Yay - love the channel and this video is spot on Martyn - i.e. don't stick your MTB on eBay if you haven't mastered the manual. You can still have amazing fun doing big jumps, nailing corners at speed and handling big-ish drop-offs without being a manual master. Yeah, keep having a go every now and then at trying to get it right but don't get hung up if it's taking time to get right or even if you never get it right . MTB is bigger than the manual!
I can wheelie, literally, as far as I want to. Been that way since I was a kid. I can manual a bmx bike no problem. But manualing my mountain bike? It's simply kind to say I'm just not good at it. Maybe I'll take a few weeks over the winter and give it an honest go and see where I end up.
Keep at it, I’m learning as well and have managed to keep the bike up for 2 seconds or so in the last few days, my issue just now is swaying to the side when trying to manual
How about a skills video about coordinating your crank with high rocks on the trail. I'm always stuck trying to decide if I should jam my pedal into a rock or stop pedaling and lose my momentum.
Lol I learned from you I thought I was pulling wheelies… by standing an pedalling as you pull a wheelie …An I couldn’t do a manual but in fact I can do a stand up pedalling manual but I can’t sit on my bike an pull a wheelie 😂 so I learned something new today an now I got to go out an learn to wheelie my bike properly lol stand up manuals and all this time I thought I was pulling a wheelie lol
Pff I'd say it's totally about what incentive you have - In my latest video I tried to learn the manual by being punished by drinking beer/vodka for every failed attempt. Sort of worked. /Shameless plug over. ;)
So far nothing I've tried to do while practicing has lifted the wheel that high nor kept it in the air for more than a fraction of a second, and it feels like I'm moving my weight pretty far back (although I do need to find a way to record myself so I can see exactly how I'm moving my body around and hopefully figure out what I'm doing wrong on this and bunny hops). I never really learned anything about active forward/back weight management while riding as a kid, so it always feels unintuitive and like I'm not getting something when I've tried to learn MTB skills based on it. Maybe I'll just pretend that my frame's center of gravity is off a bit and making it more difficult. :)
The L shape is key! You have to go down, then back. Also, dropping your heels is very important. To me, that makes or breaks how far I get the front off the ground. Most of the videos don't tell you this, but it may take a long time for you to get this skill. I have been at it off and on for a few years now, and I still am lucky when I go longer than 10 feet or so. Not to discourage you at all, I just wish the videos had pointed out that this was maybe not going take a week or two. I'm sure if I had learned when I was younger, it would have been an easier process, both by the fact that I learned easier and I had a lot more time on my hands. Stick with it!
I'm an accountant so have no problem analyzing things in painful detail, but in this case people can get lost in analyzing and trying to remember angles, body position etc., It's really just leaning (not jerking or pulling) back and staying in the balance point. It does require a lot of hours, but I would just focus on the front wheel and trying to keep it up a little longer each time and let your body figure out the mechanics. BMXers can manual forever, over ramps, around corners and we know most of them can barely read!
Anyone who says you don't need to manual ..... can't manual! Got the fat bike up for few bike lengths but not giving up . Recon spending time every day will get it nailed
Got my first mtb in 1995… I cannot ride a wheelie or manual for more than a meter or two. Still. Oh well. Turns out you don’t need to know how to do either to ride for 26 years.
Mitigate injury risk by starting on grassy area and learn to step off the back. I'm 65 and atm only manage low and brief manuals but that already pays off on trail e.g.avoiding frontwheel washout on slippery roots/rocks.
Definitely have to learn to step/slide off the pedals to the back. Although it should be kind of a natural reaction, I would start out just leaning back too far and stepping off backwards, It's something all bikers need to be able to do anyways and no safety gear will save you from a WWE style slam to your back if you can't catch yourself!
I don't agree its an essential.skill I rarely see riders doing anything other than bunny hop on the trails for the majority of riders. Our sport is becoming obsessed with tricks and flips instead of actually riding and bike manufactures know it, alienating 90% of their market and customers.
Can you manual a mountain bike? What skill do you want to see analysed next?
I cant but maybe after this i may
I can Manual! 🥳 Maybe analyse a whip next with all it's different styles!
raced xc for 4 years and still dont know how to manual, better start practising
yes i can
it is one of my favorite things to do on a bike
Most importantly, the manual is used to show dominance on the trail.
52 and can't wheelie, manual or bunnyhop but still love mtb and getting faster (I will learn one day)
E-bikes need a "manual" mode, where the motor does it for you, so us mountain bikers can have manuals, and automatics
Yay - love the channel and this video is spot on Martyn - i.e. don't stick your MTB on eBay if you haven't mastered the manual. You can still have amazing fun doing big jumps, nailing corners at speed and handling big-ish drop-offs without being a manual master. Yeah, keep having a go every now and then at trying to get it right but don't get hung up if it's taking time to get right or even if you never get it right . MTB is bigger than the manual!
I can wheelie, literally, as far as I want to. Been that way since I was a kid. I can manual a bmx bike no problem. But manualing my mountain bike? It's simply kind to say I'm just not good at it. Maybe I'll take a few weeks over the winter and give it an honest go and see where I end up.
