Motocross Scrub

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I want to talk to you about scrubbing a motocross bike. Scrubbing is something really fun to do. It takes a lot of work to get really good at it. They say James Stewart kind of--I don't know if he so much invented it but he definitely perfected it. If you ever see any videos of him on the web or anything scrubbing it, it's pretty cool. It's pretty something to see. Basically what is, is minimizing your air though. The more time you're spending on the ground, you're on the power, so you definitely, in motocross, every jump you want to be getting as low as you possibly can when you're racing. Scrubbing is basically -- you're up on the bike, you're in the middle of the bike, you come up to the lip of the jump. On the bottom, it's really about line selection too. If you can come to the bottom of that jump and even angle it as you're going up it, so not just going straight up to jump. You kind of, maybe, if you're going to be scrubbing to the right, I'll tend to bottom of the jump, go to the left just a little bit, and then right when I get to the lip of that jump, I roll my front my end--I roll the front wheel over the lip of the jump, and then my back end will just kind of naturally follow and then it'll return itself. Make sure you've got a big enough jump to do it. There's also a different way of just kind of scrubbing, is still rolling that front end over the lip of that jump, but then it's kind of lifting your leg up and you kind of let the bike--you let the bike kind of come up into you, and it makes a lot of sense because what it does is primarily just turns your bike flat, and it kind of just flat and then it minimizes that air, and then as long as you get in the right motion, it'll just naturally return it to you, and that's scrub."