Best advice I ever got for steep terrain is you want to keep a small amount of weight on your hands no matter how steep it gets (body position). I was always hanging off the back of bike for dear life in steeps until I made an effort to stay forward a bit. I’m not saying lean forward, just stay forward enough so you can still steer and brake.
As a fairly new mid 40’s rider…. I struggled trying to find legit teaching videos on RU-vid….you definitely can get lost in the weeds. After watching a pile I really clicked with Kyle & April’s stuff …it was easy to relate to as a newer rider. Then stumbled onto your stuff after watching your “game of BIKE “video with Kyle. (Really enjoyed watching it) Just listened to a podcast that you and Kyle did on his channel. It’s a great listen and puts things into perspective on your teaching style, experience and your abilities. Your videos have helped me a lot to understand the dynamics of why you need to do certain thing to make it happen……made thing clearer for sure. I really would like to take a few day clinic like you guys do to have that direct feedback. Any Canada clinics planned? Or Montana? Excellent work!!!! 🤙
Love all your videos making me a way more confident rider fellas. Wish you could bring TRS to Calgary Alberta. A lot of us would sign up lol. Hint hint.
Everything you're saying made sense but if you had some better visuals to go along with it I think that would help a lot. For example, showing the correct and incorrect body position next to each other, and then highlighting the difference with a marker or something. Thanks for the video! You got a new subscriber here
I agree. As someone who's still a beginner but has watched probably ~3 hours of YT MTB tutorials (multiple channels), I know the difference Caleb was making in body position between the wrong and correct attempts. But I think the method Kyle & April use to clearly show that shift in body position is what worked the best. Kyle (& crew?) keeps the exact same angle for each shot, and would freeze frame and just drawing a single white line thru the spine and maybe using a reference point on the bike could not make things easier. But if that's too complicated for y'all (I see the sass in the Guy Ritchie comment lol), you could just do a voiceover with slow-mo replays discussing what Caleb or whichever Drew did wrong/correct in that particular clip. No line drawings required.
Hey guys, great info! We've got some ridiculously crazy steep/sharp berms in Little Rock AR at Two Rivers trails. You gotta come check em out. You can hit Pinnacle Mt state park trails as well as Rattlesnake Ridge natural area trails. They're all within probably a 10 mile area and are all awesome man
Great video guys! But I think it’s “dangerous” saying you should put your weight back when descending. As a beginner it’s hard putting your weight back and simultaneously having enough pressure on the front wheel. I believe this cue is counterintuitive. I believe It’s better using the “get as low as possible” cue. That will put your weight centered and automatically more back but still keeps the weight on the front wheel. Keep up the good work! 👍🏼
I'm not sure calling it "dangerous" is warranted. Your body should automatically get low when you're getting behind the saddle, so it accomplishes both things, no?
Great vid guys... I do wish you had picked multiple steep turns for instance one that was loose though, as most steep turns you will find racing enduro will be even steeper and looser/slicker due to high traffic and conditions. Body position is huge as you touch on, but so is weighting the bike properly and staying loose in loose turns letting the bike do the work. Just my 2 cents from an old washed up dude haha
I'm finding myself shitting myself of steep stuff. I mainly race xc but I've been exploring some of my locals natural trails recently on my 100mm hardtail I just never feel I have enough traction in my back wheel to slow down sufficiently. On these sort of turns do you lean away from the turn to get high then lean into the turn with your outside foot down and knees/hips pointed towards exit? Basically no breaking. On my bike it feels I'm at a 90 degree angle!
OK, now can you show us how to do this on a hardtail without a dropper post? Because this looks a lot like the section that challenges me every year in my main mountain bike race. Except that it's even narrower, and it starts with going over a slippery root. :)
@@richdrewtherideseries Thanks! I'll continue to rely just on prayers before the race. I only crashed three times on training, been lucky in the races so far. 😁
Hi Rich, I have allways the feeling that I do not need to change the position of my feet depending on the direction of the turn. If I understood you right, that is exactly what you said. Stay centered amb neutral. Is that right? If I try to change. As example putting my left foot up and front in right turns and the contrary in left turns I feel very uneasy and unconfortable.
are you saying left foot heel down/toes up and infront of the right foot (so, neutral riding position with feet level), or your left foot up, and right foot down to get extra bite into the left turn? in a berm corner, typically you keep feet level since the bank gives you that grip. whichever foot you keep in front is up to rider's preference - I think most people have their dominant (right) foot in the back, although I seem to prefer my dominant foot in front for some reason.
