- Right, you've seen loads of free ride videos
with dudes shreddin' down a super steep line, super sandy,
and you want to do that.
But when you get to the top, it's very intimidating.
It's so steep and far and fast.
I'm going to give you a few tips
on how to conquer those fears
so you can do those same lines.
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Right, tip number one is about picking your line.
So come to the bottom of that steep slope, look at it.
Obviously you're right here.
It's gonna be a straight line for me,
but you've got to make sure there's no obstacles
in that face.
That's going to stop you or hinder your exit.
Another one, look at your exit.
See if there's no crazy boulders lying around,
glass, or whatever.
And make sure that your exit is free here.
Because you probably won't, you know, control that speed,
because you're gonna come out real fast if it's really big.
And here it looks pretty safe.
This is safe.
I'm going to be safe.
But next one.
You gotta go look at the top.
Right, it's always important to look from the bottom first
because there could be a hidden drop in that slope.
When you get to the top, you want to make sure, oh wow.
Every time.
It always looks bigger when you're on top.
When you're at the bottom, it looks like meh.
When you're at the top, it gets put into perspective
of what you're going to be dropping down.
My next point is picking your line in.
So you can see there's a gully here.
This guy's pretty deep.
You don't want to clip your pedals going into it.
So this is going to be scary.
Here's an obvious line here.
As you can see, it's already been hit.
Right, tip, pro tip.
Find some sticks.
Two sticks here.
I want to make sure that I'm not going to go in that hole.
So I'm going place a stick right here
to say don't go beyond that stick
and a stick here like that, they're a bit high.
All right, clip my pedals.
Like that.
Make sure I'm going to go in there.
Anywhere there is safe.
I've got my line.
Now the next step is to make sure
that I can clear my bottom bracket
because some steep descents are quite gnarly
and you've gotta hop into them.
But this one,
I'm going to see if my BB is going to clear that.
And I think, yes, I'm safe.
Right, so you've worked all the obvious.
You know your line.
You know your entrance point.
You know you're going to clear that top ridge,
next one is speed.
Speed is not your friend when it comes to this.
You basically, you can start right at the beginning
and just get on your pedal,
give yourself a little push and drop in
because you're going to get all your speed
from descending that thing.
Right the next thing is,
just commit and drop in because once you're in, you're in.
You can't stop.
But little pro tip,
don't spend too long up here thinking about doing it
because you're going to psych yourself out.
Just get on it and get in it.
I'm going to get in it.
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Right, this next step,
you want to know where you want to put your body weight.
Front, rear, middle.
As you can see, at the top, I'm in attack position.
I'm not fully extended back,
my weight's not completely backwards,
and I'm not scared to go over the edge
because if your body weight is all over the way
over the back end, your front wheel is going
to be super light when you go off the top.
So in attack position, when your front wheel is just
about to roll over, that's when
I start moving my body weight.
My heels drop, my knee's bend, my arms stretch out,
and my body weight is all over the back wheel just
to stop me from going over the bars.
But when you can see, halfway down it's not as steep.
So my body position kind of moves forward
into the attack position again.
But some slopes, they get super steep,
and you want to keep your body weight over the back end just
to keep that back wheel safe, dug in.
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Right this next tip is braking.
Obviously you want to go slow,
you don't want to go completely flat-out down here,
you want to slow down for the bottom.
As you can see in that clip, I did lock up,
but locking up, it could increase your speed,
and you haven't got much grip.
When your wheels are turning, you've got grip,
so what you want to do is modulate those brakes,
when descending that.
So you don't want to lock up and lose control of your bike.
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Right this last one is your exit.
Obviously you've scoped out, you know you've got your line,
you've seen your exit, you've got enough run out.
But, I've seen a lot of people come into this,
where there's a big GL, and all their body's shifted
over the back because they've come down this,
and they've kinda just looped out.
You don't want to be doing that,
so what you want to do is come into it,
into attack position, better have your body
all the way shifted forward, have it central,
use your bike suspension and your body
as a suspension to soak up that whole G,
keep in control and shred out.
Right now, you know all the basics
on how to drop into a steep chute
and do some shredding lines.
I want to get creative, there's got a whole bank here.
I'm gonna find some lines,
and I'm gonna challenge myself
'cause all good about challenge yourself.
Here goes. There's one!
I'm going to drop into that one,
the one we just did, I'm going to drop into it.
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(laughs)
All right, we're acting like nose manual in.
(adventurous music)
(laughs)
Rampage, here we come.
Well, there are my few tips
on how to conquer your fear
on riding super steep chutes just like this one right here.
If you can nail down your technique on this,
you can take it to an even bigger one,
it's the same, it's just you're going faster,
and you're having more fun 'cause it's a longer ride.
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