- Welcome back you beautiful people and you know what?
I love this trick!
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Yes the scrub,
was a technique really to help you if you're going too fast
and you want to keep that speed down the turn
instead of going all the way to flat on a jump.
I love it!
And it looks steezy as well.
I'm going to show you how to do this.
I know what jump you're going to do this on.
Well, ya know what?
A step down for me is the perfect place to scrub
because a step down is super easy to go over jumping.
Especially when you're coming in with a bit of speed.
So a step down is a perfect jump to basically
learn the scrub.
Just like this one!
Alright looks like someone's been having fun on this
by scrubbing it.
Look at that.
And that, my friends, is the mark of a scrub.
You're carving into it.
Which I'll come to in a bit.
Now, technique wise,
you're gonnna make sure you know how to jump
because scrubbing you are taking off of a jump
like this one right here,
the step down.
So you're going to have to have your basic jumping technique.
Now when you're going a little bit too fast,
and you want to scrub it and keep your speed so you don't
over jump this,
you bring in that scrub technique.
Now before we get here to make these marks,
lets move all the way over there where it starts.
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Yes, it starts all the way over here.
Now when you're coming into a jump just like this one,
it doesn't necessary have, it doesn't matter if there's
a jump in front of it.
So there is a jump in front of this jump
that I'm going to be scrubbing, this step down.
So what I'm going to do is land quite right as right.
So I'm standing quite far over
on the right side of that landing.
And as you can see I'm going to draw a line of the actual
line that I do take to get the scrub going.
This is my line.
That there is what I like to call the carve line.
And by carving into this is basically you're keeping
the momentum of the jump,
but you're going to be carving off to keep that momentum
through the trail.
So the technique when it comes to the take off
is exactly the same as when you're jumping.
Its bascially you're carving off the lip.
You're trying to scrub off the jump so you don't
get high.
Its all about keeping low and keeping your speed going.
Now how do you keep that bike low and sideways and keep
that speed going through on a jump?
Well just think, if there's a big low roof
just above the jump
you want to scrub through it.
You want to keep low.
So you want to go as low as possible but still going fast.
Now there's a little bit of a science to this.
And that comes with the suspension.
It's true.
It's weird.
But it works.
Now when you're carving,
basically you're preloading your suspension in
and whilst your turning off the lip,
your suspension is going to fire sideways.
It's going to go like that.
It's going to force your bike to go out.
Whereas if you going in straight you're going to
preload in and you're going to push up.
It's going to fire you up.
The same thing but you're going to bring it down sideways.
You're going to let your bike glide through the air.
Your suspension is going to push out, come off the lip,
and ping so you're using the inertia of that suspension
to force your bike out flat just like that.
Forcing it out flat, scrubbing and turning,
depending on how you want to do it.
For me, I like to bring the bars up.
Loads of people like to bring the bars down.
But that all depends on what kind of jump you're jumping.
As you can see in these slow mo's,
my body weight is over to the right hand side of the bike.
I'm looking forward but I'm kind of bringing the bars up.
I'm trying to keep the bike low,
and I'm driving it forward instead of up and to the sky.
Okay, so you've carved, you've done the big S on the turn,
you've preloaded, you're scrubbed off the lip, now
you're in the air.
Now this is where it looks super now, it looks sick.
Is this is where the steeze happens.
This is how fast you'll be going and how low you'll be going
by the scrub right here.
So what you're doing is, you're laying your bike down
you're keeping your body weight quite close to your bike
but you're still looking ahead because you don't want
want to lose focus on where you're going to land.
Because when you're scrubbing your bikes going to be sideways
so what you want to get prepared for is your landing.
This is where you're going to be bringing your hips back
and bringing bars down
and you're looking at your landing point.
You're looking there and you're going to drive our bike into it
but when it comes to landing, like I said,
you want to spot it now with the thing with the scrub is
your front wheel is going to be landing first because
you're driving your bike into it.
You can see this is my front wheel, right here,
and my rear wheel is there and you can see like
I am facing the wrong way down this landing.
But its fine because when you land your front wheel is
facing down the trail not that way.
You're facing down there.
So whatever way, whatever way your wheel is facing
your front wheel, your backs going to follow.
Alright, key points to take into consideration
when scrubbing.
Speed, you want to make sure you got that big S.
You got to do that carve line up the lip.
You want to carve the lip to get the scrub going.
Keep your speed going through on the trail.
Also, you need to know how to jump.
And you need to be jumping with confidence.
That's the main thing.
Jumping with confidence.
Another one that feels very weird for the first time,
and that is when your wheels are drifting off the lip.
And that is strange but
keep going with it, learn it, understand how it's going,
it's physics.
Your bikes going to fire
but your body is going to be going straight.
You just got to keep your bike in control.
And also, you got to be comfortable with the bike
drifting underneath you in the air
because that could be a little bit daunting
for the first time when your bikes a bit sideways
and your back wheel is overtaking your front wheel.
That gets a bit wrong, that's a bit wrong,
and you're landing sideways.
You're going to know a good mechanic or you're a good mechanic,
cause your wheels going to go like this.
Okay, people do ask how do you set up your bike
for scrubbing.
It's the same kind of setup as jumping as well,
and that is you don't want to have your suspension
setup really fast.
You don't want your rebound to be pinging you
off that lip because
that just sends you over the bars.
Tire pressures is another good thing to take into
consideration as well.
You don't want them too hard because when they're a
bit too hard off the lip they can bounce and
you lose a lot of grip and it's going to ping you off.
Also, the main one is don't run them too low
cause if you have a really low tire pressure,
it's going to fold underneath you, and its going to feel weird and
basically it pings you off the trail.
The tire pressures I am running in these tires are 28
and I'm running 30 on the front.
I've got my suspension setup quite low on the rebound,
quite high and stiff, in the front I'm running it a
little bit stiff as well cause I'm running on smooth trails
and I don't want my bike to be diving off that lip.
Get a scrub, ya know originated from MOTO, motorcross.
Now all I can remember is Bubba scrubbing 'cause he was
the first at scrubbing.
And it wasn't necessary about the style and the steeze
and stuff, it was all about keeping the speed.
The lower you are the faster you're going to go.
Speed is your friend.
Height is not your friend when it comes to racing.
You want to keep maintaining that speed.
You can scrub anything that you want to go fast down.
Drops, stepdowns, big jumps, anything, step ups,
everything you can scrub to keep low to go fast.
When it comes to scrubbing off drops the technique
changes slightly.
You're still carving off but you're pushing down your bike.
You're going to go down instead of popping the drop to get
high to get onto your landing.
You're driving your bike down the drop and onto that landing
to get as minimal height as possible.
So there you go, a few tips on how to scrub.
Now the scrub is a perfect skill to have when you want
to go racing, and you want to keep low on jumps.
To be honest, I don't do it to go fast.
I like it cause it looks cool and it looks steezy and fun.
As super cool trick to learn, it's all about practice,
practice, practice like always.
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