Learning the Secret to Riding Skinnies!
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- čas přidán 15. 01. 2020
- Camp Murphy at Jonathan Dickinson State Park has a lot of skinnies! Therefore it was time to up our skinny game! Yuka seems to know the secret to success though...
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Thanks Eric! Awesome riding with you and Yuka!
Auu! Loved seeing you out there Stefano.
@@XCBen Thanks Ben, the builders at JD just dont rest, if you haven't been in like a month or so, make the trip, totally worth it.
I hope you guys where able to make it out to my home trails @Santos. You have to do John Brown,vortex loop ant hill and rattlesnake..I forgot the new flow trail indigo
When helping a turtle cross the road, always take him where he is going not where he is coming from, otherwise he will just turn around and try to cross again.
The secret to Yuka's success is that she is just freaking Awesome.
11:30 Hey Eric, the reason why Yuka is so good at skinnies is that she keeps momentum even at a tricky situation - 11:42 - speeds up right away, rides at higher speed overall and because she is sitting, she keeps lower centre of gravity on top of being a short lady. But most importantly her head in this position is more upright, so she looks further automatically. And looking far is the secret! You by standing up and looking right in front of Your front wheel, are using the secret of "snake tailing". And You're riding at trials speed, but have not much trials skills.
There is this half pipe rainwater drainage in my Town, covered with metal mesh covers. Covers are like 2x tire width. I can comfortably ride straight on top of them when I look far. When I look at the wheel distance - gameover - snake tailing, even though there is no danger as the pipe is built in the paddock and covered flat. Hope You read this
Man, you guys messed up the turtles line.
man, it totally got a pb on strava with that boost.
He must be som mad
But it's way better than ridin over it, don't u think so?
He was doing so well
Awesome to show you both around JD! I'm now actively practicing my sit down skinnies.
Haha! It's so weird!!
I'm really interested to try it I'm a big guy and have some nerve issues that make it very difficult to stand and pedal
I eager go try sit skinnies 👍great video
JD Park was my first MTB trail system in FL; my wife and I went there 2 years ago and got hooked with MTB. We didn't know that our lives were in danger, because we did JD Park with Walmart bikes, 😨 since then we bought entry level HT and ride every time could. This spring we have scheduled to ride in NC. Thanks Eric and Yuka for showing that FL has good MTB without elevation 😂🤘😎
These are my home trails, I love them
you are a very lucky person! (when its true:-))
can you elaborate on the no sesioning sign for us?
@@lachlanbeams2996 it means that they don't want you going back up the trail into incoming traffic, but if you go down the road, there's a opening you can get on the trail and go back up the hill that way
Great trail recap, and always quality stuff from your channel! Note to self....do not challenge Yuka to a skinny riding contest if you guys ever visit the Bentonville area! Brian...only because I spend so much time watching CZcams videos, and constantly learning to jump better after learning it ABSOLUTELY incorrectly, I can see one thing that I'm confident you can do to improve immediately. Make your pop MUCH later on the face of the jumps, and make it a dynamic faster move, so it's a quick push down into the suspension, allowing the rebound to push you up into the air to gain some height. You're doing what I used to do...going into it low and compressing the suspension when you first start up the face. A LOT of instruction leads you to believe that's what they do, but if you watch closely, they get low....but then they also have a "pop" off the lip where they utilize the suspension to push them into the air. It feels weird at first, but once you learn that move, you'll be more stable and be able to clear everything without always feeling like you've got to go faster than it seems like you should have to for how the trails are built. I was SO FRUSTRATED riding behind riders that cleared everything, going the same speed as me, and I FINALLY seeked out a great jumper, and with on-site video help and repetition...I learned what I was doing wrong, and through paintstaking re-learning, I got on the right track. My boiling point was a ride with Lance Canfield. We were on some local trails that I had ridden forever, and never cleared anything. I was convinced it was just built for only the fastest riders to clear the features. Well...off we go, and I'm behind Lance, who is behind some other guys up front, and we're going CRUISER speed. He's clearing everything WITH ease, even at that speed, and I was just rolling everything behind him at that speed...not even trying to clear anything, because I knew better. My normal tail cases would have been nose cases! But there he was....whipping them, tables, you name it...gloriously, like it was nothing. OK...THAT'S THE FINAL STRAW!
