How To Get More Speed From Trails With Pumping | How To Bike with Ben Cathro EP 6 

Watch ALL the How To Bike episodes below! Ep 1: How To Actually Learn New Skills On Your Bike - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BGsNvd9EhvQ.html Ep 2: Pro Mountain Bike Setup Guide - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PfUyN6znF3c.html Ep 3: Decoding The Best Mountain Biking Body Position: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iVLJIuYwW_g.html Ep 4: Absorbing Trail Features & Maintaining Speed: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Iu4plluUVtA.html Ep 5: How To Use Your Brakes To Actually Ride Faster: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aFcj7078gtA.html Ep 6: How To Get More Speed From Trails With Pumping: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-04e_s9_LpVA.html Ep 7: Line Choice Is Easier Than You Think With These Rules - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-82T0m_uja4g.html Ep 8: How To Corner Properly - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZOqFywGllFw.html Ep 9: Stop Crashing On Drops - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uJJAW0iNhUY.html Ep 10: Make Jumping Easier - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IB5GmIL0slg.html

This is such a masterpiece on all levels : explanation, riding skills, funny, video, editing… THANK YOU. Give that crew an award !

Hands down, this series is the best explainer I’ve found on the elements of how-to-ride-good. The visuals are clear, the script is perfect, Ben’s presentation is bang on. No distractions or confusing bits, no weird omissions. Endorse.

This series has helped me improve more than any other RU-vid vid or series. So good!

That’s incredibly well explained!

Ben, nailed it again! These are awesome, I find that when out riding cathro voices pop in my head. Keep up the good work🤘

I just want to take a second to say, that intro cut is freaking amazing and one of the best things on the internet. Really top shelf stuff guys, kudos!

I did laugh. I'm not even remotely guilty or ashamed. My bike's heard that any number of times... "Right, that's it pal, you're getting pumped."

These videos are so, so well done.

Yeah finally :D The serie with Ben is dope

I'm always so PUMPED when one of these videos are dropped... I'll show myself out

Who would of thunk the guy who can pick apart a line can also pick apart a skill. Well done.

Oddly enough, it's exactly like loading and unloading skis to generate speed in ski racing turns. Exit the feature faster than you went in, if you can. "The White Zone is for loading and unloading only, If you have to load or unload, please go to The White Zone." - Frank Zappa

This series is nonstop bangers!! Cathro you’re a legend

Best tutorials ever seen. It's when you *really* own skills, that you can explain them so clearly and simply! Awesome work Ben!!

hands down the best tuition vids on the tube!! really useful for a total novice like me!!!

A note, Mr. Cathro: We, as a group, are definitely NOT better than laughing at pumping the bottom. Please do not cast such aspersions, sir.

Best how to ride series hands down! Great content and presentation. Ben Cathro Phd in bike skills and coaching 🤘🏼

Bravo Ben, bravo🔥 Made the seemingly complex simple and fun to do.

Found a problem, I’m more of an arms guy and need to work on the leg pumping. Thank you Ben!

I'm loving the centre of mass animations Ben Got to say I learned pumping from the Tony hawk game

Just wanted to say thanks and congrats on this series. Everything from writing, filming, editing, performing, riding, etc have been top notch. Good stuff!

12:30 this left crank was 0,00011 inches above the rock.

These are so good, so stoked for this series. Thanks Ben!

Best explanation I've seen on RU-vid. Great info with when to pump on the transition vs on the down slope. They both get the pumping speed, but one almost always sets you up wrong for the next feature

i will always get something new, very2 clear explain.👌

wish I had these videos to watch when learning all of these skills, although I feel ive for the most part mastered all of them I still enjoy watching it and haven't seen it explained better anywhere else. if I had seen this when progressing im sure I would have gotten to the level of rider I am now a hell of a lot sooner. keep it up ben!

Amazing job Ben and crew! I never learned so much about mountain bike like I got from these videos. I bike for more than 10 years now and these are the best explanations I ever had. I can see I improved after watching, A LOT! Thanks for the informative, cool and fun videos.

As I've been watching this series, and begun implementing the things I learned, I'm getting PR's left, right end center. Thanks Ben.

