Techniques of enduro bikes

body position is so very very important as you can see brian is always moving on this motorbike he's never ever static or or stagnant he's he's moving the whole time you can see even coming into a corner elbows out on the right on the left hand side right leg out once again to counterbalance not necessary to stop him from falling and there his body goes again the whole time every muscle is moving standing up ready to preload he preloads and then lifts even with his elbows a lot of people specifically motocross riders use this specifically trials riders use this and it's just such an advantage because it puts the the motorbike in the right position at the right time all the time and what it does is uh it almost makes your amalgamate melt into the motorbike and even doing that little jump you can see brian's coming up to it he pre-empts it preloads it and then stretches out uh it's combining everything that we've spoken about um and and doing it to a natural way in other words it comes as a um as a natural thing he's not really thinking about it his body is pretty much moving in alignment with the bark uh automatically it's almost uh an unthought of action and you can just see that the bach it melts into his body and melts into his actual movement it gives you such control and it's it's so very nice to have that the seat bounce on an off-road situation here we see brian kappa doing it you can see how good he is at doing this look how fluid that is you can see it's so easy for him but obviously this is a very very big gully to get over and look most people make it this difficult no not really over here brian is actually just showing us an obstacle a trench that isn't an off-road event or endura and he's showing us what will happen if you don't really know the seat bouncer if you're too scared to actually just jump that gully and you have to ride through it once again as we always say watch the energy wasted efficiency goes out the window he's burned a lot of calories and wasted a lot of time all of us do this now watch just watch us watch us oh isn't that just poetry and motion all he's done there is preload as he's going to go over whoop preload and over look how quick it is but look it just makes the obstacle as we've said before obsolete and it looks so cool look at that look at the launch that he's actually getting there he's pre-loading with his weight ba on the butt pre-load and then he springs up with his legs you can see he's extending his legs now what he's doing is actually extending that back shock which has given him height and the ability to clear a hole or an obstacle that is directly in his pocket without having too much speed at his disposal or run up at his disposal just look at that extension his legs are extending you can see the bikes extended up bunny hopped or as we said seat jumped very very nice the hill climb and how we mostly do do it most of us normal people feet off the bike as you can see straddling over never having the correct balance point uh you can see brian is dramatizing there but a little bit of a pedal out of control um you can see the whole time there's no confidence in this attempt uh hitting in the wrong rut then just gassing it that is disastrous absolutely disastrous brian is just trying to also show you the amount of energy that is wasted what you're looking at is probably 500 calories being burned just doing this little exercise you cannot believe if you cook yourself like this in one climb and you've still got another 40 your day is almost finished then of course you're on the wrong side of the bark and the possibility of you falling is is is great at this point because you're so unbalanced and brian's doing a great job of showing us how it shouldn't be done and i just hope he doesn't fall because his positioning isn't really great right now and and the event of this happening is oh so good and there you have it as you can see even lifting your bike from this point uh to stress the amount of energy it takes it's huge it's um it's almost right destroying it can destroy your entire enduro and it can yeah it can just take everything away you can see once again all of it he's just opening the throttle he's trying to paddle he's trying to get grip now he's absolutely fraught and that's uh mr king of fitness himself but anyway keeps on going and once again paddling as you can see just his own desires just to get to the top he's forgotten all about the right way to do it he wheelies up to the top he hits the groove which is not necessarily the correct thing to do or the quick line to take straggling once again straightening calories being burnt left right and center and energy expanded is horrendous um watch this carefully and learn by this i think you've all been down this road i certainly have been down this road and yeah there are other ways to do it and we'll learn that in a couple of seconds the correct way of hill climbing or doing this specific heel climbing anyway stopping over there watch brian's body look at his his body language he's telling you he's confident he's way over the front bars you can see that bearing a bit to the right although look at his left leg you will see he has weighted his left peg because he knows he's going to be turning right so he'll want to be waiting at that a little bit to almost incorporate a pivot his body is way forward and if