How to Use Un-Weighting for Mountain Biking Control

Video Transcript

"MICKEY DENONCOURT: So, I'm going to be taking a slightly different line through this section, emphasize un-weighting over obstacles to maintain control and keep your speed up. I'm going to come down sort of straight through here, go over these rocks, one of them is embedded and pretty big, another loose rock, a whole bunch of loose rocks sort of all the way down here in a straight line. I'm going to go slower, because, well, if I was going fast, it'd be easy enough to turn around that. And also if I was going fast, really, I could just hit that first rock and jump through the whole section. But in this circumstance, I'm just going to ride slow. I'm going to show you what sort of exaggerated body English you need to use to move over stuff like. Once again, you ought to be light on your bike when you're on weight obviously. But then when you land, you need to be prepared for the bike to do all sorts of weird things. So just wide and light and low on your bike through the sections smoothly and look ahead to the end of the section to where you can really get back on your bike, control wise, really wait things to brake and stuff like that. So I'm going to ride through this section, and I think you'll see what I'm taking about. Well that wasn't the smoothest right through. I got stuck in the bushes there and got kicked offline. But you have to be ready to get kicked offline when you're riding through loose stuff. I effectively picked up and over that first rock, I didn't get onto the exact line that I wanted to get on to, got off from the bushes, but I just stayed loose and low on my bike and made sure that when it's time to ride over another do-or-die obstacle which is that rock right there, I was ready for whatever circumstance might arise. "