I hate being data driven but according to the analytics i need to change up my formula a bit. So I'll be playing with different content types and I think doing recaps here will help keep things fresh.
@SkillsWithPhil it's all good man. Reasonable people understand this is your livelihood, what puts food on your families plate and a roof over their heads. Play around with it as much as you need. Eventually you'll get it dialed in and we'll get to experience some different perspectives along the way. Use some more clickbaity thumbnails and such if you'd like. You're an awesome rider and the videos speak for themselves. If you have to game the system a bit and play the game people will get it man. Look at what Matt Jones and of course Seth does with their build videos. It's about more than just the pure building. It needs to have some personality behind it. Both the people building and the jumps themselves with fun names and such. Something Matt does is have these reoccurring bits. Like he's never built a handrail on the walk up on his massive roll in. He always says he's going to build one because he's not a complete lunatic. That becomes an inside joke and people engage with that and feel apart of something. Just something to consider because Matt and Seth are great at showcasing this stuff. Win win imo.
@@SkillsWithPhil Data-driven is such a business buzzword it seems evil, and disregarding data comes across like the more honest path - but you would never ignore your years of experience when building trails.
The Winooski Valley will soon be a mtb destination, imo. The trails in that area are as good as you're going to get on the east coast. Chochran's and Perry Hill are awesome destinations. This new trail system looks sick. Cady Hill in Stowe has great stuff and then Bolton Valley has some of the gnarliest lift assist terrain you can get. And there's lots of other good stuff too. Insanely good zone for gravity riding.
trail building is certainly something the goes under appreciated, so much hard work goes in the lines we all love to ride. video like the makes me stoked to get out and work more on my own trails
I've definitely gotten better, but more experience has been the biggest thing. Looking back, our yard was actually really difficult to build in for a few reasons, but that made it the perfect place to learn. :)
I’ve been following your channel for awhile. Love your vids. One of my favourite RU-vidrs. Just wondering if you have a grading bucket for your excavator? I build trails too, and always swap to the grading bucket when the fine tuning is being done. So much quicker and precise. Cheers.
Hey Phil, love the vids. Would also love to see current video about your bike including your DH as i know your not often riding it, and your thoughts on enduro vs dh bikes. Either way, keep up on the content, its always great to see.
Just rode this the other week, it is definitely intimidatingly rollin upto it for the first go. It rides really well the far right line sets you up nice.
So many people were second guessing it when I was building it, but everything made sense in my head. Now that it's been open for a bit, everybody has echoed the same thing you said. Happy to hear people enjoy that kind of stuff, I'd like to build more stuff like this.
@@SkillsWithPhil Yea man! that rock to dirt transfer may get a little interesting over some time. Hopefully it held up after that hurricane remnants. I rode it like 2 days before the storm rolled in.
We refreshed the landing yesterday for the first time since the trails opened this season. The landing is pretty solid. There's a strip of garden edging that i bolted to the rock to catch water like a gutter so it doesn't erode the dirt. It's worked wonders in keeping maintenance down. I hadn't seen anybody do that before, so i spent a few days trying to figure out a reasonable solution and to be honest I'm surprised how well it works.
Hey Phil I would love to see you go to big bear/snow summit again because last time you went for the us open you didn’t ride all the trails. And my recommendation is Blue Steel to west ridge
Ladies and gentlemen, Skills with Phil went from A Phil with Skills to Phil’s Building Skills which may or may not be in competition with Seth’s Carpentry Hacks.
phil as always i loved the video. also, u r ur own person that can make their own choices so i dont wanna tell u how to do ur thing but because i like you i gotta say i hate to see ya rippin the saw w no chaps no eye pro even if its an electric one
I find it easier to go up when you are flattening with the bucket, seems easier to keep a constant pressure for more distance, but whatever you want to do im not your dad.
The branch sticking out would have given me a good whack and I probably would have said a few words choice words but I would likely have been okay. That was a learning moment, from there in i made sure all branches are cut off before doing that again. I usually don't like cutting on the downslope but i really didn't have any great alternatives.
I have two channels my building channel Phil's World, and my main channel (this one) Skills with Phil. I uploaded a video a while back on this channel explaining that i was going to be building a trail, and mentioned that I'd be uploading the longer form videos to my second channel but I'd periodically do a quick recap here. The Phil's world video was over an hour long and shows the whole process of the build including the B line which i didn't show here. This video is a much more succinct video that glosses over a lot of details but has narration a tells a story. Both videos are edited differently, and have different contextual information but the subject is relatively the same.
