Is Whistler Bike Park Good for Beginners?
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- 2022 Whistler bike park season has started! I remember my first time riding at the park and it was not an optimal experience. I was just a beginner rider and I thought this place was hell. However, is that true? I want to think about whether Whistler Bike Park is good for beginners!
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My first time at Whistler was after only a few times riding MTB, and it definitely felt over my head. I mostly just lapped EZ all day and my one attempt at Del Boca freaked me out so I bailed back to EZ pretty quick.
I'm getting more seriously into MTB this year, and I've booked a Whistler trip for August. Looking forward to trying again.
I just returned from my first time at Whistler loved it. We got 5 day passes and rode like nothing I have had experienced . Was sending it 2nd day and doing black diamonds by 3rd n 4th. Can’t wait to go back. Thanks for the content, I have been watching you two since I started 2019
I really love how you show your crashes, your commentary as you fell off the side of the rock at the end was too funny
I know! That was my first crash in the bike path🤣 this year is gonna be a awesome year for all of us👍
Whistler can be fun, but the ego-mania and the insecurity of people there has not changed in 10 years.
People there need to loosen up and have fun, smile, and be friendly. Nobody likes an arrogant jerk and nobody likes a cry baby-it’s best to be, talk, and act like a real person who is there to have fun, ride safe, and progress their skills.
As soon as you leave Whistler, even to Squamish, you realize the people get better. They’re having more fun and cheer each other on.
That’s why people like your channel Yuka. You are authentic. Keep it real ✌🏻
Clear and concise.. informative as usual Yuka when you do these type of videos.. keep up the good work
I had struggle with the video and that’s why I couldn’t post last a few weeks. Thank you for your comment. It really means to me😁
Ya video is clear, really gives a feel of it. I started with all the green runs you mentioned and moved up to crank It Up and crank It Up C-more. I did do one lesson which helped tremendously. Because riding a downhill bike is different from riding a normal mountain bike and it was nice that you showed it in your video where we can practice how to jump and how to come off a steep one. Thx for this! I'll be back in Whistler for Crankworx in August and I cannot wait to ride the mountain bike park again
Whistler is not only a good place for beginners, but it is one the best places.
You have me laughing and crying, Yuka. You are seen. Thanks so much for sharing.
Great informative video Yuka. But where were Remy, Phil and Eric..?! 😉🙏🏼
Awesome video! Thank you for the information and hope to hit that trail one day. Keep posting trail videos and love the content!
Thank you for sharing! Love your content! 👍🧡
Awesome video! Love seeing your perspective of the sport and places you visit. It also helps me to push my wife to ride more!
I love your content Yuka! Your approach and bravery in the face of challenges is inspiring. Keep it up
Thank You! I always wondered about the green and less popular trails.
Thanks for this great video Yuka! (and ofc all the others;) Its amazing to see how far you've come! You totally sent the moonbooter and everything, YOU ROCK!
Yuma I love your channel as well as Eric’s! Appreciate you talking about beginners even though you are an expert. Love the content
I was there 2 months ago.. I also saw a mother bear with her club quite close to the trails! So stay alert!
Love it! Thanks for an honest and thorough review, VGY style. Can't wait to get back out to BC.
Great video! Thanks for highlighting the easier trails! 🙂
Awesome video as always and really helpful!!
What I really likes here was the breakdown between the types of riding. Jumps, Speed, Technical. That deserves it's own video regardless of the Bike Park. Think you could do that vid well.
I would watch this channel just for Yuka's expressions. Lol! Great video for the majority of people riding the trails out there!
Love your videos !
Have a great start yuka im one of your fan here in Philippines.. 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Prefect, just the video I needed! Thank you. Try to decide about getting into park riding. Great introduction to the sport and park!🤪👍🏼
I really hope you have a good time in a bike park! Pre-ride, Re-ride abs Free ride👍
I had never biked before, went Whistler bike park for my first ever try, and it was actually great for a first timer. The lift was the most intimidating part haha
Nice seeing content from you again!
This video was so painful and took me so much time to finish. Next a couple videos are riding videos so I can’t wait to edit them. I know it’s gonna be fun😁✨
Great video! Super helpful
hahaha you're so hilarious Yuka! your videos are very inspiring and interesting to watch
i might never be to canada, but it was nice to have your perspective from this spot. greetings from germany
Great video Yuka! That was a nice tour of the park 😁
Thank you ❤️
Great video Yuka 🤩🤙🔥
Awesome vid!
Worth a million laughs and likes just from the look after you crashed on the off camber drop.lol Peace and stay safe
Ha! After seeing bcpovs new video i knew you would also upload a new one ❤️🤙
Thank you for waiting 😁❤️
Nice content! Oh... if I had taken the same line as you on the last part of your vid... I would have crashed as well!
awesome video again.
