- Oh What! Look at the state of that pump track,
I wanted to shred that thing, man before hitting the trail.
Ahh, no excuses though. We can still ride,
we can still ride
I can see a few obstacles under this flyover. That it's dry
apart from that bit over there.
That we can actually learn some essential skills.
So, I'm gonna show you a few things that you can learn
if that is wet, you can still learn some tricks.
I see a hip, I see a bench, I see some posts,
I see some flat ground. It's dry
This is my essential skills that you need to learn.
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When Neil did an amazing video on how to learn he got Tom,
one of our creatives, and he worked, cause he doesn't know
how to manual,
but now he does because of what Neil's just taught him.
And that tutorial is pretty cool. If you have a chance
to take a look at that.
I'll do a throw to that at the end of this video.
But it's all about doing that "L" shape when you're doing it
You're pushing down and then you're pushing your body weight
over the back. And you're pulling the handle bars to get
to get the wheel into that manual.
It's quite a tough one to learn, it takes time,
it takes practice. But when you nail it, it's the best
feeling ever, because you're not pedaling, you're just
lifting up that front wheel.
And you're gliding down the trail on one back wheel. And
of course it can help you get over some obstacles as well
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Now this next one, I struggle with.
Can you guess what it is? Fakie, yes.
I struggle with fakies. Now the best way to learn the fakie
is on the flat ground or on a bank,
so you can get a little bit of speed.
I'll show you on the flat ground, first
because you probably don't have a flat bank
but you probably have a flat surface.
What I'm gonna do, I'm gonna use the same pillar for this.
And I'm gonna ride towards it.
Before I get there I'm gonna hit the front brake,
move that body weight over the front, get that back wheel
up in the air. And then I'm gonna push myself back
let go of the front brake.
Let the back wheel drop, and then I'm gonna fakie.
Use that momentum to get myself into riding backwards.
So the best gear for it is you don't wanna be too high
because you want to get some speed into it
but you don't want it to quick because if it's real easy
gear, your crank's gonna be doing this, going backwards.
But if it was at a medium gear, it'll be going nice smooth
movement back. Not too fast but not too slow.
Alright, if you don't have this sort of terrain,
and it's too flat where you are. There's a bank over there
and a bank is a perfect place to just ride up it
put the brake on a bit, stop, and then roll back down
into that fakie.
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Alright this one's the Stoppie.
And I'm not very good at stoppies, so this is gonna
be a learning curve for me as well.
What I mean by Stoppie is you're gonna use that brake
to get your back wheel up into the air and ride along it,
on the front wheel. Bit like the manual
but on your front wheel. And you wanna be feathering your
front brake, you don't wanna lock your front brake.
You just go over the bars and that's a bit embarrassing.
I'm bending my knees and keeping my body weight
quite central, still. Kinda looking ahead
and I'm kinda feeling where that balancing point is.
In the nose manual, so I can feather that front brake.
Keep my momentum going through.
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Now this one is super easy, it's super simple
but, yet effective when you get out on there on the trail
when it comes to some real tight switchbacks.
This is gonna help you out. This pillar or post or whatever
this concrete thing is, to hold this road up.
This is basically, if you go around it, it's real tight.
This is basically gonna mimic one of those tight switchbacks
on the trail. So, the aim for me to do is
to go around this pole, not to touch it but not to venture
too far out wide. Because if you venture out far wide
it's like there's a huge cliff and you're gonna fall of it.
So, it's a slow moving one. And it's super easy, super fun.
Do it both ways as well, so you can get used to
going one way and then go back the other way.
Because you know the trail never turns right
or ever goes left. Only Nascar goes left.
Slow speed, you don't wanna go too fast
So, you're learning your balance, get as close as you can
to the pole without touching it.
Look at that, whoa.
Try and get your wheel to hug the pole.
If you don't have a big pole like this
you can put bits on the floor.
Look at that, you're learning your balancing.
You're looking around your apex. You're looking ahead.
You're not looking down at your front wheel,
because you want to see the exit of that bit of trail.
So the great thing about having quite a distance between
each pillar is because you can pick of speed
into that corner, so you can get out to a reasonable trail
speed, into a tight turn. So you have to use those brakes
and then guide yourself around that turn.
That's pretty cool because, you don't just wanna go slow
around there because you'll get used to going slow.
You wanna go fast, use the brakes a little bit
and then go around that turn.
Now this one is cool, because, this is quite hard
so you could say it's a hard-packed trail.
Then look at this one. This one here is quite loose.
So, that's a loose bit of trail.
You gotta think out the box. Think, look at your terrain
and see what would mimic what's out there on the trail.
So you can learn it here in a bit of dryer environment.
I'm gonna go around the loose one, hard-packed,
loose-packed, hard-packed, loose, hard.
Oh, yeah.
I can feel the front end moving in the dirt.
When you're riding this turns, you don't wanna lean back
and just go around the corner like this,
because there's no control with your straight arms.
What you wanna do is when you're turning around,
you wanna drop your bike, and you wanna keep your body
quite upright. And looking at your exit of the corner,
all the time. Just like this.
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Alright,
that is the Endo.
And the most important thing that you need to do, to do this
and potentially you could do it straight away if you take
this on, is look at a point. If you're looking to where you
wanna go, basically your backhand is just gonna swing round
cause your hips are basically guided to where your eyes
are looking at.
I'm going look at this point, right here. This plastic
bottle top thing, and my wooden stick.
If I'm focused on that point when I turn, I'm literally
gonna do it. It's crazy, where you look is where you go.
Now, when you're coming into it, you don't wanna come into
it straight. You're coming in at walking speed.
And you're gonna turn your front wheel,
as soon as you turned it you lock the front wheel with your
front brake. You're looking at that stick, and your hips are
basically gonna come round, and you're gonna drop
the back wheel. But you'll probably end up doing 90
or 45 then 90 then 80, 85, 70.
All those weird angles
until you get full 180. I'll demonstrate
but watch my eyes and where I'm looking.
So, I'm coming in, not too fast. I'm looking, and I wanna
point, turn my wheel, shift my body weight forwards,
so I can manipulate that back wheel to come up,
still focusing on my point
let my hips bring the whole back end round.
You can use your thigh, everything, just to grip that bike
and bring it round, and drop it down.
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Ohh right, this one. This is probably the most challenging
object in the area I'm in. This is the bench.
Now, the key is to get up onto it.
And ride off it safely.
Bit of trials, this can help you when it comes into
a bit of a sticky situation out in the trail.
Where you got this step up and you need to get up it
and you don't wanna get off your bike.
But learning it here, in a bit of a controlled environment.
And at your own pace, and not on a trail, you can do it,
right here, on this bench.
So, the technique I'm going for, is front wheel up
and the back wheel to follow. Like that.
And then, a side hop off.
Whoo, that's tech
So the technique I used here was front wheel first,
and then basically shifting my body weight up and over
my front wheel. By curling my feet on my pedals
I can bring the bike up.
And like, push forward onto the bench.
You can start small on a curb, which will be pretty good
but there's no curbs here. And this is the only
biggest feature in this area. Apart from the pump track.
Let me do that again, and I'll show you.
So, coming in with a bit of speed, walking pace.
Front wheel and then back wheel and then off.
So, you wanna do it as one solid motion.
So you lift your front wheel up, you put it down.
As soon as you tap it down, you push down on your back
wheel, preload it and hop up, using your hips and your feet
to curl on your pedals.
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