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- I've been a professional mountain biker
for, like, over 16 years,
and I started dirt jumping, then slope style, then free ride
now this is where I am right now.
So when I was learning tricks back in the day,
I would crash and crash and crash.
Pretty much crash so much in one day,
that one mountain biker would do in his whole lifetime,
but in one day,
and I had to survive that day
just so I could land that one trick.
Now there's an art to crashing.
There is so much going on when it comes to doing a crash.
I know you crash and you don't know what's going on,
but if you can open your mind up
and start to determine how you are going to crash
before you're going to crash,
then you can potentially save yourself from an injury.
I'd rather save myself then my bike
when it comes to an injury.
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This has a potential for throwing you over the bars
if you grab the front brake.
Now I've seen so many people going down with the ship,
holding on, and going face-first into the floor,
doing a whole scorpion thing.
Now, why would you want to go into the floor face-first?
Why wouldn't you just jump over your bars?
I think because it's all happening quick,
but if you understand that you are goin' over the bars,
it's so easy just let go, and get your legs over your bars,
and land potentially on your feet,
or get into a tuck and roll situation
so you don't land on your face.
And the best thing is,
like I always would say,
is get away from your bike as fast and as quick as possible
'cause you don't want this to hinder your landing
or get caught up 'cause that's going to hurt.
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This is a great place to start learning
how to get off your bike very quickly in a sticky situation.
Try along a fire road, and just quickly jump off your bike,
and just that, there,
if you react really quick by getting off your bike
in a sticky situation,
it could save you from potentially stopping
going over the bars or getting flung around
in a horrible rough section.
Quickly jumping off your bike
is going to help you react real quick
when it comes to a horrible, horrible bit in the trail
when it's goin' wrong.
Practice that, get on, get off.
It's going to help you, trust me.
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Tuck and roll is the best thing you can do when you crash.
You don't want to go hands first straight into that.
You don't want to go legs first straight into it.
Because all those contact points on the floor
have a tendency to just snap under pressure.
You just want to tuck and roll
'cause it'd be like a ball; just roll forever.
Keep those limbs in.
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Okay, this next one is when you get to a real bad section
and you don't want to go off it, and you can't stop,
and the best way to get out of it is out the back door,
like that, just throw yourself off the back and land.
This is only when you come to a really horrible situation
in a trail that you actually don't want to go near.
Just get off the back of your bike,
throw it away from you because
that could make or break yourself.
But it'll probably break your bike, which I'm sorry,
but it's not you, and it's all about you.
This, you can fix it.
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When a jump goes wrong,
it's always good to get away from your bike because
you don't want to have that bike underneath you when you land,
'cause it's going to hurt.
You want to abandon ship for sure.
Here's a few clips of us doin' some GMBN,
using these techniques when it comes to crashing
out there on the trail.
Okay, so I've gone through the archives of Neal,
and I've picked the most recent crash from Neil.
Take a look at this one.
He is in a muddy situation.
As you can see, it's a front-wheel washout,
but you can see how he's tucked and rolled onto his back
to slide out of it.
A perfect way to get out of that crash.
Take a look at this clip.
It's myself out at Audi Nines on this humongous step-up.
Now I'm trying a three-sixty on my downhill bike
and it's going horribly wrong.
Now what I'm doing, already, is I'm spotting my landing,
I'm getting rid of my bike,
lookin' at my spot where I'm going to land,
and I'm going to tuck and roll as soon as I hit the ground.
I don't want to land standing up.
You want to collapse into this crash.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, that's enough crashing for your entertainment,
for me as well; I don't want to get hurt.
But I have crashed so much,
and these techniques are going to definitely help you out
when you get to a situation where you abandon ship.
For sure get away from your bike, tuck and roll,
and just stay safe out there.
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