Sometime when I pumped my bike trough some corners, my front wheel loose the grip and go out of the trail, did you have some tips to correct it ?

Thanks for making me an expert on pumping, my wife will be so proud.

No matter how many videos I see on a topic, you always cover something I've missed or make me think of it in a new way! Now if I spent as much time riding as watching videos...

Love this series! Learnt so much!

Ben, love your light hearted presentation style, your riding and your coaching . It's all top notch !

seeing santa cruz's bikes EVERYWHERE on the trails i ride, i get kind of sick of seeing them but damn, ben makes me want to buy one.

awesome, as always. professor Ben is most entertaining bike teacher on WWW. plus, finally someone tall showing tips and tricks!

another great video as always! i feel like a total noob every time! a lot of things to unlearn! 😅..god i love this series! 🤙

Just discovered this series as a roadie with decades of experience. I’m learning a ton as I start my MTB journey. Ben is friendly, funny, easy to watch and giving me so much knowledge!! Thank you 👏🤙

That's a great video. Doesnt apply to Florida, though. WE have a REAAAAAAAAAAAAlly flat state. LOL

How is this free to watch?

Great vid! Timing is everything with backside pumping.

Pumping makes so much more sense now.

For those interested in the physics behind why pumping works it’s the law of “angular momentum”. Velocity increases when mass moves to the central focus of a curve. Put more simply, the riding technique is “go in small, come out tall” when navigating any curve (up, down or around). I’ve done this instinctively for years as a bowl skateboarder but only recently discovered the physics behind why it works. I’m learning to hit the trails on bikes and your videos are a great help, Ben. 👍

Does anybody else get Nick from Big Mouth-vibes from Ben?

Feels like I already know how to do this, just by watching this video 🙌🏼

I always keep coming back to this series....Its Gold!

Pumping out of the turn... I see what he's saying, but idk if I'll ever do it right lol

Best explanation I've seen! it needs practice :) does it work on hard tail ??

Even know I though I knew how to pump this is so detailed and refined that I still learned quite a few tips, especially on timing. Amazing video Ben thanks a lot !

My second time at bike park I felt the flow for first time pumping dropped my heels felt so much faster just realized gotta work on legs more

Title: How to get more speed….. Thumbnail: guy on e bike. 🙃

@13:08 "10k Ebike? Yeah this tree branch should be fine!" hahaha

I now reaalize that I only pump with my arms.. Thanks Ben, I'll make sure to work on that

That camera quarter angle while the talking head is facing forward is just the most idiotic thing.

Why is episode 7 been up as private only for 3 days now? I need more Cathro!!!!

12:58 ah the ever-ubiquitous Santa Cruz tree. So named for it's delicious fruit.

Yes pumpning The backside, can be interpreted in many ways

Title : learn how to pump Ben : you can also send 15ft doubles 😂

Off to do some pumping 2moro should I bring a pump 🤔asking for a friend 😁

What a great series! So helpful. Where is this all filmed, the trails look great! Inners?

Cathro s the man like!! How is it when he explains it all it just seems to click and come together! Another great vid bro and the team canni wait for the cornering one. 🤘

echoing what others have already said- I think Ben (and the other people who made this series) are the best at teaching these skills than anything else I've seen online.

What about hardtails including fat bikes?

Okay thanks for the videos you helpful boi I’ve just got one question How do you decide where to pump and where to absorb out on the trails or can you do both at the same time?

Now all I need is for you to telemachus me how to air out on me bmx ,and that's me all done 😉

Massive help to my understanding with mtb. Awesome work guys!

Still remember my old school teacher who took me to a pump track and taught me how to ride them

Little late on this one. Ben your one incredible rider and teacher!!!

Oh no I just realized I have to practice to get better.

You deserve an award. You are the reason I committed to mtb!

Thanks, every time it is funny and useful to view

This has to be the best series. Great job PB 👍

And remember to pump the backside everyone

Teach me ! Blooming predicted text !

