Become a Better Rider or Coach by Listening To Your Inner Child & Different Mindsets

If you’ve ever wanted to nail down your endos, stoppies, nose manuals, nose pivots or euro turns, then this episode is for you! In this weeks episode we dig into why everyone should learn these tricks (maneuvers) and just how much they can transform your overall skills and riding, anywhere and everywhere. There's a number of different ways to teach these maneuvers, but listen in as we dig into some examples to help transform your riding or coaching...

• Friends with the front of the bike
• Difference between maneuvers and skills
• Using maneuvers to develop and transform fundamental skills very efficiently

ENDOS - rear wheel lift as the bike stops
Phase 1: BRAKE & BRAKE - CONNECT & TIP
Phase 2: BRAKE & BRAKE - DISCONNECT, SCOOP & POKE

• Using a static demo to feel the forces in an endo
• Using emergency stops to introduce the core skills of endos
• Releasing the front brake for confidence and safety to bring the back wheel down
• Building confidence through repetition of correct form and technique
• Using the ‘scoop’ and ‘poke’ to ‘disconnect’ to manage risk and make the endo higher!
• Why we don’t teach people how to crash... but what can we do to help keep them safe when learning these tricks.
• Using lines and numbers to quantify the timing and improve execution

STOPPIES - rolling endo, using the brake to slow down/stop
NOSE MANUALS - stoppies without the braking (using terrain, technique & speed)

• Patience is key... master higher endos with scoop and poke, before starting stoppies
• Stoppies - efficient and safer way to increase mileage and get comfortable with forces pushing the rider onto the handlebars
• Ideal terrain and equipment for stoppies
• Stoppies ideal for slow speeds and technical terrain
• Nose manuals great for learning to balance with the front of the bike at speed, for style!

NOSE PIVOTS - An endo with steering & rotation to pivot on the 'nose'
EURO TURN - rolling nose pivot as the bike is still moving forward
BRAKE & BRACE | STEER & ROTATE

• "Steering" = OUT and IN to create rotational momentum and set up the turn
• Why applying both brakes for all these maneuvers can help
• Using cones and markers to help timing and coordination for nose pivots and euro turns
• What's the progression from Endos to Euro Turns and what's the timeline?
• Stoppies through an arc to build into Euro Turns
• Slow in, fast out for smoother Euro Turns
• The power of skills-based coaching

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