- Have you ever wanted to ride like Sam Hill?
Take that famous inside line, be super stylish,
and fast down the mountain?
I do, I've always wanted to ride like him.
Today's your lucky day, we do have Sam Hill, himself,
to teach us that inside line.
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Okay, so we've dropped in on this trail,
it's a little bit rough, there's a few turns,
but, Sam, you know this trail a lot
'cause you've ridden this a hell of a lot.
- Yep.
- So you know a few good inside lines.
So you've chosen this one?
- Yeah, we've chosen this track, it has a few good insides,
and they're kinda, one links into the next,
so, you gotta get the first one right
to make the next one and so on,
pay off, as you go down the trail.
- Nice, and it all starts here.
I can see one, I can see the obvious line,
and that is way on the left.
- Yep.
- Into the right-hander.
And the inside line, I can see one inside line.
Here, so I would've come, this is the one I'm looking at,
here, through here, and then down there.
- Yeah.
- Is that it, or is there a different one?
- I'd probably go further inside than that,
as you're sorta coming in to the trail,
you can hug this left-hand side,
and as you're approaching this big root
you sorta wanna start heading across,
you can use this little platform here
to get your wheels over that root so you don't slide.
- Oh yeah, look at that.
- And I'd be running right through here,
and that's gonna open up your entry
into that next left as well,
where we also wanna try and hold an inside line.
- Yeah.
Right, well show us how it's, how it's done.
- Alright.
- And then I will follow in.
Hill, coaching me, the inside line.
Watch out, Neil.
I got Sam Hill's inside line.
Wow.
Holy moly mother of Moses.
- Yeah, I think to get on the inside
you're gonna wanna brake a bit earlier
than what you would if you were sticking to the main line.
- Yeah.
- You wanna wash off a bit of that speed,
spot the line where you wanna go,
and then commit to it, and get across that root.
- Yep.
- And you can, you slow down a little bit more,
and tuck on that next inside.
- Tuck and then we'll talk about the exit,
'cause there's another inside line.
- Yep.
- We'll just master this one.
- Yep.
- And then we'll go into that.
Wow, okay.
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- Yeah, you did this really good
and then you just carried a bit too much speed.
So, you missed that second inside on the left.
(hard rock music)
Yeah, nice.
So even though someone might smash these outsides
and look super fast,
you're taking the shorter and the faster line,
and just more controlled and you don't need to try as hard.
- From the master himself.
Words of wisdom.
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Alright, following you through there was pretty fun,
it was quick, it felt quick, but more in control,
it felt, yeah, way quicker than going all the way up
and around and dropping and following
the natural line of the trail anyway.
But, linking that up, I saw you link this one,
and then you've linked that one.
When you're riding a trail,
do you ride it blind and find it?
Do you look in ahead and you're spotting these inside lines,
the straight line, tryna make the track a bit quicker?
Or do you walk it?
- Yeah, so, leading into an EWS,
I'll try and walk the stages that I can,
and that lets you know what's coming,
but you can also look for these little insides and.
- [Blake] Yeah.
- [Sam] And ways to shorten the track.
Yeah, so, as you can tell, we got the first inside line,
which then allowed us to be able to check up
and take this next inside line.
- [Blake] Yeah.
- And then, from that, we were able
to follow in to this next section
and actually cut off a lot of trail
through this next S sort of chicane.
- Yeah, yeah.
- All by setting those first two up.
- Yeah, and it's like a domino effect, you start up with one
and then it starts creating other inside lines,
'cause it's putting you in a different spot
on the trail, right?
- Yeah, definitely, so if you're hitting that outside,
you're gonna be turning late
and it's gonna push you into the next outside.
- Yeah.
- And through a section like this,
as fast as you wanna ride it, you're not gonna be as quick
as just taking a bit more of a steady approach.
- Yeah.
- And just getting the right line through the trail.
- So steady wins the race, eh?
- Fast steady.
- Fast steady wins.
- Yeah, smart steady.
- Smart steady, there you go.
Okay, so we've done that,
we've linked that to that inside, to that inside,
and now we're introduced to this horrible drop
with loads of rocks and roots and stuff.
We can see the natural line,
it's a right-hander but it kinda goes left and then right.
And then, yeah.
Where's the route here?
- Yeah, I think this is, like, a perfect example
of walking a trail and being able to spot lines,
'cause last week I did a few laps down this trail.
- Yep.
- And I kinda had those first two insides,
but I hadn't really taken my time
or had a look at this section,
and was just sorta riding the main thing and.
- Yeah.
- I remember this being quite rough off the drop
and that sort of thing, so, just by being here today
and sorta walking you through these first two
I've found that by linking them two insides together,
you can kinda go off this drop,
hug next to the tree
and sorta use those roots as a bit of a landing.
- [Blake] Yep.
- And that allows you to cut this corner, the next corner,
and semi head straight into the berm at the bottom,
so, you're straightening the whole thing out, essentially.
- Look at that.
- [Sam] So, yeah, I think that's the good thing
about walking a trail.
- [Blake] Walking a trail, it's a perfect example, yeah.
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- Straightens it up, eh?
- Straightens it up like a treat, yeah.
That was so inside.
Can't even believe it, so fast, wow.
Right, okay.
Let's time it.
I'm gonna do normal, natural line,
that everyone else takes, outside, outside,
and then you're gonna do the inside, inside, gap.
And we'll see who's faster.
- See if you can still see me at the end.
(relaxed hip hop music)
Where were ya?
(Blake laughs)
- Yeah, the inside line is way quicker.
So there you go, that's the inside line
with Sam Hill himself, teaching myself, and you guys,
how to pick the fast inside line.
- Yeah, it's all about finding that inside you wanna take,
commit to it.
If you're a racer it's great to get out
and try and walk the track before
and look for these little sections to make you quicker.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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