Welcome To Core Skills
Think of core skills as being like the foundation a building is built upon. The stronger the foundation, the stronger the building. While we often get caught up in the next skill we hope to learn, keeping your base in perfect form will make everything you learn work better. When I teach pro riders, we often focus solely on Core Skills, as those athletes understand the importance of creating a super solid base layer upon which to add their other skills.
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Learn what makes the Fluidride Method Different
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Discover some of the most important riding elements
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Develop an unshakeable foundation
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Progress to other skills with a solid platform
Short Steep Descents
Short steeps descents or Roll Downs can be intimidating, as we are often not able to see the upcoming terrain. By creating the habit of moving into terrain, we can learn to roll down the steep ground consistently and safely.
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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…
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Featuring AKA Jumping Off Natural Terrain
Learning this technique will transform the way you look at and ride trails. Open up the doors to speed can control with this technique.
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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.
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The Effect of Increased Speed on Body Position – Attacking Steeps
The class below teaches riders how to handle undulating terrain in a simple setting, then take it to raw or steep terrain. Simon also goes in depth showing how speed affects the way this technique is executed when moving into steeper areas of trail.
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Short & Long Jump Take-Off’s – How do they differ?
In this video on long vs short faced jumps we’ll learn the key differences on how to safely approach jumps with varying size take offs.
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The Lunge
While Lunging isn’t our ‘go to’ way of teaching drops, there are instances where it can be really helpful.
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Squashing or ‘Racer Style’
Once you have Correct Basic Form on lockdown, you can modify into Squashing – which will enable you to take drops at speed without getting a lot of distance.
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Correct Basic Form
Get started with drops by learning to use Correct Basic Form.
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Longer Steep Descents
Approaching a long steep descent is similar to riding into a short roll. On a longer descent, and undulation in the trail is going to bring some arm bend back into my arms, allowing me to be able to reach out on the steeper sections.
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Long Faced Jumps
Long Faced Jumps Riders often think bigger jumps are harder jumps. This isn’t always the case, particularly when jumps have long takeoffs. A well build jump with a long takeoff will do a lot of the work for you, and will do it correctly as the compression it will deliver will keep you squarely over…
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Pre-Loading Short Faced Jumps
Pre-Loading Short Faced Jumps Small jumps can be misleading, in that they look tame and easy. While they might be small, their size adds a technical element to the technique used to master them. In the instance of a short faced jump – especially one that is a bike length long or short – preload…
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