1 ON 1 TRAINING SESSION / Lisa from FOUR WHEELED NOMAD Learns to Overcome Her Fear of Riding in Sand

[Music] everything in the desert is  out to kill you but there is   a man a hero who will rescue the fallen [Music] when all traction is lost he will find [Music] you so I met up with  Lisa and Jason from Four Wheeled Nomad great   couple riding the world on their motorcycles and  Lisa was having some challenges with sand riding   specifically deeper sand writing sand even on my  KTM exf fills me with absolute dread it's demonic   we're not friends we're not acquaintances I  cannot stand the stuff Lisa doesn't like ran   in sand and that dictates where we go and it  also dictates how far we can go into the back country so just like anyone else in  training before I do an assessment or   make any recommendations I have to understand what  she's struggling with so give me an idea of what   feedback you're getting from the motorcycle uh  how are you feeling what are what are you what   are you noticing that's going on I'm noticing  that for example when I have come to a stop and   then I have to get going again in thick sand it's  it's awful I have no clue really how to get going   again so I'll just constantly fish tail stop start  fishtail a bit more until I finally you know put   my big girl pants on and give it some beans and  get going well okay um I'm clinging on for dear   life I feel like I'm wearing the grip off my my my  handle grips so in working with Lisa and the deep   sand the last thing I'm going to do for her or  anyone that comes to me for training is throw them   directly into the deep sand I need to do a skills  assessment a comfort level assessment on the   basic fundamentals body position clutch control  throttle control breaking and balance so give   me a couple reasons why you think uh standing is  more important or it feels very comfortable to you   I feel like I can change my center of gravity in  the to the right place and I also feel like I can   react with my feet a lot more than I would be able  to if I were sat down I can steer with my feet and   and I can cling onto my with my knees to my tank  and I think that helps better weight shift you are   absolutely right there are so many of the things  that you just said are benefits to standing up   we have proprioceptors all throughout our body a  lot of them are in our lower legs they communicate   with our feet for balance so it's natural for  us to be better balanced when we're standing up   if you're using your hands on the handlebars and  you're not also using your knees in the tank and   shifting your weight back a little bit there's too  much pressure on the bars you've got too much grip   you can't give subtle input to the clutch break  and throttle greated so if we're on a traction   environment that's a high traction environment  that's stable it's not pavement but it's dirt   we use the handlebars more M when we get into the  sand we can't use the handlebars as much because   now we need to give the clutch and the throttle  some input and we don't want to steer so where   does that go to well for normal off-road riding  that would go to exactly what you said squeezing   the seat or tank area with your knees so it takes  the pressure and the weight off of your handlebars   so we have to get comfortable with those now not  being our stable Point are you grabbing the bars I   can tell you're grabbing the bars I can see white  on your knuckles all I got to do is look at the   white on youru it's like being a defensive lineman  right but that's okay you got to have a little bit   of a grip right can't have a ton of a grip right  move your weight back just a tad boom right there   stop okay now squeeze the tank with your knees  now look at your knuckles they're not as white oh   notice that see how you're now I'm going to move  you see how you're now not really using this as   much you're using your knees right is it not more  pronounced than this position is it not no no look   how white your knuckles are way more grip and why  cuz cuz you're holding on yeah I'm holding on you   have to because you don't have any stability go  back there again now pull the throttle from that   position do we want to be all the way back on the  motorcycle when we're pulling the throttle it's   really fatiguing well not only that that's an out  of control body position yeah right cuz now if we   pull the throttle I'm put you in a kickstand stay  right there if you pull on the throttle from back   here boom now you're out a position you can't shut  it off you're holding on to the throttle uh I've   been instilling a lot of bad habits for a long  time now I wouldn't consider myself a beginner in   in Good Dirt um a little bit of loose gravel hard  compacted dirt and and a few Rock Rocky sections   I'm I'm upper end of beginner intermediate watch  my body from the side okay and then watch my hands   I'm going to go forward and then back slow forward  go back slow forward go back slow cool watch me forward go yeah perfect one of the biggest  challenges Lisa had was an experience where   she couldn't stop in the sand I'm scared to death  of stopping where the bike's going to catapult me   off the bike because I feel like I'm just going  to nose dive so I started out having Lisa do some   rear brake assist drills I wanted to compress  the rear brake just enough to slow her down   but not skit it not lock it up so the next  braking drill we worked on was the front brake   and of course we all know the front brake is the  best brake to use even in an off-road situation   