That was really neat!
Very encouraging video. I am right now where you were in 2014. :)
The crash footage at the end is the best!
Awesome video. How many people go the "Del Bocca Vista" reference? (for those who didn't, it's a Seinfeld joke)
I really want to go here, although I live on the otherside of the wrld, and can't have much jumping practice because it isn't rlly hilly/a good place for it. I only have Glenrock, Aus
Hi friend! good video and happy weekend 💥✌
You're the best Yuka!
Thanks!
Honestly for the stuff I ride the bike park feels a lot safer. There everything is properly built and maintained and while I've had numerous crashes resulting in pain for days and one broken bone, none of them were a result of the ~20 days I've ridden park.
"that's what I thought" has got to be the funniest thing anyone ever said before going down 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 you amaze me Yuka 🤘
I felt the time went ready slow while crashing🤣
@@VanGirlYuka maybe you can control time Yuka 🤘🤣
Excellent introduction to #whistler Yuka!
I can’t wait to go ! First time my 5010 will touch Canadian soil.
I went last year, it is epic
Nice!🔥
Green trails are the future of the sport. Nice video.
That’s exactly right and every bike parks should have good green trails 👍
I saw you at vale mount and took a picture
Thank you
right on girl keep ripping
I rode a green trail with a downhill bike rental there lol
My first bike park experience came after 55 years of riding. Things that really caught me out: The scale of the jumps and drops, which surprisingly only took a few runs to adjust to. Full face helmets are very hot and limit your vision dramatically, so I avoid parks that require them. The trails are not nearly as smooth as they look at speed on video, don't take your hard tail your first time. Lifts are so much slower than ski season, so you can easily spend most of your time standing around on a busy day.
"Full face helmets are very hot and limit your vision dramatically" They only limit your vision a small amount and it's not really enough to be any kind of detrement and i'd rather be warm and have all my teeth at the end of the day than be a bit cooler and lose them.
@@Primarch_Vulkan Limits hearing as well. I find it very disconcerting being in a bubble and not hearing the bike contact the ground. Not sure I would ever get used to it.
3:30 I feel extacly like this on my Enduro with nearly no protection on pumptrack (still recovering)
i wanna go !
@Yuka - Yeah! Been waiting for a new video from you
I’m sorry this video took me for a long time to finish. I’m working on the next video and it’s on Stone Starlet😁 i have a feeling that it’s gonna be a fun video 👍
My first time at Trestle bike park in Colorado, the guy I was following didn't listen to directions and I ended up on all black runs for my first trip down. We were supposed to be on the greens and I thought "boy if these are the greens, I'm in trouble." And yes, I too crashed.
I’m glad you survived from the experience! You saw what’s black Diamond trails look like so early, everything must felt smooth after that 👍✨
i loveyour videos maam. i wish i can ride trails with you and your friends
thanks for the honest review, I'm a beginner and I don't think I'm up to a bike park ride just yet
That’s fine😊 if you have more experience, more you can enjoy riding at a bike park👍
Time to learn to ride a bike!
Hola yuca cuando vienes a Charlottte NC 🤩🤩🤩👏👏👏🙏
if i see you in August when i go......cake for you and beer for Eric.....hope i run into you guys....to atleast say thank you
I hope we’d bump into at the park✨ we may be at Alaska in August but we have next year too😁
Love the dramatic reenactments. At least I hope they were reenactments. 🙂
They are 🤣
amazing video! I'm kind of a beginner, but i love small drops, skinnies and jumps. Are there any trails that are easier but still interesting?
Del Bocca Vista has lots of 12-18" drops and little features that you can hop by preloading. We spent our first day / trip on the green trails. The Greens are mainly intros to mini slabs and berms, but a bit pedally for the first few minutes. Definitely didn't need the Downhill bike the first time, LOL! B-line and Crank It Up are good intros to jumps. Greens took about 15 minutes and blues were about 5-10. Pace yourself if you are used to 30-60 second downhill runs like me!
@@N8MRN I think crank it up and del bocca vista look amazing. I'd love to ride there one day...
あ〜一度行ってみたいなぁ〜
Clear nice to go there
I would say yes, you seem to go along OK.
As soon as Whistler drops the attitude towards ebikes and opens all the trails to them, I'm up for going.
I didn't know this. Was planning on getting an ebike and visit Whistler next year.
@@carlfranciscon ebikes are mostly allowed at Whistler, just not at the higher-elevation trails. Down in the US, they're banned almost everywhere in terms of public lands, though most people ignore it (myself included). It's stupid, but we're making progress towards getting them officially legalized.
