- Welcome back you beautiful viewers,
and today is your luck day.
I am out here at our, one of our favourite bike parks,
Wendell Bike Park in the UK.
And there's been a lot of comments asking for this trick,
and it's how to whip.
So today I am going to try to show you the whole thing,
step by step and try to get you to get that bike sideways.
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Right, where are going to start to do that whip?
Well, it all starts with a turnbar,
and with a take off such like this one,
it's slight off camber.
It's a small jump.
It's a little bit step down, but that is going to help you
turn the bars into it and get used to the bike moving
underneath you.
But, with the turnbar, the nature of this jump,
it's a slight hip with a slightly off camber jump.
So what I am doing, I am carving into it,
into the direction I want to the turnbar,
which naturally steps out that rear end
into a little bit of a whip.
But, it doesn't matter if you land a little bit sideways
on this because it's a small jump.
But you don't want to land sideways out there
when you've stepped up and you're going on
to a bigger jump.
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Alright, when you're learning the whip,
there's definitely going to be some sideways landing action.
I still do it, like I've just done.
But the way to get out of it is basically
getting into the attack position,
bend your elbows, bend your legs.
But, if you are landing like this,
and the landing is directly in front of you like this,
what you want to do is brace for impact, obviously,
but point your front wheel down in the direction
of the trail because it's basically going to whip
you back into line.
It's literally going to give you one of those,
and you are going to carry on and potentially
get out of it a little bit safe,
but that rear wheel might need some spoke tensioning.
Well this next step is, you've moved from the turnbar
on a smaller jump, now you've moved onto a bigger jump
where you want to progress that turnbarn into a hip.
So what you want to do is get comfortable with this jump.
It's not all about speed on this.
You don't want to go to fast into it
because you don't want to be quick at doing the whip.
So come in at a bit of a comfortable speed.
Enough to clear it.
Maybe do a few turnbars in there to get used to that air
and how much air time you're going to get,
and how that bike's going to react over a bigger distance.
Alright, so you are super comfortable jumping this jump.
You are not over jumping it.
You are not casing it.
But, it's the perfect amount of speed,
and you are comfortable with it,
then the whip basically starts right at the take off
with a huge carve to get you into that whip.
Here's a few clips of me and the J Crankworx
carving that huge take off into a big whip.
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There's two common ways I see people trying to do the whip,
and that is just by using the turnbar to try to
manipulate the bike, but they are not using their hips
to try to get that rear end out.
The other way, the most common way I see people doing it
is just with their hips, not with their upper body.
So they are just keeping a straight bar and using
their hips to try to push out the rear and bring it back.
Combining those two together, using your upper body
and your hips in one smooth solid motion is definitely
going to give you the ultimate whip.
So, you're probably asking that question,
can I do this on my cross country bike?
Can I do this on my BMX?
Can I do this on a jump bike?
Can I do this on my trail bike?
Can I do it on a road bike?
Yes, you can do it on any bike.
Even a fat bike.
If you just use those simple techniques
that I've showed you, on how to get the whip out there,
you can do it on any bike.
You can translate it to any bike you want.
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So there you go.
Some of the most crucial tips on how to get
the ultimate whip.
If you follow those tips, you definitely going to
progress your whip and you're going to have
some big whips out there to show off to your buddies.
But, if you for some reason land sideways,
and you've done a bit of a boo boo to your rear wheel,
click over here and we'll show you how to fix that.
And if you want to know five cool tricks to learn
on any bike, click just down here.
And, if you want something else to learn,
a how to, tricks, whatever, please let me know
in the comments.
Just say Blake I want to know how to do this,
and I'll see what I can do and we'll get that out for you.
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