Transworld Motocross Skills 3 - Tutorial MX Technics Training Documentary - Scuola di Motocross

pretty much the most general thing about riding and being on the bike is just stays central I mean if you stay central your your bike's gonna work right it's gonna this suspension is gonna work together and you know a lot of things could happen if you're too far back you get kicked forward if you're too far forward you know you know the risk to light so you really want to you know just really it's kind of like one of the basic basic techniques so writing that a lot of people forget about their like a fast dance you definitely I try and keep my head like right over the bars squeezing with my knees for sure that helps out a lot - I know this that way the bikes not swapping out you still got to let the bike work underneath you but you got to be squeezing at the same time riding a bike should be more legs than arms and I think a lot of people that aren't as skilled try to use their arms more than their legs and I think that a lot of people don't understand that youth you control your bike with your legs whether it's swapping out or you're just turning a little bit or you know a lot of the skilled guys are scrubbing that's a lot of legs it's my arms and even things so it's really key to squeeze your bike with your knees and keep it tied underneath you always got on the ball of your feet with your toes in you don't ever want to have your foot hanging out in a in a rut and getting snagged back and breaking ankles because of it that's a big one elbows up that's a huge thing and a lot of all the riding coaches teach it but keeping your elbows up give you a lot more control the bike it's always a work in progress with technique is like you know you could eat your kid won one year you can have your elbows up but if you're not working on it they'll go down and for me my elbows being down like my corner I can't like cut in my corner I'll start drifting out and I have to let off so it's like for me it's going fast elbows up and then balls of the feet and definitely gripping the bike tight you know even waiting the outside pegs and the turns and stuff like that and I think one of the biggest thing is looking ahead sometimes you know if you struggling with this section whether it's hot packs and whatever you know you're kind of just going to go back to the basics you know didn't get your main body adult bike is not it's not a car you don't work you don't use it drive it with this children a bike is going to be ridden with the foot pegs and your legs you know if you look at the the boss the boss never really turn when you're right you know it's both will stay pretty much the same it's either you lean you know or you push on your pegs but when you get on the turn you never push on the bar turning war in the in the wait transitions and in the leaning of your body then it is in the bars a lot of people sort of think it's more like turning like this but it's not it's like how much throttle you're giving out how much but you got going on and then how much you're leaning how much you're not leaning that's all it's all about all corners are kind of they're basically the same you're not you're not gonna do much if it's if it's nice and smooth out you want to come into the corner and you want to be sitting down braking like you don't really want to stand up if it's if it's smooth you don't want to stand up kind of position yourself sort of in the middle of the bike if it's kind of a flat sweeper you know you want to try to weight the outside peg a little bit you know just uh you know kind of work in the front of the bike it depends on the soil really how much traction there is but some guys are good at skate the inside you know you know sometimes you go around the inside I mean it's definitely shorter stiffness so it's a tough call I mean you know one guy might be faster on the inside one guy might be faster trying to rail up rail around the outside so it's it's kind of a personal preference thing I think but no but I think the main thing is is just being patient and know one where you're gonna go come in you know have your finger on the clutch ready to go and body positioning right elbows up balls of the feet and just just take your time you know I don't think that the clutch is really necessary too much unless you need it to get you out of trouble or a little boost out but I personally don't use a clutch too much for living it it gets you in trouble a lot of times just get you crazy but if it's really lonely and good you can get on the power early and start railing it if it's not then you slow down a little bit leave that clutch alone let that rear brake you hear your rear wheel chatter when you're doing it right you're when you leave the clutch alone your engine we do a lot of braking for you too obviously you know if you can get into the corner and brake without the clutch and accelerate without using the clutch you know at a beginner or novice level you'll be able to carry way more momentum through the corner you don't want to come in too straight you just want to kind of keep that art you know keep the arc of the turn so that way you're not making you know two turns in one turn just want to keep your momentum around and just keep your elbows you know straight out I try and stay level with the bars with my shoulders the best case scenario is to you to keep your feet on the pegs never take your feet off the pegs if you can you know hit the corner at good speed and not make a mistake and dabbing and keeping your feet on the pegs they're definitely better off but I think body positioning and just knowing what direction you're going what which way you're going before you even get there it's hard to set up for something when you think it's a sweeper and it could have a knife in it you know or the berm could be blown out halfway in between so you might have to make two pivots instead of just the one big sweeper being