Welcome To Progressive Trail Skills
Progressive Skills are the skills we use to ride modern trails. There are essentially three ways we can go about dealing with upcoming terrain. We can mimic the shape of the terrain with Active Pumping or what we call Passive Pumping. We can air over terrain using other terrain, which we refer to as Featuring. We can also breeze through terrain on the back wheel by learning to Manual. These skills also help with skills found in other areas on this site.
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Learn to Pump, Manual, and Feature terrain
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Discover how Featuring can improve your ability to Hop
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Develop Advanced Skills
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Progress to Manuals and Featuring to a Landing
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.
How to Hop Your Bike
How To Hop Your Bike In this video, Simon explains how to hop the bike properly. This move is typically called the J-Hop or American Hop, but is basically just a correct bunny hop. Before we get into learning to hop a bike well, let’s talk about the name of this skill. People often refer…