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http://www.f-i.com - Been a fan of this site for a long time. I've seen it go through at least two re-designs.

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We are now officially ready for the soccer tournament.

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Nevermind the random korean words – those are  notes frommy most recent korean class.

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Hanging out in Austin, TX with Joseph and Josh I ended up visiting the local dirt jumps. It was great. At first I didn't expect much of myself but once I took a spin around the track everything I had learned from riding 8 years ago came back to me. When I first committed to jumping the doubles and boosted over the face it was so thrilling. What a rush. 

Everyone was shocked that I could ride so easily. I took a spill in the turn when I tried to pedal. The old feeling of getting banged up and having to try again after being a little shaken was an old but oddly familiar feeling. I got a nice scrape on my elbow and knee as well as a surprisingly uncomfortable bruise on the back of my should blade. It was after I got back up and tried again that I got the great footage of myself clearing the two doubles. 

Much of what I learned about faith can be summed up in what I learned from bike riding.

The big jumps require big commitment, and even the biggest strongest guys get scared when challenged to hit a big jump for the first time. It's all psychological. At another track I worked up the courage to jump over a bigger jump that required quite a bit of commitment. I jumped it but cleared the landing very awkwardly. I didn't give up but did it two more times until I could land correctly. But even then I nearly wrecked so I decided to take it easy and just take some photos of my brothers jumping. I got some great footage which I'll include in this article. 

Once you make a mistake you must immediately get back up and try again. Sometimes before the pain sets in and defeats you.

When you screw up and get banged up it sucks out a lot of your energy. Depending on how much impact there is when you hit the ground it also shakes you up pretty bad. The hard part is you have to get back on the bike, relax, breathe deeply, stop your hands from shaking and try again. This is important because if you give up for the day then the obstacle will become too big in your mind and cause you an excessive amount of anxiety when you try again on a later day. So before long you have to try again simply to keep your head right and prove to yourself that the obstacle is not too big for you. 

This is not much different than making a mistake or having a situation that causes your faith to get shaken. You just have to relax and commit to working through the process of getting your game back. 

Extreme Sports = Individual-buddy Sports

A huge element in BMX is your bike riding buddies. It's an individual sport, but it's also a buddy short for sure. When you're scared they instill confidence in you. When you can't gauge how fast to go they let you drop in behind them. When you fall they convince you to quickly get up and try again. When you are in over your head they calm you down and advise you. When you wuss out and can't do the big jump you said you were going to do they make fun of you until you work up the courage to keep trying. The constant words you keep hearing again and again repeatedly in BMX is, "Don't worry, you got it."

Courage is all Psychological

Ultimately whether a person works up the courage to overcome the huge obstacles in their life all comes down to overcoming their own mental blocks. In BMX you pedal towards an obstacle and setup to jump, and in that small instant you decide whether to commit to the jump or whether to just comfortably go around it in defeat. What I realized this weekend is that victory and defeat is all determined by your mentality at that brief moment. It's overcoming that couple inches where the ultimate decision is quickly made.

Your body hates to be placed in danger. So to do extreme sports your mind has to force the body to break this basic, instinctive law of human behavior. Mind over body. That's what BMX is all about – that and the thrill of the adrenaline rush that immediately follows.

Extreme Faith

What would I compare that to in a life of faith? We aren't throwing our physical body into dangerous situations for cheap thrills. But we are constantly challenging ourselves and overcoming our natural physical behaviors. And the ultimate challenge, is to take up our cross and sacrifice the physical body. There is nothing more extreme than that.

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Hanging out in Austin, TX with Joseph and Josh I ended up visiting the local dirt jumps. It was great. At first I didn't expect much of myself but once I took a spin around the track everything I had learned from riding 8 years ago came back to me. When I first committed to jumping the doubles and boosted over the face it was so thrilling. What a rush.

Everyone was shocked that I could ride so easily. I took a spill in the turn when I tried to pedal. The old feeling of getting banged up and having to try again after being a little shaken was an old but oddly familiar feeling. I got a nice scrape on my elbow and knee as well as a surprisingly uncomfortable bruise on the back of my should blade. It was after I got back up and tried again that I got the great footage of myself clearing the two doubles.

Much of what I learned about faith can be summed up in what I learned from bike riding.

The big jumps require big commitment, and even the biggest strongest guys get scared when challenged to hit a big jump for the first time. It's all psychological. At another track I worked up the courage to jump over a bigger jump that required quite a bit of commitment. I jumped it but cleared the landing very awkwardly. I didn't give up but did it two more times until I could land correctly. But even then I nearly wrecked so I decided to take it easy and just take some photos of my brothers jumping. I got some great footage which I'll include in this article.
Once you make a mistake you must immediately get back up and try again. Sometimes before the pain sets in and defeats you.

When you screw up and get banged up it sucks out a lot of your energy. Depending on how much impact there is when you hit the ground it also shakes you up pretty bad. The hard part is you have to get back on the bike, relax, breathe deeply, stop your hands from shaking and try again. This is important because if you give up for the day then the obstacle will become too big in your mind and cause you an excessive amount of anxiety when you try again on a later day. So before long you have to try again simply to keep your head right and prove to yourself that the obstacle is not too big for you.

