welcome back to Berm Peak I'm Seth and today we're going to be doing something a little bit different
but kind of the same so we bought this picnic table for a reason a future project but today
we're in possession of a picnic table and it's one of my favorite things to play on
now since my injury over a year ago I haven't really jibbed around on my bike and so
I want to plop this down in the driveway today and uh see we can do with it so the first thing
I want to do is see if I can jump my bike onto this picnic table having not done it for a very
long time and having undergone the biggest decline in my health and body like ever in my entire life
over the course of two years so you ever bunny hop onto a picnic table it's been a long time
since I bunny hopped onto a picnic table you do with a bmx or mountain bike only with a bmx
I tried it with a mountain bike and blew up a rim so let me guess you've probably done it like a
million times Joe it's been a long time man high school high school but it was on a mountain bike
I actually did on a mountain bike so a picnic table is as abrupt as it gets it's just like a
side of a deck and so I always fear for my shins I fear for every part of my body but
the good thing about jumping onto a picnic table is because you're jumping onto it
you don't really need to get the full height you can kind of like let your back tire roll
up onto it so I'm going to start by just warming up and jumping onto the bench
i am nowhere near I am nowhere near ready to jump on top of
this picnic table you want to give it a go go Joe
yeah I didn't think that would be any problem for you alright that felt a little better
what about you Kevin you want to give it a try onto the bench I'm more afraid of jumping and
catching the pedal here and just just that's all I can think is this is gonna happen I'm gonna
scoot it back this way okay yeah yeah that's fine whatever you think works I think Kevin's getting
a little nervous he's starting to move things around turn up the compression a little bit
okay alright yep brake doesn't work
so you got up on there but we need like a legit hop
okay you know I don't think it's fair most people get a warm up and like here it's like
hey jump and do this real quick I think I want to try getting onto the top
I think I'm just going to have to rip the band-aid off whatever happens happens alright
that's that's what I call ripping the band-aid off alright
what was the scariest thing I did recently this is up there with
going out the kitchen at the ranger station
better better alright give myself a little break yeah Joe what do you think
I feel a little better that made you feel better didn't sprocket chunk it
I feel like I might sprocket something did you see the sprocket chunk I did on Porter's deck
it was bad you ready are you ready I think
we believe in you Joe dang it Seth why'd you have to do this
oh gosh that's really short up there of course Joe executes the best one yet first try
that's gotta be a confidence booster absolutely thanks man I gotta clean
mine up I'm still casing it you know alright let's train it let's get sketchy
if I can't do it nice on a dirt jumper there's no way I'm doing a trail bike
that wasn't better at all you know what is great about a picnic table is most of them
are the same dimension and so it's the perfect benchmark for where I was at before I turn into a
pile of garbage it's a realization it's a wake-up call if you don't use it you lose it another case
that was the cleanest one yet that's what I was looking for so that was the first time
I got on clean and so it's time to step up to a trail bike I'm gonna just go straight to my
full suspension bike weighs like 10 pounds more than this it's got a coil shock which I've never
jumped onto a picnic table with so this is going to be interesting what do I have to gain by this
okay so I just figured something out you can't build strength over the course of a morning
alright I gotta get one smooth hop up there with the full suspension
and then we can move on then we can have some fun this isn't fun this is a bummer
you're one of the best casers I've ever known I don't want to be good at casing
I'm not too concerned with like playing an actual game but I think I got one for you
okay start on the bench jump the bike up onto here jump it onto the table hop the whole bike
back down here and then back down that's my challenge I don't know if I can do that
okay i'll try again we're not actually playing a game of mtb
so we can just try we're just we're messing around
I don't got it you got it dude
alright
oh
you almost got it first try it like I was strong enough
that was pretty smooth though
dude first try nice the pressure the pressure of course he had that
yo that was clean as hell so I got an idea but we got to bring the table back over there
good I'm good watch your back
yeah if I can manual that i'd be really really happy so the thing that's scary about
manualing on something like this is you lock into manual and then if you don't quite get
it and your front starts dropping you could end up doing this and you have a bad time
the risk is especially high if you suck at manuals I'm going straight for the manual
that was almost my worst fears realized I didn't commit
and I dropped my nose but the downslope saved me alright Joe here we go oh yeah
I was going way too fast that looked better than mine though I think
again oh that was clean as anything that was way better just had to make myself slow down
yeah that looks clean i'll take it
oh
probably called quits for today I keep coming within inches of death
so I'm thinking maybe I don't know this is all new to me like stopping before I get hurt
man you can take the street rider out of the street but you can't get the
street out of the street rider what else could we do here without dying
I'm scared for Joe
Joe that was really good that must have felt pretty good thank you thank you
that's all you I have no interest in that dude so I hope you guys enjoyed us messing around here
this was a lot of fun I know where I'm at now it's going to take me some time to get
to where I was before the injury before getting a dad bod but honestly
I'm not as far behind as I thought it was not at all so thanks again it's the holiday season and
you still have the chance to order Berm Peak merch we have child-sized jerseys we have sweatshirts
beanies gloves everything and we all wear the stuff we constantly make adjustments to it to
make it as comfortable as possible don't get it to support me get it because you deserve
it or somebody you know deserves it thanks for riding with us today and we'll see you next time
I thought we were staying on the bike you hear about dad bods
but then when you're a grandpa you get to have grandpa strength so what do you get to have
when your dad I'm already looking forward to being a grandpa so I can have grandpa straight
oh god