smooth is he and being smooth sometimes doesn't feel as fast but lap times a lot of times we'll show you that being smooth is back coming into a retic corner sometimes breaking bumps sometimes or not a lot of guys like to stand up going in but if there's not any braking bumps then I kind of prefer us to stay on the seat you obviously want to be centrally located on the bike which is kind of straight with the foot pegs and you've got to have that center of gravity going and if you're standing up sit down before you enter the corner you don't really want to come into the corner too far standing up because if you kind of lose your balance and just have the outside pegue abut and outside elbow up finger on the clutch handbrake just gotta make sure you keep that elbow up you come in and the rod and you got to look ahead and not worry about too much as what's in the rock just gotta blow with it and coming with power and try to be just smooth and steady with a fourth throttle you don't want to you don't really want to like gas it you know cuz then I'll send your bikes up setting and stuff you want to actually just be really samui through ruts almost like I say coast but almost like carry momentum through smoothly you're in the rusted better hiding the biggest thing is is once you get into it you need to look out of it basically you know I mean you need to start looking on to your next target you're gonna spot of attracts you want to attack now committing and going looking ahead you're gonna come into the right you're gonna go alright I'm going to that right you're gonna see where you're gonna see your wheel going into that rut and then you immediately look ahead BAM and you're gone and commit committing is huge if you come in and go wait wait do I wait could do what we really want to go there the next thing you know you're gonna be jabbing your feet or you're gonna be falling over you're gonna be high side off the top believe me I've done it a million and a half times you want to stay over the front of the bars you know once you get into the rut you don't want to be like leaning back or else that'll throw off your balance especially on a 450 you know you get on it and it wants to jerky back a lot of people like come in maybe a little bit too hot and you know standing up in mid corner just if you're too far back you know the friends gonna wander and you're too far forward the rear end might come out so you want to just stay central on the bike and you know drive out sometimes it's that old saying you got to slow down to go fast sometimes you go give a little coming in to make on the way up if it's a rut that's kind of like you got to hang into it you can control your front brake I'm at time I'll smash it on cuz you're gonna wreck to do that but you start popping out of that rut especially if you're going through a right-handed corner where you don't have your rear brake drag your front brake a little bit going through the corner and power out of it keep your legs to access for sure just I've always had problem with dab in my feet and corners and it really hurt your knees and stuff like that so I just try to keep my legs up the highest I can basically just gotta not be afraid of them and attack them as if they weren't there temperatur ons is what i think it's no good is to go down too far then you have to come up again so it's the same thing as a flat tail and you want to be easier to find a little road somewhere or the amount of the other you can put your wheel into and just same thing really easy on the Toro and I when you get ready you can get on the gas but the thing is on earth can browse you need to prepare yourself before you hit the off-camera you don't want to hit it straight you want to come up already prepare yourself coming from the outside and and get it like maybe already in 45 degrees into the into the off camber rather than going straight down and then you have to go you know make a big turning off camber is not really easy but if you already turn before the off camera then you only have to do you know after the job you know I treat them because that's not my strongpoint so uh I kind of just you know he's the threat I don't have a lot of throttle control and you know just have your weight over the bars and don't stay too far forward so you don't want to wash out but kind of be on the side of the bike and just kind of get through it so because this is a really sketchy corners for me so he's got to be really careful with that doctrine and wants to push out you've got a foot it wants to push out he's got to be really careful with it you got to be really good with a throttle control make sure the elbows off and the ball of your outside leg is pointing in and putting pressure on back okay well I mean off cambers you got to you know get into the best right there's always a rocky you have to have something to stop you from slide down the hill there's depending on the way the off-camera there's a burn at the bottom but you can hit and come back across just depending on what the next section was if it was straight away or another turn you wanted to be in the like I said thinking ahead you want to be in the right position for the next turn it's gonna make time up just because it's a little not as good on the off-camera but it's gonna be better on the next section that you kind of depends on where you go on those things but it's you know it's you don't have to lean over as far because the but you can't because it's Mike's already leaned over but it's basically the best right that's to get through it gamers are tough I think you want to off that's when it comes to like waiting the pegs you can't obviously stay straight out over the handlebars you have to start kind of like you know lean your body to the outside to get that traction on the outside part of that wheel cuz then you start turning on a Jonah off-camber your wheels on the breakaway so you got to start to weight the outside a little