).Much of what men do is about establishing dominance or setting pack order(no matter the task or activity). We are not much different than a pack of wolves in that regard.
In cave man days the strongest most fearless hunter/fighter was the leader and got the best women and food.
Fast forward a couple million years and give the tribe a bunch of snowmobiles and the fight for dominance is on.
Every group has the tribal leader (best rider), and you will see the same fight for dominance(pecking order), and you will see the same signs of capitulation/submission from the lesser riders as they tell the king how great he is as a rider (the equivalent of rolling over and showing your belly
So, this is why the super technical riders look down on meadow riders, and the meadow riders look down on the trail riders, etc.
We are just a just a bunch of animals trying to establish the pack order. We might not like to see it described that way, but it's true.
Much of what men do is about establishing dominance or setting pack order(no matter the task or activity). We are not much different than a pack of wolves in that regard.
In cave man days the strongest most fearless hunter/fighter was the leader and got the best women and food.
Fast forward a couple million years and give the tribe a bunch of snowmobiles and the fight for dominance is on.
Every group has the tribal leader (best rider), and you will see the same fight for dominance(pecking order), and you will see the same signs of capitulation/submission from the lesser riders as they tell the king how great he is as a rider (the equivalent of rolling over and showing your belly
So, this is why the super technical riders look down on meadow riders, and the meadow riders look down on the trail riders, etc.
We are just a just a bunch of animals trying to establish the pack order. We might not like to see it described that way, but it's true.
Sounds like you get to be one of the happy ones! :face-icon-small-ton
"Looking down" may have been a poor choice of words on my part, but the technical tree rider, climber, meadows, trail, flatlander threads are about the struggle for dominance. The belief that one is more difficult than the other, which infers that whoever is doing the more difficult riding is dominant.
The truth is, a good flatland rider will make a good western rider. There is no dominant riding type, just different skill sets. Gradient magnifies the necessity of those skills.
"A great deal of truth is spoken in jest", There are 2 times when I think I can trust that someone is speaking to me truthfully, when they are speaking in anger, and when they are "joking". For most men "joking" is a passive aggressive way of saying what they really think to your face. If you call them on it, they say "just joking buddy", rest assured, they weren't. There are always exceptions to this, not everyone does it, or in every situation, but as a broad generalization I find it to be true.
The collaborative people in the pack probably make for the happiest people and happy lives, the type A people spend their whole lives striving to be the alpha. Being the alpha definitely can have it's perks (Money, prestige, women), but it usually doesn't result in as much happiness as the guys in the pack working together.
X2!!!!!!