A good place to learn it is on a small double that requires moderate speed where you have to force yourself to "pop" off the lip, but with very little consequence if you case it. Hit it at a speed you can clear it with just "riding" off of it, but then start slowing down, and "popping" off the lip. Keep making runs with the objective of going slower and slower, and still clearing it with a quick compression of the suspension right as you're leaving the lip, very similar to an English bunny hop, but just allowing the suspension to do the work. As you get better at it, you'll actually start to feel the ability to do the front and rear ever so slightly at different times, and get even more lift, almost like an American Bunny hop. Start low, elbows bent, and then at the lip compress slightly and raise up slightly on the rebound, without absorbing the compression with your legs. From there...it's just a matter of waiting longer and longer until you really get it timed with the take off. Use a phone camera to watch it back, and I'll guarantee you that at first you'll see that you compress and then LOSE that compression well before you need it at the lip. Then you'll watch it back, and time it a little later, but still only about halfway up the lip. Then eventually, despite it feeling odd, you'll get the feeling I did where the bike springs off the lip...and it's an "aha!" moment. Then seek out some jumps with longer faces, and work on timing it right at the last possible second. See if that doesn't help man. What I found was, by putting myself in a position to have to clear something, I instinctively started doing the moves required to get maximum height, once I understood the dynamics of the movement, and that it's not a sloooooow move like some the instuctional videos seem to suggest. Yes....you compress into the face, because you have to, but it's the further compression and rebound at the lip that gives you the "pop." Just trying to share some hard earned experience from another guy wanting to be a better jumper!
Your getting way better at Jumps and Yuka is a natural...Love both your guy’s channels
I turn 40 this month and sadly I’m disabled. My life over the last decade hasn’t been good. Before fall hit I started riding again. It’s only on flat ground and sometimes I have to use my recumbent trike. But this year will have all sorts off big changes. Starting with yoga and balance training until I can take it back outside. I hope to one day ride trails and pump tracks seem very intriguing so I hope I can get that far. Currently I’m only able to ride for about 5mi. Sometimes less. Watching you two makes me hope my wife stays with it with me. Right now she’s all I have.
If you want a damn good ride, go to Graham Swamp! It is in north florida. This place will blow your mind.
3 miles from there is another area called Mala Compra! It is similar to Carter road as you are going around a swamp, etc. then after the ride, in the parking lot you will find one of the best BBQ spots in the state. If you read this, let me know and I will put you in contact with the trail builders. I am in Spain, but they are who you want to ride with.
These two trails will blow your mind for Florida.
Yuka is just a beast! I love how she just goes for it. Great content BC🤙🏽
I'm a local here I met you around the skinnies. Wish we would have told you about the shortcut to get back to the top of bunker hill. There's a spot close to the road that will bring you to a trail that goes up to bunker hill in roughly 1 minute pedaling
It's us locals secret
Still impressing with yer edits, love your willingness to find any place to ride. You and Yuka don’t always go to the obvious places to ride i.e.(Moab, Sendona, etc.). I love that!!! Cheers To the both of you!!!
I ride skinnies sitting down also, I feel I have the most control that way.
CrankZilla same
Great video brother! That bike park looks incredible! Keep on being awesome 🤘🏼
Loving the Florida content. I've always wanted to go there to ride. Even knowing that it lacks serious elevation. Probably because it's so vastly different from the PNW. Also winter is nonexistent there.
Texas>Florida
@@Freshtony15 PNW > everywhere
Jake MC77 100%
Also because there's no climbing to the top. Jump out of the car and start having fun.
It varies from hot to very hot here
I think the secret to Yuka's success is her mental strength. We already have seen that in jumps and drops where she just says "ok I'm gonna do it" and then she just does it. I'm a similar way. Once I scout out a feature and say I'm going for it, I'm hitting it in the next 2 runups to the feature. And that's even a thing for skinnies. If you have it in your head that you are going to succeed, you are more likely to do so
Riding at JD is our favorite, so glad you gave it a try. Enjoy watching your posts keep having fun.
