to to always know why you're doing it to let your
passion help you with that and this is so so powerful and science says it takes
about 66 days to build a new habit and sometimes it's less and sometimes it's
more but you have to overcome these initial barriers and this is where your
passion kicks in beautiful and how do you handle the doubt when it kicks in
because in the journey of building habits and there there are points when
you reach a plateau and then you suddenly are trying hard you're doing
but you're not getting results and results is one of the biggest motivators
because you know the habit kicks in when you see the passion but then there's a
while when you're nothing is happening you're still pounding at it you're still
doing it but it's not happening and doubt starts kicking and you're like oh
this is never gonna work out am i doing and you spiral down and out how do you
handle that this is exactly in my opinion in my experience the biggest
factor why change so often fails because it's about doubts
it's about uncertainty and it's about fear the fear of not moving forward the
fear of failure and the first thing is to realize that it's completely normal
to have doubts to be uncertain to feel everyone has these feelings everyone has
it but one of my favorites approaches is fear or doubt or uncertainty can can
either be your biggest enemy or it can be your best friend because when you
acknowledge that this feeling is there and you use it to become productive to
generate innovative ideas and to get into action then that fear can make you
productive and help you to move forward instead of just doing nothing beautiful
Ilja thank you very much that has been a very
awesome way of turning around what's not working into something to work for your
benefit thank you very much thank you so much for having amazing yeah thank you
passion what do you think I really hope you found this episode as useful and as
exciting as I did if so please leave your comments on the blog
below and share it with your friends and those who might benefit from it and if
you'd like more tools tips techniques and exclusive interviews that I only
share on my website go to Mustafa.com and until next episode live passionately
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heaven's door can take over the world - Duration: 6:22.
I can try to beat around the bush for the intro, but I want to get into his as fast
as possible.
Heaven's Door is such a good stand, and it being in the hands of Rohan Kishibe is
great for JoJo.
I can't picture someone that's evil having the access of Heaven's Door just off how
ridiculous the stand can be.
I wouldn't even trust this stand in the hands of anyone on this earth, not even me.
Which is exactly why I'll be telling you all the possible things you can do with the
stand because sometimes I would really love it.
So, Rohan is a mangaka right?
The ability to draw, the money to purchase any tools necessary or money to live, publishers
approving your work or giving criticism whether or not you want it, translating your manga
so it can be sold in different countries, all of those things mentioned are easily possible
with Heaven's Door.
You can write exactly what level you want to be at in terms of your work, you can consistently
mess with people for money to the point of where you're untouchable, you can control
the publishers to auto approve or give their honest opinion if they don't want to acknowledge
you, and you can translate your manga yourself because you can write in what languages you
know.
Now you may be asking what I meant on the whole money thing, to show exactly where I'm
thinking, let's think about Rohan in the Cheap Trick arc.
Now ignoring Cheap Trick and focusing on Masazo Kinoto.
If Rohan had wanted to avoid paying, he could've wrote into him and make it that Masazo believes
Rohan had already paid or set up a payment plan to where people would have to come to
him to receive the money upfront.
I'm sure you understand where this is going.
I believe that Rohan can continuously play every person that comes for him that's not
a stand user.
With Heaven's Door, you can have everything that you would want in terms of materialistic
things.
Say that I wanted food.
I go to a restaurant, Heaven's Door my way to a seat, Heaven's door my way to getting
to speak with the owner, and in the span of around say 20 to 30 minutes, I'd be eating
the most expensive dish they could serve there with ownership of the restaurant.
Now, obviously paperwork would have to come in order, but I'd still have the power to
do it, or I could've had that prepared from the get-go.
This would all be done with ease.
If done correctly, Heaven's Door can get you more than just a small business or two,
it all depends on the execution and where you start.
Where would you want to start off, where would you want to first begin your first long line
of control.
Honestly, with the power to continuously take over both the mind and body where does it
all begin.
Well, personally I would just write into myself a lot since I'm more of a do it your own
type of person, but I'm sure that many are thinking about what they could be capable
of in terms of power.
You can be tedious and possible gain control of the country, but I'm sure that would
take around a month or so.
Even with saying that, that's a short amount of time.
Especially with it being set up in a way for you to have no downfall possible by those
you've used Heaven's Door on.
Though that's all with planning starting from the bottom of it all.
I think that it would be better to try to go after larger things than, because if you
were to go after companies with world-wide reach, you would be way more efficient.
Though it won't be the type of control you would want, it's something.
With ownership of extremely large companies, you have too much money for one person, and
at that point, with that money you wouldn't have to use Heaven's Door as much anymore,
because you know, you'd just be rich at that point.
There's multiple ways for you to get things like that, but I think now some people will
think of Rohan now and be confused on why he doesn't do any of this.