you can see his head he is looking ahead and as we move on and he goes through that there stopping right there he's now pulled his body a little bit back to try and get a little bit more weight over that rear tire so that traction is in itself this morning we're going to be showing you how to do the typical log crossing we're very very fortunate to have brian cappy here multi-time super motor champion trial champion he knows what he's doing the whole point of this little exercise now is to have a little obstacle which i've experienced in my riding and in off-road riding a log but you cannot believe how much energy it takes and how people battle with it now brian's going to show us firstly how the normal way to do it and the amount of energy you actually use and to show you that it's not that efficient so first one or two shots you're going to see brian doing it hut should not be done and then we'll show you the proper technique on how it should be done thank you brian if you can get a go with that as you can see you do get obstacles in an enduro or any competition like logs and they scare people and this is the normal reaction look at that they bash their front tires in and they get out of control people don't realize that this takes energy this takes energy and saps energy um and in an enduro that six hours you have to do the six or seven times and a couple of them that'll certainly certainly take it on you you can see out of control front wheel works in brian is obviously dramatised in this because he obviously can do it better but you can see it gets stuck it's untangled nothing smooth about it the whole operation is uncontrolled and uh it's so so inefficient that is so inefficient and just by learning little techniques de-waiting remember trial a trial teaches you such a lot that now we're going to show from brian's many many many years of trials experience how he's carried it over to off-road now many people think well trials is a different story it's not you carry the same techniques across to an off-road bike just watch this brian's going to show us now how he would do it in enduro using the d-wade technique now take a careful look but did you see that front wheel went into the log he de-weighted over it the back wheel clearing it straight over it is so efficient it is frightening watch it from the front now watch carefully here he comes he preloads [Music] preloads and lets the suspension actually jump up to the back log he'll do it one more time watch carefully now front suspension whacking the rug did you see that the back wheel jumped from there to there it took the entire obstacle out of the equation now from the front you'll watch again one more time watch the front suspension watch carefully you will see here he comes here he comes lift it's pretty much also called the double blip you could hear it and the bike went right over as if it was not there it's it's a way of saying it is because you're making an obstacle obsolete you're making it smooth you can just yeah just float it over there this is is a technique that you have to have to learn let's watch that again now just watch carefully set up is everything set up front wheel check where it is okay that's good balance see the front wheels punched in there and it bumps over look at that that was exaggerated but you cannot believe how efficient that is you've got to learn it's a double punch or a double blip technique if you can do that the amount of energy you will save is unbelievable and of course it looks good to people because you get over it a lot quicker and once again if that was a very slippery log it is slippery at the moment because it's slightly wet and it's burnt but if it was covered with mud you would see how that technique works because the back tie actually jumps forward you ever watched someone riding over an obstacle or obstacle clusters um with their legs flying everywhere and out of control it uh it really just looks and neat and you gotta know they're exerting a hang of a lot of energy now what brian is doing over here we found a little obstacle course call it and we're just showing once again trying to keep his feet on the course how easy he makes it look and how it flows um obviously there's doing a little bit of a trials maneuver which helps a hang of a lot and you can just see everything comes well a lot easier this is a pretty tough course we have set and you can still see everything goes and he goes over everything with minimal fuss um this is something that's that's so good to learn and placing your front tire where you want it is such a good a good technique because it'll it'll take a lot of energy um to stop and maneuver the bike to where you want it so just by doing this and learning these things just going out into the felt and and stopping and finding an obstacle like this not a setup course just just an obstacle course and say right how do i make it as hard as possible how do i try and get within right angles of where i want to be and then trying to accomplish that with letting the bike do the work note here once again that's an important point let the bike do the work don't force yourself to pick the bike up you're talking 105 kilograms to physically pick out if it's hard work so let the bike do the work let the engine do the work and then let your body flow with that and become one with the bike by doing this you save such a lot of