Motocross Whole Shot

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I want to talk to you about whole shots. Whole shots are obviously what you want to be getting in motor cross. That is just getting first to your first turn. You get a whole shot, your goggles are clear, you'll stay clean and by the second or third turn chances are you’ve probably distanced yourself from your competition probably by about fifty feet. So, real good to get a whole shot. Like to do, is your get on the bike. There two different, here at Cycle Ranch, it's actually a concrete start which means there's a concrete pad for about ten feet behind the starting gate and ten feet in front of the starting gate. In, there's also then the dirt races where it's just dirt starts. You really want to pay attention to the line selection. Maybe in a couple motors before yours you see some A class guys, some pro class goes going. Pay attention to their lines. Look where they're going on the track; which gates they're using. You know, because, generally the shortest gate, the shortest distance to the first turn is going to be your fastest. It could have a pretty messed up little line, a big rut in it or something. So just pay attention, to where the guys are getting to the most whole shots. That's going to help you choose your line a lot. As far as starting it, get kind of right in the middle of your bike, just about that kind of neutral kind of area, maybe even a little far forward. Then your feet, your feet are a big deal. Keeping your feet, you want them in front of your foot pegs. A lot of guys you'll see them, they'll start behind they're foot pegs. Where once they take off, their bike's powers they kind of Superman little motion it. You really want to keep those feet planted in front of your foot pegs, your elbows nice, just real nice straight line with your wrists. Down your levers real nice. Depends on how many fingers you want to use for the starts. I've seen guys like Ricky Carmichael sometimes they use all of it on their clutch side because if you use all that you can really, you really want to find that sensitive spot in your clutch. What I mean by that, is you can have your clutch pulled in all the way or you can have your clutch out. There's one little spot, I call it just the sweet spot your clutch that's going to really engage your bike from going. You don't want to have your clutch all the way in on a start because then when that gate drops, you’re going to drop it. You still have about a half a second before it engages. So you really want to find that sweet spot and just pull in your clutch just enough for that sweet spot. Get your head over your bars. You don't want to be wheeling out of that gate too much. Another little important trick here, is to feather your front brake. When you’re on your front brake, if I engage my bike just a little bit, find that sweet spot on my clutch. Just get that bike, I can feel my bike wanting to take off. Push in my front brake and it takes the suspension and it kind of compresses the forks and raises the rear and turns it into a kind of dragster type racing. That's obviously, dragsters that's all they do is. If you can kind if mimic that kind of motion with your head forward. Get that bike just in that sweet spot, just finding it. You'll get off the line just fine."