This is not much different than making a mistake or having a situation that causes your faith to get shaken. You just have to relax and commit to working through the process of getting your game back.

Extreme Sports = Individual + Buddies

A huge element in BMX is your bike riding buddies. It's an individual sport, but it's also a buddy short for sure. When you're scared they instill confidence in you. When you can't gauge how fast to go they let you drop in behind them. When you fall they convince you to quickly get up and try again. When you are in over your head they calm you down and advise you. When you wuss out and can't do the big jump you said you were going to do they make fun of you until you work up the courage to keep trying. The constant words you keep hearing again and again repeatedly in BMX is, "Don't worry, you got it."

Courage is all Psychological

Ultimately whether a person works up the courage to overcome the huge obstacles in their life all comes down to overcoming their own mental blocks. In BMX you pedal towards an obstacle and setup to jump, and in that small instant you decide whether to commit to the jump or whether to just comfortably go around it in defeat. What I realized this weekend is that victory and defeat is all determined by your mentality at that brief moment. It's overcoming that couple inches where the ultimate decision is quickly made.

Your body hates to be placed in danger. So to do extreme sports your mind has to force the body to break this basic, instinctive law of human behavior. Mind over body. That's what BMX is all about – that and the thrill of the adrenaline rush that immediately follows.

Extreme Faith

What would I compare that to in a life of faith? We aren't throwing our physical body into dangerous situations for cheap thrills. But we are constantly challenging ourselves and overcoming our natural physical behaviors. And the ultimate challenge, is to take up our cross and sacrifice the physical body. There is nothing more extreme than that.

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Hanging out in Austin, TX with Joseph and Josh I ended up visiting the local dirt jumps. It was great. At first I didn't expect much of myself but once I took a spin around the track everything I had learned from riding 8 years ago came back to me. When I first committed to jumping the doubles and boosted over the face it was so thrilling. What a rush. 

Everyone was shocked that I could ride so easily. I took a spill in the turn when I tried to pedal. The old feeling of getting banged up and having to try again after being a little shaken was an old but oddly familiar feeling. I got a nice scrape on my elbow and knee as well as a surprisingly uncomfortable bruise on the back of my should blade. It was after I got back up and tried again that I got the great footage of myself clearing the two doubles. 

Much of what I learned about faith can be summed up in what I learned from bike riding.

The big jumps require big commitment, and even the biggest strongest guys get scared when challenged to hit a big jump for the first time. It's all psychological. At another track I worked up the courage to jump over a bigger jump that required quite a bit of commitment. I jumped it but cleared the landing very awkwardly. I didn't give up but did it two more times until I could land correctly. But even then I nearly wrecked so I decided to take it easy and just take some photos of my brothers jumping. I got some great footage which I'll include in this article. 

Once you make a mistake you must immediately get back up and try again. Sometimes before the pain sets in and defeats you.

When you screw up and get banged up it sucks out a lot of your energy. Depending on how much impact there is when you hit the ground it also shakes you up pretty bad. The hard part is you have to get back on the bike, relax, breathe deeply, stop your hands from shaking and try again. This is important because if you give up for the day then the obstacle will become too big in your mind and cause you an excessive amount of anxiety when you try again on a later day. So before long you have to try again simply to keep your head right and prove to yourself that the obstacle is not too big for you. 

This is not much different than making a mistake or having a situation that causes your faith to get shaken. You just have to relax and commit to working through the process of getting your game back. 

Extreme Sports = Individual-buddy Sports

A huge element in BMX is your bike riding buddies. It's an individual sport, but it's also a buddy short for sure. When you're scared they instill confidence in you. When you can't gauge how fast to go they let you drop in behind them. When you fall they convince you to quickly get up and try again. When you are in over your head they calm you down and advise you. When you wuss out and can't do the big jump you said you were going to do they make fun of you until you work up the courage to keep trying. The constant words you keep hearing again and again repeatedly in BMX is, "Don't worry, you got it."

Courage is all Psychological

Ultimately whether a person works up the courage to overcome the huge obstacles in their life all comes down to overcoming their own mental blocks. In BMX you pedal towards an obstacle and setup to jump, and in that small instant you decide whether to commit to the jump or whether to just comfortably go around it in defeat. What I realized this weekend is that victory and defeat is all determined by your mentality at that brief moment. It's overcoming that couple inches where the ultimate decision is quickly made.

Your body hates to be placed in danger. So to do extreme sports your mind has to force the body to break this basic, instinctive law of human behavior. Mind over body. That's what BMX is all about – that and the thrill of the adrenaline rush that immediately follows.

Extreme Faith

What would I compare that to in a life of faith? We aren't throwing our physical body into dangerous situations for cheap thrills. But we are constantly challenging ourselves and overcoming our natural physical behaviors. And the ultimate challenge, is to take up our cross and sacrifice the physical body. There is nothing more extreme than that.

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