energy and you make it so smooth that it keeps you fresh for the next couple of obstacles or the next series of obstacles that might lay before you um it's just so nice to have and it's so nice to be able to use all of the bike suspension and all of the bikes power just like that okay maybe not that one it was a little bit of a a falli wally and that shows you what will happen if you uh don't place your tire in the exact position or the right spot that'll take a lot of energy out of you now brian is showing us over here the use of pivoting or a slight pivot not a big pivot a slight pivot just to realign the back wheel or the front wheel in the correct way the next segment you're going to be watching the camber or the off camber as we shall say it now watch brian coming he's first going to show us how it's not to be done or how how the normal person does it once again we're going to be focused on energy conservation and uh efficiency so so watch how the first way does it how inefficient it is and then we'll go through it on doing it the efficient way right here comes brian as you can see sitting paddling along everything that he's doing here now is is probably not the right way to do it but it is what we all do do you can see front wheel slipping out because the front brake was put on too early off angle oh and now that's a typical move it's a typical move that's what actually happens you go around the off camber gas it too much your bike is not in the right position so when you do give it gas the back wheel just slips out and then when you want to take off again see what happens you spin you're out of control the bike wants to really it's it's not good it's an inefficient way of doing it def cameras are a part of life in endura riding and there's something you have to deal with but if you learn to do them right put a bit of effort into them learn the technique you cannot believe how good it can be now brian will show us the correct way this is how he would do it once again focus on energy efficiency standing up art forward looking where he's going front wheel tucks in goes beautiful beautiful in control out now that was all that showed was control confidence body weighting or not de-waiting sorry by putting your weight in the right ways the left foot peg the right foot peg brian if you could just show us one more time exaggerating your weight position what we'd like to do is let me show you where the weight is going to be on the bike he's going to lean it to the outside so the actual tire can grip on the outside just watch watch his leg movement and leg displacement he's coming down obviously bum a little bit over the bark towards the back watch his legs and his body you see that serious weight look at his weight there well okay that was a bit of a foot naughty boy but anyway it showed his weight he's basically coming down he's basically coming down putting his weight on this side to give it more grip keeping the satellite uh would you do that one more time brian he's going to show us one more time just going around like this this leg weight on so the weight carries the whole way through and then straightening up the watch right there there he comes again never say this enough stand when you're coming down look where you go watch where the front wheel goes take the line one wait wait wait did you see that his body position his body swings out that's an off camber that's how you attack an off camber that's the way you do it properly low calorie consumption and energy consumption that is what you want [Music] precision riding just to be able to be precise with your bike and your and your wheels and your placement to me that's everything in lighting trials teaches you this a great deal it gives you confidence to take a line that somebody else can't take and uh you know just by practicing your skill on on a wall on a on a log on a on a piece of slab it'll give you such great confidence just looking at brian over there huh how precise he is on that little ledge now you don't realize that that little wall is probably only about 10 to 12 inches wide and he's just come up a step up to get onto it and then almost stopped absolutely dead and then to get off he's placed his weight at the back put power on and place the front wheel we wanted afterwards the precision is what makes it so exciting and to try and practice precisely precision riding to me that's the funnel of writing and brian is surely one of the best at it and as you can see just jumping around finding this finding that finding a little wall finding a little step up wall look at that as i was saying it's only a certain bit wide but boy it gives you confidence and it just helps you such a great deal we're going to show you now what most enduro writers do and what the normal action is if brian can first show us how it's not well not not to be done but what most people do do have a look and see the energy that is wasted in this it rides up to it takes it well you can see you get glanced off the log straight away you have to get yourself in a position again and all the time you're wasting a hell of a lot of energy you ride off the bike you have to waste energy picking the bike over the log then you gas it like most people do while they do this i don't know and you're over your calorie count has gone up immensely immensely so it's just not efficient you have wasted such a lot of energy in