Ray, your approach to teaching trials techniques is exceptional. The way you break down each skill into logical steps and use relatable examples, like "chicken pecking," makes everything so much clearer and easier to understand. You truly have a gift for explaining not just what to do, but how and why it works with the motorcycle. Your teaching style is incredibly effective, and I’d confidently say you’re one of the best at what you do. Thank you for your dedication and hard work-it's very much appreciated. Keep it up! Kudos to Trial Progression as well for putting this content out for others to learn from.
One thing that often goes unnoticed is many riders tend not to try correcting their mistakes when they happen. Instead, they give up too easily and put their foot down. The better the rider, the better they are correcting mistakes that occur while riding. Correcting requires speed and determination. If you don't practice it during training, it won't come naturally.
Can you do a piece on foot positioning? Especially the brake foot. Do you move it right and left, front and back or hold suspended above the brake pedal lever?
Great questions.... I'll see if Ray is available. My short answer is on downhills I cover always. Uphills, and big ups, I usually rotate it outwards (so my toe can flex more pointed down) and then cover again once up. And move it back and out when just riding around.
@@TrialsProgression I have noticed that this is a question that is quite puzzling, because I see riders taking different approaches. For example, if I need to get a good jump, I have to stand on the ball of the foot in order to extract maximum of my average 39yo legs. However, when I complete the jump, I will most likely need to brake and regain standing balance, so I have to move my right foot forward to reach and control the brake. If I choose to move it right and left - in order to do that, I will have to stand on the center of the foot, which reduces my ability to jump effectivly. Downhill of course I hang it over the brake, because my feet naturally will be tilted backwards. However, if I hang it during jumps, I will most likely hit the brake when I do not need it. I want to add that your channel is a great help for me and also for my 10yo son. Your content helps me understand riding better and in turn figure out a way how to present a solution to a problem to a kid. There are people who natrually feel the movements and everything but I am the kind that has to understand and then I can execute it. I bought your FWH course some time ago. This christmas holidays I commited and I can hop right and left 90 degrees without putting a foot down. So thank you for your explanations. What I have found is, quite often pro riders that ride from childood are unable to explain some things. For example, for quite a time I could not understand, how do you get your front wheel right and left when you hop. Only when I listened to what you said, I understood that you have to pull up oppostite side of bar in order to get it going sideways and then counter the opposite side to get it straight again. Only when I understood the physics of it, I could conceptualize it and execute. Most of people that I have interacted with, just said: Just balance, hold the brake, hop the front and yank it right or left. I have a good comparison. In my language (Latvian) we have some vowels that are really hard to pronaunce for a american speaker, because you do not have those sounds in your language. And unless I deconstruct the sound and explain how it is being made, americans are unable to say it correctly. Same analogy applies to trial. Professionals more often than not do not understand how to explain a 39yo how to do something, because for them it is a native language. So thank you for a great work.
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Ray, your approach to teaching trials techniques is exceptional. The way you break down each skill into logical steps and use relatable examples, like "chicken pecking," makes everything so much clearer and easier to understand. You truly have a gift for explaining not just what to do, but how and why it works with the motorcycle. Your teaching style is incredibly effective, and I’d confidently say you’re one of the best at what you do. Thank you for your dedication and hard work-it's very much appreciated. Keep it up!
Kudos to Trial Progression as well for putting this content out for others to learn from.
We sure appreciate your comments. Always nice to hear how these videos are helping people
Wow! This so good, and not something that is explained so well anywhere else.
Ray is a great source of trials wisdom! Glad we got to put this together
Thanks for this and taking the time to film and put the graphics on👍
Your welcome. 👍 Thanks for watching
Glad i found this!
Thanks for watching
One thing that often goes unnoticed is many riders tend not to try correcting their mistakes when they happen. Instead, they give up too easily and put their foot down. The better the rider, the better they are correcting mistakes that occur while riding.
Correcting requires speed and determination. If you don't practice it during training, it won't come naturally.
Good point. Restarts without touching feet down is another example.
Can you do a piece on foot positioning? Especially the brake foot. Do you move it right and left, front and back or hold suspended above the brake pedal lever?
Great questions....
I'll see if Ray is available. My short answer is on downhills I cover always. Uphills, and big ups, I usually rotate it outwards (so my toe can flex more pointed down) and then cover again once up. And move it back and out when just riding around.
@@TrialsProgression I have noticed that this is a question that is quite puzzling, because I see riders taking different approaches. For example, if I need to get a good jump, I have to stand on the ball of the foot in order to extract maximum of my average 39yo legs. However, when I complete the jump, I will most likely need to brake and regain standing balance, so I have to move my right foot forward to reach and control the brake. If I choose to move it right and left - in order to do that, I will have to stand on the center of the foot, which reduces my ability to jump effectivly. Downhill of course I hang it over the brake, because my feet naturally will be tilted backwards. However, if I hang it during jumps, I will most likely hit the brake when I do not need it.
I want to add that your channel is a great help for me and also for my 10yo son. Your content helps me understand riding better and in turn figure out a way how to present a solution to a problem to a kid. There are people who natrually feel the movements and everything but I am the kind that has to understand and then I can execute it.
I bought your FWH course some time ago. This christmas holidays I commited and I can hop right and left 90 degrees without putting a foot down. So thank you for your explanations. What I have found is, quite often pro riders that ride from childood are unable to explain some things. For example, for quite a time I could not understand, how do you get your front wheel right and left when you hop. Only when I listened to what you said, I understood that you have to pull up oppostite side of bar in order to get it going sideways and then counter the opposite side to get it straight again. Only when I understood the physics of it, I could conceptualize it and execute. Most of people that I have interacted with, just said: Just balance, hold the brake, hop the front and yank it right or left. I have a good comparison. In my language (Latvian) we have some vowels that are really hard to pronaunce for a american speaker, because you do not have those sounds in your language. And unless I deconstruct the sound and explain how it is being made, americans are unable to say it correctly. Same analogy applies to trial. Professionals more often than not do not understand how to explain a 39yo how to do something, because for them it is a native language.
So thank you for a great work.