Remembering how to Ride (or) Fun, but is it training

You don’t realize how much poor technique you can get away with riding trails with things like front suspension and even clipless pedals.  I took the trail bike back to the basics and got out for a couple of hours in the woods after swapping out the loaner suspension fork for a loaner rigid fork and not bothering to put some clicky pedals  on and rode in flat pedals & sneakers.  I’d thought I was bunny hopping, I’d thought I was maintaining my momentum through the rough stuff,   I was but aparently I wasn’t doing it right.  On a bike that isn’t going to forgive your mistakes you’re forced to do it better. Than you can swap back to the riding aids and go that much faster.