Biggest problem for beginners isn't going too fast ... It's going too slow, which for beginner (and sometimes advanced) riders is by far the #1 reason people crash. It's just physics. It's harder to knock a bike off course when the wheels are spinning faster.
Bike park endurance tip:
Relax your grip.
LMAO at the end. Those slow-motion crashes really give you time to think don't they?
It is far too long between my dose of Yuka!
Whistler Bike Park is perhaps the best place in the world for beginner riders. I don't believe there is any other place that could turn a beginner into an expert within a matter of months.
I didn't ride my 1st "lift assist bike park" until a few years into my riding. It definitely is not the same as trail ratings! I personally prefer the fun flowy green stuff (dang getting older and responsibility).
Can you tell me more about the differences? I’m in my third season but have likely only ridden trail systems. (I say that because I’m not sure of the differences)
I started mtb at 55, so I have fewer responsibilities than women with babes at home, but OYE! the recovery time for injuries seems longer (and they hurt more than I remember).
@@llamasugar5478 I started riding at 43 and luckily have only 1 "major crash". I've found, riding in 8 different states so far, that not all trail rating are the same in regular trail networks also. A green/blue where I live is a black in "lower elevation" areas. So a green at a actual "bike park" is more blue/black at a trail system. Bike parks are obviously steeper than regular stuff usually also.
@@brandihodges9548 I’ve broken ribs twice. This season, I went from a small frame to a medium. The handle bars are much wider, which I didn’t care for, but everyone said I’d have better control.
Nuts.
I’ve clipped more trees than I care to count, and a month ago I got a concussion so bad I still can’t locate the exact place it happened or remember what happened. On trails I’ve successfully negotiated dozens of times. I shall be swapping out my new bars for the old ones.
@@llamasugar5478 I run 750 bars on all my bikes. I've taken 10 clinics and a private jumping lesson. Being older and still working, I can't afford to "do much outside my comfort level". I like XC and DH flowy trails. Definitely not a fan of tech trails.
@@brandihodges9548 Yes! That’s what my old bars are. My new ones? I don’t remember exactly, but they’re so far past my shoulders that I feel like a truck driver wrestling a big steering wheel. Not super helpful on the few tech trails I do ride. I, too, am a fan of the flow.
I still work, but it’s one of those jobs one is obviously doing out of love (Spec Ed sub teacher) and not for money. I worry more about my husband (62) because he *is* the breadwinner. Fortunately, he is a far more advanced rider than I.
Whistler is good for everyone :)
If your a new rider to go to this no it’s not safe to go!
🙏💛
3:18 by far and away the most crashes happen exactly that way.
Never rode there looks fun though but I don't think a hardtail works well there
There are many brake bumps and riding a hardtail may be tough on your body and bike 👍
I think slightly more than 1,000 bikers go there every year 😆The actual number is 100,000!
Van girl aaaa yuuuuuukaaaa
My first ever MTB ride was at Whistler last summer....cashed after 5mins....learned the hard way that front brakes are pretty powerful and that the dirt on the side of the track near berms might be a little soft....still was a hightlight of my trip in BC!
I’m so glad you survived from the Whistler bike park and continued your adventures on your bike 😁
so what the hell were those videos ive been seeing about whistler for the last 2 years? EARLY ACCESS??
Yuka, tu es trop forte
Must you be vaccinated to enter Canada? Does anyone know?
I think they finally got rid of that nonsense recently
I think a little more than 1000 bikers come to whistler
Short Answer NO 😎
The availability of green or easier blue trails notwithstanding, it kind of seems to me like unless a beginner is going specifically to avail themselves of the downhill lessons or something, then a trip to Whistler would seem weird IMO. It's good that Whistler has some easy stuff. OTOH, if you are defaulting to wanting to ride mellow double track, going to a bike park and buying a lift ticket seems like a rather inefficient way to do it. It just doesn't seem worth it without having the skills and endurance to go beyond the easier trails.
I am pretty cheap though. And also far away from BC, so the travel cost/impact not relevant to people in the BC area may be affecting my judgement.
I haven't looked at many other bike parks, but I do think with some of the things I saw that whistler's value can come from just the amount of reps and training grounds they have there. A trip there could turn a beginner(early) to a late stage beginner or even an early stage intermediate rider in just a trip there.
more like 10,000 people
Don't waste money to ride Whistler until you can ride blue trails at least. There are plenty of nice places along the Sea to Sky to ride/learn mountain biking for free.
Aiiyoooo u r so cute 🥺 .. I wanna ride with u .. I'm from northeast India ... ur english is so so so so cute I had felt for it ....... 💓
Thank you✨ I didn’t like my Japanese accent but it’s not bad after all 😁
I'd like to visit one day but unfortunately Canada still won't let me in because I refuse to be vaccinated. Crazy world we live in.
Canada wont let me out for same reason