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
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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‘I’m Not Getting Any Air!’
Riders often struggle to learn to jump well without professional assistance. This happens for a number of reasons I outline above.
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Getting Pulled Forward Off Jumps or Landing Nose Heavy?
Pulled Forward off jumps? Landing nose heavy? Riders are often pulled forward on jumps, which actually happens from being too far back, which typically comes for conscious or unconscious fear, or from a misunderstanding of correct movement into jumps. Being pulled forward will typically result in fear, which will often push you back on the…
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Getting Sideways in the air? – How to Address ‘Dead Sailor’
Riders who sign up for our jump classes often do so due to inconsistent jump outcomes. During our pre-class introductions, they often mention that they sometimes fly well, and sometimes end up sideways in the air, or off trail on landing.
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Coming Up Short With The Rear Wheel – Casing Jumps?
It’s common for riders to get unwanted rear wheel first landings or to slightly case a double with the rear wheel.
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When To Use The Lunge
I often hear riders saying they have been coached to push forward on the bars off the edge of a drop. This technique is often referred to as The Lunge.
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When to Use Pre-load
You may have already been taught preload as the go too for hitting drops. While it does work, it’s not as effective as what we at Fluidride call Correct Basic Form for a number of reasons on most drops.
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Slalom Cornering Drill: Classroom
Slalom Cornering Drill I often joke that the slalom drill is the holy grail of turn drills. Practicing the slalom drill until you can do it well and without conscious thought will allow you to access the correct foot quickly as you move from turn to turn. Get a set of cones and get cracking…or…
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Cornering – Introduction to Footwork
Introduction To Footwork Footwork is essentially the interplay we create with our feet in order to direct (corner) the bike. When we coast with level feet, we refer to this as ‘neutral feet’ or having our feet at 9 and 3 o’clock. From a level footed stance, we want to pressure the outside foot to…
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