How to do a U-turn on a motorcycle and why it's important to practice ~ MotoJitsu

Hey everyone, quick study here so this video is going to be about how to do a u

turn

or a low speed

turn

on a

motorcycle

so I have made many other videos on how to do a knee drag in an hour. I'm the Exact same parking lot I was in for that video so this is specifically what I'm doing and what I'm thinking about when I'm making very low speed turns so if you have to make a U turn on the street or if you're at a gas station and it's very full, you only have a little bit of room to make a U-turn, so how do you do it without going back and forth and doing a 50 point turn?

You know you want the interesting points. do a quick U-turn and keep going, so a lot of people have ignored the slower speed techniques because, ah, it's no big deal, it's about going fast and hitting the track, but if you find a rider who's really good in slower speed skills like really tight technical turns and tight turns, everything else, they're probably very good at higher speed because the fundamentals are there and they have a very good knowledge of a bike, so I hope this video gives you a better understanding of what to

practice

and what I do when I

practice

low speed, so first, in general, when you go fast, bikes move quickly to the right, so if you go left in a corner, you will go fast, for what gravity does if the bikes are tilted. going left gravity makes the bike want to fall it just leans it just wants to fall but because you're going fast you have this technical term called centrifugal force that throws the bike outwards so it's the balance of those two things while the bike doesn't fall over, but if you go five miles on power, lean the bike, it will probably fall over, so for low speed maneuvers, one of the most

important

things to do at low speed is that you don't go far enough fast enough to keep the bike upright. the weight of the bike will overcome it, gravity just pulls on the bike, so when you're going too slow you have to use your body weight to get to the opposite side of the bike and balance it so it doesn't fall over.

So if I have a big old bike leaning to the left, I just carry all my weight to the opposite side of the bike so my weight offsets the drop of the bike that way. That's a counterbalance. I'm balancing the bike preventing it from falling. When you get to the opposite side, counterbalance, it's like the Mother video. I mean, if you go faster, you go left, you want to bring your head and your midline, the whole side of your body towards the inside of the bike, if you go faster, speed to the left, but now, if you go faster slow, speed to the left, right now you're going to push the bike down to make a very tight turn and I already have all your weight, your body, your center line, your head on The opposite side of the bike is still going left , but now you're going slower, so to give you a little better idea of ​​what I'm talking about, check this out, I'm on a bike and if I want to go. to the left, so the handlebars will turn to the left, the bikes will lean to the left now, if I lean to the left now inward, like I'm fast, me and the bike will tip over, I'm going five miles per hour. and I don't have the centripetal strength and blah blah blah to keep the bike company, so when you're going slow you want to grab your sword and this is when you're stomping, all your weight is on the opposite footpeg.

You can even see the bike, the other bikes are already moving, only my weight comes here, all my weights on the opposite side of the bike, so if I go faster, I'm facing in like this, my head is next to the mirror. my center line is only inwards and I do this at a faster speed so for a slower speed do the exact opposite now take your weight to the opposite mirror your head here your center line here your butt 1/2 cheek on the another direction and now your weights on that side now I'm balancing the bike with my weight, the bikes falling like that and all my weight is here, that's one of the main things you should do to practice lower speed techniques first thing , now I'm not going to say too much about the rear brake, so if I'm doing something really technical, I'm just practicing full turns or seen online, good balance.

I drag the rear brake, just push it down, the whole bike down though. If you want to do that after you already have the basics down, do it. I do it too, but you understand it very well since there are only two controls and you don't worry about the clutch on the throttle, just practice that for a while. You don't even worry about the brakes, keep your toes and footpegs off brakes, so the main technique is counterbalancing, get all your weight to the opposite side when doing things at low speed and then the controls of which you want to worry about are just to press the accelerator, so if you ever feel like saying you're practicing a left hand, you turn, a lot of people do this and they have the feeling that all the bikes for the fall have to hit the ground as if I was going to get up. the bike reverses so if you go really slow to the left and you push the clutch you just cut off all the power to the rear wheel, now you just have a 500 pound piece of metal that's going to fall off so you have to You have a little bit of stem for the bike to keep it upright, so if you go left, if you push the clutch and cut the power, the bikes will fall, so you have to have it in the zone a little bit. the friction zone where you are depressing the clutch or slipping the clutch to keep a little bit of power at the wheel, now an interesting thing with the throttle, so you have to have a little bit of power, so I recommend just increasing it a little RPM. like you always have power and then you just go in and out of power with the clutch the prowl isn't doing anything its one of the variables you have to use but you could forget about it if you just hold it steady you keep the power a little high so you always have power there, but you're actually regulating your speed regularly and whether the bikes are going to lean or not with the clutch, then you're going slowly.

I mean, I'm talking about a half inch, like millimeters at a time, you're right in that part where you go or you don't go, you really have to play with that is a very, very fine slow skill with the clutch, you're not squeezing. completely and releasing it completely that leg will go crazy, very slow movements, so hold the thought, press the accelerator firmly, slip the clutch, provide the clutch and you just have to play with it, you have to overcome the fear of what What happens if I drop my bike? That's why I recommend that if you buy something for your bike, buy crash bars to practice lower speed things.

