Two days skills training in Gisburn Forrest and excellent food provided by the Dog & Partridge.
What did I learn:
- that I need to practise alot more instead of just riding
- most importantly propper bunny hops and before that wheelies/manuals.
- fast turns
- drop offs (need the wheelie & bunny hop)
- skids
- body postion (i'm all wrong) - I'm too far back and not tall enough on the bike.
- posture - I need to be in what I have dubbed the silver back position - elbows up and out - not down & in
- keep my fork pressure pumped up !!!
One amazing thing was that doing the turns is just like skiing
- does that sound bizarre ?
- unweighting
- then weighting the tyres by pressing down especially on the outer foot.
- then unweighting again
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