I breathed in and thumbed the joy-con. The engine answered, a tiny storm. The first ramp ate me almost immediately—front tire kissed air too soon, my rider flailed like a marionette freed. The restart was immediate; Trials punishes politely but relentlessly. On the third run I felt the rhythm: throttle, lean, the sacred pause before a gap. Time compressed into a narrow seam where success and failure debated like dueling ghosts.