So there's always a lot of discussion between the difference in cycling ability in Europe and America. So I wanted to do a quick comparison. So here's Legion's video and you can see very, very wide race, not very many people, maybe 60 maximum. And you can see like obviously the speed is the speed, like you know, it's going to be similar issue between Europe and America, like that's not, it's not necessarily fitness is the biggest thing. I just say it is all partly, like there's more people who race probably are super high level in Belgium, I'd say. We'll use Belgium as an example, but this probably goes is also true for AC and Spain and France. But you can see here, like, you know, it's very, very wide roads, not very much technical ability. Some American crits in narrow and some do require you to be able to corner, but most of them don't. You can see a bit of argy bargy thing is a big lad. Like, you know, I think in Europe that's very different. It's more just, you know, more race for position when you need it, but here, like the position is easy to get because, you know, the roads are very wide. I wouldn't say that the team strength you wouldn't get as much. And Belgium is, is you wouldn't America like you don't get massive teams in chemises, it's more individual based. Obviously, there is a team element, but they often is. And I'd say yeah, the biggest thing to talk to people are like racing Belgium and stuff, is just the number of people, you know, sometimes you get fields of about 200 people, which is obviously very different to a race like this, because getting to the front like here, like, I mean, obviously you need power to get to the front, but you don't need any technical, but like you don't need to, you know, know how to go through a crowd like a bunch, because it's just so wide. We're later going to get into some races from Belgium, some chemises, and you're going to see the difference. It's pretty obvious what the difference is. And I think, you know, it's not to throw shade at Americans, like it's just, you know, demonstrating the difference and like, here's another, this from trainer road, this is a USA crit, so like the highest level, I think this potentially isn't the, oh no, no, this is the main crit legion of that, so I'm pretty sure this is the main one. Like just look how wide it is, like this is like a motorway in Europe, like you don't get roads this wide that you just, you race on ever. Like the field is big to be fair, like it's 80 people, but it's just so wide, so it's moving up very, very easy. It just means that, you know, there's less, like look at the picture on the right, like everyone's so bunched up, it's not as narrow people are leaving the inside open, like obviously numbers here, like you think, I'm not under what, so there's no dummy for sure, but it's just not the, not necessarily the same skills are needed, which is I think why American Cypher's often find it difficult coming over to Europe, you read Phil Garman's books about it, he says he would just normalize power, be like maybe 40 or 50 watts higher, to get around a race in Belgium compared to Van Bale, or someone who is born and raised on those type of races, just because they don't have the skills, the cornering like here, look like, I mean, let's go on and you can pretty much pedal around that corner, there's no technical aspects, I mean, people in my last video, when I was talking about Legion of Life, full corner crits are really hard, it's like, well, they could be fitness wise, yeah, for sure, but if you took the same course and put them in a really technical race, like, it's really hard, because if you're not first, first couple through the wheel, then the desaleration is significantly higher, and full corner crit, I mean, you can just pedal around the corner, obviously there's going to be a bit of slowing down, but not much, you look at it much as bunched out, it's just such a different skill set required, and in some ways, it's probably better, you probably get better athletes coming from American in some sense, because you can't win it, you can't be, you have to just be purely strong, well, I'd say you could win races in Belgium for sure, and you're obviously have to be strong, but you can hide in the bunch, if you can corner well, you might not necessarily be the fittest, well, in the America, I feel like it is pure fitness, unless, you know, of the other types of bike racing, which obviously at a higher level are very important, but potentially at a lower level, if you're getting into the sport, then, you know, like the Accident team, they're very successful at developing town, and they have a dual program American Europe, and I guess America is like they just get a show like, look, we've got this physical specimen, you can actually monstrum the bike, and they can just ride, you know, and there's less focus on the technical aspects of racing, cornering, positioning, etc, etc, that's required, so here's the Belgian Counties, the 26th Road footage from some out of the YouTube, you just see that like how much now are the roads on how many people there are, like to move up here is obviously significantly harder, because you don't have this half-haul motorway to the loved one, so you've got to be a lot better at conserving energy, and it's also like obviously this bit here is not super technical, but in general there are a lot of curves, a lot more nice to be called, but look how far out there's feeling of stretch, like this is, like if you were coming from America, this would be a lot harder, but I'm going to show America that you came to Belgium, Matt and Zim are on the big back, but look then pop up on the pavement, I think that's probably a different crossroad section, people are that desperate to get on the pavement, so get my bats, pretty hard, I think that's a good idea, it looks like a strong bat, but like Matt and Zim has videos come up in a minute, and like he's probably strong, I mean he does well at Belgium, so it's not like you know, you're in America, you're just getting the wrong way of racing, Belgium is not that, it's just that it's definitely a different skill set that I don't think, you know, compared to people get as much, but if you look at the national team, they do, because they get there, they get there like 15, 16 years old, and is there are you going to go in the middle of your group, two months, you're going to race there, and they get into the flow, and it's like you know, they get like, you know, there's an example of that, you know, he's in racing, they're in front of all times the same with the GB riders, like British racing is not, so Matt's had to go really a lot of the time, but the Fritz are sometimes generally, but again, like most of those are successful world tour riders, well in racing, Belgium, Europe, from our very young age, because that is how it's succeeded, to succeed in world tour and in races, there's somebody here in America, somebody's in Britain, but let's be honest, they always go here, but look at this corner like the hairpin effect here, like it's so different, so here's Matt's in his video, strong lad, I'll go check out his channel, he's a good lad to be back, he's both some sort of talk-core content, which I do enjoy, but again it's just, now it's more of a festival feel as well, I'd say they're by racing now, I'm definitely compared to what I've seen in US and UK, like there's more spectators, there's more of a known sport, which obviously helps in hosting the races, because they just go around the towns, which obviously pretty good, but yeah, like the numbers are like, you know, across the world, like they're not that different, like you know, like there's a certain distribution of population, you're going to be good at cycling, and those who take a seriously, they're all going to get to similar level, like it's not like, you know, you're going to go to Europe and suddenly like everyone's going to be like a billion times better, like obviously Belgium's renowned for queer racing, so you're going to get higher, like Kermit racing, so you're going to get higher proportion of faster people that are potentially, but like you know, it's not for the chart, like it's not like, you're in a kind of American, just be ruined from the, what side, if you're competitive that, because you know, obviously America's a huge country as well, so if you're competitive there, you're going to be strong as well, but it's more just, you know, all these parts that I've previously said, but look at this course, the course profile on the top right, look how technical that is in comparison to like a four-quarter crit, let's say, or you know, more similar races that the training road have a lot of footage of what training road footage, and you'll see that like, you know, a lot of their races they do, Northern California, they're just not really very like, like, technical, like some of them don't even have, they have like two corners in a race, you know, like, what, how does that add up? So yeah, it's obviously a big shot, when you know, if you came from that straight to one of the easy races, you'd be like, wow, big time, but anyway, just for watching, hope you didn't enjoy this video, what are your comments? Have you raced an American Belgium or American Europe, or anywhere in the world, like what are the different nuances where you race, because I think, you know, I race in Australia, UK, Australia, Thailand, I've mentioned that, I think I made it Australia twice, but I'm like, obviously it's all slightly different, like, Australia, UK was pretty similar to be fair, like, I'd say almost identical, the racing experience in terms of just like what you expect from like a crit and stuff, but Thailand was a bit weird, because you made racing a motorway, so again, zero technical ability is needed, but anyway, I hope to, yeah, hope to go race in Europe at some point, but I've just been a bit lazy and then I'm really gone, but anyway, cheers for watching, hope you didn't enjoy, and I'll see you next one,