doing that and we all do do it because you're tied off your enduro or halfway through the injury and you do that type of thing but that's typical in what the average person does or what most of us do do now brian's going to show us an efficient way of doing it because this is really about efficient writing watch carefully watch his front suspension watch his leg and he starts there he goes wheel up up one shot and over back wheel might not look pretty let's do that once again watch carefully that's efficient one leg up over and out perfect [Music] perfect amount of energy expended almost zero um because it's just a flowing move it keeps it flowing only one leg it gets off the bark and it just rolls right over now you ask yourself why didn't brian do what he did in the other locks on this log simple there's not enough space over here to line up into it into a 90 degree angle so you have to use your leg just to pivot it around i'm thinking brian if you can just do that one more time we can watch where your leg pivots and how the bike swings around it and then goes over watch carefully watch carefully make note of the leg leg position leg comes out pivot and over that's it most people can do that but they get a bit scared so to learn that that little technique will save you calories time and energy and will make you faster practice practice practice with that type of technique [Music] coming up to a ledge one obstacle two feet three foot high that is vertical 90 degree and then suddenly coming up to another obstacle perhaps a log perhaps another ledge that's quite intimidating and to learn the technique of the flow and of the weighting over both at once will once again put you ahead of the competition save you energy and give you a whole lot of confidence as you can see brian is using a trials technique once again the debating as we have spoken about and then straight away making sure his body position is correct and going over the log in slow motion you can see how it compresses let's the back wheel hit the top of the rock or the ledge note over there it was the top then he keeps the front light so that it can step off the the ledge and in all of this his eyes are actually focusing on the logo head of him now his body weight is getting all the way to the back of the bike as he pre-loads and straight away there's the same maneuver same technique over the log no just because the one's wood and the other one is concrete doesn't make the um the obstacle any different the same technique is used but doing it in sequence is is a little bit harder than doing a single one so do try this and do try two two or three in a row it will give you such a lot of confidence in an enduro when you do come up to obstacles you you can just see that not going too fast but being in control now the point to look at is the speed rather we make sure or rather make sure shall we say that you are in line and that you've lined your obstacles up correctly then go too fast and be out of control even even putting your foot down and not wanting to just write it over as brian has done there will give you the ability to line up and make sure that your next obstacle is cleaned in a nice controlled manner because if you don't do that just behind this obstacle is a hole and 10 to 1 your front wheel will go in and you'll go over the hammer bars so always line up correctly and always look ahead and over there brian's just showing us how how he actually is launching in case there was a big hole straight after this rock or this obstacle gives you the ability to launch right off straight away and talking about control look at that brian is um he's just flat out showing off now no that's a technique that is so good because it shows you that his lining up is just perfect and his balance is right man that is something to learn stepping it up or stepping it down or going on front wheel all of this play writing is really about my control all it's doing is is teaching you to be in control in any environment and you can actually make great obstacles out of any environment you're really in over here brian's in a little colosseum that we happen to stumble across and these steps might look small but they're a good couple of feet apart and a good foot in height so learning to take one after the other once again will just give you a good bike control it will give you the ability to overcome an obstacle after an obstacle after an obstacle in sequence as you can see it's just playing learning where the limits are of the bike we're learning how far you can go getting very dizzy and he's probably going to vomit from getting caustic nana but look at that it's just playing and learning the the variables and where your back can actually go and what it can do the 500 shuffle man check at this this is a 500cc monster well it's not really a monster it's quite a quite a maneuverable bike but look at that check what brian's doing with that no one was telling you about a little 125 or 200 or 250 that cannot do these moves if you've got the ability to do these type of things and the ability to control your bike like this weight just becomes your friend because you can use the weight against whatever you're doing this is a 500 cc shuffle and uh brian is just making this thing dance he is um yeah once again it's poetry in motion just look at that put in the back break it's all about learning um you are doing