Understand Large Obstacles for Mountain Bike Racers

Video Transcript

"A more advance way to make over this obstacle especially if you lost a bet to some friends that you can't make it over something so tall is just straight at the high pot commit and really exaggerate your emotions to get both wheels up and over. So here we go up and over, not the smoothest way to do things not the most sure fine way to do it I mean I could of messed up especially if going up hill is never good to land up hill. You know it's much less to have a transition when you land but the way I came at it pretty simple, you got a little bit of speed for over here as I was coming at the object. I picked up before I got to it so picking up I picked up my handle bars and then to make my back wheel come up sort of rotate forward like that. So everything just moves forward like my ice cream cone goes to kind of like this to like this, kind of sounds like a cattle pull moving my weight forward a little of the hip thrust to. Then up and over the thing was like you know probably the least good idea here was doing this on uphill because it gives me a much shorter area to land. Cause it's like I land on a davit it puts a lot of forces on things so if this isn't a downhill like it is here it's a lot easier to deal with. Speed comes a lot more naturally run out comes out naturally so we get on the bike your ready to get some speed and up it. So as you saw there my back wheel hung up on the object but because I compensated for the impact with a weight shift I kept it pretty steady flight so my back wheel hit the object like this. And if I hadn't been moving my weight forward or still more centered I would of gone forward but instead when my back wheel hit like this I move my back and down so suck up the object. And then when I got off the object I just let it roll so we use our weight shift modify at the tack position for the appropriate conditions and we're able to deal with most obstacles and trails confronts us with."