Our favourite private property, cut into the side of a mountain.
Plenty of tough climbs, here I'm chasing Coxy up a climb that has very little run up.
It's probably only about a silver standard in Australian hard enduro.
Tree roots all over the place, the moment you lose momentum, you have to turn around and start again.
It is very rare to see Coxy make mistakes nowadays.
Ben is still continuing his quest to eventually get into gold class in our hard enduro series.
He has a very nasty hill climb he's been practising on.
None of us want to try it, but we like to watch.
And it's a nasty climb.
Very steep off camber section.
This tends to get the motorbike airborne,
then you have to try and get traction again on a loose steep off camber slope.
Good luck with that crap!
When it looks steep on the camera, you know it's crazy steep in reality.
Coming down there's also this near vertical drop.
Not for the faint of heart.
This is the sexy part of hard enduro training.
The seemingly impossible hill.
In the powerband.
Feeding in power using the clutch.
But then there's the less sexy side, learning how to get up a steep slope from a standstill.
Getting traction.
Working your way up inch by inch.
It's hard work.
It's not glamorous.
But it's still a critical part of the skill set needed for hard enduro.
I only filmed a few bits of Ben working his way this slope.
But in reality it probably took him about 10 minutes.
Practice practice practice.
One of our recent vids was called "Can't wheelie? Here's the number one reason".
The basic message was if you want to master a skill,
you need to sacrifice a lot of time to practice.
And so many riders simply don't want to put in the time.
Or they blame their motorbike.
It's too heavy.
It's not powerful enough.
Forget the rest!
If you are serious about hard enduro get into this enduro scooter from Piaggio!
Do you have the skills to handle this beast?
Are you one of them?
It was very interesting to see a lot of young viewers complaining.
The typical comment was what a boring video, you took four minutes to tell me I need to practice.
It was very ironic.
The need to put effort in to master anything is such an important message for life.
And these guys in their teens and twenties just weren't getting the message.
I wonder if that's why we obsess over things like tyres, suspension setup, and bling.
It's much easier to focus on
quick fix solutions than put the time into learning how to ride better.
Of course, I fully understand that many riders are simply out to enjoy themselves and chill.
We don't have to learn to ride better.
There's nothing wrong with cruising easty trails.
But if you are serious about improving your skills, just be prepared to put in the hours.
Here endeth the sermon.