a bit of freestyle here because i mean let's face it you're not going to use this in a race or an enduro but man it gives you back control second to none you know where your balance point is you know where the um the power comes on and when the power comes off the 500 shuffle as we have named it is really really uh a testament to a person's ability to ride and control any bike a lot of people these days say oh no you have to go for very light two-stroke do maneuverable things but i can tell you one thing after viewing this and after seeing the control it's really as lance armstrong said in his words it's not about the bike and as you can see it's just effortless you can see over there it's all about doing it in such a smooth manner in such a controlled manner that you are actually not exerting energy and it just looks so so cool you know when your friends check you do this on a 500 they'll be blown away because um here they're on their little 1 to 5 200 250 or 300 for that matter and i think oh that thing is too heavy you cannot do it but on a controlled environment with a park that's balanced as well as this you can do it and it just shows you that ability far far far outweighs any any shortfalls of any motorcycle drop off man a drop off can bring fear to people's hearts it's one of the single biggest fear factors in a off-road rider's skill test because uh i think a human's got a natural ability to get a little bit scared if there's suddenly a ledge with a five or six foot drop off in front of him but you know it's something that can be conquered um it's something that we can learn to do if you look over here now lebron obviously he's a past master at doing this but as you come up to the cliff or the wall or the whatever you have to drop off of you pre-load look at that look at his legs he's preloading now whack give a little bit of acceleration always make sure you keep that front wheel light if you don't keep the front wheel light it'll tuck in you'll go over the bars and there's a possibility of breaking the peak so do not keep the front wheel under the bike or under under non-powered movement make sure there's always power behind it and then you will survive the relevance of the stoppy as you can see the relevance of the stoppy over here is about my control as you can see brian is pre-loading once again we always use preload it will run always through the system and see what we are doing here as he is going through the stoppy you can see the perfect balance point of just hitting enough front brake and balance as he's going forward over there if you try this instantly at home or straight away you very possibly go over the bar so you've first got to get your balance point there it is there okay well don't try and swing around like straight away you'll end up in the lake but as you can see it's it gives an ability on the bike and a control on the back it is uh not only awe-inspiring but jeez it looks good and it will help you tremendously in in in your riding in the area of being able to stop on two wheels and having the confidence to hit your front brake at full speed or not full speed but at a speed but being in control what brian is doing here is just uh that's uh inhuman um that what he's doing over there is really an advanced move and we're not really looking at that specifically because the turning and stopping like that is is really only one of few people in the world can do that over here we can really see the stoppie and ah his weight just goes back and comes right then pivoting when you're stopping once again this can be used in any any form of off-road what separates the good from the best from the very good it's little techniques it's a technique like doing a pivot on a switchback getting your angle correct saving time saving a lot of energy and just setting the bark up if you had to do this without that you can't believe the amount of um unbalanced unbalanced feeling it brings to you and the amount of energy will actually waste and it's all it is is using the bike's power the box weight and the momentum it's not exerting energy if you look carefully here at brian as you're coming up to a switchback now imagine you're in a suit when you're coming down some seriously seriously steep switchbacks all you do is pivot and turn the front wheel to the left okay here you're not perfect you're just turning as it hits the base of where you're going you hit that front brake as you'll see brian doing right now and then move your body to the right just pivot hence the word pivots it's the rocket science you pivot and the bike will follow there is no energy used in this and it sets back up in last straight course and the rest of your journey is a lot easier because you haven't wasted energy you feel pretty good because you've done a move that 98 percent of riders cannot do and i can tell you one thing it helps in the extreme technical entire terrain it's an absolute must to learn the wheelie the standstill wheelie what a fascinating skill to have as you can see brian over here doing this slow magnificent slow wheelie the control over here is what it really epithals riding an off-road bike look at his foot on the rear a back brake you can see total control the whole time body position is there and there about he's always adjusting it look at his little left move over there just to make sure he's going in the right direction and note