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Nukeproof Chain Reaction’s Elliott Heap takes Hannah out on the trails for a fun day of skills coaching, focusing on how to corner on a mountain bike.
Read the full feature over at Singletrackworld.com
https://singletrackworld.com/learning-your-turns-with-nukeproof-chain-reactions-elliott-heap
To sign up to be coached by Elliott, go to Ride MTB Coaching.
https://ridemtbcoaching.co.uk/
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[Music]
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hmm not a vulture
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but
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hopefully not an omen either
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i'm hannah i'm from singletrack
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and i'm here in inner ethan a couple of
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years back i came up here all by myself
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and it was very dry and i was in the
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midst of a kind of progression of thumb
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i uh had tested a series of big and
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bouncy bikes kind of learnt a bunch more
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skills
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pushed myself to learn them as well i'd
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spent hours throwing myself into the
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foam pit on my bmx and i really felt
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like i was getting somewhere learning
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some new stuff and
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becoming a better rider
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and then a few injuries
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a few fewer bouncy bikes to test and
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lockdown kind of rained everything in
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and stopped pushing myself
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and now
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i look at this kind of downhill track
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that's cutting across here and uh i
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wonder how on earth i came up here
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and rode this stuff by myself because it
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makes me feel a bit wobbly so
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i'm gonna go and have a look at a few
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things by myself and then i'm gonna meet
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up with nuke proof's elliot heap and
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he's hopefully gonna coach me at least
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back to where i was on that
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arc of progression and to help me on my
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way
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back on a big bouncy bike it's the new
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proof gigger
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so let's see how the day goes
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yes you put 20p in hannah that was mint
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the key is obviously to go as slow as
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you can
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perfect what are your shoes are dirty
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oh yeah there you go that thing's
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absolutely filthy
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let's have a look at that
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[Music]
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okay
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so this is angry sheep
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and i rode it
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when i came by myself before
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let's see if i can ride it today
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a good start
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steeper than i remember
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sake
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puddle
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that wheel slipping on a route
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just drive my brakes all the way down
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[Applause]
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hello ladies and gentlemen my name is
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elliot heap and today i am coaching the
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lovely hannah from singletrack magazine
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and we're just looking at doing a couple
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of corners today
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um on this really wet
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really damp really slick rooty
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uh
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innovation trail
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so you can see it's quite moist
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got my waterproof shorts on and we are
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going to need subtitles for this series
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but what we're trying to do is trying to
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get a lean in the back over a little bit
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more getting onto them side nobles and
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then tires giving her a little bit more
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grip
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and helping her go a little bit faster
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without any more wild moments so she's
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looking very cool up there she's got a
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sunnies on she's feeling the scottish
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summer and she's ready to rumble so
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we'll see if she gets on
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so that was pretty good and obviously
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it's quite difficult to think about
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everything that's going on and try and
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do new techniques um hannah's been
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riding for a few years now so she's
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she's obviously got her own techniques
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that she's been using for years so
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trying to get her out of her usual
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habits good or bad is really hard she's
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got a lot to think about as well as
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sliding around in these really greasy
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conditions she's doing really well
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quite impressed even though she's just
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gone going down giggling a lot she's
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still dropping her outside foot which is
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good
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i'm totally tangled up this is like
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aerobics
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[Laughter]
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here we are let's see what you think
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yes that was sick
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you put 20p in hannah
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hi welcome
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oh yeah there you go that thing's
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absolutely filthy
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let's have a look at that
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i don't know let's see
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that's probably just going to buck me
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off as i roll right right so if you roll
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back a little bit
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you roll back a little bit i'll roll
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over it from there just so you can see
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what's going to happen
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and then we can see if i go over the
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handlebars so just roll it nice and
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steady
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[Music]
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the key is obviously to go as slow as
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you can
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at that point
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and then let off your brakes and then
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back on as soon as possible so wait to
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your back wheels on the floor before you
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grab all that front brake again
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right
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that's it nice and steady
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perfect perfect
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that's it nicely
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though hey
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this is way rougher than it used to be
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well done
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that's it straight up remember this is
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pete's idea not mine
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here we go feature
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[Music]
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what do you think of that
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i don't think
