Behind my previous time (actually my previous previous time), but absolutely nailed the slide at the end. It even has a little break correction to bring bring the bike right.

Shit, forgot about his then went on holiday with no wifi. Will do the track/album this week.

Diamond number 63 - took a bit longer than it should have to get it again. The diamond line is super precise, which I guess is a given on extremes. I take a slighter slower route over the two circular obstacles because it's much more consistent, and then save time with a fast end (I think it's pretty fast from the checkpoint before the jump over the bomb barrel and the drop).

Apologies for being terrible. I've listened to the album twice but not tries the track yet.

No problem. I've tried to pick something that's a bit easier if you don't nail the line perfectly and I'm glad it's ok.

Did you ever get the DLC's? The tracks in the second DLC are, in the most part, fantastic.

There was a round of hats unlocking recently for no reason. The Trials Frontiers hat (yellow one with studs) is pretty cool.

I just don't understand almost any of it tbh, and this is coming from someone who played Trials Evo more than any other game....possibly ever (200+hrs, which is nothing compared to proper players but I still felt like it consumed my life). I only got to the point where I could zero fault two of the extreme courses, which was an undertaking for my skillset. Nothing ever comes naturally to me on Trials, I have to work for it, reach the point where I'm as good as I'm going to get at a track and hope for luck. Which often doesn't arrive for hours. What I'm rambling up to is the fact that these ninja tracks seem infinitely more tricky than the extremes I learned. Surely there's more of a difference between an easy and an extreme than there is between an extreme and a ninja. It's an almost unpossible sequence of expectations to my eyes and yet people can do it - it's almost like exploiting glitches. So basically, wow and well done. I think being this good at Trials is up there with the Tetris master videos. And it's the only thing I'm jealous of in gaming.

MMmmm - throttle. I've done the 'baseline' ninja 3's in all aspects now - technical, FW/BW and throttle.

Throttle is the one that looks the most ridiculous, but is the easiest to repeat once you've got the muscle memory down. Actually getting it down though....

I do feel a bit more like a 'proper' ninja now. I think I could have jumped in and had a fair crack at ninja 2's a month or so after launch, but 3's are a progression. I can definitely break obstacles into techniques now, and there's not much I look at now without any idea of what I'm doing. I often can't do it, but I know what I'm looking at.

Looks sort of fun, but not in the same way as trials. Trials is super precise, and that looks kind of loose.

I think Trackmania was supposed to be the cars version of trials, but I never played it.

[Insert video of me playing against Muzzy's ghost on his favourite track]

Well, that's me done with the extreme platinum medals. They were a lot easier than I remember them being, especially the first few.

This was the last one - not a super clean run, but the time requirements are pretty simple so it didn't matter.

...and that's a blue belt pass. Took quite a bit more work than I thought it would on passing green belt. I was getting the timing on the 4th checkpoint horribly wrong for a long time. Clicked today and I passed (after accidentally restarting the track on the last checkpoint... Had to take a bit of a break after that happened).

I'll post a video when I get the platinum.

Passed my first level 4 ninja tonight, after a few nights of trying it. It didn't take me as long to pass this as it took me to pass my first level 3, but I've been working on some of my techniques.

Check this out - it looks pretty innocuous, but the bounce requires the use of break on landing and then throttle straight after to do a more stationary hop than a typical back wheel bounce would allow. 



I've been practicing my stationaries (i.e. hopping in place), and while I can do them pretty well, this is the first time I've actually used the stationary hop technique to pass an obstacle.

I'm pretty happy but I think I'll give this a bit of a break now.

It's way beyond possible for me, to the point where it's almost depressing.  I could play for 2000hrs and I wouldn't get there.  Top marks for the ongoing ridiculousness.