guys always have the foot on the right or on your rear brake if you don't you will fall and hurt yourself brian is really an accomplished rider and as you can see here he's got full control of it you saw there huh that little quick move now he's doing a fast sweetie once again foot on the back brake the whole time now you're going to see him in control foot on the back brake lifting it and then releasing the back brake and the front brake making the bike almost bounce coming into a slow wheelie uh he is in such control of this at the moment it's it's frightening and you can see over there he's almost putting the power on engaging the power to the back brake that is an amazing little technique to use because it really really gives you control and it gives you the ability to plant the bike and the front wheel and the back wheel for that matter wherever you want it to go the weed is not just for show even for for fast going the stand-up wheelie as you see over here i mean that's not just to look good for your mates you're riding on a on a bit of a fast stretch and suddenly there's a hole in front of you a divot a um a little ravine crossing you always want your front wheel light because if your front wheel is not light you'll go head over heels so just by learning to keep the wheel light and perhaps maybe a foot and a half two foot off the ground gradually lengthening it to three foot you learn to know the exact pivot point of that motorbike it is just such a skill to learn and such an art that um it's just something that every off-road rider aspires to do and i think if you ask any off-road rider what is your main concern or skill you'd like to learn and the thing is wheeling but then they've got to decide whether they will or they won't so it's willy or won't you okay that was a little silly but anyway there as you can see brian is totally in control body position almost standing you can see at one point it is at 90 degrees there up 90 degree and then he's going back just to give a little bit of a seesaw effect to make sure that the um the wheelie is right now this is a highly illegal maneuver we're doing over here what brian is doing over here phone not allowed to 911 this do not do this at home but as you can see look at that look at his feet notice his feet positioning look at that foot on the back brake all the time over here you can see once again why is he doing the wheelie to the right-hand side of the back so you can be in control the back brake knee on the back so what he's doing is he's pressurizing the back he's giving a little bit of a bounce to lift that front wheel look at the front wheel almost stopped isn't it and he used his front brake there a little bit i think just gauging it getting the balance point right now his balance point of his body and his back brake look at his right foot just look at that foot it is in total control of that back brake now if you touch that brake even if the bike is higher than 90 degrees it will shoot the front wheel down immediately thus you will save yourself from a heavy roasting now the slow not the slow the um stand really is an advanced movie it's more a show really than something you would really use off-road um but it's very very good to show you how the wheelie is actually dissected by him greenness to show you his knee on the rear of the the mud guard or the seat putting a little bit of weight on the back for the throttle on the right hand side and the foot on the rear brake that is the it really just shows you what the wheel is all about and now we can just see the front wheel just gauged and coming up to two ledgers or a ledge without a um a run-up is you know it's a daunting little thing and we've often done it now brian's showing us over here he's coming up a ledge as you can see weight all the way forward because uh although it doesn't look slippery that day it was very loose and very slippery and as he gets to the top he has to prepare himself for a ledge and we're not talking a small edge we're talking a good four foot high ledge and it was undercut as well straight away on power committing totally and getting over it if you looked at his body positioning over there look how far up it was look how far up he actually landed on that ledge right there and his bum was all the way back on the mud guard it just shows you the confidence you have to have and confidence you must learn to get over these type of obstacles erzberg anybody who's watched herzberg on tv knows that there's always a double whammy a two-stage hill climb it's it's it's no good just doing one hill climb people want two hill climbs so that you know straight after your first heel climb you've you've got something steeper no run up slippier and just just down right hard right in front of you now brian's done the herzberg three times he's finished in the top ten and uh he's always done well at it and there's anything he'll tell you they've always got two heel clumps one after the next and then another one after that sometimes three in a row sometimes four in a row now just looking at it now you gotta know your commitment comes from the bottom your body position and commitment comes all from the bottom you have to be in such control by the time you get over the first segment or part of the hill club to prepare and set yourself up for the second stage of the hill club now as you can see brian's coming forward