Sometimes it's easier to copy than to describe, so 'do as we do, not as we say', is the premise here. There a quite a few videos on-line where people have taken the time to produce quality short films showing you exactly how they would repair their mountainboard or tweak a shifty or something... All that I've done is compiled a list of some of the better ones and linked to them below.
I'll update this post as and when more videos are found so hopefully it should be pretty comprehensive. Feel free to suggest further links either covering more subjects, or if there are ones that are better than the ones below. Alternatively, feel free to make your own and show the others how it should be done. If there are videos that you would like to see, but can't find, then shout and we'll see what we can do here!
Set-Up / Maintenance
'Bindings Tutorial' by JDiurba
'How to change a tire' by munroboards
'Changing Griptape' by munroboards
'Painting Your Board' by Terrainriders
'Filling and Bleeding a HS33 Rim Brake' by Magura
Egg-shocks
'The 'easy' method' by AdeMcC
'Second Spring' by enotramone
'Changing Truck Springs' by munroboards
Riding Technique
'How to Tic-Tac' by Jasper James
'Scrubbing Speed' by Jasper James
'How to Drop In on a Hill' by Jasper James
'Nose Control Tutorial' by JDiurba
'Jumping Tutorial' by JDiurba
'One Foot and Backflip Tutorial' by JDiurba
'Frontside 180' by agline27
'Noseroll 180' by munroboards
'How to Drop In' by munroboards
'Power Slide' by boardoffroad
Showing posts with label technique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technique. Show all posts
Friday, 16 September 2011
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Be a Better Rider - taking advice from the bikers
Taking inspiration from other sources, I came across these on-line videos produced by the mountain bike magazine, 'SingleTrack', a 'snappily titled new video series where we get bike guides, skills instructors and the great and the good of mountain biking to tell us one thing that'll make you better on a bike'.
Forget the bike and the technical aspects that you normally see on these sorts of things, and concentrate on the core message that is being put across each time and remember that it is often being in the right frame of mind rather than on the right bike, or the most expensive board that will prevent or enable you to achieve something.
I've picked out a couple of the videos that seem most relevant to what we do - hope they help. They're only short, so enjoy!
In Video 1, Ed Oxley and his most excellent beard talks about 'keeping your chin up', and 'looking further ahead' in order to look where we're going and more importantly, where we want to go.
Be A Better Rider - Part 1 from Singletrack Magazine on Vimeo.
In Video 3, Tony 'Jedi' Doyle of UK Bike Skills talks about drops and why the simple physical action needed to perform a drop-off can be applied to any size of drop - it's all in the head...
Be a Better Rider: Part 3 - Drops from Singletrack Magazine on Vimeo.
Forget the bike and the technical aspects that you normally see on these sorts of things, and concentrate on the core message that is being put across each time and remember that it is often being in the right frame of mind rather than on the right bike, or the most expensive board that will prevent or enable you to achieve something.
I've picked out a couple of the videos that seem most relevant to what we do - hope they help. They're only short, so enjoy!
In Video 1, Ed Oxley and his most excellent beard talks about 'keeping your chin up', and 'looking further ahead' in order to look where we're going and more importantly, where we want to go.
Be A Better Rider - Part 1 from Singletrack Magazine on Vimeo.
In Video 3, Tony 'Jedi' Doyle of UK Bike Skills talks about drops and why the simple physical action needed to perform a drop-off can be applied to any size of drop - it's all in the head...
Be a Better Rider: Part 3 - Drops from Singletrack Magazine on Vimeo.
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