OVER 40 MOUNTAIN BIKE TIPS: CORNERING WITH CONFIDENCE | Loose over Hardpack!

Hello YouTube, welcome back to the channel, today we will be with Lee. Lee likes

bike

s again and we're going to talk about

cornering

. The great news in

cornering

is that traction is not something that is inherited from the

bike

to the tire. and traction on the trail is something you do. Yeah, what we're going to focus on in this video is the idea of ​​loading spins. We'll show you some ways you can actively carry the bike and basically make the bike weigh twice as much as you. I've doubled your traction and if you double your attraction you quadruple your

confidence

there's nothing that gives you more

confidence

than the ability to literally change the dynamic of what's happening every time we feel like there's a mystery our confidence goes down so I want you to know that the more I press my bike into the ground, the more traction I have, the safer I am, period and this is something to practice, practice, practice, we'll pick some curves and we'll start, okay.

Wow, we are all over 40 here and we don't wake up very agile to be able to corner, we need to get our shoulders very very close to the handlebars which gives us range of motion with our arm, the best way to get your Loss Low shoulders are hinged on a hinge, our knees stay over our feet and our butts go back and our torsos fold to level. You have a tremendous amount of power to pump the curves and also get your shoulders closer to the bar so you have your full range of motion if you don't have a hinge you can't corner before you go out and practice do some exercises like this it's a good one come down as much as you can and then try to stand up, so go down up, down, up and your hamstrings will gradually

loose

n.

Ideally you should be able to be in a hinge with your legs straight and then once you have this range of motion you can take the corners. When we teach cornering we always start with the basics just to make sure people have The first step is to enter our cornering point on a deep hinge, we'll put our right foot down ahead of time and focus on leaning the bike. Look at this, you have all the weight on the outside foot for the right one. Now your hands are completely neutral when you lean your bike, look what the bars do automatically, they spin right?

So if you let the bike spin, watch what it does, it forms a mathematically perfect circle and whatever you do with your arms is screwed. up yeah absolute basics coming down lean the bike with your foot down look lean the bike watch the bike lean and I'm not cornering 101 if you're balanced in the middle of the bike your hands They are neutral and you lean in. the bike will turn wonderfully well, I don't even like those kind of corners when I'm cornering like that with my foot down, it's too passive, I like putting my feet in them more, but you made it so beautiful that I've been sitting here watching, Oh, I want to do that.

My question is as if on your outside foot you apply some pressure. I just put my foot down passively, yeah, and leaned in nicely, but the next thing we're going to do. is that we are going to load the foot intentionally and you are going to hear a difference instead of putting the foot down prematurely, you are going to notice that this time I am going to enter the turn with my feet level while I lean the bike, I progressively increase the pressure, so this is really great for confidence every time the bike leans, you need traction every time the bike leans, we do a traction period and you repeat it so many times that it's subconscious and you don't even do it.

I know you're doing it I'm about to do it, let's see one. Oh, I saw a little jump. You're jumping around the curve. What about the jump? I'm making my bike extremely heavy in the corner. What's up with everything? after it is very, very heavy, it is light, it becomes light, everything we do is a wave of love and the corners are a wave that turns out to be lateral, so you will see among good cyclists a slight loss of weight, a heavy load and then another weight loss. Was looking. that and your hips are way out, so as far as the hips go, you're on a hinge and your belly button, your center of mass is right above the bottom bracket, when we corner, your belly button is going to basically stay on top of the bottom bracket. , your torso.

