Film yourself and learn to ride better! ︱Cross Training Enduro
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- www.crosstraini... We are lucky enough to ride on some amazing private properties. This property is cut above the rest. Miles and miles of single track on the side of a mountain. And the owner has created specific mountain bike tracks that we are allowed to ride as long as we don't wreck the tracks. So it's all about minimal wheelspin and good technique... hopefully! If you want extreme enduro training see our playlists of enduro skills to learn. Try our training vids for working on your extreme enduro techniques. We put the camera on Jeff's helmet. I finally get a chance to watch my own riding. It can be a great idea to filmyourself, analyse how you are riding, and learn how to improve. A few years ago we did some coaching about wheelies in Canada. We kept telling riders "You aren't weighting the footpegs!" And riders kept saying "Yes I am!" We started filming them and when we replayed the video each rider could actually see what they were doing wrong. So it's a great idea to film yourself. You can 100% believe you are using good technique, but the camera never lies. The first problem? I'm riding this corner slowly, but I should be much further forward on the seat. It's a mistake most of us make. See our training vid about cornering when seated. The bicycle ramp up ahead looks too rickety for my liking...One thing I am happy with. My riding is quite smooth. Ever since learning trials, I have tried to focus on smooth throttle and clutch control, minimal wheelspin, and don't use high revs unless needed. If you are enduro riding get into our enduro training vids. Our dirt riding tips are great for developing your hard enduro skills. Doh! Sitting way too far back on the seat for this corner again. Body positioning? I am moving around quite a bit which is good to see. I suspected I might be more static on the motorbike as I get older and easily tired, so this is a plus. Need hard enduro training? Work through our video lists. Hard enduro techniques are covered in our training vids. However, I could have my elbows out a bit wider. Years ago we did some coaching with Chris Birch. He kept telling us to get those elbows out as though we were doing push ups. It puts you in a much stronger position if there's a sudden impact up through the front forks. Hmmm. Where's the entrance to the next track? You can't hear the revs of my 300, but I'm keeping the revs quite low. Most coaches will tell you that the key to riding fast is first learning to ride slow. Part of this is focusing on good technique before you start using lots of power. Maintain good corner speed, get all the fundamentals right, then gradually dial in the high revs and power. Into enduro and dirt bikes? Check out our dirt bike videos. Extreme enduro training vids are our focus. Me? I never bothered learning how to dial in all the power. But it's surprising how often you can keep up with someone riding in the powerband but who is half out of control and hitting the brakes too early! I should have sat down for this corner. It was much slower trying to do it standing and keeping the feet on the footpegs. This track is twisty and bumpy enough to ensure you need to stand on the footpegs most of the time. But my knees were wrecked the next day, I could barely walk! With age comes the need to balance fatigue and good technique. What about you? Ever realised you had things wrong when you watched your own riding? Have you had riding buddies point out mistakes and you had no idea? Let us know in the comments.
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Sitting back over the rear tire so you could protect the trail. You were using your subconscious mind. Great trail steward.
I bought a GoPro a while back specifically to help me improve my riding and boy it’s been an eye opener! The big challenge for me has been elbows up. No matter how much I feel they are up, I go back and watch the footage and they are not even close 🤦♂️ The video never lies !
I started filming myself because of your channels instructional videos - I wanted to learn the punch technique for logs, curbs, etc. but I couldn't put all the pieces together at the same time to get it right. I either rode straight into the thing like hitting a wall, lofted too early cleared the front entirely and scorpioned the obstacle with the rear as I throttled off, or I'd miss the front and stay on the power too hard and nearly flip it the other way.
Bought a cheap knockoff action cam and filmed at the highest framerate it could do - watching myself try a few times on video helped me figure out where I was going wrong, helped dial in my timing and technique, experience gave me the confidence to continue to learn and advance my skills.
I started with little to no experience on a 1989 NX250, quickly transferred what I'd learned over to a stock DRZ400 - a few years later of riding, practicing technique and a fair share of stacks, I can confidently hit the same obstacles with my CR250, DRZ or Tenere 700.
Great to hear!
Video is the cheapest most effective training tool there is. l find that videoing your mates is worthwhile as well. All my mates are better smoother riders so l have learned to observe them and replicate their style. Re watching a particular obstacle where your mate cleared it easily and you stuffed it up helps immensely. Of course watching Chris Burch and Tim Coleman in slow motion a couple of times is gold as well. lt's quite often the little things that make the difference.
