Hardcore is doing something that no or very few people can do. And/or, going longer, farther, higher etc.
OR, doing something you didn't think possible for yourself.
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I agree with an earlier post that relates hardcore to the approach, or attitude of the person, not the activity. Anytning can be done "hardcore" if you are intense, passionate, driven, or otherwise gung-ho enough about it.
Hardcore quilting is possible. Not that I want to see it.
Hardcore can be learning to ride in less than an hour. Or trying to pass levels 1-7 in your first year of riding. Or doing stupid-huge drops. It's all about how you approach it.
-- johnfoss
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Hardcore can also be very visually deceiving. For insance, Eyal (Santa Barbara) rides those long single tracks so slow you'd swear he'd fall over. After we realized he was the only guy who consisantly cleaned every inch of ever trail (including rolling all of Saddle Rock--extreme by any measure), we started trying to mimic that style only to discover it is possible only by masssivly backpressuring, which burns out your legs in about one mile. Try that over 5 or 6 miles and the exercise becomes prety extreme. It took me months to build up the strength to even try this technique. You could call it the art of extreme control.