bit that's more of a feel and at the same time it comes down to this practice and now it's natural to me because I because I try to ride those you know types of things all the time like me and my dad had this thing like if you can ride in sand you can ride in anything and it's like Sam's tough you know so but biggest thing in like sand turns is like momentum I mean dude like pretty much most most turns you can keep your feet on the pegs and just kind of like it and you can almost stand around the whole a whole sand track you know whether it's Southwick or whatever sand check it is but I think dude like momentum is definitely the key and because dude like you swallowed is swallowed up quick sand turns wide open l go log wide-open around the turn Sam can just kind of like just let it he pretty much don't have to have much technique kind of get over and you know just on the gas and let it go and just pin it I think the biggest thing is to get on the gas early in the sand turns I think I think maybe you know obviously got to be comfortable but you want almost like start accelerating earlier just a carry momentum because usually by the time you get a know that big Sam burn your bikes lugging down just a lean back and there's keep traction going keep keep the traction up almost the opposite of a of a of a clay track I try to stand up all the way through a stand turn just because it's normally really bumpy and like roller so the more you can stand up and flow through it the better off you are stay with the gas in with your legs the more gas you give it the motor back in don't come around so you can kind of feel it through that Sam's pretty tricky because you kind of got to stay at the bottom of the berm but yeah when you go really fast and start to drift up towards the top but um you gotta always kind of like to run a little bit higher gear where your bike's kind of lugging a little bit it's not whining out and stay light you know I kind of stand up a little bit more on sand and then sit down he knows it gets all whupped out and stuff so I like to stand up stay light carry a higher gear and just get everything to flow really good but the biggest thing is is just riding very like upright like standing up a lot try to and try and feel kind of light on the bike don't like bury yourself into burns just make sure that you have a lot of a lot of momentum flowing that way you know you don't get stuck or anything like that and the ball just keeps rolling around the court you know what I mean you just kind of it's a free-flowing deal stuff you don't want to be slamming burns soon as you start slamming into sand berms and burying your bike you just go so slow set up all your burns why'd be standing up through all the big breaking bumps and just try not to get stuck so you start stuffing corners you're going back as the domes probably don't go to high in the berm you know you want to stay lower because that's where the more like the harder harder it's it's not harder dirt but it's like a once you get up high then you're either gonna wash your front end or your rear end it's gonna blow the fur mountain and then the next lap you set yourself up for a blowing out turn so it's like Stan low and and you don't want to you don't want to turn your bars too tight because it'll definitely knife on you quick you don't really break and saying nothing maybe it just a little bit you know because I mean a Sam so deep and just kind of slows it down for you so you kinda almost just stay on the gas a little bit everywhere you know you're out of hardly even when you roll off you're still on it just goes I mean the scene so deep enough if you let off or if you brake really hard you're from it and you know kind of buckles or something that it always does something weird you know so you always want to stay on the gas a little bit and avoid the bumps you know my house I know it like the back of my hand a dirt you know if I watered it stacking so I get up on the front you know I can just Carver the front end well sometimes when it's really dry and slippery you know I'll lean a little further back to get more traction and I'll actually look kind of dripped it when it's dry I figured that more traction you know more you can turn in the front you know the more slippery it is the more I kind of sit upright and back and as soon as I'm straight I I get it I'm full throttle sometimes it's a hindrance to me but say the same time sometimes that's what gets me to our next obstacle first making up time on the track per lap obviously it's gonna be corner speed because pretty much all the guys can jump they can hold it wide open down the straightaways you know I just didn't get too rough and it's choppy and it's kind of gnarly the gnarlier guys are gonna be able to hold a wide open on those straightaways but if you're looking at lap time for that time you're looking at corner speed you're looking at going into your turns really hard and not checking up as much and waiting that speed low through the corner go through the ride you know sweep the turn with a little more speed you know Ark it a little bit more you know that's the main thing because if you can do the corner fast the next regular eight miles per hour is gonna be up a little bit yeah obviously the momentum you carry the whole track the flow the smoothness just just really everything put together if you can you can put solid laps together and be smooth have a lot on their own and be good in the corners and you can see momentum just by watching four to three minutes on the track because they got will be going three four or five ten miles an hour there in every turn than that than other people will even on small little jumps you want to just over jump them in and land with the gas on like even before you land just that split-second you want you know you want to just hold it on so that way that way your your bikes you know up to rpm and crab meal and it's pulling you having kind of a