Practice Like a Pro #32: Stoppies | MTB Skills

[Music] i'm gonna do all this just for a photo [Applause] hey what's up we're gonna do something fun today i was yeah i mean well i feel like you know we got a little sunshine simon's still in mexico yeah we should have some fun i mean we know he's having fun right now before the boss gets back we should just yeah play a little so we're gonna do stoppies today you spent a lot of time in mexico working on like hardcore skills and now we're gonna have some fun because really that's as we know what i'm about i mean stoppies would be cool yeah i don't know if there's enough padding in the world for stoppies but well we'll start out with a stop on your front wheel and then maybe we can work into a rolling stoppie see where we end up it's ambitious that sounds like half a year's worth of work right there it it i mean so you know yeah these are a step above manually so which i'm still working on yeah so i mean yeah now and yeah in this conversation happening yeah like yeah manuals have taken you a long time to work on and and the things we might talk about today are going to be the same way you know and some of this will play into the trail like you see really tight pivot turns on switchbacks where you go up on your front one this will all come from learning stuff so today is actually practical skills well let's not get carried away now we're gonna have some fun okay all right well let's do it all right show me your stoppie show me what you got let me see like what your stoppie looks like what is you what is a stoppie for lynnea this morning i've never practiced stoppies so let's see what you got let's see how stoppy it's basically this is where we left you're not stopping oh so so you're trying to do like a rolling stoppy so this is a stoppy to me linnea so a true stoppie is this oh so you're braking and letting the bike move up into you yeah i'm doing a stop e i don't know what a sappy is really i've seen it well maybe maybe i'm going to get corrected on comments but to me as an old-school bmx or a stoppy is simply yeah that looks right yeah so do you want to try to do one before i help you the thing that when i'm trying it i feel like my body's coming over the stem and then i have no strength so we need to send you home to do push-ups sure all right so let's talk about this like i feel like my body's coming here and once i'm that far forward i just feel this pressure in the front of my shoulders and i just feel like i i don't know what i'm doing you got that lock so let's lean forward let's lock that wheel let's keep going hold your arms you're holding yourself up see what i mean so maybe you have to trust that you actually have that string okay so i really want you to feel this this motion of when your hips shift and you lock your arms that that lets this start to pivot and it's really when that wheel quits rolling and actually locks and you start to rotate on the axle so what i want you to do is go ahead and stand on your bike in your position so what i'm going to have you do is i'm going to start rolling you and you're going to get you know your hips back and you're going to come up and forward with locked arms and pull the brake and we're going to hit that point where the wheel stops moving and it's going to lock and you're going to come at me and then you'll be able to shift your hips back to hold it okay okay go ahead and shift let's just do that okay so let's yeah let's do one more so let's roll back a little bit okay let's try it one more time and so the shift and the break and the straight arms all at once i don't think i did it right yeah you're not shifting you're not actually like trying you're gonna tell me when to go yeah i'll do that yeah okay so when i tell you to go actually bring your hips up and forward too and lock your arms okay that's right so shift back and go there you go just feel that yeah got a little crooked that's all right let's do one more i like it so go ahead and jump up so in position your hips are back and go nice yeah okay okay that makes so it's three it's it's forward and up locked arms and then you come up into it and then you shift back to tuck it out so going slow you're not gonna be able to flip over forward so you're gonna be able to pull that brake pretty hard you gotta pull that break there there you go now imagine you're gonna come to a stop with that motion so you actually have to stop that's the stoppie that is the key to a stoppie is stopping we have so many rules around here i know i said it would be fun now i'm like pull your break come to a stop so that motion so you asked about when you're going to pull that brake so as that rear end is lifting is when you're on that brake and you're on it all the way so at that point your tire stops so if you think about when you're coming in at the speed you're coming in because you're afraid to pull your brake right now yeah so coming in that slow i mean think about the force it would take like this is nobody on the bike i can barely lift it i'm going to get a little weight on the front end like it's hard to lift this bike and get it all the way to here so the speed you're going you could as long as you're weighting your front tire so it doesn't skid you're pretty much going to be impossible to flip your bike over at the speed you're going so go ahead and go slow a couple times and trust just leaning forward and actually locking this up and letting it lift so yeah that's the stop and that movement when that back tire comes up that's when you see how you almost feel your body shift back anyway okay that startled me so yeah what's funny is you let your legs come up to let it soak up and and what you would normally do is shift back a little bit and that would you know counteract that so that's where you want to get to to actually do a stoppie though i mean you actually had your tire like that high yeah just smack me in the bud yeah okay there you go but let's think about where we are trying to do a stoppie and i want you to have that sensation of because once it stops that's when you get to start exaggerating it by tucking so try to think about do this and go ahead and if it only comes up a little bit go ahead and come to a stop though so you start to get the sensation of doing a stoppie and not like a roll through so you'll come in it'll lift like don't be afraid to come to a stop there you go so that's what i want so you want to come to a stop so then see how then i start to let it come up under me you have to be at a stop or you're rolling out of it oh yeah so until you lock you stop the bike you can't let the bat come up because it's always the front's always trying to outrun the back tire [Music] yay yeah i want you still come to a stop but what i'm wanting you to get to is that when you lock and you stop you're going to feel that bike pivot where right now it's rolling yeah and there's a change that happens when you stop it creates a pivot point oh i see okay now that makes sense yeah once the tire