I dropped this bike in a parking lot. Drive five miles of power at least seven or eight times. Hit this. Hit. Hit my butt. peg, hit this thing, whatever, it doesn't touch the bike, it gets the bike to tip over, I don't care, I learned something, I picked it up again and I'm still practicing one of the most

important

things I've learned about slow speed techniques . From the lessons I learned after dropping it, I realized that if I really do it, it will fall. I have to do something different, so you should be worried, you should not be afraid of dropping the bike if you don't have a motor. protectors or engine boxes or protective bars.

I would definitely be afraid to go get that stuff before practicing, but I have some protection on your bike, so just like the other video I made about faster speeds, it's the same for lower speeds every time you pass. any turn, the three things I recommend doing in this order is setting up your body and then turning your head and then turning the bike so it's a head and body bike, so if I'm doing a slow left turn, I pass it . established position towards the opposite side. I turn my head and look where I want to go and this is where you really need to point your chin where you want to go.

Imagine you have an arrow stuck to your chin and I'm going to the left. The eyes point in that direction, that's not my chin, so point your entire chin where you want to go and for a slower speed, try looking at your license plate. If you're making a sharp left U-turn, go where you're facing. So if you're looking that way, you're probably going to go straight to the ground, so body, head, look where you want to end up, over there, turn your head and then turn the bike, this is the opposite of a faster speed, again, faster.

On speed turns, you want the bike to be as upright as possible so the suspension can do this job with less lean, less risk, etc., but for lower speed turns like this, you need to lean the bike very, very much, to make a sharp turn if you hold the bike. upright and you try to turn left just by leaning that far, it will be a huge 50 foot left turn, but if you lean the bike this far it will make a very, very sharp turn, so you will have to push the bike forward. down like your handlebars on a shovel shovel that bike down push it down you don't want it to fall take all your weight to the opposite side so bring the head of your body and then you turn the bike by sliding the throttle off the brakeless clutch and just getting you bite the opposite side it's not a jump I'll do a couple of U-turns right here in the big parking lot and pay attention to what I'm doing with the lines this is on my bike Jitsu Club there's level 4 to one but there's a place to park just try to get off in the middle of one jump one go through the middle the other you can go back and forth like this I'll do that a couple of times I'll be talking explaining and then I'll try to do it within four parking spaces, I'll try to make a figure eight between that and this is something you can literally practice for hours, how consistent you can be.

I'll relax, can you be?, how closed the circle can be, etc. Check it again every time you do anything off the

motorcycle

if you are not fully equipped, it is a big risk. I wouldn't recommend getting on a bike without all your gear, so pay attention to what I'm doing. bike body head bike head pulling the clutch a little bit of the throttle no brakes so if you heard my throttle a little bit I have a little bit of power to keep the bike going really slow slowly slipping the clutch so I'm going to do the same thing, but I only do a demonstration.

I'm going to push the throttle because to show you that throttles are relevant, you can go full throttle if you want, but the main thing is to slide the clutch very slowly with the class. a little bit of power so again the throttle is just a variable you have to have a little bit of power but it's all in the clutch the reason I didn't take off either I wasn't willing or I went crazy because I'm just limiting the power with the clutch is the key, but if you noticed all my witnesses on the opposite side of the bike, which weighs 500 pounds but doesn't tip over when riding 2 miles of power because all my weight, I'm literally standing on the outside peg. my weight is here, the bike is falling like that, no problem, the bike won't fall, but again I practice what I just did, especially without brakes.

I've dropped this bike five or six times, but once you get over the fear of dropping your bike. and it happens, lesson learned, pick it up again and keep practicing, so I'm doing one more demonstration of the same type of thing, but now I'm going to drag the rear brake a little bit just to show you what you can do. When you keep practicing, if you start adding brakes, you can go slower and start trying to balance the bike and get more comfortable with it, so with just a little bit of rear brake I can slow the bike down. get the full block and try to practice balance.

I understand it if you look at my foot on the brake. I'm not doing this. I'm not moving my foot back and forth. My foot stays like this. I'm just slowly pushing down. a little bit of pressure and releasing it slowly, so think about 10 20 30 40 50 40 35 40 45 50 that's what I'm doing with the rear brake just to slow the bike down a little bit, but I'm controlling the speed with the but if I have a little bit of momentum the only way to slow down is to push the clutch all the way in and then I slide that way the bike could fall so I keep the RPM high.

I just sold the bike a little lower with the rear brake but I just had to practice look what I just did without brakes he used to play with the throttle with the clutch counterweight point your chin look where you want to go practice practice practice if you do those things that guarantee that if you just practice 10 minutes one day within a couple of weeks of practicing anything tennis today you're going to be pretty good at it there's always time to practice you can do it right before you go home right before you get a load of gasoline at the gas stationon your couple of practice U-turns just practice, practice, practice, practice.

I hope this made sense. If you have any comments, don't hesitate to write them. I'll get back to you, thanks for watching, don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you next time.