Your videos are awesome . Your explanations and logic are informative and helpful reminders. Can't wait to practice this tomorrow keep making the videos. One grateful C rider trying to get to B Rider status.💪💪
At about 4:10 you said you are Applying slight pressure inward with the outside of your palm on the handlebar. For whatever reason Im confused by that. Can you elaborate? I appreciate the detailed video. Thank you much!
@@rdbs505 so my inside hand, one on the leaned side, closest to the ground. I am pulling the bars inward with my hand, using the grip from my palm, basically bellow my ring finger and pinkie.
Thanks for a great video! I’ve recently seen videos where a pro rider says that our feet should be kept on the foot pegs more often in turns. Also saying that having your foot ready to dab is a technique that may be fading. I am a novice rider and finding it a little bit confusing when I should have my foot out and when I shouldn’t? From his videos I got a feeling that the only time you should have your foot off the food peg and up high at the front mudguard is when you are in a deep rut and there is a chance of your foot hitting the dirt in the rut. If times are changing and the best technique is for us to make an effort to keep our feet on the food pegs during turns then I’m cool with that, but it’s not clear to me. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
@@JimboJames007 I think the feet on the pegs drill is a great "drill" it can teach you a lot of things. I really don't get the whole never take your foot off thing. Watch Jett Lawrence in an outdoor race. His foot is off more than it is on, so is tomacs and so is almost everyone else. Don't get me wrong, it's great to practice and there are some corners where I won't take my foot off. Problem with dirt vs street racing, is that the corner is always changing. It's hard to really get comfortable and push your speed when you're being obsessive about keeping your feet on the pegs.
This is how I corner! The one thing that I'm still working on though is setting my roll speed. Watching Pros they seem to charge hard and brake just the right amount so they carry a lot of momentum to the apex of the corner/rut and then roll on the power and fly out of the corner. It's subtle but you can hear the way they apply apply throttle if you listen to their engine. I tend to over brake and have to apply throttle to early or don't apply enough brake and then kind of panic brake with my front brake etc. which can make me very inconsistent. I get a few good ones but not consistent enough Yet. I'm not sure if there is a drill for developing roll speed judgement other than just practice and experience. Lots of variables depending on type of dirt, how long the rut is, what gear you're in and the list goes on. I feel like consistent cornering skills really separates riders. Enjoying your channel and the analysis of this aspect of riding.
One drill you can practice is using your braking zone and seeing how far you can roll through a corner with no gas. Of course you'd have to do this at a location where there isn't many people riding. The goal is to try and make it through the whole corner with coasting/ rolling speed. That will show you if you're scrubbing too much speed with your braking. You just have me an idea for another video, thank you! 😉
58 years old here and trying to improve my corner speed for XC racing. Thanks for another very informative video!
@@someonethatwatchesyoutube2953 you're welcome and thank you! 🙏
Great presentation/explanation, thanks for posting.
@@johnverstegen8836 thank you! 🙏
Your videos are awesome . Your explanations and logic are informative and helpful reminders. Can't wait to practice this tomorrow keep making the videos. One grateful C rider trying to get to B Rider status.💪💪
@@ChuckBeatty-j6i thank you! 🙏 I'll keep them coming 😀
Great instructions as always, Thank you!
@@ivnepe thank you!
At about 4:10 you said you are Applying slight pressure inward with the outside of your palm on the handlebar. For whatever reason Im confused by that. Can you elaborate? I appreciate the detailed video. Thank you much!
@@rdbs505 so my inside hand, one on the leaned side, closest to the ground. I am pulling the bars inward with my hand, using the grip from my palm, basically bellow my ring finger and pinkie.
@180mxtraining7 gotcha!! Thank you
Thanks for a great video! I’ve recently seen videos where a pro rider says that our feet should be kept on the foot pegs more often in turns. Also saying that having your foot ready to dab is a technique that may be fading. I am a novice rider and finding it a little bit confusing when I should have my foot out and when I shouldn’t? From his videos I got a feeling that the only time you should have your foot off the food peg and up high at the front mudguard is when you are in a deep rut and there is a chance of your foot hitting the dirt in the rut. If times are changing and the best technique is for us to make an effort to keep our feet on the food pegs during turns then I’m cool with that, but it’s not clear to me. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
@@JimboJames007 I think the feet on the pegs drill is a great "drill" it can teach you a lot of things. I really don't get the whole never take your foot off thing. Watch Jett Lawrence in an outdoor race. His foot is off more than it is on, so is tomacs and so is almost everyone else.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to practice and there are some corners where I won't take my foot off. Problem with dirt vs street racing, is that the corner is always changing. It's hard to really get comfortable and push your speed when you're being obsessive about keeping your feet on the pegs.
This is how I corner! The one thing that I'm still working on though is setting my roll speed. Watching Pros they seem to charge hard and brake just the right amount so they carry a lot of momentum to the apex of the corner/rut and then roll on the power and fly out of the corner. It's subtle but you can hear the way they apply apply throttle if you listen to their engine. I tend to over brake and have to apply throttle to early or don't apply enough brake and then kind of panic brake with my front brake etc. which can make me very inconsistent. I get a few good ones but not consistent enough Yet. I'm not sure if there is a drill for developing roll speed judgement other than just practice and experience. Lots of variables depending on type of dirt, how long the rut is, what gear you're in and the list goes on. I feel like consistent cornering skills really separates riders. Enjoying your channel and the analysis of this aspect of riding.
One drill you can practice is using your braking zone and seeing how far you can roll through a corner with no gas. Of course you'd have to do this at a location where there isn't many people riding. The goal is to try and make it through the whole corner with coasting/ rolling speed. That will show you if you're scrubbing too much speed with your braking. You just have me an idea for another video, thank you! 😉
@@180mxtraining7 We will give that a try - thanks!
How do you like the Beta, I have a 300 and it’s my favourite bike
@@elvispusley3515 I love it, super easy to ride. Power is smooth and has a stable chassis