smaller bike lets you bit Jeff I mean we have one of the best bikes but you still gotta you know carry momentum it uh it is a two bit DF and you can't bury the bike in the berms or or start from a dead stop you know you gotta kick keep your momentum and and that's that really that's how you go faster big fat powdery berm turns are so much fun you can just lay it in there get on the gas clutch it we're uh but that's not necessarily the fastest way to go you watch the fast guys again they're not going in there 100 miles an hour and stuff in it you'll see Baba and Alessi and all those guys they'll come from maybe outside a little bit set up and come underneath the big powder the big powders here well they're coming just just to the bottom of the big powder staying on the more hard-packed traction so they don't bury the front end or bury the rear end they can get on get on the gas maybe a gear higher and accelerate through if they lose the rear end they know it's gonna hit the berm and straighten them out you'll see the rest of the guys just going Clow in the berm and feeling like they're going 100 miles an hour when actually if you maybe slow down a second earlier set up on the outside and come underneath the big powder or the big lomi radical berm you'll be going a lot faster may not be as fun but it is faster you watch Kevin Windham ride sometimes and he'll go through a corner hugged inside and go out of there it doesn't look very fast at all but you put a clock on it compared to the guy that comes in there wide open and pulling this and well in the burnout might look fast but it's not it weights more energy and it's less consistent so who knows if that firms gonna be there when you come around the next lap most of time the biggest bumps are the fastest line you know I mean that's why they're big because it's the way you got to come down with so we'll hold GaN that's what gets you you know to the outside of the berm where you want to go and that's why you know most tracks the biggest bumps are the best line and you just sometimes got to go through it you know and after a while depending on your lead if you you know or if you know you can move over you get a smoother line that may be a little slower but save energy but may basically you just got a pound right through the big bumps if it's the fastest line a big thing goes back to the mental game is a confidence outdoors you've got to got to have a lot of confidence in your bike and your abilities so like anything I think it's you got to get out there and try to figure out the track for yourself I mean one guy might come in say there's an awesome line over here you can just rail around the outside and and it just won't work for you so you know every time you get out there you got to figure out your own no you have to know where all the blimps are you know because when you change lines you need to know where they are and don't get surprised sometimes you can crash pretty hard like when you get surprised and you didn't see a big haul something I think the biggest loss of time is if you make a mistake you know I mean it may not be the absolute fastest guy through a turn but if that fastest guy makes two bobbles through you know throughout the course of ten laps I mean all in all you know he might be a little slower than the guy who's consistent every time to me I just I've always tried real hard to be consistent get your lines and you know just try to try to hit him you know hit him every lap and be smooth because mistakes cost you time sir don't even worry about jumps if you're good on a bike and you got their corner dial jumps will come don't go out and say ha man I gotta jump the triple this weekend at my local track you know I want to press all my buddies sudden that's that's the last year worries and jumping is not jumping and come over time yeah I mean jumping is kind of a wide question I mean there's so many different styles of jumps you know smooth jumps short ones tall ones lips no lips whatever I mean there's a lot of different things that can happen there but you know I think for the most part you're always pretty pretty kind of neutral on the bike you know and you're kind of using the power sort of helping you with your balance point you know when you first start running the bike seat you go oh yeah you're on the jump and you you keep your your third wheel open all the way to the face of the jump if you're doing second gear and then you go up a bap bap bap and at the end on the face you you let off you have loaded reaching break and then you go you could go over the wall so that's that could be dangerous if you can have momentum at a jump it's it's it's a better way to get through it's usually smooth or - you kind of just come at it and you just kind of use your usual momentum and just kind of float right through the air where sometimes you get the gas you squirt you out sideways or you know get your front wheel high or whatever well oh yeah like coming up to the big jump like you kind of come into it and you put like right before you take off you're pushing down and that the bottoms of your suspension and so when you take off when you're just when your bike leaves the lip front and rear you get that much more of a spring so it's kind of like you get more height and that gives you more time to like hang time so you keep going forward so it's like you get that it's it's just like you compress the bike and you get a lot more lift out of it and you lift up while you're in there if the goal is to land on the downside smooth so you want to keep your weight you know kind of even in the middle and just kind of be ready for anything really and just keep your keep your weight just in the middle that way if your front end does start to come up you definitely want to pull in the clutch and tap that rear brake and it'll drop the note down and set your level again and then also if you're if you come off the lip and you start feeling like the front