And remember: BREATHE 🏂

Breathing makes crashing softer

I kinda spammed it all over the internet in the past few days. I spent last weekend on the Kleine Scheidegg doing something I’ve never done properly in my life: snowboarding. I took advantage of the end of the season bargains and Veronika was my instructor to slide me into the basics of the activity.
The first moves were just easy, but when we started with something a bit less natural, Veronika watched into my eyes and told me: “and remember: BREATHE”. It sounds silly, but I promise you, it is not. While you are doing something new, or you are not used to, or just something you need to focus on, you forget the classic no-brainers. And while learning how to heel slide — absolutely the most challenging first attempt in my life — I had really to focus to keep the head up, bend my knees, open my arms, control the back edge, and breathe as well.
Don’t be scared of failing on things, just breathe. By breathing everything gets easier again: thinking, focusing, performing the exercise, absorb the moves, and relax. Also crashing becomes softer if you are breathing, I swear.
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Happy Breathing!

Cycling Glimpses 💖

We are all just so stoked at trying new things

YOU NOW JUST STOP HERE AND PUSH THAT PLAY BUTTON, DOWN THERE. IF YOU CAN CLICK ONLY ONE BUTTON, IT MUST BE THAT ONE.
Sorry people, I didn’t want to shout at your mouth in this way, but, hey, you really gotta watch this video. It is a plain joy juice: three friends having fun on their bikes, enjoy any single moment of their lives, shred, crash, dance, play, and smile. A lot of smiles. Please, you just do it, and then you send me a thanks message later.
Girls Gotta Eat Dirt 😍

It is a lot harder to disconnect with somebody than to connect with them

A community is something that doesn’t interfere with your freedom. Ok, it seems complicated, but it is really not: let me go through that. Often we wave our independence against everybody, just to show to the world that we can do it by ourselves, because we don’t need any help. Asking for help is seen a weak move. It is really not, and even if, who minds. Support is something natural and often people are just happy to offer it to you. That’s the meaning of being part of a community: a community is something that puts inclusion before anything, going through stuff together because somebody has experience with it or maybe wants to share paths. Nobody judges you into a healthy community, we just grow together and everybody is free of being herself. That video is a great example of it, from the awesome Josie’s point of view.
Go Josie.🦾

Sounds 👨‍🎤 and Content Salad 🥗

The Instagram Attitude

Merging up a couple of things here, but not as you would guess. I want to mix up my content tips with my podcast suggestion. But I won’t give tips on audio production, not yet (if you are interested in that, just hit reply and I will prepare it for you, no probs). I bounced into this old audio recording where Ronnie Romance aka Ultraromance explains how to be good on Instagram “I am the #1 cyclin’ Instagrammer on the Instagram” — he says, and, yeah, from it I got some inspiration to some of my tips. So: how do you win the Gramming Game?
🐎 There is no game, no competition. This is my first tip, don’t be devoured by the competitive bug. Social media are what they are: places where people share part of their life, not all of it, just a part of it. So, never feel the comparative pressure of I wanna be like her/him.
🦝 Be who you are. Authenticity is always a winner. Nobody wants to see somebody acting like somebody else, they rather check the original, right? I don’t wanna eat for breakfast a poached egg posing as a peach. Don’t be an egg.
🐏 Stand for your values. Don’t be afraid of taking positions for something you care about. I do it pretty often about topics like: equality, representation, love, and a ‘to do’ attitude. You can do the same. Just one thing, don’t get stuck into Social Media fights in content threads, that’s just useless.
🦎 Answer to your people. It is a matter of behavior. In real life, you don’t carry on muting when somebody says something. Well, why then is such a common use in the digital world to ghost people’s comments, messages, even emails. Just answer with a ‘Yes’ or ‘No thanks’ or ‘🥦’ and it will be enough. Don’t be a dick. And anyway, still continue to follow the 🐏 thing of No Fights on Comment Threads!
🐖 A light hearth always stays. Do you really want to take yourself that seriously? Life is stressful enough to spend your time worrying about studying stupid algorithms. Please, don’t do it.

That’s all folks, if you want to hear what Ronnie says on his side, just click down below, his speech is just hilarious.
Yonder Journal Presents: The @ultraromance Instagram Symposium 🎧

Short reading list 🥗

2 articles you cannot miss

Let me introduce a new section: I read these 2 articles this week, and, people! I need to share them with you.

Everyone is welcome on the Oregon Timber Trail. Hate is not. - Oregon Timber Trail

How to Be Less Scared of Death, According to a 'Deathfluencer'

‘Drop to Flat?’ Live and Over 💚

How different is planning an MTB Ride

‘Drop to Flat?’ is over, the last episode is out. Digging into the MTB world was just a blast. A lot of nice people I talked with, loads of new things I learned of. That’s what was all about for me, learning something new. In this last episode I talked with El and Gaby from Komoot, and they explained to us some tricks on MTB planning as well as sharing some cool stories of gnarliness and steepness. You should check it for sure.
Eleanor Jaskowska & Gaby Thompson — MTB Planning with Komoot #DroptoFlat ♻️

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