Posts by FluidrideOnline
Featuring To a Landing
After you get comfortable with the takeoff portion of Featuring, you can add in a landing. Be sure to start with a small gap and a non-consequential landing.
Advanced: Counter Directional Steering In The Air
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…
Advanced Jump Drill: Counter-Directional Steering
In this video watch as Simon covers setting up a counter-directional steering drill in a clear open area.
Counter-Directional Steering On Step-Up Jumps
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
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…
When am I ‘too scared’ to try a feature?
Discussion: When I am “too scared” to try a feature Dealing with fear is a part of our sport for pretty much everyone. If we are pushing ourselves on the bike, we’ll find our edge pretty quickly, as there is plenty of challenging terrain out there – for all of us. Knowing when we are…
Intermediate Scrub Progression
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…
Scrubs: Race Speed
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.
Advanced Jumping: Learning To Whip
A whip is one of the most stylish tricks you can do on a mountain bike. With the scrub as your foundation, you can build into a full whip. We’ll break down each step below, but here are the basics:
Switchback Turns: Field Drill
Remember when setting this up that you are looking to create a turn that is too tight for the rear wheel to follow the path of the front wheel.