ends coming down throwing you over the bars you want to you know just hold the gas wide-open and there's actually a few tricks you can kind of you can start shifting gears that way the fire will you know if you're still in the same gear it just kind of revs out but if you start shifting at all you know start kind of pulling and the wheels start gaining momentum and I'll start bringing I don't really use the rear brake to do it that much I feel like when I want to use the rear brake I want to do it when it's when I'm kind of scared I'm gonna crash because I think it stops your momentum so you click it unless the bike just kind of stops so I almost use it actually when I want to put the front end down I'll get over the front and always just pushed it front and down or in order to sling back you know the easy way is to click your brake but when it comes down to guys being within tenths of seconds you know that's all it takes a few times three times of lapis at your age and when you land if you wide open before you land it's gonna be easier on the suspension and always land on the real world first and if you land the boat will sometimes you can know how to knees or you or your wrist you know always kind of do like this now the benefits of landing with your front wheel is the situation when you're coming into a corner landing up push off and you're going to need your braking that will definitely help landing well first getting set up for the corner you laying flat you want to land pretty much wide open especially and say you come off the jump and you describe before you head down and straight away grab a gear in there and wide open when you land you want your front end to be up but you want your head to be over the bars so bring that front end up over the bars and bring your when you come down kind of lay your bike down don't just like slap it down you can feel it and just kind of like set that front wheel down so you don't stop and go over the bars then yup jumps or where you need lift and I love the tear on a big table top so you might need to sit down sit to get the lift so you can go a little further I'm kind of scared to tell anybody out a seat bounce even even pros have a hard time seat bouncing you know it's for me I see balance I get into it I'm almost full throttle the first thing you want to do is to gas it and seat balance and then chop it before you're off the face you want your wheels to be off the ground before you let off the throttle you almost want to fill your bike revving up otherwise it'd actually be kicking the seat bounce is really to get lift and height to get over a job at the same time can also be a little bit slower to seat down something that is to just stand up so you only want to seat bounce when you really have to you want to lift up with these seat mounts if you don't lift up while your seat bouncing it'll just throw you over the bar you know so especially in Supercross when there's sharp little lips you know you definitely want a gank on the bars that way it's not gonna throw you over the bars always tasted all the ways at the end if you live if you kind of lit up before that's where you could you know go over the boss so when you see bounce always see bounce all the way to the end you know it's just like a jump like when you start writing you don't want to let off in the face because you're gonna you know you always want to go get high you're off like in third gear and just you know throw control all the way to the face you know when you stop writing see bouncing is it can be great or it can be really bad it can send you way higher in the air I can kick you really bad you just got centrally located on the bike and know what the bikes gonna do whenever it's when it kicks you because it's gonna kick you if you're on the seat just be ready for them when it comes to a technical jump with rats if we all comes back to the basic technique of just bloody position you kind of want to stay in them in the middle you know you're not not land - you know leaning too far you know cuz that that will upset you when you take off you could get kicked you could hit the edge you kind of want to just be patient make sure you're in the line of management well I mean the biggest thing winners when there's a pothole or this a lip on their face of jump you're better to be accelerated you don't want to be like this wide open but I think you want to be you know steady throttle when you go across the bump you want your actually wheel to actually turn it frost it you know you don't want to hit it off because soon you hit it when it's off the dawkins light and it's kicking up or it's dancing if you want to actually use the bike so much track across the road or across the a bit the curb always on the throttle yeah it does you know nowadays the riders are getting faster and faster and then getting braking bumps in the in the faces so you got to be on the power that way you do leave you leave you let off but you can get kicked and endo so you got to make sure you're in the car you're in the right buddy precision you know you're your buddy stray not too much defraud not too much the back and you want to make sure that both wheels hit that lip if your if your front wheel you know lifts up right before it and just your back wheel hits it say good night you're going down but but yeah you definitely want to make sure both wheels hit that hit the kicker and just lean back and be ready for it and definitely be on the gas you don't want to be out yeah biggest no no I don't know I think whenever there's a lip on a jump you probably don't want to sit like a seatbelt you know I mean if there's a lip it's it's usually gonna buck it pretty good so if you're sitting it's really gonna it's gonna bounce you pretty good so I don't know I mean there's a lot of no when I was probably in certain situations but I would say if there's a lip on a jump don't don't be sitting down on that thing because it'll it'll nail