and it's because that's where the weight is the  challenge of the front brake is if we use our   whole hand or too much of our hand we don't  have as much finesse or control on the front   brake and we can go to stabbing or grabbing  it which in an off-road situation especially   deep sand can make the front wheel or the front  handlebar s do something we don't want it to do   it can make the bike fall it can put us in an  awkward situation that we have to now manage   so we practiced finesse and quick stopping with  front break so after working with Lisa on both   brakes individually we put them together and  created a kind of an emergency breake situation   Lisa in this drill we're going to simulate an  emergency stop or a panic stop we're going to   use both brakes together what's really important  in this drill is to use the rear brake first   now we know the front brake has the maximum  stopping power but if we don't hit the rear brake   first we don't get the maximum effectiveness  of the rear braake so the drill is wait back   clutch in stomp on the rear brake and skit  it squeeze the front to a full stop and put   your foot down my so my my front brake is is a  secondary correct and it's um it's just there to   just completely stop proceedings correct if you  hit the front brake first it Dives hit the rear   brake first then hit the front brake  to a controlled stop as fast as you can so stopping in a deep sand situation you've  got to lock the rear wheel you don't want to touch   the front brake and I mean you need to hammer  on that rear brake you need to feel it skid it's   really good for you to be a lot more aggressive on  that pedal and I mean stomp on it so what we did   with Lisa is we practiced on the flat ground  it took her a minute to get comfortable with   locking that rear wheel with hammering on on  that rear brake with controlling that skip to a stop I do it once she got it she  felt way more comfortable she had   a big smile on her face cuz that's a really fun [Music] drill that was fun good I've never done that  before good I didn't think I was able to do that   to a scy cat up until now right nervous Nelly to  determine or assess Lisa's comfort and balance on   the motorcycle every single braking drill I had  her do I had her put a opposite foot down every   time I want you to bring your left foot down but  I don't want you to sit on the seat so try that   exactly what I want you to do oh okay off the  seat okay and then I want you to take off from   there so you're going to have to hop and do a  takeoff W okay mhm it's okay if the the first   couple of times you do it that you sit on the  seat it's okay you need to get used to it okay   you're going to have to figure out all right  what does this feel like how does that work   so don't expect I don't expect Perfection at all  but don't expect to get it right the first time   you're going to have to adjust a little bit  but try as much as you can okay to put very   little weight from your butt on that seat on  the Stop and on the takeoff okay and what I   was able to see was how well did she balance on  the motorcycle all the way to a complete stop did   she maintain the correct body position and then on  the takeoff how was a clutch and throttle control   but more importantly how much of a straight  line did the bike go in when she rolled away fantastic yes okay that wasn't too bad that was hilarious yes nice job oh actually  a galine why don't you take a break let's put   your bike on the kickstand okay cool Lisa's riding  from where she was a few hours ago to where she is   now has vastly improved and I can tell by the big  smiles on her face that she knows that her riding   has started to improve massively so now what I  want you to do is use your right leg to initiate   a right turn use your left leg to initiate a  left turn pressure on the right pressure on   the left and just go back and forth and back and  forth and back and forth Lisa's always struggled   with counter steering and understanding how to  apply the principle of caner steering in her [Music] riding but now with dust his  instruction you can see that she's   getting it it turns a Tighter  and she's clearly becoming a b Rider so after assessing Lisa's skills what I  found was she just wasn't comfortable putting   the basic fundamentals in writing situations  specifically deep sand I didn't realize I had   the skills but wasn't really aware that I had the  ability as I wasn't really instilling good habits   and I wasn't using those fundamentals so after  all the assessments Lisa and I found some deep   sand she felt so much more comfortable I'm so much  happier now weight shifting I'm so much happier   learning how to stop in sand you know it was just  a case of being in survival mode winging it and   and panicking and letting all this immobilizing  fear Dusty has taken care of all of that for me   today Lisa's fear and discomfort with riding deep  sand is not uncommon basic fundamental practice   will make you a lot more comfortable riding deep  sand I get a lot of people asking me Dusty what   should I practice after class what should I do  I say listen one of the best things you can do   after training is go out and ride if you want to  get better you got to ride it [Music] oh [Music]

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Keywords: adv, adventure, motorcycling, motorcycle, bmw, ktm, skill, world, travel, r1250gs

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Length: 12min 15sec (735 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 27 2024