In my opinion you look too stiff and too far back. Don’t get me wrong, there is a time to be far back on the bike, especially if the trail is steep, but on the videos it doesn’t seem to steep. Body position changes and improves the more you ride, so just keep on riding and it will improve naturally. Loosen up a bit and keep it up! 🤙
NicHarvs on
Relax your shoulders. Your riding with your shoulders rolled forward, that’s giving you the arch in your back which is putting your weight rearward.
You should be standing with your weight going down trough the pedals, there should be very little weight through your hands. I looks like you’re hanging of the rear a little
TigerJoel on
I had the same song on throug spotify and was wondering why I was hearing it double…
IsuzuTrooper on
try sunny assed up
PriestMarmor on
I agree with everyone’s assessment that you look stiff, but I also want to add something about the last jump.
You seemed to have very little control over the bike once you left the ground. The bike rotated from back to front, causing you to land front wheel first. On a bigger jump, this can end badly because you’ll carry much more momentum into the landing. If the front wheel slides, or if the impact overloads your arms, you could easily go over the bars.
Train your bunny hop, and if you’re already comfortable with that, practice jumping on something safer first, like a tabletop or a jump without a gap. Then gradually increase the distance as your control improves.
Upset-Tomatillo2868 on
You could bring your elbows a bit more forward
str3ss_88 on
I’d say position your bike outside of the city, on a trail ideally
Virtike on
Position mostly okay, but faaar too stiff and rigid. Try relaxing a bit, practice shifting weight a bit forward and back, and leaning the bike under you on flat corners. Some flat weaving cornering drills might help, as you need to learn to loosen up and move the bike under you to do them effectively.
Also, you should be putting most of the weight through your feet into your pedals when standing, and mostly just using the bars to guide the bike’s direction. Currently it looks like you’re hanging on for dear life to the bars – too much bias into them.
WeirdoInTheWoods87 on
Don’t be afraid to move about on the bike between stair sets (bring your hips back and down) to take some pressure off your wrists on the bigger hits while transitioning
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Keep you head up
In my opinion you look too stiff and too far back. Don’t get me wrong, there is a time to be far back on the bike, especially if the trail is steep, but on the videos it doesn’t seem to steep. Body position changes and improves the more you ride, so just keep on riding and it will improve naturally. Loosen up a bit and keep it up! 🤙
Relax your shoulders. Your riding with your shoulders rolled forward, that’s giving you the arch in your back which is putting your weight rearward.
You should be standing with your weight going down trough the pedals, there should be very little weight through your hands. I looks like you’re hanging of the rear a little
I had the same song on throug spotify and was wondering why I was hearing it double…
try sunny assed up
I agree with everyone’s assessment that you look stiff, but I also want to add something about the last jump.
You seemed to have very little control over the bike once you left the ground. The bike rotated from back to front, causing you to land front wheel first. On a bigger jump, this can end badly because you’ll carry much more momentum into the landing. If the front wheel slides, or if the impact overloads your arms, you could easily go over the bars.
Train your bunny hop, and if you’re already comfortable with that, practice jumping on something safer first, like a tabletop or a jump without a gap. Then gradually increase the distance as your control improves.
You could bring your elbows a bit more forward
I’d say position your bike outside of the city, on a trail ideally
Position mostly okay, but faaar too stiff and rigid. Try relaxing a bit, practice shifting weight a bit forward and back, and leaning the bike under you on flat corners. Some flat weaving cornering drills might help, as you need to learn to loosen up and move the bike under you to do them effectively.
Also, you should be putting most of the weight through your feet into your pedals when standing, and mostly just using the bars to guide the bike’s direction. Currently it looks like you’re hanging on for dear life to the bars – too much bias into them.
Don’t be afraid to move about on the bike between stair sets (bring your hips back and down) to take some pressure off your wrists on the bigger hits while transitioning