you there's a lot of different things that are going on when you hit a jump especially when they get ruts or lips on the top you know they can be tricky you know it's just thanks practice some rollers who jump through some of them you wheelie through I guess the biggest deal is try and keep your front end up try not to be falling into the bottom biggest key is this thing's boys study on the throttle and staying back on the bike not too far back but not in a neutral billet UV hit a neutral position you're back in tune one-click out you want to almost keep that back wheel on the ground almost like you're manually something and you touch your front end on each each each work because you just touch the front wheel on each one and to stay on steady throttle and you just keep your momentum up throw your weight all the way back and go go forward and stead off you know it's a basically the thing basically people come into the loops and they have their feet you know out like this or level and the legs get really far away from the bottom they can't really grip back in something like this they get real scared showing off if you have your feet pointed in towards the bike your knees will automatically drift grip the tank or grip the seat wherever your legs are and you can keep control of the bike because this way you've used one boob put it over this way you know it's uh helps a lot yeah I think when you're coming through some rollers and maybe it's like some big big bumps it's always good to be maybe like you know one gear high so you're not over revving and your bike's gonna pull forward when you touch that rear wheel down you get on the gas you want to make sure your bike's gonna pull forward instead of you know run out of gear that's gonna send you in into an endo so the clutch is pretty important today I think a lot of guys get a big long you not only whoop section a lot of guys will have a finger on the clutch and sometimes you kind of just you know kind of tap in the clutch a little just to keep the power where you want it all the way through there you know you always want to going back to the keeping your front wheel out of those holes you know sometimes just a little run with the clutch will help you keep your front wheel up where you know you don't want it to go so that's a bad thing you know what you yeah you mean you don't want to be on the rev limiter obviously but you don't want to be lugging just right there in the meat of the power it kind of depends on how the turn is after it I mean you can you can go into them as fast as you can but if the turn is not gonna be good and I can go to make it and obviously you have to slow down for the turn grip it and rip it there's no technique to that just hang on and go if you don't if you don't go you're gonna get passed I mean you just got to hang out with your knees and just hopefully you got your suspension dialed and you can you can let it happen yeah coming into the breaker box and using the brakes really again this comes with a lot of practice but learning what your brakes are gonna do riding the rear brake a lot of times they'll keep the rear end down using your legs again you want to keep keep you know your that's the weight of your body from flying forward off of your arms use your legs and your stomach muscles get on the brakes keep pushing on the backs of your pegs kind of keeping the rear down you want the rear to stay flat as the minute the rear lift then you're lifting the front ends diving and now all of a sudden you got a whole other issue coming into the corner on the brake up up you want to keep the thing as flat as possible always use bol steer brakes at the same time when you're doing the hardest part of your braking and be leaving the clutch alone when you're braking you don't need to have that clutch in because it's like you don't want to brake so hard where you stall the motor but control the brakes when you're braking hard leaving your clutch alone get in there as hard as you can and then set up for the corner you know ultimately you watch the the really really fast guys and a lot of times they're they're carrying momentum and lines around the braking bumps there's you know there's always usually a line around something that you can kind of get and square up on the inside or something but you know having your weight back being on the brakes trying to keep spikes flat whatever the brakes won't start that's where you start dragging you to break because it holds the back end and doesn't let it kick up a lot and then you can gas it through it guess it through it and if you don't then you're back in starts to pick you up and then you get out of control and you also want to keep down after not before you ship down before the bumps then you're gonna get squatty you know i if you stay until the fourth and then ship done quick before the wrath it's better if you're hitting the breaking bump make sure and get your feet on the ball of your feet and have your knees tight and grip that thing hard and gonna be ready for the ride you know looking ahead not focusing on each bump if you're looking right at the bump you're gonna hit it it's gonna buck your bike slice as bad so just look ahead look through the brake and bumps and you go through them like they're not even there some braking bumps you can kind of jump through in a long moto you know you can kind of send a hit on try to find one you can jump over and that kind of set yourself up more for a corner depends like if they're big enough sometimes you can jump on or willyam or kind of get a rhythm through them like especially in the sand a lot of times you can can rhythm them and then if not then you just got a pound room and hit the turn as good as you can you know just know what your suspensions gonna do and be ready so downhills seem like they could be easy just because you're going downhill and but they are actually very difficult when you're approaching a downhill you definitely