Good luck! I hope you get it down!!
Definitely harder on the mtb than the bmx for me too.
Keep at it, I’m learning as well and have managed to keep the bike up for 2 seconds or so in the last few days, my issue just now is swaying to the side when trying to manual
I’m on the manual journey right now.
Ditto, and I'm terrible at it 😅
I can't get my body into the correct position
good luck for u guys, not much time and i already can drop on manual
I think pumping is something that originated in surfing and then skateboarding in backyard pools as far back as the 60’s
I believe the manual is one of the moves that should be learnt before the bunny hop so at the beginning
True, in a bunny hop you pass briefly through a manual balance point.
How about a skills video about coordinating your crank with high rocks on the trail. I'm always stuck trying to decide if I should jam my pedal into a rock or stop pedaling and lose my momentum.
Lol I learned from you I thought I was pulling wheelies… by standing an pedalling as you pull a wheelie …An I couldn’t do a manual but in fact I can do a stand up pedalling manual but I can’t sit on my bike an pull a wheelie 😂 so I learned something new today an now I got to go out an learn to wheelie my bike properly lol stand up manuals and all this time I thought I was pulling a wheelie lol
I always read The Manual
Pff I'd say it's totally about what incentive you have - In my latest video I tried to learn the manual by being punished by drinking beer/vodka for every failed attempt. Sort of worked.
/Shameless plug over. ;)
Jeff Kendall-Weed's manual skills were not mentioned?!?!? Wtf
I can wheelie no bother but trying to manual, it's a tough one!!
Arent you forgetting that a manual lift is THE starting point of any proper bunnyhop? or am I wrong?
True but you can manual and not bunny hop and vice versa but being able to manual defently helps bunny hopping
So far nothing I've tried to do while practicing has lifted the wheel that high nor kept it in the air for more than a fraction of a second, and it feels like I'm moving my weight pretty far back (although I do need to find a way to record myself so I can see exactly how I'm moving my body around and hopefully figure out what I'm doing wrong on this and bunny hops). I never really learned anything about active forward/back weight management while riding as a kid, so it always feels unintuitive and like I'm not getting something when I've tried to learn MTB skills based on it.
Maybe I'll just pretend that my frame's center of gravity is off a bit and making it more difficult. :)
The L shape is key! You have to go down, then back. Also, dropping your heels is very important. To me, that makes or breaks how far I get the front off the ground. Most of the videos don't tell you this, but it may take a long time for you to get this skill. I have been at it off and on for a few years now, and I still am lucky when I go longer than 10 feet or so. Not to discourage you at all, I just wish the videos had pointed out that this was maybe not going take a week or two. I'm sure if I had learned when I was younger, it would have been an easier process, both by the fact that I learned easier and I had a lot more time on my hands. Stick with it!
I'm an accountant so have no problem analyzing things in painful detail, but in this case people can get lost in analyzing and trying to remember angles, body position etc., It's really just leaning (not jerking or pulling) back and staying in the balance point. It does require a lot of hours, but I would just focus on the front wheel and trying to keep it up a little longer each time and let your body figure out the mechanics. BMXers can manual forever, over ramps, around corners and we know most of them can barely read!
Anyone who says you don't need to manual ..... can't manual!
Got the fat bike up for few bike lengths but not giving up . Recon spending time every day will get it nailed
how's your progress so far?
Got my first mtb in 1995… I cannot ride a wheelie or manual for more than a meter or two. Still. Oh well. Turns out you don’t need to know how to do either to ride for 26 years.
It’s the Ollie of MTB.
Missed a reason: Manual through a puddle so you don't splash yourself with too much mud.
I’m 37 can wheelie for days, before I’m 40 I’m gunna manual faaaarrrrrr 🙏🏼😅
I better get some more practice in!!
Another totally original video from gmbn.
on the way to master wheelies for about 1 months almost everyday. , long way to go i guess
Can I do a manual with an high saddle?
yeah just dont squat down too low when pulling
I got a skill :) Pedalling :)
wow..
I’m 57 , what’s the chances of me breaking my neck trying to learn this ?
Pretty high, not as bad if you try doing wheelies and then loop out for practice.
High.....I'm 39 and thinking this may be on my tombstone.....
Died trying to manual....🤣🤣🤣
Mitigate injury risk by starting on grassy area and learn to step off the back. I'm 65 and atm only manage low and brief manuals but that already pays off on trail e.g.avoiding frontwheel washout on slippery roots/rocks.
Definitely have to learn to step/slide off the pedals to the back. Although it should be kind of a natural reaction, I would start out just leaning back too far and stepping off backwards, It's something all bikers need to be able to do anyways and no safety gear will save you from a WWE style slam to your back if you can't catch yourself!
Keep a finger on the rear brake, and it is non likely.
hey blake samson your the best your so cool and i just love watching you build stuff :)
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I don't agree its an essential.skill I rarely see riders doing anything other than bunny hop on the trails for the majority of riders. Our sport is becoming obsessed with tricks and flips instead of actually riding and bike manufactures know it, alienating 90% of their market and customers.
@1:33 In your what now?!?
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