While some might not notice this, Rohan is an extremely respectful character, as in a
character to be respected since my wording is odd.
I think the reason why Rohan is a character you can trust with Heaven's Door isn't
because he's a good person, but more on that what he wants isn't going to cost others
too much.
Or well, that was until after Josuke put the smackdown on him, but you get the point.
Rohan Kishibe is a person where what he wants isn't something that Heaven's Door can
get him.
You can understand what he wants and where he stands with what he said to Koichi and
Hazmada, but I'll reiterate it.
He doesn't draw for money, he draws to be read.
There's the feeling of finishing a manuscript where he feels great, but that only lasts
for such a short time.
He wants to keep that feeling as much as possible, so he just keeps on writing, finding inspiration
and applying it into his work.
Material things don't really interest Rohan, and having a person like that owning Heaven's
Door, it keeps the rest of the world away from harm.
Which means, we should be getting more Rohan OVA's and you can't stop me from wanting
them.
They can take their time with Vento Aureo, that's fine.
They're giving us enough time for people
to catch up.
*Evil laugh.*
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How Mountain Biking Can Help Your Cycling | Improve Your Triathlon Skills - Duration: 4:10.
- Yes, we are triathletes,
and yes, we are on mountain bikes.
But why?
Well actually there's a lot that can be gained
by going out of our comfort zone,
onto mountain bikes, and getting a bit dirty.
- Well it can be a little bit daunting
to leave that smooth asphalt,
and your finely tuned triathlon bike.
But it's something that a lot of athletes
do every year when they compete in XTERRA,
and cross-triathlons, but aside from those races
there's still so much you can gain
from riding a mountain bike.
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- To start with if you live in a country
that has harsh winters, unlike this place right now.
Then mountain biking can be a great way
of mixing your training up.
And preventing you from spending every
ride indoors on the turbo trainer.
And something feels a little bit better
about getting a mountain bike dirty,
and muddy compared to your road bike.
Perhaps it's just because we're
a little less precious about our mountain bikes.
And they are designed for that after all.
And by venturing out onto the trails
you're also honing your bike skills
ready for when the weather improves,
and you can head out on your road bike.
- Whilst road cycling and mountain biking
may seem like very different sports
there's actually a lot of similar skills
that transfer from one to the other.
In fact, mountain biking is a great way
to practise your all round skills
without the fear of falling off on the road.
And you don't have to worry about traffic.
- Another really beneficial aspect of mountain biking
is the training effect, due to the terrain,
and the effort required to get over, or around obstacles.
It sort of creates it's own natural fartlek.
Even just a short ride can be quite punchy,
and have a huge training benefit.
Which can be really useful if you are lacking motivation
to do a session on the bike, indoors, or out on the road.
- In a similar way the terrain, obstacles,
and various surfaces will cause you
to constantly change your cadence
when you're out on a mountain bike ride.
But if you're a road cyclist you might have
got into a bit of a rut of sticking
within a small cadence range.
And that makes it really difficult
to change when you need to.
With mountain biking it does go
from one extreme to the other.
So, for example, if you're stuck into a habit
of an over-gearer this will really help you
solve that problem.
- The need to move your body weight around
in the saddle, and on the bike is actually far
more important than many of us realise,
particularly when we're descending, or cornering.
But again, we can be quite lazy
with this when we're solely riding on the road.
We plant ourselves in the saddle, and we stay put.
But in mountain biking you have to,
if you want to stay rubber side down.
It helps to build your confidence with shifting
your body weight around throughout the whole bike.
And in some cases, you'll even have
to shift your whole body weight back off the saddle.
- If you have more confidence in your braking ability
then you can dramatically become a better cyclist.
And what better way to do that than mountain biking.
Unlike with road cycling, you're gonna be
constantly using your brakes,
or lightly feathering them when you're riding off-road.
And being able to control that braking power
will help massively with your descents,
and cornering, and it might even your improve your speed.
- With all this comes increased confidence,
and handling for cornering.
Now whilst the surface and tyres may be different,
it still allows you to find the limits of cornering,
how much grip you have, and even
how much you can bank the bike over.
And again, mountain biking offers
plenty of opportunities to practise this,
along with shifting your body weight around to help this.
- With more mountain biking experience
you'll soon learn that you need to look ahead
of where you're going, and look for the exit of the corners.
It is tempting to look at the obstacles
just in front of you,
but you'll soon learn not to do that.
And this skill actually transfers really nicely
across to the road as well,
especially if you're riding in groups.
And you're looking ahead for corners.
- There really are loads of cross-overs,
and skills that mountain biking can add to our road riding.
Personally, I just like the change,
and variety from the norm.
- Well you might be worried about the risk involved
with mountain biking, but you don't have
to tear it down all the trails,
you can just stay within your comfort zone.
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