Best riding tutorial series on RU-vid 💯

LEGENDARY STATUS ACHIEVED.. Captain backend pumper LMAO

*B-B-B-Bennie, Bennie, Bennie--- Pumpin with his Jets*

Stunning, the most useful & clear video ever seen. Clearly explained, graphical, riding demonstrations (how to do it-how not to do it),I mean, it's just excellent, I'm already recommending this video). Thanks guys! lml !

Me, riding downhill with just gravity: well this is much too quick, I really should slow down. Me, riding downhill with pumping: this is counterproductive, now I have to brake even harder!

Learning so much from all your videos trying my best to master all your techniques in mountain biking cos I'm 5"11 so its better for me to learn from tall guys like you.... good job bro..... 👍👍👍👍👍 five thumbs up to you.👍🤟💪🙏😅

Its alot like skiing setting the edge,shraaaaaalp

Best one yet. Awesome stuff. Thanks

I wrote so much down in every Episode!! Im riding Enduro MTB for 1 1/2 years now. And i feel like im understandig how to ride for the first time. Now i have so much "practice sessions" coming. Not just stupid riding. :D Thanks a tousand times!!!

Fantastic video(s), Ben. Your way of instruction is top notch. I’m just getting back into mtb after…too many years. Recently I’ve been watching HOURS of video. Your way of presenting, and choice of graphics and info-graphs, is the best I’ve seen. Thank you! 🤙🏼

58 seconds in and something got a bit excited

You're killing it with this series ben! So many other videos are sorta wishy-washy about the physics. However, I wish there there slightly more diagrams and/or overlays. There are lots of words and descriptions that are not completely reinforced visually. A subtle knee angle change could be called out with a couple lines, over-layed at the knee with riding footage, with a graph perhaps to show/prove exactly *when* the legs are extended to create that pump, in addition to the verbal description. Still absolutely the best video series about the technical aspects of riding a bike! Something along the lines of the masterful plot of the center of mass of the rider when pumping/absorbing on the trail.

A good example of this is Gwin's chainless victory at Leogang in 2015

Loving this series, Ben is quality

I've been pumping a bike for thirty-five years and I still learned a FEW things Very well done well explained and visual aids to boot. Thank you Waiting for YOUR next video.

The best video about pumping I've ever seen, hands down! Really helpful! It can be named 'Pumping like a Pro!' 🔥 Thanks!

Dude, thank you so much. I've always struggled with pumping through turns. When you said "a berm is just a bowl turned sideways", it clicked! I don't know why I never got it before, but now I do! Thanks so much again.

So, a how to shralp video? 🤣🤘

cant undertand why people dislike this video .... ! thanks team for producing such a great educational video .

This is incredible, can't wait to get back onto the trails and give this a proper try. My pumping has been improving but feels so inconsistent applied on the trails. I am definitely guilty of using too much arm and pumping with my legs too early. Pumping the transition makes so much sense.

Best tutorial on pumping that I have seen. Pumping never made sense to me until now. Also, I feel vindicated about my self-taught cornering technique that is the same as explained in this video, especially in regard to the forward-to-back weight shift. Until now, I had not heard anybody recommend it. In fact, some say it is poor technique. Screw them - it works and it is FUN.

Really love this series! Great explanation and presentation,.. really really the best! keep them coming Ben! Cheers.

most under rated essential mtb skills

This so helpful. Thank you.

Hey Ben Super tutorial videos for us oldies. I am on the trails what I would like to see is if your learning a new trail you don’t know where your actually going so you are trying to ride with some pace on a green trail (Beginner trail) which is where there are no real drops just lots of rocks and tree roots bouncing you all over the place how do you know where and when to pump while you have to pedal not coast on a trail. ? It does not mean climb it’s lots of bouncing about on rock and root infested crests. Do you have any videos on pedalling techniques on how to get through these sort of trails. We’re I ride is lots of pee gravel rocks and tree roots. Advice if and when you get time would be appreciated. Other then that great tutorials even if it can be overwhelming keep this great content coming 👍

This is probably the best 'How to mtb...' series out there. Fair play to Ben and the team for building such a well paced and planned course. Any plans to resume real-world coaching? Coz if you do, I'm on my way. 10 outta 10, lads