To master the Trikke, I believe you have to harmonize the two sides of your nervous system.

If your mind-body coordination is "off," you're probably favoring one side of your brain, and the Trikke absolutely demands that the two sides harmonize. I would predict that any trikker who takes a brain thermometry scan right after trikking would see the connection between the two hemispheres (corpus callosum) as very hot....full of activity.

That agreed upon, it is no surprise that the presumably-lesser-used "feminine side" of a male trikker will get a "workout" that stimulates all sorts of afferent connectivity that may be, if it manifests in bodily movement's dynamic, interpreted as effeminate when seen by a male observer of a male trikker. A female trikker may not even notice male trikkers trikking as being effeminate.....because those women, (and you know they got first pick from God,) they LIVE in that realm of sweet fluidity. I believe that on average a higher percentage of women than men like to dance. Not because dancing is a female-thing, but because they love connection, resonance, harmony. I would predict that if we tested trikkers we'd find that men relate to the Trikke quite differently. Women would be, in my humble opinion, far more likely to INITIALLY like trikking, and that men would relate most with the Trikke only after some skill set had been accomplished.

Not to beat a dead horse, my trikke-dancing concept presented here earlier, is resurrected by this issue. Try VERY VERY SLOWEST AS YOU CAN GOEST, trikking. What happens is that you begin to clearly see the weight and momentum transfers slowly enough to appreciate the sensuosity of the Trikke's basic motions. It can be very languorous, curvacious, flowing, smooth, soft carving.....sounds like a woman to me! As they say, "If it carves like a duck...."

For the first time, I went to a skateboard park the other day. To my surprise, no one approached me to talk about the Trikke. I'm way way old, so the mousekateers, sleazoids, OCD tricksters, and kiddiepoppers probably just didn't want to mix it up with my generation, but yeah, truth be told, watching the skateboarders try AGAIN AND AGAIN moves that would bust a bone in me if I didn't do it absolutely perfectly, I can appreciate that the moves I call "svelte" on the Trikke are merely slow-scootering to them. The Trikke simply is too easy to keep going and almost always appears effortless to others. And, as we all know, most trikkers think that going off a curb is a BIG TRICK to try! I trikke very well thank you, but I have yet to get all three of my wheels to fly over my parking lot speed bump....can hardly get the front wheel over it, and even then I'm feeling like I'm going to fall over backwards. I know it can be done, but I've got so many other trikking moves to practice! Gimme another year.

When I see the Trikke commercials showing trikkers grabbing air off a skateboard ramp, I feel like they're missing the Trikke's deepest values. Whether or not the Trikke ever reaches critical mass and begins to be viewed by youngsters as a toy for the public ego, the truth is that 99% of all trikkers will never do any stunts of any merit on the Trikke, and no one is complaining about this, because the thing is just so much fun -- with almost no high-risk behaviors being needed to spice up the trikking.

Bottom line: I cannot believe that a hetero male would take his eyes off the backside of any slow trikking woman -- there's definitely something suggestive about the moves, and maybe some "gender borderline" men cannot take it when they view a man's butt doing that wiggle-waggle....maybe it's TOO alluring for them to deny their own unconscious leanings, eh?, and they just have to react negatively to keep their inner beast under the rug where they swept it.

Best news: so much good comes up from within while trikking that external validation is a poor substitute for the thrills of self-actualization, evolution, empowerment, skill building, etc. Let me have those values increasing in my life, and I'll chance a stranger briefly thinking I'm a different orientation. That's one single thought a passer-by has. Each of us live in a world where we are constantly immersed in a community of "thousands of thoughts per day" brains. Out of millions of thoughts, what's a few seconds of another person's brain's buzzings to me?

Nada.

Here's what we trikkers can do: We can spend the last half hour before sleeping imagining ourselves being in the Olympic games. We see ourselves being top-notch competitors with zero body fat. Then when we dream, perchance, we will hear that 60,000 person stadium's roar as we go down an eight inch high curb!

I am guessing that the vastness of the accolade would be a pleasing moment.......like real life carving is.....every single time.

Edg