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(sighs)
- Like a deflated tire,
with no air.
(sighs)
- [Air King] My dude,
there's air everywhere.
- Nah really?
Wow!
- [Air King] You just need to think out the box.
And look.
- [Bicyclist] Oh, anywhere?
- [Air King] Aha yeah!
Let me show you.
- He has spoken!
Up for that.
(wooshing)
Welcome back you beautiful people.
Are you struggling a little bit,
to find a little bit of air
or find some jumping on your local trail
that you like to shred
or you just dying,
just to get up into the air,
no matter how big or how small.
Well I'm here to help you along with this
little issue that you have
and I'm going to show you how to find air anywhere.
Roots, slippery when wet, these rough suckers.
Super annoying tree veins
that just hinder your riding,
but don't take them for granted
because these little guys can help
bump your tires up into the air.
You can create gaps,
also they can come to your advantage
as well when you want to clear a lot more roots.
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- [Air King] Oh nice!
- Okay now let me point out these gaps.
Look at that guy there, one root,
it's a small gap but,
you don't want to bounce through that,
you don't want to plow, you want to get air.
See there's a natural landing.
It's a small one,
it's not even a bike length.
But you can link this up as two.
Look there's another one right here.
You can use this bit here to bump you into there.
Look at that, that is a natural landing.
Now that one there is a bike length,
You've got half bike length to bike length.
You're starting to build up that air.
The faster you go, the bigger you can get.
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- [Air King] Oh air, man!
- Now that's roots done.
Let's find some rocks, because I hate rocks.
I want to clear them all.
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(growling)
Rocks!
Dude, I hate rocks.
I try and find the easiest way
to get through a rock garden.
Look at this horrible rocky crop on the trail,
now I'm going to look as this and I'm going to see
a kicker and I can see a landing.
So I can overcome that situation right there
that I don't like.
I don't like this sort of thing on the trail.
Now, I can see a kicker right here,
if I bounce myself off that rock,
I can land, (hoots)
missing out all this junk.
I can land here.
That there my friends is small.
It's like a, it's a bike length
or you can think bigger and land over here.
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That's the small one done.
Let's go for the big one.
Just cause we want more air.
(laughs)
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- [Air King] Smooth as butter dude!
- The options endless,
plus I don't have to ride down all this,
look at all this rock, terrible.
And if you don't like that,
you can use rocks just to bump you up over the trail.
Just like this one over here.
Look at this my friends.
Rocks, horrible, there.
That there is a kicker,
you can use that to clear all of that,
even roots, all the way to here
or if you're going fast enough,
you can clear all the way over here.
That's two bike lengths, two maybe three
or you can just do one.
It doesn't matter how big you go
or how small you go, you're getting in the air.
Yes!
Woo, I love air.
- [Air King] Aha yeah!
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- All right you are probably looking at this going
what the hell you looking at, Blake?
Man, I can see a jump.
This is lump, look at that.
That's a lovely lump, we all love lumps,
lumps and bumps are great on the trail.
Now this one right here,
is a jump, it's small, it's progressive,
but you can mark out and see how far you can go.
See that tree right down there,
I reckon I can get from here
all the way to that tree there.
That there is definitely going to help you get air.
Lumps and bumps on a trail are a God send,
from the King himself.
- [Air King] Send that gap dude.
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- Man, just uncovering gold on the trail.
This is lumps and bumps,
a perfect thing to gain air on the trail,
no matter how big or how small those lumps are,
they are lovely.
I love lumps.
Now see this one right here?
I can see a gap.
Thing is you got to look for a landing spot
or if you don't want to look for a landing spot
you can just go to flat, it doesn't matter.
That there my friend is a kicker.
Use it because it's going to help you get air.
Now I can see a landing,
but it's quite far away,
but you can actually just land around about here.
You can.
And you got air.
No matter what, it could be a foot high,
two foot high.
That's still air.
Now I can see a landing all the way over here
into this compression right here,
which is, it's a breaking bump,
but I'm going to use that as a landing.
I'm thinking out the box,
you could land up onto the bank here,
there, there's a hip.
You can do some steezy turn into it,
but than that would just defect your,
your cornering on the next bit of the trail.
But I think I'm going to go straight and land there,
but you can land there.
It doesn't matter how big or how small you go,
you're getting air.
Right.
Thank you, thank you Air King, I love you.
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The prayers have been answered,
now we're progressing gaps on the trail.
Now look at this lump, well this is bit of a fly off.
Really you could just like plop off it,
but look there's a landing, far over there,
probably like two bike lengths away
and it continues down the trail.
Now I want to get air right here.
I feel I can get air.
I'm just going to hop off this little flat ledge
and land over there, nice and smooth
so I can get rid of that horrible step down drop.
(sighs)
Yes, air time.
I love air time, it's my favorite thing,
I think I was born in the air.
Does that mean I'm Mile High Club?
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Ah yeah!
Yes!
My dudes, now look at that, now that there,
that's God's gift, man,
that is Air King's gift,
for getting air on the trail.
Yes, rollers.
Natural or man made,
those things are a challenge at some points.
Yes they can gain speed on them,
but you can use them as kickers.
Now this is the biggest one on this trail.
This is rollercoaster,
we're out here in (speaks foreign language).
This is a big one.
But it doesn't matter how big a roller is,
you can use them to gain speed or get air,
which is what here we are here for, getting air.
From there I'm going to use that roller
instead of just using it to gain speed,
to land all the way here onto this roller.
Smaller than that one,
but man it's all about air.
All about the air!
I'm going to steese the hell out of this.
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Now we've broken open that box of finding gaps on the trail,
now it's time to like progress that.
Like you've perfected finding gaps,
you're looking ahead, you can see gaps.
I see a big gap here,
this is were it's going to get a bit bigger.
I see a step down,
it looks like, aw cool small small,
but I'm going to gap from all the way out
from the top of that step to here.
Ves, I don't know if I got it, but let's try it.
Let's try.
Jack you ready?
- [Jack] Yeah!
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- [Air King] Boom, told you you could do it.
- Right that's the big one done,
but let's bring it down a notch
and let's go find some smaller rollers that we can gap.
'Cause not all of us can jump super far.
So we're going to break it down.
We're going to move it to something smaller,
look at this, this is a roller.
So you're coming out of a turn
and it kind of goes down there,
but you can eliminate that,
cause this right here is a little rock formation.
Natures way of saying get some air on this little roller.
So what you're going to do
is you're going to use that bunny hop skill,
going to use all those techniques
or jumping you're going to hit that
and you're going to land over here.
You're pretty much going to get this much air,
depending on how big your hop is,
you could be up here,
but I'm going to go down here.
Because it's all about starting off small
and moving on to bigger gaps.
That comes with, that comes with time in the saddle,
TITS,
Time in the saddle.
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Wow!
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No one is perfect, fact!
Nor is the trail that lays in front of you
and your rad rig.
Yes, those trail bumps and lovely trail bumps
are going to hinder you and send you off the trail,
but if you use those lumps and trail bumps,
to a source to get air.
Then I say my friends, my job here is done.
Use those trail bumps and lumps to create jumps.
Ha!
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I'm telling you man,
there is air to be had anywhere on your trail
no matter how boring it is,
Our KA is there to help out,
just believe in him,
believe in him you can find air anywhere.
Now hopefully this video has helped you out,
cause it's super fun to just go out there
and have fun on the trail
and just forget about going fast,
jumping, tricks and all that.
Just have fun no matter what,
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