There are some Mountain Bike Skills that everyone should know and will help you become a better rider. These are 5 essential skills that you can practice anywhere! Whether it's a car park, the trails or your backyard get these essential skills dialled.
Obstacle Course Set yourself an obstacle course to make a circuit. This will help you practice slow speed skills, trials and balance. All essential for Mountain Biking!
Manuals The manual is a vital mtb skill that everyone should know. It's great to use out on the trails to get over obstacles and pump jumps.
Wheelie Like the manual the wheelie is an essential skill you can use everywhere on the trails. It will help with your balance and getting over obstacles.
Challenge Your Mates Challenging yourself and your mates is the best way to practice these essential skills. Set each other challenges and see who comes out on top!
Hill Climb This will help with putting down the power on your bike and getting up steep climbs!
Trackstand This one you can do literally anywhere. All about getting your balance and getting used to the bike moving around underneath you.
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Right, today we're going to look at some really simple exercises you can do on
your bike for your skills. You can do it absolutely anywhere. Yes, literally
anywhere. These basic skills are going to help you out there, improve your riding.
Guaranteed. Yes. 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 and set yourself a little obstacle
course. So, I've got a bit of a ditch, some rocks. I'm going to try and make a
little circuit, go up and around these rocks. And really, I'm just practicing my
slow speed skills, a bit of trial stuff. Obviously, a lot of balance control,
brake control. And this is something that I used to do an awful lot of after school,
go out on my bike, mess around, and just 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 track stand,
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 get.
That is going to give you a lot more balance out there on the trail,
be more confident. Right, just behind me may seem an empty car park,
which it is, but to me, I see a skills park, a manualing park,
a place where you can practice your manuals. All you need is two sticks,
and I can see two already are strategically placed. Right, these two sticks are
definitely going to help you progress your manualing skills out there.
What you want to do is put them out with a bit of a distance, but make it massive,
make it unrealistic, and you're not going to completely do it because one day you are
going to make it. So I'm going to go massive. Oh, no. Practice, practice makes
perfect. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Yes. Let's make it bigger. I'm going to put it down there.
One. Ooh, smoked it. And the same goes for wheeling. 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 dialed,
start taking your hand off.
Right, the best thing about practicing all of these skills that is messing about,
just having a little mash-up, jibbing everywhere, challenging yourself,
and having fun.
Come on, man. Let's set some challenges for each other.
Yes.
What have you got for me?
180 endo. Back wheel on the other side of this gully thing.
All right, let's see it.
Like this.
Nice.
Pretty good.
Kind of scary.
Here we go. Full cross-country bike.
Oh, nice.
Right, I've got one for you over here.
Right.
Okay, so limited run-up. You've got to go around the tree, sprint,
and try and bunny-hop over that ditch.
Wow. Got one for you though, Neil. Concentrating on this little gully,
because you can do so much.
You're going to come into it, nose press or nose manual, like nose tap,
and then drop in 90 into the hole and pedal up.
All right.
Either direction.
Let's do it.
That looks sketchy.
Yeah.
Oh, yes.
That was a heavy landing.
Right, practice your little hill-climbing skills.
Find a little bank, shortest run-up possible.
See if you can get up it.
Oh.
Wow.
Yes.
Neil, I reckon you can get closer.
No way.
Snap a chain.
Right, I found a bank with a rock on top.
Just get up and onto the rock and wheelie off the other side.
Oh, that is super trials.
Even brought the front wheel up into it.
That's good fun.
Yeah.
Oh, I haven't tried that.
Nice.
There's a bigger one over there if you want to do it.
No, no, I'm all right.
Right, this one, you can literally do it on a flat piece of surface.
It's basically getting your balance.
This is the best thing you can do.
Move in your bike when you're stationary.
Front wheel up, back wheel around.
Just get used to your bike moving underneath you.
It's going to be a great skill.
Just hopping about.
Practice your endos.
Moving the front, especially when you get to a technical section,
out there on the trail.
This is going to help you a lot, a hell of a lot.
Hi, Blake.
Hi, Neil.
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