This post, no matter what, is going to have so many opinions.

In my opinion and experience i just found that i enjoyed motocross alot more than trails. I hated being limited by the terrain. I felt that all the trees and tight stuff kept me from learning how to ride with style and speed. I rode motocross for bout half a season and went back to the trails, i was ten times faster in the trails after learning body position and power delivery, but i never really noticed i needed it until i got on the motocross track.

I still think that trails are dangerous to race, maybe not so much in just cruisin, but racing def. I remember so many times coming up on something that suprised me, i had seen it every lap of practice they let us have and every lap of the race but i still was suprised becasue the track is so long that you dont remember what is next and you trying to go fast and it just doesnt seem to work for me.

Motocross on the other hand, you get lots of laps in and you can memorize the track and remember where certain parts were that were maybe really messed up or soft, and you can progress with speed as you learn were you are at, your blindness goes away, you learn distances of jumps and rythems and so forth. I never got the hang of HS racing so i guess thats why im all MX, but, i have done both, and they are both fun, but when its my choice i always got MX, and to date, after about 2 years of racing/riding motocross practically every weekend, have only crashed hard twice and i havent broken bone or been really injured yet. (knockin on wood ova hear!)