THE BASICS
Today’s guest is Mark Matthews who is a professional mountain biker and adventure athlete with the drive to create and a lifelong passion for cycling. He started riding bikes in 2000 and has never looked back. He now creates exhilarating mountain biking trail videos, which showcase awesome tricks, break-neck turns in such high quality you feel like you are on the bike too. They will motivate you to start cycling and challenge yourself out in ntures backdoor.
Mark is a great example of someone who has created a business and a career out of a passion. In this interview we discuss his story, cycling, injuries, how you can get started in cycling and the joys of challenging yourself in nature and how you can make a life of your dreams from your passions.
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WHAT WE COVER
In this interview, we discuss gems like:
- Who he is
- How his upbringing motivated his interest in biking and outdoor opportunities
- His transition from someone who enjoyed cycling to make a career and lifestyle from his passion
- How to build up your reaction speed
- How does he plan out his jumps and transitions between tricks, jumps and speed sections etc
- What off-track activities can you do to assist your cycling?
- How does he deal with injuries and overcoming fear from crashes and getting back on the bike
- What does his normal riding schedule look like
- His advice for those looking to get into the media side of cycling
- How does he setup his bike and rig for best chance of success
- How does he ensure he creates the content he needs but at the same time is being non-impact to the local area and environment?
- How does he relax away from the exhilaration of his trips and riding?
- What does he want the evolution of cycling to be?
- How can you keep in touch with him and his future projects?
SOME THINGS TO REFLECT ON
In this interview, a lot of jewels of self-improvement are discussed. Some of these and their associated thoughts include:
- You choose who you are and what you want to do. Just because you are born in one location or into a family who typically do x, y or z, does not mean you need to follow others. You decide what you want ot do with your life and how you live your life.
- Mark is focused on the moment, he forgets what else is going on and focuses on the bumps, twists and turns. To be successful, you need to switch on, focus on what is happening and find a zen state that allows you to be truly there in the moment?
- Mark focuses on the fundamentals of the movements, posture and control, his method of learning jumps and control stop him from over complicating or over analysing the moves, jumps etc.
- To work at your best, you need to take care of your body and mind – read, foam roll, yoga etc. Look after your health, stretch tight muscles, make sure you relax etc. Listen to your body and heal and rest where needed.
- Mark’s sport may be a single person sport mostly, but they have worked out how to work with one another, to communicate, assist and help others go on the trails they want, get the shots etc they need. How could you build a network like this in your sport, hobby or work? How can you work with others to create the work you need?
LINKS YOU WILL NEED TO CONNECT WITH THE GUEST
You will want to follow this guest in the future. To do so, click on the links below:
- His Instagram is here
- His YouTube Channel is here
- His website and blog and be found here
- Experience Rove is on Instagram here
- His Twitter is here
- His Facebook page for Mark is here
- TrailForks for finding the routes and trails you should try
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