How to Ride Off Drops on a Mountain Bike | Keeper of the Shred | The Pro's Closet

Hey, welcome everyone. My name is Lee McCormack. I'm from Lee. He likes

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s, so in this video we're not going to go into too much detail about the intricacies of how we do falls. We will show you four ways to handle falls. that will cover all the falls, we will start with the simplest, the most usable and move on to the least simple, the most dangerous, the least common technique. For our definition, a crash is a situation where you are going from a flat takeoff and there is a mandatory stall. of elevation, it could be a ledge, it could be a road, a rock, a wooden bridge, anything up to some type of landing, this is a way to

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most of the time, we can just roll them, no need Take a breath in general.

Our rules are that we balance in the middle of the

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with our feet usually on a hinge and if the bike is going to make an angle, we make the angle and we don't let the angle happen to us, so here's a ledge that can be written many ways and we're going to do all the shapes, believe me, to start, we're just going to roll down. If the ledge is less high then your arm is long, that means if you swing down to the bar, I can roll it and this is within your reach. I'm just going to hold it.

I'm going to hold the brakes. I want you to stand up and turn around. Okay, low hinge, so this is not a very steep drop. So, by the way, this isn't a very big drop, but it's using almost the entire range of your arms, isn't it? If it were bigger, would you want to be taller and scarier or shorter and more impressive? Yeah, exactly, so I don't know how much range we need, so we need it, so get down, man, right. Your belly button is straight, above the bottom bracket, the bike has turned forward, you have pushed your arms forward, this is the position you need to be in and you have this.

You have this blocked, so we all have situations where we

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when you just walk in and all you see is a cliff and then nothing, you know, the world is going to fall, so duck if you're low, you can roll, you can. send you can stop and god forbid you can just jump off your bike gives you all the options if you get high the only option is basically falling practically this is

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101 im on a low hinge weightless hands i see it's rollable and i just push, That's it, so the ability to be able to crouch and roll down a ledge is essential and will serve you very effectively in most places.

That's technique one. Now we will move on to technique two. So now let's say it's so high that you can't turn it to the right and again that would be high and your arm is basically long or you're going fast now we're going to send it so now we're going to go faster you know the drop is I got a great landing, we'll go faster and then it's the same idea, except okay, when you go, when the bike is going slow, the angle changes quickly, so it's a big angle change, you push very fast and a lot as you we go faster.

The trajectory is flatter, so there is less push, and it takes longer, so it is less fast. Most people, when they reach for these things, subconsciously push their head up and away from danger, and that leads to going over the handlebars, so it's essential that we can approach these things with a good hinge and with weightless hands. Every time you reach the threshold of the obstacle that seems interesting to you, go in and check your hands like this. This is great because a you are balanced and b you are not. terrified if you get into something and you can't let go your lizard has taken over your body and you are in danger so don't make things fair enough let's do a good job in style two so style. two is good at speed.

One day I did the math around eight and a half miles per hour is the minimum speed for that technique, as when you go slower than that the front end starts to drop too quickly and it becomes unsafe. so let's say for style two let's go at least 10 miles per hour, okay now we're going to go into style three, in style three we'll consciously jump off the end and add height, this is useful I guess for two big shapes. One is, you're not going fast enough to send it, so if you're going, say, less than eight and a half miles an hour or so, we'll take it out that way, the same way you control how the bike releases and in the air you control the landing angle consciously instead of letting the bike just fall, that's one use for that, the other use that could be used at the same time is if you want to land somewhere specific but there isn't enough speed to get there over there. so you'll add height to add distance a little slower on purpose.

I came in slow with the intention of landing in a specific hole. I was in my position and I popped and once I got up I felt like I had a little bit of a stall and I created the angle and the bike landed exactly where I wanted it to land. Another use for this would be let's say I want to go really fast but not land on the curve and fall off a cliff there again. The use would be for me to jump from back here and jump over this thing and then land higher on the landing.

Oh man, Nicole is crushing it. Those three ways will take care of 99% of the crashes. You have your default low level. Slow roll. You have your default low level. We will send you faster. you have the pop that's going to be you're going to slow down to send you want to get to a specific landing spot or you're going really fast and you want to skip the whole damn style 4 it's a wheelie drop, we'll do it See you in another episode later and we'll go into more depth. the details that