It will rotate around that point to maintain balance. Many people make the mistake of simply taking their body off the bike to move their hips. There is nothing negative like staying balanced and simply rotating your body. I imagine there is a crushing arrow and I need to aim it where I want to go, that does all the hip stuff for me, maybe it's useful so that when Alex turns his head his whole body goes to the right, but mostly of people don't, instead of an arrow of genius coming out of their breastbone. It comes out of your hips wait, yeah, okay, I'm not saying all that, but those are whatever parts you have down there, whatever you have, whatever you have, point them where you want to go, yeah, oh yeah, tilt your head. bike, load the foot, redirect the hips. like that's good in cornering, there's a continuum at one end of the continuum, your foot is all the way down generally, when your foot is all the way down, you don't have a lot of pump power because it's just one leg, but you have a lot of edge bite so for most of us if you feel like the turn is incomplete and you need edge bite then put your foot down and that's a good way to start now on the other end of the continuum your feet are level and when your feet are at this level, you have less bite on the edges, but you potentially have a lot more pump power.

Now we're going to take a corner with our feet level and what you'll see is that I have more range of motion and more power, so I'll be able to carry more and the bike will probably make more noise oh, I wanted to lift my feet and I didn't, you did a half turn and a half, yeah, oh, there it is, you were trying to keep your feet level, but your feet were at kind of an angle, yeah, and that's totally cool because, of course, it's a compromise between pump and advantage . I'm kind of excited about that because I was watching Bruni Super Bruno, they do that and he does a lot.

It makes sense because you're like me. I'm going to speed up this corner but it's a flat corner so it's completely reasonable for your body to make the compromise and you see in a lot of good riders there's that 45 degree crank angle that's a little bit pump and a little bit edge both. The nice thing about the 45 2 is that you know you're turning, but you're probably about to hit some rocks or some other section. Super quick to get to flat pedals for long, flat turns, we're going to rip them to shreds. and then the bike route is no longer just a simple arc, I call it scalloped because it's like a scallop show, which is one of the most useful exercises a

mountain

biker can do, make a significant left turn and that's where I'm pumping and building momentum and then I do a little right turn to reset and then another left turn and right turn and left turn and right turn the bars are doing like a kayak stroke there is very nice and what's really interesting about it while you're re-steering the bike is deeply heavy and the tires bite the ground and you don't skid you don't slide you don't and then you go light and when you restart the bike you don't weigh and guess what you also don't slide when you're not on the ground, it's impossible, one of the things I really like about this is that you're taking the path as a suggestion, it's not a command, yes, you turn when we want to turn, friend, you win. trust you decide which way you're going to turn the sheep they all take the same line you're a wolf I like that roller over there I'm going to smash it or I'm going to pump that corner and I like to ride with intention and make things happen on purpose to create joy like that it's a completely different way of riding a bike it's probably a good way to live your life honestly exactly that's one of the absolute fundamental exercises because it's built into the cornering and the pumping so if you can do that you can shred that's it What to do: Loose on hard ground is one of the toughest surfaces you can corner yourself on, so we're going to use that pumping technique we just did on the dead end here, I'm going to hit the ground really hard and then I'll light up and redirect again and take some pieces out of this turn.

This is the litmus test because there is no traction here. This is very lazy, yes, but as if you were. you're putting 500 pounds on the tire, it's not going to spin, man, I decide where the corner is, I didn't even need to put more than one, it was already turned, yeah, so Alex just liked a longer phase that seemed really work. very good, which was actually just a scallop and a half, yes, they are delicious, they are delicious, they are delicious and they are also nutritious, the less confident you are, the more small bites you will take and the more confident you will be in the situation. the fewer longer bites you take, the next exercise will be a slalom exercise and will teach you how to transition between left and right, the idea is of course that you are very heavy when you turn, very light while you transition. like skiing, you are teaching yourself how to gain weight and create traction, you are teaching yourself how to transition and also go faster, so it's a complete victory, this technique is a kind of cool microcosm for a good track only. right here, so like that light lateral rhythm that's at the heart of shredding, the heavier you get on the bike, the more traction you have and it's kind of cool because I thought this was perfect traction when I did it, but now that we look at that, it's not perfect at all, it's really incomplete, it's

loose

, right, but this is something that I want all of you to understand that the looser the turn, the more aggressive you have to be for it to work.

More passive, more aggressive, if you like this video, do an exquisite turn, hit the like button and if you want to see more, hit the subscribe button, see you next time, enjoy, bye, Namaste.