16d (edited) • 🏒 Drills & Skills
Homework 8/5 - 8/12
We're revisiting the basics this week and talking about BRAKING! Specifically, braking body positions and becoming acclimated to our controls again. So this week we're going to work on our
Straight Line Braking drill - which can be found here:
Once you get familiar with that, you can start playing with the progressions inside the "5 Drills To Build Downhill Confidence"
Starting with just going down a hill as slow as we can - aiming to try and "stop" in the middle without putting a foot down.
Then progressing to balancing and stepping over the bike to build some muscle memory for those situations where we can't get to the ground quickly in technical situations.
And the next progression being working on turning down hill. Progressively making the turn tighter and tighter.
you get to work on Stoppie turns...just cuz.
since you asked about tires, most of us in the group run Plews Tyres - which are primarily trail tires, but I think you'd enjoy the Grand Prix which I've linked below. You can get it for 10% off from Risk Racing (the link I've sent you) using code SPLAT10. This is a deep lug tire with a paddle tread so it should hold up in silt, sand, and mud pretty well too.
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Homework 8/5 - 8/12
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