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i'm never going to get it down
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all right well let's have a look at it
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then
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that's it nice and steady
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brilliant well done
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all right
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that's it look around it well done well
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done lovely and smooth
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whoa your shoes are dirty
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[Music]
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that's it you should be able to go
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straight down there that's it well done
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nice
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that's it so nice and smooth on your
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brakes
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perfect keep going hold on well done
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that's mint
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you might just started accelerating so
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quickly when you let off
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that's it so remember to look around the
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corner
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[Music]
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so
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we've finished on the hill for today
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i went out this morning and looked at
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some stuff and thought oh i'm a bit
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scared of that and then we just finished
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the day by writing down it
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so
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what did we do between this morning and
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now that's so between you going up this
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morning and scaring yourself and coming
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down this afternoon and not scaring
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yourself as much um we had a look at
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your cornering technique and rather look
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at your tap position briefly just to
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give you
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basically reference points to know where
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you are on your bike so and also we've
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looked at you leaning your bike over
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looking ahead and simple things like
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that that can just make your bike riding
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way more enjoyable to be honest you've
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absolutely smashed it you've rode things
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that you said there was no way i was
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going to get down any other way and
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you've rode something new which you
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didn't ride before which is brilliant we
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did it a few different ways as well so
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we did like drills on the fire road and
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then we like rode stuff and you just
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watched to see what i did yeah and then
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we wrote stuff with like now think about
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this while you're doing it and a few
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times
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you try and put it in a simple context
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where there's no other variables so you
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might can slowly concentrate on what
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you're doing on the fire road so there's
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no roots there's no water there's no
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scary stuff and and then and then as you
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get more comfortable with it on the fire
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road then you can introduce a trail a
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simple trail and then when you get more
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comfortable with a simple trail add a
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bit more technical trail like we have
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done this afternoon i really enjoyed it
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and i liked when you were behind and
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every now and again you'd like give a
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little reminder like look where you want
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to go or whatever well done
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that's it straight up remember this was
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pete's idea not mine you see like as you
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get tired sometimes it can go out the
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window little things you'll forget when
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you especially when you're approaching
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something and you're a bit worried of
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what it is where it goes and yeah just a
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little reminder here and there sometimes
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helps and god it helps you in a good way
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and didn't just think shut up
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obviously you can't have a coaching
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nothing like every time you go out so
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what can you do on your own instead of
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going to your trail center and just
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riding it um so you'll just ride a full
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lap of a trail center and they'll be
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usually there's one feature that they
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don't like and they'll do it and they'll
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get through it and they'll struggle with
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it and then they'll be like oh that's
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that thing that i hate and everyone
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always has one so i always add a corner
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at land eggler for example turn around
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do it again and just do it again until
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you're comfortable with it repetition
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look at the kids on the streets like
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you're like oh my god you've seen them
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kids doing wheelies all they do after
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school they get home and they go out and
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they do wheelies for hours and hours and
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hours do a couple of corners on the fire
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roads do a couple of manuals practice
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lift your front wheel over little things
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well thank you very much it also makes
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for more fun absolutely way more
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enjoyable way more enjoyable when you
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know you can ride what's coming up yeah
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confidence in your own ability is the
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biggest thing you can that you can
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embrace while it's being coached for
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sure you can be the best bike rider in
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the world but if you've got no
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confidence and you can't apply it to
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your riding when you're writing down
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stuff that's technical it's pointless um
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but enough well done today thank you
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very much
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and hopefully i'll see you soon yes yeah
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thank you
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a bit of a post script after yesterday's
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coaching session it's the day after
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and uh just been down the golfing down a
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couple of trails i'd never ridden before
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both of them were lots of turns in
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instead of my first thought being oh dab
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i was like lean the bike lean the bike
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and by and large i got down stuff that i
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probably wouldn't have expected to get
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down but i did have to stop it's because
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i'd slipped off on a route so maybe
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that's next how to slither
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thanks elliott
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you
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