- Today's video's all about impressing your buddies
out on the pump track
and that is going fast, clearing huge gaps,
exploring, endurance style,
manuals, the whole shebang.
It's a good recipe to impress your mates
but then I'm going to dive into it a little bit,
give you a few tips on how to do these things
so lets get started.
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Right, this one, to impress your mates,
it's all about going fast on a pump track.
If you're flying around on that pump track
you're going to get some whoops from your buddies
but it's a technique
that takes a long time to master,
but also certain obstacles on the pump track
recommend different techniques.
For me, you can double this,
but you're going to go slow to double it
so you do an over jump if you're going too fast,
so the technique on these two is that
you use the manual to manual through
to generate more speed to go faster into that next section,
whereas this last one right here, this one,
is big enough for me to double,
so going one to the other in the air
and then through that corner as fast as I can
and as stylish as I can, as well.
There you go, it depends on what the obstacles are
on the pump track,
basically you want to generate more speed
and you've got to find out what obstacle
is perfect for manualling through,
to gain more speed, or to just jump it,
to get more air time.
Simples!
Right, this is why the pump track is super tiring
and exhausting when you're going fast,
and using a turn to generate
as much speed as possible is key.
You don't just want to ride this thing,
you want to push into this things and push out of it
just think of it as a roller on it's side,
you pump in through it,
you're going to pump all the way through
and give it all you've got to go flat out.
Alright, what if speed is not your thing
and you're not faster than your mates?
Then you've got to look fast.
You've got to bring in a bit of style,
you're going to over exaggerate
at certain points of the skills,
for instance, the manual.
Right, the best place to do the manual and over exaggerate
is find the longest straight on the pump track
because that's where you can perfect
on how far you can go on the manual.
But what I mean by exaggerating is
you want to get into that manual,
you want to maintain the height of that,
you don't want to go too high
because that's no style points there,
you want to bend your legs, lean far back over the bike
and looking over your bars, just like this,
over your front tire, looking at it
you're looking fast, you're looking stylish
and that's going to impress your mates.
Right, a little tip on technique,
on how to manual out of turns
because they're super high.
Basically, what you want to do is come into the turn,
turn obviously, but when you're coming out of it
you want to kind of straighten up your bike
as much as possible
because if you come out like this,
you can't look at your bike,
you're looking down the line
but you're bike is facing that way, see?
You're bike's going to go that way.
So you want to come in quite early on,
quite high up in the turn before,
cut down in the turn,
to straighten up that line out of the turn,
manual over this and then it's all about
using your legs and pushing the bike down
maintaining the height of that--
that front wheel will rise when you go up
but then when your bike drops down,
you're dropping the front as well
so you're pushing forward like you would
if you had two wheels on the ground.
But that comes with a lot of practice
because it takes time, trust me,
but it's fun when you get it
and it will impress your mates.
Alright, if manualling's not your thing
then finding a big fat gap
to get some height
to get some distance just to impress your mates is key.
I chose this one over all the rest
because it's quite unique.
You can actually double it
or you can use this bank over here
as a hip and that's what brought me here
I can use this as a hip
I can get a little bit of style in my air to clear that
and the best thing about it, you don't need that much speed
as long as you pop this beast you can get over it
so a little bit of speed,
come in, pop it, steez it out, land
your mates are going to be like clapping away.
"Well done mate."
You're not fussed but you're getting height.
Alright this one's a bit more of an experimental one
you want to get out the box
look for unique lines, different lines,
because that's what's going to impress your mates.
Make sure it's difficult.
Just think out the box, I've seen a few,
I see one across here into that berm,
I can see from out this berm into that berm,
that one to there,
that one's definitely going to impress people.
Let's crack on.
Alright, what about this one.
From that side to this one
then I have to jump that into that berm.
That's a big gap, that's a big gap.
I'll try it, then we'll try this one.
Which I think is death.
Okay, I'll do it again, I cased it.
Right look at this one, it's not even part of the course.
Actually everywhere's part of the course,
it's all about in here.
Figuring out new lines, look at this line
it's out the top of this berm into that roller over there
and then into that berm.
Ooh it's going to be difficult
now I how do I calculate this?
Well speed is key, because it's quite a big gap.
I've got the speed, I know I've got the speed.
It's about technique on hitting this beast.
Look at it, the thing about hitting small lips
going fast has a tendency to do this.
That's if you pump it,
if you pull off it it's going to--
because you pull off with your front wheel
and then your back wheel's still going up that short kicker
it's going to do that.
And I don't want to do that,
because that looks really hard to fall on.
I'm nervous, I'm nervous, I'm scared.
(laughs)
I don't even know if it's on, it's that scary.
It's on.
Just get over it bloke.
Plus, if I crash, Fails and Bails.
(laughs)
Okay, okay, I cased
but I knew I was going to case like I said.
Because I was nervous about hitting it
I got ready for it so I bent my legs,
using my legs as suspension.
There's a tip for you.
If you're running a Hardtail, as well as a full sus,
use your legs, bend your legs, land
that's going to be suspension,
I didn't even feel it, much.
Do it again.
Wow, that impressed.
That impressed me, I'm impressed,
I can go away a happy man.
With gapping all these gaps, especially this one.
Right, the weird thing about it was,
because that's a roller, and that's a roller,
it's like condescending itself,
I feel like I'm taking off there
but then I can't take off
because I need to roll this tiny little bit
and then use that to push me over that
quite a long gap, I think it's like two, three bike lengths?
And I landed flat, but I'd rather land flat than case again
because my ankles are not up for that again.
So there you go, gaps.
That's going to impress your mates.
Right, if those weird angles and transfers
are not your thing and you're not comfortable with doing it
don't worry, you can still find gaps but on the track
and straight ones that are still going to impress your mates
look at this, from there to there,
gap this, that's impressive,
but then you've got enough speed to do this one
which is even bigger, that's impressive too.
But by doing this it's going to help you
progress your jumping skills which you can transfer
up to the trail, perfect!
Right, this next one is manualling
I mean manualling a whole straight,
sounds easy, but it's super hard
especially when you've got four of them
to try and complete, but it's definitely impressive.
When I see someone do it, it definitely impresses me.
Right, if you haven't got all those skills
to impress your mates
but you've got legs of steel
then endurance is highly impressive
because a pump track is insanely tiring
it burns your legs and doing as many laps as possible
beating your friends out the park is impressive .
(laughs)
Wow, right, there's a few ways
to impress your buddies on a pump track,
like manualling a whole straight at high speed
is insanely impressive, by the looks of it,
I need a little bit more practice at high speed.
Talk about practice, click down here on how to manual,
because that's definitely going to help you
on the pump track
then down here on how to use the pump track
to boost your jumping skills and then transfer that
out on to the trail, super down in depth, really cool,
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