there he's lining up he knows which part he's going to take and he should around about now be looking forward he's going to start obviously he's got to follow the line first he'll follow the line and then he'll start looking forward knowing that there is no run-up as he turns so as he does his turn there he knows there's no run-up and it's a slippery slippery bass that he's on and he'll have to guess it but in control because as you can see the the gradient becomes ever ever steeper and looking at it over there you can see it's it's a soft sand it's slippery so your body position means absolutely everything and you've got to correct yourself knowing where the exact line is because everything from here is commitment if you do not do it properly from here you're going down and if you don't get it right the first time the second time is 200 percent harder because you are that much more tired that's why in erzberg most people only get to the top six or seven parts of the race because they've done each climb three or four times uh in step up climbs and double climbs and even triple clams you've got to make sure that you get it right the first time now just look at that body position there look at man that's just masterful brian knows where it is he knows where his power is on the bike following through there you know people think that a hill climb is always just a straight path up one ledge to another it's not you might possibly have to go through trees and obstacles and turn to the left and turn to the right follow a groove go through a groove ever changing remember that it's never ever the same the vertical climb there's a little bit of a lip here giving a mark a little bit of lift just before the vertical climb as you can see over there the whole rear tire pretty much scales the wall the flat part of the wall is not even touched by the rear tyre if you look at carefully pre-loading and then almost standing up but you can see the tire misses the whole actual wall the face of the wall now obviously if his tire had to go in there it would probably give him a little bit of a back flip where he could fall backwards um bruce is showing us another way he actually hit that pretty hard or pretty fast which gave him a lot of lift as you can see there you it's probably better to do it a little bit slower and at the point control just watch how high does it once again the legs whenever you see these trials boys do it their legs absorb or deflect everything now over there he did let the front wheel just glance off a sticking out piece of the or part of the wall and that just guided him over to where he wanted to go but once again legs preload and body adjustment as mentioned earlier nothing quite hits those chords of fear as a as a ledge or a wall in front of you that doesn't have a kicker the fear of falling back or landing on your back of a steep ledge like this really really is it's not natural it's like doing a bit of a bungee jump it's not natural in your body and everything in you says don't do it there is a technique brent's going to show us now how to do it as you can see with this wall or this ledge it's got a a kick back halfway or three quarter of the way up the actual wall which will if not handled correctly will throw you back to land on your butt as you can see there he's landing with the back wheel almost flying in the air and when we do it in slow motion you will see that he preloads and he adjusts his body well there we have it now watch him he's going for it body in the attack position always in the attack position he's looking straight at the ledge note not looking at his front tire looking at the ledge and pretty much where that little obstacle is sitting out preloads it everything is preload to give you the ability to spring off something and then hits that little piece jumps it out sways his hips out a little bit to the left to counterbalance where the bike's going you can see the back wheel pretty much hopped about three or four foot possibly even more front wheel followed over but the back wheel hopped was following where he was pre-loading it that's obviously doing that quick you can see it's it can be done once again it's an advanced move but do practice it on smaller obstacles first [Music] the two-step ledge now the whole the whole trick to the two-step ledge or the double edge as we call it is to first get your your um control or balance perfectly on make sure your your line is 100 right if you watch brent over here bentley rich watch him pre-load there first that the front will absorb and then i suppose explode not to pre-load and it jumps to the top of the ledge now it might look pretty easy but brent is a nine-time south african trials champion so obviously he knows how to do this naturally i wouldn't suggest doing something as small because something like that can happen rather start off with something a little bit smaller mr mark garland our resident husseburg rider showed us quickly hearts not to be done you can see his body language wasn't close to what it should have been and over here we've got bruce now bruce is two times south african champion he's gonna use a different technique once again just look at these guys look at their legs he preloads as he's coming in attack mode preloads rides the front wheel into the embankment watches their butt leans back and lets the back wheel absorb and shoot out what that