- Right, today, we're gonna look at
some really simple exercises you can do on your bike
for your skills, that you can do absolutely anywhere.
- Yes, literally anywhere.
These basic skills are gonna help you out there,
improve your riding.
- Guaranteed!
- Yes.
(bright music)
- Okay so the great thing about this
is you can do it on any bike, so no excuses.
And the first thing to do is try to set yourself
a little obstacle course.
So, I've got a bit of a ditch, some rocks,
try and make a little circuit,
go off and round these rocks.
I really am just practising my slow speed skills,
bit of trial stuff.
A lot of balance, control, brake control.
It's something I used to do an awful lot of after school,
grab my bike, mess around and learn loads of skills.
- Right, that's exactly right, Neil.
But to progress on your balance skills,
find obstacles just like these poles right here.
Just go through them, get your tracks down,
get your balance all correct.
Move around, but you don't necessarily need
logs just like those ones, those poles.
You can put rocks down, just like I've done here.
You can do this anywhere.
And the better you get, the faster you'll go.
That is gonna give you a lot more balance
out there on the trail.
Be more confident.
(driving rock music)
Right, just behind me, may seem and empty car park,
which it is, but to me I see a skills park,
a manualing park, a place
where you can practise your manuals.
All you need is two sticks and I can see two already,
they're strategically placed.
These two sticks are definitely gonna help you progress
you manualing skills out there.
What you wanna do is put them out with a bit of a distance
but make it massive,
make it unrealistic and you're not gonna completely do it
because one day, you are gonna make it.
So I'm gonna go massive.
Ah, no!
Practise, practise makes perfect!
Uh-oh, uh-oh.
Yes, let's make it bigger.
I'm gonna put it down there.
One.
Oh, smoked it!
(upbeat music)
- And the same goes for wheelieing.
Just find yourself somewhere flat
and it teaches you a lot about the balance point
of the bike and also using that rear brake
to bring the front wheel back down.
Once you get it down, start taking your hand off.
(upbeat music)
- Right, the best thing about practising all of these skills
that is messing about, just having a little mash up.
Jibbing everywhere, challenging yourself
and having fun.
- Come on then, let's set some challenges for each other.
- Oof, yes.
- What have you got for me?
- 180 endo, backward on the other side
of this gully thing.
- Alright, let's do it.
- Like this.
- [Neil] Nice!
- Pretty good!
- Let's go.
- Here we go, full cross country bike.
Oh, nice!
- Alright, I've got one for you over here.
- Alright.
- Okay, so limited run off, you'll go round the tree,
sprint, and try and bunny hop over that ditch.
- Cool.
Wow!
Oh! Goal for you, though, Neil.
Concentrating on this little gully, huh?
'Cause you can do so much.
- Yep.
- You're gonna come into it,
nose press, or nose manual, like nose tap,
and then drop in 90 into the hole and pedal out
or either direction.
- Lets do it.
(laughing)
- That looked sketchy.
Oh! Yes!
- That was a heavy landing.
(funky music)
- Right, practise a little hill climbing skills.
Find a little bank, shortest run possible,
and see if you can get up it.
Ooh, oh, wow!
Oh, yes!
Neil, I reckon you can get closer.
- Uh, no way.
(grunting)
(laughing)
- Snapped the chain.
I find a bank with a rock on top,
just galloping off the rock and way off the other side.
- Oh, that is super trials.
You even brought the front wheel up into ah-ah-ah.
- That's good fun.
- Oh, I can try that.
- [Neil] Nice!
- Whoa, there's a bigger one over there, if you wanna do it.
- Ah, no, I'm alright.
(driving beat music)
- Right, this one, you can literally do it on a flat piece
of surface that's basically getting your balance.
This is the best thing you can do.
Moving your bike when you're stationary,
front wheel up, back wheel around.
Just get used to your bike moving underneath you.
It's gonna be a great skill.
Just hopping about, practise your endos.
Moving the front, especially when you get
to a technical section out there on the trail.
This is gonna help you a lot.
A hell of a lot.
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- Hi, Neil.
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