- Well I'm out here in Wind Hill bike park.
Probably one of my favorite bike parks in the UK.
But I've seen this happen a lot,
and that is people come here and they're super-excited.
I've done it and they venture out of their comfort zone.
So they go into stuff really fast,
or hitting big jumps that
they haven't got the skills to do.
But this is a way of,
I'm gonna try and explain to you,
how to stay within your comfort zone
but venture out of it to progress in your riding,
to build up those skills, to hit bigger things,
to go faster out there on the trail.
So I'm gonna try and do it as safely as possible
and at the right time.
But before we venture out there into the unknown
onto those trails, there's four main tips
that are gonna help you stay with your comfy zone,
but yet then I'm gonna teach you how to
get into the progressive stage of those little tips,
and that is going too fast.
That happens a lot.
The other one is jumping.
A lot of people wanna go big, but you've gotta start small.
And then the other one is corners.
People came into these corners really fast.
And the other one is linkin' up the whole thing,
linkin' up the whole trail, from turn to turn,
from straight to jump, to jump to straight to turn.
All of that, I'm gonna show you out there.
(grunting)
Oh my God!
Alright, this first one is speed.
Everyone wants to go fast.
I definitely know that.
I wanna go flat out on a trail.
But when it comes to a bit of trail,
we're on like, oh my gosh, I'm going too fast.
That's the first sign of being out of your comfort zone.
Plus you start to freeze up in your head,
and you're like, your skills get all washed up
and you're like oh my gosh.
This is not workin', I'm goin' too fast.
This bit of trail right here is a fast bit of trail
for myself, as the turn is a bit muddy.
There's roots.
Then it drops down into this gully,
over a roller into a big turn.
Coming fast into this, you're gonna launch off this
and you're gonna get all scared,
so it's a bit of a progressive thing.
You wanna come in a reasonable little bit of speed,
not too slow.
Pick your line.
Know what's going on.
Ride it a number of times,
and every time you do it, go faster and faster and faster.
And that's the quickest and easiest way to progress
on getting faster out there on the trail, and safely.
But that first go I came in too fast.
I over exaggerated,
with my body weight, far over the back,
coming into this section here,
I was like, oh no, it's so steep.
Over-exaggerated everything, 'cause I was going too fast.
When going slower, I picked a better line.
I could see the line better,
and I came in,
and it felt like I was going faster.
You're going slow, but yet you're faster because
you're picking a better line.
You're not freakin' out.
You're not going flat out into a section,
you're messin' up that whole race line,
sort of thing, so,
yeah!
Just keep workin' on it, go slow,
and then go faster and faster.
You'll definitely feel a bit more comfort,
and you won't venture out of that zone completely,
and destroy yourself and potentially hit one of them.
Alright, next one.
Ho, right everyone loves to get as much air time
as Richard Branson.
But I've seen this happen a lot,
that people get over-confident,
hitting jumps too big for them, going too fast,
and it ends in carnage.
So the best way to help progress this skill,
is by starting off very small,
hone in your skills within jumping 'cause
it's quite hard and it takes a long time to perfect,
to hit big jumps, such like these ones down here.
Takes time to progress from a small tabletop,
it's one of the best ones to start on
with no gap in the middle.
Just keep doing it, til you get confident,
then move on, get bigger and bigger.
The bigger you go, the faster you're gonna go.
Where you're gonna hone in all those skills
in a bit of a progressive way.
And you're gonna definitely be safer,
and you're gonna be hitting big jumps in no time.
(grunts)
Practice, practice, practice,
makes perfect is what the doctor always say,
or a coach, or a teacher or a soccer teacher,
rugby teacher, dad, mum, gran
your grandpa.
Practice, practice, practice.
Alright, so you wanna progress your jumps
to the next level, so you wanna start off real small
like that one up there.
Then this is a perfect example of progression.
So you got one here.
It's a little bit smaller than that one.
This is a bit bigger than that one over there.
That's very for another day.
But progression is key.
Stay within your safety zone.
The small one, get comfortable.
Then you go to the big one.
Then you can show off.
Oh my God!
Alright, I'm feeling comfortable on that.
I think I can go to the big one.
Show off, there's no one here, the trees.
There you go.
Show off to the trees.
Whoo hoo, yeah!
Oh, that was good!
What'd you think of that trees?
Ohhh nice!
Thanks.
Ohhh!
I always do that.
Flipping mess turns up
That was one of the most common things
that I tend to do.
I just like mess up corners.
Basically, you're coming in with too much speed,
like I did there.
I was like,
oh no, this is tighter than I thought.
Totally threw me off!
Totally got out of comfort zone there.
Sure, the best way of doing this is obviously,
going a little bit slower, using the right line
into a turn, 'cause you don't wanna go too fast.
Especially if there's,
if this turn had like a drop there,
or if it was big banked one and you flew out the top of it.
That's never a good thing.
Control yourself when you come into it.
Be a little bit safe.
Come into it with a reasonable bit of speed,
enough speed, a safe speed as well, into it.
Navigate your way through, and you won't have
an embarrassing moment, such like overshooting a corner,
in front of your mates, or behind your mates,
and you lose them into the distance,
at the bottom of the trail, ohh!
I won't do that again.
Still too fast!
Ohh!
Way better!
Way more in control.
More of a techy bit, hey.
'Cause you gotta get your speed on that first turn.
You gotta link it up.
Talk about linkin' up.
That's number four.
Well I'm going to end on this one
and this is linking up the trail ahead of you.
So all three of those steps, I've spoken to you about,
and that is your speed, your cornering,
and your jumping skills, all into one, puzzled together,
to help you get through a bit of a trail.
I've done it so many times, clinging to a bit of trail,
flat out knowing that I haven't got the skills
and abilities to hit that turn or to hit that jump,
or to get through a rough section.
But here's one where I kind of over-cook it on the trail.
Ohh, ohh!
(laughs)
Oh wow!
That's the trail.
Here's another one where I kind of get it right,
and it's perfect and I've linked all the turns
and the jumps together, and I'm safely through,
within my comfort zone, but still being a bit progressive.
So there you go, a few tips on how to stay
within that little comfort zone of yours,
but then to cross over that bridge into
the progressive side, to push your boundaries,
to go higher, to go faster,
or to ride a trail a little bit more confidently.
But if you're struggling, let me know down in the comments
in what area you are struggling,
and I'll try and get back to you on that.
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click up here for Modern versus Retro,
where Neil shows you that.
It's pretty sick.
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