- [Blake] Hello and welcome to Blake Samson's
How to Impress Your Friends in the Car Park
Before Heading Out for a Jolly Ride.
Arrive on time.
At the right location.
With fresh gear.
Ahh, clean bike.
Here are a few ways I like to impress my mates
when I'm in the car park even before going out to the trail.
First off, you gotta get on your bike.
Woo-hoo!
That's the Cardinal, there's a pretty cool trick to do
to show off to impress your mates,
that's pretty basic one.
Scary, but basic.
It's all about practise on this one.
First off, place your bike on the ground drive side up.
What you wanna do is have your crank facing downwards.
Have a flat pedal so you've got
a surface for your foot to land.
Next up, come into your bike with a bit of pace,
walking pace, slap your foot into that pedal,
and whilst you're pushing down on it,
your left leg is hooking your saddle to bring up your bike.
What you don't want to do
is go in with your hand on your bars to bring up the bike.
You wanna use your legs and your momentum
to bring up that bike, and then the bars, into your hands.
Then pedal off.
Okay, this is the Caveman Drop, the Bomb Drop,
the kind of drop to impress your mates.
Never done this before, so I'm nervous.
Take number one.
(laughs)
That was rubbish.
I'm gonna do that again.
It's so scary.
Which way do I do it?
Right, take number two. (laughs)
Ow!
Take number three, that hurt.
Right, this is the ninja way to get on my bike.
The Wheelie.
A one-handed Wheelie.
The Burnout.
The Endo.
I've showed you how to do the Cardinal,
how to get on your bike,
I'm gonna teach you, I'm gonna pull out one of them,
and I'm gonna teach you the Endo.
Super-effective, but yet can spit you out the front door
and make you super embarrassed
and all your mates are gonna be laughing at you.
Here's a few tips on how to do that.
Right, you wanna come in with quite a bit
of speed to get that stopping going,
and what I like to do is seat-bounce
and use my hips to bring up that back wheel.
Right, you're in this position,
now you're on the front wheel, you're riding it,
so you're gonna feather that front brake,
you wanna get your arms straight,
you wanna get all your pressure on that front wheel,
keep your legs bent, and feather that brake
to keep that back wheel up in the air.
Keep your arms straight, keep your legs bent as well,
but if you find yourself going over the front too much,
lay off the front brake,
bring your weight back a little bit.
But if you find yourself dropping the back wheel too much,
bit more front brake, get your weight a little bit forward
to bring that back wheel up.
And it's all about modulating it, there's a balance point
when it comes to the stopping.
You'll find it's quite far forward and scary,
but whilst you're practising doing this,
it's pretty cool to do and you can go for quite a long time,
a bit like Danny Mac.
Endo!
Wheelie out.
Some spinny tricks.
The Pirouette.
Skid!
Skid 180.
Impressed yet? No? Alright.
Beg me to bring out my secret weapon, did you?
Ha! Watch this!
Bunny Hop.
Not impressed, are you?
Watch this.
Bunny Hop Bar.
Hey, gorgeous, little tree here. (laughs)
Oi, that's impressive, I hope.
If none of those ones have done impressive you, then
who dunno.
If you wanna know how to learn any of these things,
let me know in the comments down below
and I'll get back to you on that.
Let me know if any other tricks
that you haven't seen in this
in the comments as well
and potentially could be volume two.
Hit that like button if you're impressed,
smash that globe if you haven't subscribed already,
and I'll see you at the next one.
'Cause there's no mates here to impress anymore,
they're all gone.
See ya.