stopped now you're pivoting on the axle but you got to stop there it was now you're getting that weight thing i see it happening because you're letting your arms bend and think about how much more strength you have when your arms are locked to hold yourself up like where is it hard to hold a push-up how much easier is it to sit like this so when you're you're talking about your arms like they're going to give out it's because you're trying to hold it here i mean i immediately have to tense up my stomach look i'm starting to shake yeah that's what if the arms were a little more locked you'd have a little more consistency there because again you think about once that wheel stops then your that wheel's pivoting you know what i mean like if you get back off again and feel that bite come up and see how your your arms are out and straight for that like automatically you want to straighten your arms see that and that's where your body does go like that's where those arms need to be straight that's the support you need there you go that last one was probably your best one so work off of that i will say 20 minutes ago i thought we were never going to get this yeah 20 minutes to get a stop he's pretty fast thanks to jason nice nice so you'll slowly shift your hips back as you get more comfortable there it is see how it's better too when you actually finally come to a stop and the front wheel quits rolling then it all kind of connects nice so you're kind of doing a rolling stop here i'd love to see you i'd love to see you lock the wheel and then when the wheel locks get that extra pivot okay so you've got the body position now which was what i think made you a little afraid to actually stop so now let's try to stop there that you stop that and so it was all delayed and it was like a longer stoppy even though you were stopped and not moving that was that was it okay if you're enjoying these lessons we have a full online school at fluidrideonline.com yes but let's come to a stop because jason's putting this stuff i'm going to make you watch this one more time and i want you to see the difference actually just from a person watching because i mean we're supposed to be having fun today today's cool factor right so there's two cool factors there's like here's cool factor and then and then there's this point when it locks up and when it locks up now i can tuck hold it and like that pause you can't get that that finish when you're rolling body tuck we're gonna have you doing old school bmx toppings like i did when i was a kid oh well think michael jackson like that's the big finale yes i love it you got scared but here's the thing when did you feel as soon as your tire locked it lifted yeah that's when instead of taking your feet off you shove your butt back and that's the thing is if you're forward you have the room to do it so you your back you come forward it locks it wants to send you and that's when you talk okay that was good so what's interesting was so you let it come up under you yeah but you never shifted the butt back and that's where you were like oh boy [Music] i love it your hip shift was delayed but you did it i wish i would have taken that on the air and i'm like come on buddy i wish you could have seen that on phone now but that was great because you hit that point and instead of going i'm going to do this you went oh wait i got to do this it was great i'm glad that it was slow enough it worked out gosh that was really like stoked on it that was the like that was actually really cool it was like this delayed pause okay hip shift shoot what am i doing that was it done you just had to get back to logging the wheel and forget about the hip shift okay i can't believe we made it this far [Music] [Music] oh damn [Applause] [Music] so let's talk about your awesomeness that's my favorite topic this was such a crazy like episode to do this yeah i mean we're obviously both happy right now but it was really hard it was hard it was a story it was hard for me to figure out how to work it with you and it was hard for you to figure out the body position and and then now look at you so i will say the first thing the thing that made me feel like i couldn't do them is i was starting so far forward that any further pressure forward my body couldn't hold myself up and i was going to collapse and that's what was keeping me from making any progress at the beginning yeah and i think that tied into having bent arms because you were ford you were you felt like you had to hold yourself up when you hit the brakes yeah when really you needed to hold yourself up when you shifted it's like if you're doing a push-up and your hands are kind of back behind your shoulders you don't have any strength up there and that's where i felt like i was at to begin with and so when you corrected my body position and brought brought me back a little bit to start that gave me somewhere to move into so what are the key things i should remember when i come back to practice i think what's you know as as a coach coaching somebody for me to tell you my first thing would be to stop to make sure that front tire like make that body position move to where that tire locks up because if you're rolling through you're never actually having that shift happen to where instead of rolling you're pivoting on the front axle that's when that happens and gets you the ability to then shift back and get into that tucked stoppy position but to get there through that whole step is it's interesting it's a back front back so we're gonna get back so we can get ready and then we're going to shift ourselves forward and up which is going to bring us into that position with our arms locked over the bike and then as that tire stops rolling and and becomes locked and we start to pivot on the axle then we're going to shift our hips back dependent on how much we need to to pause out on that balance point yeah so it's back forward up with locked arms when the axle locks and it lifts then we shift our hips back to to counterbalance that weight and and kind of pause that movement because that's what when you see somebody do a stoppie like when you watch this video you'd be like those ones where it like sits for a second yeah like that's where you're you're hitting that bounce point and that movement of the hips is what dials it in so what was really cool about today is that at least i got to feel it a few times so now i know what i'm going for yeah for sure once you've hit that balance point and shifted your hips to hold it now you know and you can like you know just perfect it so once you perfect that then you can start doing a couple things like this no footed ones whoa yeah or even cool guy how about wow so you can just keep playing around and then and you notice i'm sitting on my seat for that so it's really perfecting my balance and being able to hold it so there's more places to go it doesn't end with just this classic [Music] stoppy you

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Published: Sun Apr 18 2021