The Art of Mountain Biking
24. The Art of Mountain Biking w/ Albert Flynn DeSilver
It’s easy to speak about mountain biking on the surface level. But speaking to its potential for transcendence, ecstasy, and yes, art, is another thing entirely–thus, we called in a poet to help.
Albert Flynn DeSilver has been an obsessive mountain biker for over 30 years. He is a trail advocate and wilderness explorer. Albert is also an internationally published writer, speaker and teacher who has worked with thousands of kids as a California Poet in the Schools, served as a county Poet Laureate, and taught writing workshops throughout North America at places like the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute, and the British Institute in Paris. He has given a TEDx talk and bombed spectacularly, and then dusted himself off to go on to host and share the stage with writer-luminaries like Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl Strayed, Maxine Hong Kingston and many others. Albert writes, rides and resides in Northern California.
We talk about:
Reaching a transcendent state on a bike [6:03]
The taboo of ecstasy [9:33]
Moving meditation [12:45]
How family history/upbringing can inform our practice [14:27]
Using mtb to check in or check out [20:12]
The art of mountain biking [24:36]
The demand of mtb to pay attention [28:20]
The social component of the sport [32:30]
Grief on the trail [37:42]
Dancing and doodling [44:09]
Referenced in this episode:
Singletrack Mind by Albert Flynn DeSilver
Writing as a Path to Awakening, also by Albert
“Miracles” by Walt Whitman
We also referenced this episode with Melissa Gill
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