does is it springs him forward without that movement you'll pretty much land on your bum just like mark did and uh that's from the top view over there he's going to jump the whole thing yeah well that's doing it the quick maneuver what he's doing what he did before was the double step rod technique which is actually a lot harder if you think about it um brain's showing us how to absorb it and jump the whole thing in one shot and it works so so well not every hill climb requires or or wants you to go straight straight up a lot of steep rocky hill climbs necessitate the use of zigzags specifically the loose rocks and the loose climbs this is the type of plant that you will find at roof africa quite often this will pretty much epitope the roof and what what you're actually doing use of legs is vital over here you know bango's the trials theory of everything in controllability all you want to do is make sure your weight's on the right side of the of the actual clamp and make sure you keep momentum and when it's loose like this it's it's vitally important that you roll the throttle on and don't just give a dab of the throttle that'll create a momentum and not a spin this technique is so very very good because most of our endurance in south africa consists of ledges and climbs like this you can see the rocks very very very loose uh which will obviously stop your momentum so you've got to just go inch by inch forward i mean brent is a 10 times trials champion you can see his feet everywhere because as i said before right now the the the trial skill goes out the window all you want to do is maintain a momentum and a grip and be able to pivot at the right times you'll see over here what brent is really trying to do is keep his weight on the back wheel because you want as much bite and as much traction as possible and also maintaining a momentum pedaling away and then pivoting very looks easy and the gradient doesn't do justice here on the tv this is actually very very steep yes now we get to the very very hard and advanced moves the tire scaling or de-waiting over a tyre most enduro crosses an extra all enduro crosses will have a track tire a bulldozer tire or a big tire to just give you that little bit of an obstacle it does bring fear into most people's hearts who don't know how to de-weight like that it's a trials maneuver and you will find that most trial drivers are pretty happy when this comes along as you can see brent over here is pre-loading and he's going to put his front tire right into the tire and squash it what that actually does is it absorbs a certain amount of energy he did stop here just to show his pure balance but what it would have done is absorb the energy he will then bounce down or put all his weight down on the rear shock what that will do is give it spring and when he jumps off the bike with his body it will give the bike lift now that didn't really show it 100 but as you can see the bash plate did not touch the tire which means that the the back tire must have got considerable bite and giving it a considerable height most of the times the guys will bash their bash plates on there and try and see saw over it but once again it cost you oh there we have it there now mark what he did over there is the typical enduro rider you're hitting the speed and it's still doing it there's nothing wrong with the technique he's starting to learn now about the front wheel although there he's really glancing at you can see poof now if you look at that carefully his front wheel didn't really bash into it and pre-load therefore his bash plate hit it at a 90 degree angle and he lost control his line of sight was totally out there he did get up it and most people will get up and you won't notice it but what it did do is take its toll as far as energy goes um if that tire was perhaps another foot higher he wouldn't have got over so remember the weighting technique it is an advanced move but it will certainly make life a lot [Music] easier right here we can see brett attacking the berm coming into apex entrance where he is uh coming in at a nominal speed finding the outer line of the boom the high edge at this point he is balancing his left foot peg to keep the tyre in traction to the upper part of the berm you will also notice that he's got his right leg out acting as a counterbalancer it is not acting as a stop fall it's not going to help him if he falls now all it is is a counter balancer and in this entire process his vision or point of field must be between 10 and 15 feet ahead of him looking where he's going and not looking like in front of him at the tire as he exits his balance goes to the center of the bike bringing his body into the attack positioning getting the back tire into full traction mode and accelerating out of the boom the whole object of rock riding and this type of rock riding is to get through the obstacle with momentum and with little or as least amount of falling as possible by carrying your momentum and guiding your front wheel to the appropriate rocks that will get you through the obstacle or the obstacle field remember there is no marks or there's no points for getting through without putting your feet down so dad put down but whatever you do keep the momentum and keep the front tire tracking straight or over the obstacle not in the little obstacles [Music] you

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