The way I would ride the skinnies is sitting, with some rear brake applied, and keeping peddling. Rear brake + peddling gives stability. Never use front brake.
That skinny riding talent of your wife is substantial. She is great love your videos.
oh, wow! your jumping technique clearly improved! :D Really nice!
Great Stuff Eric and yuka 🚴🚴😎🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
love JD, ride there almost daily. just broke my arm there 2 weeks ago.
Hit these trails today and they’re awesome just like the video shows. Also I think I saw you guys at Virginia Key 2 weeks ago so I’m expecting that video or maybe markham to come next
Where I live, there are two skinnies on one of my favorite trails. One is straight, short, and uses composite because it rains a lot. The other, is old, curvy, long, and kinda sketchy. Made from wood, it turns a lot and has the dips in it, making it hard to stay steady.
Always a quality video.. thx
Yuka :- you better move
🐢:-nope
😂
I ride here all the time! it's super fun - never gets old
Wow Yuka definitely does have great talent 👏👏💪💪
Really fun ride!
I usually sit down on the skinny’s but at Demo in the Santa Cruz mountains they are pretty short.. the flow trail is 3.3 miles there and super fun, you guys have it made riding so much cool stuff 🤩
BC POV they don’t let you session them because a bunch of kids got hurt and had to be airlifted out
Yikes that’s not fun.
thats pathetic, how are you supposed to practice. people get hurt riding all the time its part of the fun.
Yuka! Awesome!! Ridden those trails Middle 2000 some, parts were under 4 feet of water. Btw Where I live we don’t shave tops of skinnies( mostly) . Try to ride that seated💀💀
Always place turtles the way they were originally facing if you move them.
We've always wanted to ride at the JD park but usually end up driving past either down to Ft Lauderdale or back to 416. Looks amazingly Florida-ish..
If you are still exploring try the trails at the Markham park facility, it'll blow your minds. It's over near the 595 & i75 intersection. Then the Quiet Waters park location over near Sample Rd & US1, very flat but good for a great rip through similar terrain as the JD State park.
Have fun and be safe.
Be good, do better!
awesome video, i can't wait for your video on the lippy jump. I am progressing on jumps and recently cashed on a lippy jump it was my first and everything went wrong i walked away bu fear them now :(
in brevard florida we have the grapefruit trails which have a amazing trails and jumps
I used to love doing skinnies before I broke my back. I found they were so easy if you just sat down and relaxed. If you stand up to do them you tend to tense up and when you tense up, it is more difficult to balance. At least in my opinion.
Oh, and go fast. The faster you go the easier it is to balance.
Great video awesome video 👍😊🚵♀️
Eric, Why are you so into doing jumps all the time? Did you ever ride a proper MTB, I mean 26inch wheels, 2.1 offroad tires, perhaps stumpjumpers by Specialized, chromoly bike 21 speed, triple front chainrings, shimano deore cranks, drivetrain, and cantilever brakes, What more could one ask for?
You still in Florida? There’s a awesome 2 mile run in brevard county , in Palm Bay . It’s called tropical trail/grapefruit trail. It’s a little river wall with wild terrain and Florida native plants . The grapefruit with sugar packets is a awesome energy boost for fun out there with a instant rush .
Cool that you made it to our corner of the continent. JD Park is great throughout. Tip about moving turtles or tortoises, Always move them in the direction they are heading.
I hope you're doing a full tour. Markham Park, Amilia Park, Virginia Key. Then when heading back north Alifia, Balm Boyette(Ridge is the best in Florida), and then Santos. You'll be happy you rode all these trials. Then there's what Jimmie Cottons trail private trail which is invite only.
You guys got to go to Arrowhead Park in Middle Georgia it has a flow trails and a great trail system
We were just in florida as well. My wife was showing me up on skinnys too.
Hopefully you check out the trails in Mt. Dora, Florida. Same group who work and maintain Santos, created the cool features and trails there.
Nice video. I haven't been south as of yet
im terrified of berms, and man you guys are good at them
sitting on a bike is more stable however for technical lines you stand up because it is easier to steer on tricky terrain and tight lines
That was cool!
Go Yuka!
