Originally Posted by noisebeam
The best thing I ever did for my handling and crashing skills was riding on single track, off road.
I can relate to that. Handling a bike at high speeds on a dirt track often gets finicky. You really learn how to keep the bike under control instead of going down. There have many of times where I have had my back end start to slide out, or come up on me on a steep decent. Since crashes off road can get pretty nasty (trees, rocks, thorn bushes

) you tend to fight the bike like your life depends on it.