Forgotten Skills

Has anyone ever forgotten a skill? Last Sunday I went to the local park
and could get up to rubber from a crank grab for the first time ever. I
had a 4/5 success rate and was just great. Yesterday afternoon I went
out to the same place and couldn't get to rubber from my crank at all. I
was on the exact same rig and I just couldn't do it. Has this happened
to anyone else?


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gerblefranklin wrote:
*Has anyone ever forgotten a skill? Last Sunday I went to the local
park and could get up to rubber from a crank grab for the first time
ever. I had a 4/5 success rate and was just great. Yesterday afternoon
I went out to the same place and couldn't get to rubber from my crank
at all. I was on the exact same rig and I just couldn't do it. Has
this happened to anyone else? *
I do not know of any name for this but it is not uncommon. Long after
being able to hit every third giraffe freemount I have gone through dry
spells where in an entire evening of trying I am unable to succeed even
once. And occasionally, as seems to be the case with you, it will appear
that a(n acquired) skill has completely disappeared including any sense
of what it feels like to actually perform it. It's weird, but always
temporary.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ


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I hope you're right because crank grabbing is an incredibly valuable
skill to me. I got a bad feeling about it when on the first hop of the
day, my pedal didn't clear the ledge. This has also happened to me when
I was doing kick mounts a year ago. I got them down and then suddenly I
lost it. I've stopped doing them, though because I've got better things
to learn and relearn such as the second part of crankgrabs. Thanks.


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