need to be with bumps in it you got to be on the gas to get yourself over the over the bumps if you're on the brakes the bike is gonna load itself and it's gonna want to bounce up and down coming down the gnarly downhill I'm squeezing the tank as hard as I can and my eyes are this big cuz I'm going pretty fast but my hands are actually pretty loose because I'm using all my leg to keep myself from flying over the bars and busting my chin legs are huge and make sure you have a good line and and just keep that bike tight with the knees and be ready sometimes you want to be in a high gear or if you're wanting to shut down for a corner maybe go down some gears but I think it's almost like a whoop section where you kind of want to have that a little bit of extra horsepower to get you out of trouble if it's rough you know you need to to be consistent going down here always standing up on the back and always try to be a year higher and you're like if you go down in second or sometimes you have too much engine brake and you could swap you know you can't try going down the hill in neutral you see you never you you won't feel as much bumps you know and go down like in cross and you'll see you get kick because I enjoy brake I tend to drag my brake a little bit coming into anything that's high speed that whether it's a straightaway a downhill of like high speed sweep or anything like that it tends to make it to where my bike I feel like it's more stable under me and it feels that it it's almost squatty ER in the back so then it doesn't let it kick out as much I kind of get in a lot of trouble with it because obviously I go through a lot of breaks that way for me it worked I know when I was at Suzuki me and Tortelli did the exact same thing body positioning I mean as long as you're not over the front of the bike and then you hit a kicker you know when you do that the bikes just gonna dance all around long as you can be neutral to a little bit further back and everything should be fine going up the hill squeeze that tank use your stomach glut muscles try to keep your arms loose you know that's probably one of the biggest things with racing motorcycles as people's arms will pop up well the reason they do is for one they're a little bit maybe not in shape four to eight they get a little anxious and nervous and they're just grabbing the bars and they're pulling and they think they're just gonna go so fast cuz I just got to bend those bars they're so gnarly in reality use your legs man use your stomach muscles and let the bike work if you need to use your arms they'll be loose enough that you can use them I think it's huge they'd usually really concentrate on using more legs rather than arms I squeeze my bike a lotta for me that's how I just hold onto a bike I guess you know Hills obviously you want to depends on how steep it is for one to your your run going up to it if it's a short one you definitely want to like again there gets much momentum up as possible doesn't mean that you have to take the widest line you know before it to get all your speed to go up it but you definitely want to have momentum built up before you get to it otherwise you're just spinning your wheels you know you definitely need to lean forward make sure the bikes not gonna wheelie and come back on you and you know kind of kind of feel it out where your body positioning should be it's different for everybody you know some guys are like it's like in a squat position other guys are stood up and over the front of the bike you know it just all depends on what feels more comfortable to you this guy's just getting that momentum you know out of the corner and wherever the core whatever the corner is before the uphill is the biggest the biggest thing you know going up the hill is not a problem just picking the right line smooth and you know you got to lean forward keep the bike from wheelie and with you know slipping the clutch a little bit but it's the corner before that that makes the drive up the hill you know it's depending on you know who's behind yet how far you got to go out to get a ride without getting past because he may lose a little bit at the bottom but you're gonna gain a time all the way up if you gotta be you know you got be thinking if somebody's behind they're gonna stuff yet and you're screwed so it's there's no thought process of there but depending on how long the hill is depending on if the straightaway or the uphill has a corner in it some kind of curbs you know you want to find the smoothest line and your bikes bouncing around it's definitely not making traction you're not going forward but the shortest way is obviously in the insides and you know you want the shortest direction anyway it's totally smooth and yeah you can afford to sit down because it's not gonna beat you up so you just throw the butt to the seat and just gas it and lean back a little bit put your weight back and you know everything hook up and go obviously if it's rough you're gonna probably be coming in out of the corner sitting down and you want to transfer to maybe standing up to a squat anyway and getting your body back so you can get massive traction you definitely don't want to hit the big bumps sitting down because and it's gonna reload your bike it's gonna but rebound you and then it's gonna send you a different direction and that could be disastrous momentum for sure especially on a track like here at Glen Helen the hills are key so you got to keep your momentum to go up the hills fast and you can never have too much traction that's for sure that's traction is key as well the best way to get traction it says is being a central part of the bike I don't think you want to be too far back and then you're gonna go to where you kind of want to loop out and then you gotta stab the clutch a couple of times and get the front end down but I think being in the center of the biker or even over a little front is good because you want to just you don't