Your mission should you choose to accept it.... Your main objectives: ~Create a steady tone using the clutch and throttle ~Keep the hips in line or slightly in front of your chest ~Chest stays UP and not crowded over the bars There are lots of variations of this, I provided some examples in the video below but the one I challenge you all to try is: Find yourself a nice gentle slope. Grass, sand, gravel...something that's not intimidating and is OK if you tip over on. I challenge you to roll up the hill as SLOW AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN without spinning the rear tire and still maintaining that steady tone. (within reason) If you're trying to go up Erzberg hills....it might not work. Once you get moving...TRY TO STAY IN MOTION despite trying to move slowly...This is the challenging part. It's going to help us develop feel for how we can use our upper body (and even legs) to help us stay balanced. And help us develop the composure to keep the REVS AT A STEADY STATE. No more panic clutch! Whoop whoop! I'll get out in the next day or two to work on this and post some examples, but share your practice attempts and what you noticed for yourself! And don't just take my word for things. Experiment and play around with these for yourself. See what happens if you get your hips back to where the rear fender & seat meet vs. more centered. Or what it feels like to have the chest over the bars vs. centered or even back. Play around with moving on the seat, and share what you find. That's what this is about afterall! Getting a feel for real world applications. If you've reached ascension and think you're "all that" doing it seated...Try it standing 😈 May the odds be ever in your favor...

Who won practice/the group ride this weekend? Share your hero moments, wins, biffs or whatever else you want in the comments below. 👇 Today my brother and I set up a “section” or “loop” and raced each other. The terrain was technically very difficult despite looking flat on camera and in person. 🤣 it’s very visually deceiving. The best way to describe it is “fragile dirt” it looks hard pack but it’s all decomposed sandstone so everything crumbles away. It’s like riding on marbles. 🤣

At the start of the call we broke down tires, and what the benefits are of different tire setups. Then we broke down Lisa's video attached below. Here are the following notes AND the homework assignment, but I will make a separate Homework assignment post. Thanks again to everyone who jumped on the call! Good starts: Excellent launch, you didn’t spin you’re wheel because you didn’t need too. That gave you better drive at the start I think. You let the clutch out at the bottom on both takes very nicely. On the first go, you never stood up all the way, and you relied on pure throttle to carry you up the hill. (Sometimes that’s good!) But this time, when you hit the ledge you were in the tractable power, which let the front wheel come up, and caught you off guard. Clutch comes in from panic, then gets let out again = spinning the rear tire, loss of traction and dug a hole 😭 On the second go, you had power stored in the motor. You could’ve shifted up a gear at the bottom and tried to carry third? All the way up instead of second? But all in all. Still a good run. You stood up, had good upper body movements, and absorbed the ledge quite nicely. NOTES: You COULD have carried a gear higher (shown by the upshift you made before making it to the top of the hill) You COULD have had even more power stored in the motor (just in case of emergency) but the power you had was nice and held traction nicely. You CAN move your body even MORE. You’re lower body is quite rigid on the motorcycle and that just comes from practice and becoming more comfortable on the bike. HOMEWORK: I will post the homework assignment for everyone in the community tab, post call. Is this working for everyone? LOL WORK ON - Maintaining a good steady tone of the bike while holding yourself on a hill. WORK ON - centered body position and keeping the chest UP and looing forward. Don’t collapse over the bars while practicing. NO SUPERMANS Bonus challenge: Find a gentle rolling slope. Grass, sand, gravel…doesn’t matter (no lava)

Proof that standing isn't "Better" than sitting. Notice how much Nicks body MOVES despite being seated. This is a really important concept that we need to start training ourselves to be able to MOVE on the bike. Even our hips. Notice how he's shifting his hips from one side of the seat to the other. Whatever it takes to keep that bike upright and moving forward. This is HUGE for everything we do. Not just hills.

I went out and sessioned some hill climbs with Splat Moto and my brothers and these were the three major takeaways that turned me from zero to hero.