UK Bike Skills – a lesson with Jedi

Singletrack run no 1 = 19 seconds. Run no 2 (after 5 mins of advice and help) 14 seconds. Proofs in the pudding…..

Something to do with knowing the route?

Toys19, I said you could learn it all from a book or the net, thats the point. Clearly you should have gone to Specsavers.

Flow I don’t give a damn how good you think you are, I don’t think anyone else does either.

Yes indeed you did say you could learn it all from the net, but then you said we needed tuition, do you not see the logical contradiction there?

Has anyone else bothered to report this monkey to the mods, I think perhaps they might listen if you all hit the report button. I’ve only done it twice on this thread so come on lads and lasses lets take our ball elsewhere so that flow cannot play with us any more.

so we’ve gone from the Troll Defence to willy waving in a couple of hours…

I read Jack Nicklaus book when I was 12 and I’m still waiting to win my first major. Obviously, if the internet had been around then it would have happened by now.

So you can call me whatever you like, but I’m not allowed to have an opinion? Ahhh I see. And when I ask for you to back up your riding with a simple vid you start hitting the panic button.

I was talking to you lot as a collective. If you had read the post properly you would have seen that. No wonder you need tuition.

oh well in that case when i said you I did not mean YOU either 🙄

i enjoyed that vid. nice one. good feet in most turns 🙂
the tweak will go over more if you rotate the inside hand around the grip to get it flatter

No don’t get him banned.

He’s here to provide a feeling of importance for those who think he’s a douche bag.

Alternatively, he’s making his own opinion known whilst still promoting UK bike skills.

If people keep reporting posters every time someone fights their corner right or wrongly, we’d end up with out the characters that make this place what it is and also feed the trigger happy mods.

Ahh you are allowed to have an opinion, but every single poster on this thread does not want to hear it. Think of it like this, we are sat at a table in pub talking, you turn up being a moron and we all decide we don’t like you, we ask the barman if he would allow us to continue our interesting conversation without fear that someone who every single won of us does not want present, can carry on interjecting with his moronic negative statements.

Hopefully the barman will oblige.

Sharki – I’m all for free speech, but he doesn’t have an opinion he’s just shit stirring. I love a good argument but this isn’t an argument its just a pillock being negative and contrary.

Still no vids, what a surprise.

Bunch of wannabes probably never get off the sofa. All talk a good ride but when it comes down to it you don’t have the minerals do you?

There’s always one grass

You seem confused here. If you are better or not that me on a MTB it does not make your argument correct about the best way to learn or the efficacy of training /coaching days.
You are attempting to move the goal posts to who is the best rider rather than whether you argument is sound.

he’s making his own opinion known whilst still promoting UK bike skills

[penny drops] flow is jedi’s alter-ego/sock-puppet. Nice one! It’s the antithesis of fruit’s “salad” marketing approach 😉

Still no vids, what a surprise.

I’m awesome in bed too, but I still don’t feel the need to video myself.

a nation weeps Ian

flow – this is me at ukbikepark. Go big or go home (i did both)

The only person bigging up their own ability is you. Everyone else seems to accept that no matter how good we are we have more to learn, and that coaching is a valid if not superior way to teach a physical activity. And that if you are paid to do something that makes you a professional in that activity.
Are you like this when you’re not railing behind a keyboard?

5lab, did you break anything? Bang. That looks nasty. There is a great book you can buy to help with your riding. Over the edge.

Ouch – that looks like it hurt.

I find I cant judge my speed well at all and have overshot a few times – luckily on much smaller tabletops.

Was that IanMunro’s voiceover in the vid of 5lab?

The bit when he’s on the floor groaning, Ian that’s a sneaky way toi slip in your bedtime talent vid 😉

The groaning made me feel sick..

If people keep reporting posters every time someone fights their corner right or wrongly, we’d end up with out the characters that make this place what it is

hmmm sharki. I’m not sure that you are making a particularly good case for not hitting the report button there.
The point is, in real life, I last had this sort of argument well over 30 years ago in a playground. I am just disinclined to use valuable bandwidth to recreate discussions I used to have when I was about 8 years old.

The point is, in real life, I last had this sort of argument well over 30 years ago in a playground. I am just disinclined to use valuable bandwidth to recreate discussions I used to have when I was about 8 years old.

Exactly, the fact is every single one of us in real life would just decamp our conversation to somewhere flow wasn’t, thats what I would like.

Often their are conversations on here that I choose to ignore, but there are always other willing participants, I just haven’t seen anything on this thread that anybody really wants to read his crap when we could be having a decent conversation.

No case build up intended 😉

oooofffffff 5lab. pull and overshoot 🙁

that was on the table at the bottom of the park, was about 45′ at the time (dunno if its changed since) and I overcleared it by a fair way – 10-15′. Knackered my shoulder pretty badly, and needed a new frame (that one developed a crack, but not (I think) from this crash, as it was on the shock mount) and a new lid. I was out for a minute or two, but well enough to hit the alps 3 weeks later.

I had some coaching in whistler from the bearback crew a couple of years ago, found it useful. not done anything over here. The only other vid of me doing something good is at whistler last time I was out there

http://www.youtube.com/user/hughlunnon?blend=8&ob=5#p/u/0/-u_FjzeqgNQ

on the first vid, turns out the crash was related to my tyre pressures – I used to run around 12psi front and rear, which on the compressions to big jump was causing my rear tyre to roll off the rim a little bit, causing instability on the run-up. I’d still have overshot it with stronger tyre pressures (I now commonly run around 20-25 in the rear) but at least I’d have landed the right way up 🙂

same pull in the whistler vid too dude. watch your right arm.

nice jump!

Jedi, more than just a bike coach?

I had a sex therapist advise me just the same.. 😛

sharki, you are a love god and you know it 🙂

jedi – not sure what you mean? The whistler line is a slight hip to the left, which is why i tweaked the bars a bit – or are you seeing some distinct flaw in my riding I’m not understanding?

pay some one to show me how to ride a bike, ROFL,

5lab, you have a tendancy to pull on takeoff which lurches you. the over shoot amplified this . make sense?

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pay some one to show me how to ride a bike, ROFL,

i thought the same about driving cars as i am a council kid who could drive when i was 12yrs old 🙂

yeah – thanks. I think I fixed that more recently – back when those vids were shot (couple of years ago) I used to try to bunnyhop off lips, wheras now I more just compress into them, which seems to work better at higher speed stuff, and gives more time to play in the air.

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pay some one to show me how to ride a bike, ROFL,

i thought the same about driving cars as i am a council kid who could drive when i was 12yrs old

i was driving several tons of tractor by that age, and i still don’t have a driving licence.

Edit: if you can give me a guarantee that you can teach me to jump at least my own hight then or my money back then ill change my mind about paying for coaching.

jumping your own height is easy. just hit a decent ramp at a decent speed.

landing the jump is slightly more tricky, as my first vid proves. Its not *difficult* though, you just need some balls and a bit of practice. Coaching will get you there way quicker than doing it on your own

jumping is easier than drops physically 🙂

I’ve been trying to jump for years – been riding mtb since 1990 – bmx since 1984. Have always been crap, if I could ride like flow or 5lab I might not have considered it, but jedi made a massive difference and I’m now jumping bigger and bigger stuff..

I find gps much less scary than drops – as like jedi said its physically less harsh on you.

But I look at stuff where the landing is a transition and it seems doable now, I’m trying stuff that I have looked at and dreamed about for years.

A steep drop in locally that I was always too afraid to roll off, not even a jump, well know I just fly off it and clear the middle section completely. Its a mind blowing difference for me.