- Welcome back to my class and today is a fun class.
It's all about skids.
Yes, I know, skids can ruin trails
but we all do it out there and it can help you
in certain circumstances where an obstacle
or a corner's too sharp and you need to use that skid.
But we don't like to exclude anyone.
If you don't know how to skid I'm gonna show you
how to do that first.
Oh! New Record!
(screams)
Right, all you need is a flat bit of surface
just like this fire road right here
and essentially the whole skid is locking up
that back brake, so just grabbing a whole handful
of that back brake, lock that back wheel up
but there is two different techniques on doing this.
If you wanna do a super long skid,
you wanna shift your weight all over the front
get that back wheel light enough so it just skips along
and skids forever.
Or if you wanna come to a skid, to a stop,
then put your weight all the way back, heels down, get all
the way into that back wheel to get
as much grip as possible to stop that wheel
from skidding.
Right, now we know how to skid out there on the fire road.
I'm at the top of this trail and I'm gonna shred down
this thing and then come to parts of the trail
where the skid technique is gonna help you
around that corner or obstacle out there.
So let's go.
(upbeat music)
Oh man, as much fun as it looks, it is fun,
but the reason why I got a Scandi flick right here
is where in rally and they turn the opposite way
and then turn into it and gets that back end
to flick round, wherever your front wheel is facing,
your back wheel is gonna follow if you've got the grip
which I've got the grip right here so I wanted to take
that sharp left around that tree to continue the trail.
So I Scandi flicked it to get that back end to flick out
like a whip to take me left to follow my front wheel
and up the top here, I did another skid.
Basically I'm pre-hopping into this little bank
right here by locking up the back wheel into
this bank right here is gonna stop my wheel
and my bike from shooting off over the bank
and not down the trail.
So what I'm doing is getting the back end to slide,
grip, hit the bank and force me 90 degrees down the trail.
Using the skid on this bit of terrain right here,
as you can see, it's super off-camber on a bit of
a steep bit of a trail right here and what you do is
you lock up that back wheel to let your wheel drift,
lose traction, drift, grip into this little catch
right here and that's gonna keep you high up
for that next bit of trail.
You can see, I could have taken the high line
without using the skid but it's gonna set you up
quite weirdly into the next section which is even steeper
and you wanna stay quiet high to go around and not just
straight through and cut the whole trail out.
(laughs)
Right, this section right here, this is quite
a steep decent. And skidding is not prioritised
in this situation because when you lose traction
on that rear wheel you're gonna speed up and miss
this crazy right had turn.
I can see people have misgivings like myself
and I went straight because I sped up and I didn't have
enough time.
You can see when my back wheel locked up I sped up
and you don't wanna do that.
What you wanna do is feather your brakes,
modulate your braking so you don't lock up
that back wheel and gain speed because you keep
that speed under control so you can grab this sharp
right-hander and not end up shooting down there
into the abyss and missing out the trail.
I spoke about this out there, it's the Scandi flick.
I'm gonna break it down for you so you understand
what I'm talking about when I'm telling you.
You're turning away from the corner, what,
in a skid, no, right, well I've got this here.
Basically, using a Scandi flick when it comes
to a narrow bit of terrain like trail just like this
one I've plotted out here.
It's quite narrow.
What you wanna do is use the whip, so the Scandi.
So you're turning away, you're skidding away
from that turn and using that whole whip situation
to shift you over and flick you around this thing
right here.
I'm gonna time two runs.
One without the Scandi and the other with the Scandi,
see which one's faster.
Right, with our rough timing test I'm 3/10 faster
with the Scandi flick than just basically riding around
this tree.
And it's key, you brake early for the Scandi.
It's very crucial to know where to start Scandi flicking
so you start braking really early, slow in and fast out.
Let's not forget, skids are fun, they're not just for kids,
one exiting a trail and impressing your mates.
(upbeat music)
Oh, that was sick man, yeah.
Leafy skid!
Wow!
Handbrake!
Bravo, that was a good one.
Oh! New record!
(screams)
So there you go, there's a few ways on how to use
the skid out there on the trail to get round obstacles
just like this one right here.
But I'm not encouraging you to go out there
and skid up the trail, respect your trail
and use it when necessary.
Don't just go and skid everywhere.
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