Jd is hands down my favorite soflo place to ride. The no sesh rule was put in place after some unfortunate accidents supposedly.
SoFlo Jeeping ya fuk bunker hill they need to maintain the jumps better I know a bunch of good riders including me that have broken bones because the lips were eroded so bad they would pop your back up no matter what,
Fellow Canadians in my neck of the woods. I ride thise skinkies and she killed it on that last one. That's no joke.
Do all fo you CZcamsrs stay in regular touch? How do you reach out when you're in town to ride?
(Great video, thanks for posting!)
Back in the mid 90s my friends and I would go hiking in this area before the trails were even thought of.
We found an old water treatment plant and a creepy looking area with picknick tables that were mangled and over grown.....it was very creepy
The signs are there because a small group of kids were messing up that trail/jumps and ruined it for everyone else. We were allowed to session that trail for a while before they blocked it all off
i love ur voice man
Jeez 300’ of elevation? In coastal nc, we have 6’ elevation if we are lucky
I was behind you guys around minute 7:45
So like... If BKXC is starting a road trip on the west coast and you started your 2020 in Florida... Are y'all gonna meet up in Colorado/Bentonville in late spring/early summer? Lol
Edit: well this comment aged like fucking milk now, what a year so far
Wait a second, these trails are getting closer and closer to Weston...
I’m surprised you didn’t hit up Santos when you were in Central Florida. 🤙🏼
All you had to do is sneak up the right side of Bunker Hill. Everyone does it. Either way, when it was announced they were doing that, all the jump guys were pissed lol
Come to Virginia Key trails!
For me - skinnies are max 25 feet long, 12 to 18 inches wide, and max 12 to 18 inches off the ground.
As Jedi Master Yoda says... "You MUST CONCENTRATE....!!!!" 🤣🤕
I know it's not good for the CZcams algorithm, but I miss your 20 min videos.
are you guys coming to markham park?
Big claps for Yuka
lol i was in porn hub and i saw a video called bbcpov and i lmao’d
You're a bit young for PornHub lmao
I've just always thought of the tortoises as trail obstacles that you make sure to never hit.
And they hiss at you as you go by.
Where are you going next. I might be able to met you there
I don't think it's because she's sitting down. I think it's because she's outputting steady power through the pedals enabling her to stay quite stable.
with respect to skinnes, Being good at them liking them are two different things. My daughter also takes them seated.
Yuka is definitely one of the best skinny riders I’ve seen.
its technically easier sitting because you have a lower center of gravity therefore being able to make adjustments faster
How much travel do their bikes have?
楽しそう、また日本来て欲しいです。
GHOSTS 0614 ほんとそれ！
"A wild skinny appears." -Pokemon generation
The technique for skinny’s to look forward not down
2:02 it looked like Eric had a coil shock cuz of his sock
Make it to Markham in Sunrise!
Sitting down makes the center of gravity lower so it's more stable.
Are you gonna go back to clipless? I thought the flat pedals were just to try
Once you go flat, you never go back
@@davidharbour4547 once you go clipless, you can't go back neither 😂
Sitting = lower center of gravity and therefore more stable balance. Standing = higher center of gravity and therefore more unstable balance
I'm guessing Ebike sales ain't that great in Florida.
Hey some day do you want to ride in bend, or with me there it a lot of fun features and climes.
I would just ride back up the jump line. Not sure why any park would ever say "don't session the jump line". Go to Alafia or Santos and that's all some ppl will do for hours depending on the jump line. Guess they don't want anyone to improve. LOL
Way down: 50 meters. Way up: *one and a half mile*
GO TO MARKAHM IN SUNRISE FL
That long line of jumps, those made out of cement??
Mix of shalerock
Soiltac
I have a tortoise
Use your feet. Take a tape and take a stride. For me, mine is 2' It's called pacing I think.
If you handle a baby turtle the mother will not talk to it anymore..? So people do not sit there clogging up that part of the trail doing it over and over again...?
I’m not the only one that sits on skinnys
Jjoo im from slovenia i would love for you to visit it is beautiful
Sitting would also lower your center of gravity
Bunker hill is so dangerous they rarely maintain it
hahahhhahaha just go up that wrong way trail no big deal lmao