Welcome To Fluidride Online
Welcome to our online learning page. With this tool, you can greatly enhance your riding by unlocking your true potential. We teach The Fluidride Method, and Simon Lawton, the Owner and Founder of Fluidride, will be you personal guide in this journey. Be ready to progress rapidly as you learn new skills and remove habitual patterns which aren't serving you.
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Learn how the fluidride method builds consistency
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Discover your ability to surpass your own self perceived limitations
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Develop the skills to diagnose your own riding
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Progress your riding more safely and confidently
Build Confidence And Consistency.
Riders often feel like they need to heap on layers of really complicated movements in order to progress. With The Fluidride Method, we've found that keeping things simple is the best way to help riders grow. We've also discovered that removing incorrect movements can greatly enhance a riders game. Riding well means riding more safely - and more quickly - with less conscious thought.
Recent Skills Articles
Core Skills
Body Position - Braking - Steep Descents - Cornering
Staying Low: Jumping with Passive Legs Or ‘Racer Style’
Jumping Passive or Racer Style When learning to jump, it’s important to understand that our outcome in terms of height and distance is directly related to the loading we create or negate through our legs. In our advanced classes, we often have riders practice hitting a jump at varying speeds while trying to get the…
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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…
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Learn To Jump
Learn To Jump Every year, I notice mountain bike trails have more and more jumping opportunities. It’s common for riders to think of jumps as being dangerous, but jumping well isn’t complicated or inherently dangerous; it’s just mysterious until you start to master the necessary skill set. The most common emotion which comes up with…
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Right Hand Turns
Right Hand Turns While cornering in either direction our principles should remain the same for the most part. That said, about 90% of riders have a stronger left hand turn than right hand turn, which makes this an interesting topic. Most right handed people will prefer to turn left as will many left handed riders.…
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Progressive Trail Skills
Bunny Hops - Manuals - Wheelies
Featuring: On-Trail Lesson
Featuring: On-Trail Lesson in the Alps
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Discussion: Learning Wheelies with Coach Linnea
Simon sits down with coach Dave to discuss snapping turns.
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Manualing Off Terrain
Once you have learned to manual into terrain, you can start manauling off terrain.
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How to Ride Wheelies
Anyone who has spent a lot of time on bike can either ride a wheelie, or wants to be able to. This elusive skill isn’t used a lot on the trail, but it’s a great tool for working your balance.
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Air Skills
Drops - Featuring - Jumping
Squashing / Racer Style Drops with Jason
As our trail speeds progresses we need to modify our drop technique in order to not overshoot landings. This is especially important for racers who are trying to beat the clock.
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