want to be too far forward you don't want to be too far back you just want to find that fine line of good traction well passing I mean you got to know the riders weakness you made a big nurse strength that what part of the track gets at you don't want to waste the past somewhere where you know but you're not sure you can get by because all you do is lose two seconds you got to take two laps to get it back and so you know I bought I always pick a spot where I think I have a better line and I definitely have a hundred percent chance at making the pass if I know I'm close to them they need to be close enough to make it happen so I don't know if I get close to them I don't wanna make a stupid mistake somewhere on the other part of the track to where I can't get it where I know I can't get them passing is crucial you know it it can win lose your races it's it's super important because if you get a bad starter or in a bad position you gotta gotta make things happen quick and and kind of go off here to your natural and sneaking and really just just go for things you gotta make them safe and clean you don't really want to make enemies on the track that's that's not really that good cuz that can kind of hurt you later on down the road you gotta you gotta be smart you got to be able to you know think fast you got to change lines you got to see what's what's better and what's faster sometimes you make mistakes for trying to pass but you just gotta be you gotta be committed and aggressive you know you want to be aggressive always you want to kind of just pounce on them I guess you want it to be clean but you want to be how to give yourself a little bit of space to so that when you get by they counter tell you whenever you're behind somebody constantly be looking for different lines so you never know when they're gonna screw up if he's about your same speed but you know you can get in there and pass them maybe follow them for a couple lapses with the long race pick out the points for you're faster than that end up maybe find a good line and then stick on them follows for us then all of a sudden you find that good part of the track bust out past them and that's only if it's a one line crack a lot of tracks nowadays have such good lines everywhere you can just kind of ride a whole separate track to get around you know if you try to surpass someone in a bad spot through G time and possibly in other positions so just have an open mind and think right well that's it it's a wrap I hope you got something out of it big thanks to all the pros who helped us put this video together and I hope you enjoyed it thanks for watching you have any other thank you you know there's some kicks in there there's some things but if I if I just put the body dry you know the body drag off the side of the bike yeah that's I can't tell you about the body here I gets just it means too much that's like golden land you know it's like if you like that out it's I mean that's that's big yeah I mean if it was on this I really know you know I can't let the secret out it's like gold the head with it takes many many years or a lack of no years on a dirt bike to know how to do a head whip and it's kind of like the scrub you got it it's coming after you know it's not something you you can teach it's it's really just an art you know me and my trainer worked on it you know if we've got dumbbells and tape them to the helmet it's it's not really necessary you know just just keep that that ya know this flexible as possible Furio good and even some therapy and it's just just stretch it you know holding hold it down and kind of go up like that and just it's great the best way to lose a race is to miss the start so I'd be telling you too much now let me get my competition a little too much info definitely don't want to case the jokes you've case of jump your ladies are gonna be through your ears mud don't ask me that dude I'm not a good mud rider I just frickin let my legs flail and try and ruse the guy as bad as I can behind me and hope for the best honestly those that's my mud riding secrets I swear to you man there's something behind me I'm freakin doing anything I can possible the fishtail that thing back and forth so rooster I swear to God underneath specific technique like you can't share good way my stick is anyway my secrets can't go in my secrets gotta be something you can share right are you rolling right now yeah I don't want to see a blooper reel at the end of the video now it's hard I don't know models do you we've enlisted to help them several the tops pros and spruce to help you become a better faster and safe to work yeah dude I'm english-as-a-second-language coming a break dude damn I should have worn my Rolex she's got some bling in the picture welcome to skills 3 I have no business hosting this because I fall on my fat ass and bang my head and break my wrist and rub for my pen dicks and break my ribs and and bang my head and forget my name and everything so trust these guys not me I've got to go watch this tape myself there better not be a blooper reel dude I'm serious I like chicken I also like potatoes with my chicken tater tots cheese fries maybe even a sundae

Channel: archjoker

Views: 784,114

Rating: 4.8866997 out of 5

Keywords: TransWorld Motocross, Motocross (Sport), Tony Cairoli (Person), Tutorial Motocross, Enduro, Enduro (Sport), Tony Cairoli, Yamaha, Cross, Honda, Motorsport (TV Genre), MX (Newspaper), Mc Grath, Villpoto, SX, MX

Id: 7610sYWn78U

Length: 54min 34sec (3274 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 13 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Same with big adv bikes. Keep weight central, stand up on the balls of your feet, elbows up, look far ahead. and most importantly, let the bike and suspension do the work.

[u/KillYourTV]

Awesome video. Thanks for posting it.

[u/behohippy]

I don't do much MX riding, but I think I learned a lot about riding in general. Thanks for the post.