You looked really stiff in those corners but l reckon part of the problem is you're transitioning just a hair too late on entry. Getting on to the front of the seat just before you turn in might help. l was/am a rear wheel rider and it took me along time to understand that l wasn't getting over the front enough . Getting a bit more weight on the front and off the rear seems to help the bike turn better for me.
What a great layout!
Good vid. I am quite tall so when I sit for corners, I too drop too far back. Your video is a good graphic demo of remembering to through yourself forward a bit when moving from standing to sitting. 👍
As per usual great info. I found the seat height to pegs on the sherco are a lot lower then other makes by around 40mm. I ended up going to a tall seat foam and cover from strike seats. This helped me get further forward and siting to standing transition became easier also.
I video most of my flights for the same reason. Found plenty of mistakes and then worked on those areas that needed addressing.
Video makes such an excellent teaching tool as you said.
We think we are doing exactly what the teacher said, then we watch and see we aren't at all.
Riding a mid size dual sport bike I had a friend comment to me that I was not looking through the lose gravel downhill “hair pin” turn but instead looking a few feet in front of my wheel. Sure enough, the dude was correct. I was trying to make sure I wasn’t hitting holes/ruts/rocks in those slow turns but not looking up ahead and thus making my turns all sorts of cumbersome and slow.
Filming your friends is important, it's much more effective to laugh at the crashes when there is a video to back it up!
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I realy do like your kind of 'riding technosophy'! Just one Point!
Thx man! 👍
Greetings from Berlin-Germany
Glad you enjoy it!
Funny this just uploaded and I just sat down to browse while I copy my first GoPro footage I’ve taken in a few years to my computer. All of my old videos on my channel from 10-15 years ago were made for this exact reason.
100% watching video makes a big difference. Back in the early 00s skateboarding with the boys and everyone calling eachother out for sloppy technique and hack style, watching our footage back at someones house. If your shit didnt make the edit or you kept fucking it up, your ass was getting called out for why. We all got pretty good quick. Some mistakes/habits die hard tho, no matter how many times you see yourself do it
Great info!
Hving your butt further back on the seat exiting a corner (on the throttle) doesn't it provide you with better rear tire grip? Question is rhetorical. It does. Ideally your body should be forward in the entry (for better front tire grip and to allow the rear to come around), then slide backwards for the exit. Please tell me what you think.
Awesome video man, how do we access the extended cuts of the videos if I've supported the channel?
I've stopped doing the longer supporter vids now, but there are about 430 of them. crosstrainingenduro.com/cross-training-support-donations.html
My wife thinks I'm narcissistic because I watch myself all the time. I watch to review my riding and techniques, just as you've described in this vid. She'll never understand 😕
I hate finding out I was doing it wrong by ending up on the ground.
I'd video myself if I knew how to analyze it.
I understand derstand why you seem to never sit forward in you corning. You just too tall. You are a rear end rider as most tall people are. You have to get use to coming from the standing position and move forward into the tank as you go to sit. Don't just straight down. Go from the back of the bike to the seat tank junction as one smooth transition. Also as you do this get you elbows up weight the out side peg and you will surprised how fast you corners can riding.. and yes kite me my knees Get flogged during the day, same as my legs...I have re learnt how to ride sitting...most of the time. You do the same thing as standing but your sitting..I even take jumps sitting all the way to the lift off. Conservation of enry..the very little I have that is
Exhaustion (and heat) gets me to the point of having to sit a lot on trails (over 50yo) but I know that I'm not doing conditioning and am out of shape. Once I correct that, I hope to stand more because the bike is as you all know, so sketchy if the trail gets bumpy and you're sitting.
@DavidDacaro I totally understand, I'm 65 and have to learn not to over exert myself. Also riding bikes that are probably over the top of what I probably should ride. SWM RS500 and the almighty Husaberg FE550.
@@johnclowes3502 I'm right there with you John, I'm on a 22' 500 orange. I recently did the ECU mod and new pipe. The bike weighs the same (104kg dry) as the 350 ktm. After 2020 the 500's became suuuuper nimble, like fat mountain bikes. With the extra power from the mods, I think it's actually far less exhausting than before because there's so much freakin power available that hill climbs are super easy, if there's enough traction. Slope is no longer a detterant, I need no lead up, the lightweight power monster just goes bloooaaaahhh and lugs me up. Before the ECU I had to struggle a lot more. I'm sure a 250 would be less exhausting, but I'm finding at least that a modded 500 is pretty forgiving doing a lot of work I'd otherwise have to do.
"Minimal wheelspin" he says as he spins his tires around every corner...