Skills

Counter Directional Steering In The Air Counter Directional Steering In the Air (CDS) is a super helpful technique which will allow you to access more advanced jump trails. As trails get more advanced, the biggest difference is that they start to turn more and eventually require the rider to turn in the air. Below, Fluidride…

Counter-directional steering allows you to turn your bike in the air

Counter-Directional Steering On Step-Up Jumps Step Ups are slightly different than other types of jumps since we are just going through the first half of the flight arc. This is where function meets style. Counter Directional Steering in the Air is a super effective technique for landing into a turn. In this series of images,…

Getting Started With Scrubs After we have learned to control our jumping distance with the compression we create or negate with our legs, and are relaxed enough to move the shoulders in the air, we can start to work into scrubbing jumps. This technique allows rider to blow energy off to the side of the…

Intermediate Scrub Progression Once you get some basic movement in the air going, you can start to work into doing scrubs. Scrubbing jumps allow the rider to blow of extra energy and stay low. It’s also how we get started with whips. In this Image, Taylor is just starting his scrub. He’s basically going to…

In the blog below, we take a look at scrubs when going race pace. In this instance, this the focus is all about keeping speed up over jumps while not sailing past the transition.