It's SNEAKY, but it transforms you to a Manual Master [EASY WAY Riders 40+]

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  • čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
  • Manuals are hard. This approach makes mastering mountain bike manuals much easiser, faster.
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    00:00 - Start
    03:15 - The Pole Drill for feeling the manual with zero risk
    04:48 - Body Drill to activate the CORRECT muscles for Manuals!
    08:12 - Manual Mindset for floating so you don’t loop out
    #mountainbikeacademy #gravityguardian #mtb #howtobike
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Komentáře • 83

  • @mountainbikeacademy
    @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem +6

    Check out the 3 Shifts to Shred with Confidence Webignar here: czcams.com/video/5Gmr-f_AIvw/video.html

  • @robocalifornia
    @robocalifornia Před měsícem +48

    My name is David Davidson I am the co founder of mountain bike academy, French adult film star, and retired cop. I also sometimes play the villain in my kids’ school plays.

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem +12

      *wannabe* French adult film star. Aspiring, wannabe.

    • @robocalifornia
      @robocalifornia Před měsícem +2

      @@mountainbikeacademy don’t sell yourself short you have the looks, charisma, and most importantly, the mustache. In all seriousness though you make good content keep it up man.

    • @dongoat4232
      @dongoat4232 Před měsícem +3

      ⁠@@mountainbikeacademyi think this is a passable pose at 3:17 😅

    • @LaurentiusTriarius
      @LaurentiusTriarius Před měsícem +1

      Like world cup races, once you go behind the set adult movies lose their charms.
      Action movies are more fun I guess...
      They should have cast you as Reno's son for Ronin 2 instead of that 47 Ronin bs...

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem +1

      @@LaurentiusTriarius I would have fun acting in a movie maybe

  • @adamgroves2811
    @adamgroves2811 Před měsícem +11

    Education is important but manuals are importanter!

  • @niclaatz
    @niclaatz Před měsícem +4

    I ride a lot of BMX, and this makes total sense. In BMX it's much more apparent that everyone's manual technique is different, some ride high, some very low, and the core principle is balance. Great video.

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem +1

      Thanks-I learned most of the nuanced movements for manualing from watching BMX

  • @wojciechmakula
    @wojciechmakula Před měsícem +2

    This is the best advice I heard in my whole life!!! This is awesome. Today everything clicked and I did few longest manuals in my life! Peace and love!❤

  • @bikespike711
    @bikespike711 Před měsícem +4

    Learning new skill = belief+conscious effort

  • @bullit4x
    @bullit4x Před měsícem +3

    I’m enchanted by the jr cop mustache. Couple more years and it’ll be stellar. Oh, btw. I’m expecting my earplugs soon.

  • @ChampionGaming
    @ChampionGaming Před měsícem +3

    The Sultan of Shred hath spoken, heed his words for he may bless thou with eternal herodirt 🙏

  • @TheLp8840
    @TheLp8840 Před měsícem +3

    I could wheelie my bmx or old school mtb for a block. That was short for the time. Now i cant pick up the front wheel. Going to watch your video now.

  • @minerva2958
    @minerva2958 Před měsícem +3

    You can’t coach away a lack of practice! The blue secret to the manual is PRACTICE! Forget all this crap about balance point, do the l, hang off the front, imagine fluffy unicorns… it’s about hours and hours of practice. Your body will tell you which way is best for you.

    • @minerva2958
      @minerva2958 Před 28 dny

      @user-pn9ld6rf8b guess what you qualified for a free slap! Come by any time to pick it up. After 10pm and before 6am get a free second slap!

    • @vexis170x
      @vexis170x Před 22 dny +1

      There is such a thing as good practice and bad practice. And your bodys ability to tolerate bad practice drops off sharply with age and inactivity. I blew my back up forcing myself with bad practice and couldnt ride for almost 2 years and had to do PT to even be able to drive my car for more than an hour. Im recovered now and have a physical trainer. just general mobility, stability, and strength training have given me mtb gains that fat exceed my earlier solo "just blindly practice everyday on the bike and see what happens" progress. Practice is offcourse important, but you also have to practice the right things in the right way and meet the prerequisites for whatever you are practicing.

  • @301jax
    @301jax Před měsícem +1

    Thank you champ 🙏🥳❤️

  • @hiltonm2885
    @hiltonm2885 Před měsícem +1

    Your mo is on point bro, keep it! 👌 It's obviously giving you the superpowers needed to make videos like this! Keep up the good work!

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem

      dang it already shaved it down
      I’ll bring it back don’t you worry
      When my wife least expects it BAM
      MO TIME

  • @charleshartlen3914
    @charleshartlen3914 Před měsícem

    another great video. thanks again for the content man. keep up the hard work everyone appreciates it!

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem +1

      Thanks! Will do! Appreciate the comments too - helps the algo's push it out and all that. It's going to be really fun to run into people in person on the trails lol kinda nervous about that I'm introverted haha.

  • @NewMexicoOutside
    @NewMexicoOutside Před 29 dny

    Great instruction movie. Going to get out at try this stuff

  • @precisionedge9259
    @precisionedge9259 Před měsícem +2

    I enjoy your channel very much

  • @downhill64
    @downhill64 Před měsícem +8

    What no one talks about is some bikes are far easier to manual than others, I can manual all my six bikes but some just are easier, it is physics the more you can get your ass behind the rear axle the wider the correction window, so with short legs and long frames and chain stays the harder it will be to learn, again I can manual for around 300 to 500 meters on my short chain stay bikes. Not so much on my longer bikes, watched a video where a guy reversed his stem which put him way back past his rear Axle which made for a faster learning curve. So tall guys and small bike makes manualing easier, physics. Short stems, short chain stays, slightly under sized bikes just will be easier to learn, once you have it dialed you will be able to manual just about any bike. Except maybe a uni cycle or a penny farthing 😅

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem +1

      Cool username and I wholeheartedly agree on this.
      My trek ticket s begs to be manualed and it’s so lively and easy
      Commencal furious … ehhhhh little harder lol

  • @BikeLife4Me
    @BikeLife4Me Před 6 dny

    The Kaizen approach to bikes

  • @ralfschoenbrunner
    @ralfschoenbrunner Před měsícem +1

    I like your videos and like to make a recommendation.The videos have MTB philosophical aspects and technical aspects. It would be great to have a second short version focusing on the key technical information.

  • @michaelthurmond1740
    @michaelthurmond1740 Před měsícem

    one thing that is helping me and this video indirectly mentions this, but the start of a manual is kinda like starting a row on a row machine (before the last pull step)

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem

      I've never been shown how to use the row machine properly...plus its in the section of the gym with all the girls watching so I avoid it lol
      But I kinda get where you're going with this

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem

      and by girls I mean the 70 year old grannies who kick my ass at row machines

  • @LaurentiusTriarius
    @LaurentiusTriarius Před měsícem +1

    I struggle with the belt sander... It's psychological bit you'll never see myself manual on asphalt.
    I once successfully manualed to endo on a skinny... Pure accident, pretty sad nobody was there to film it 😭😂

  • @precisionedge9259
    @precisionedge9259 Před měsícem +1

    It would be really cool if you did a video with teaching kids.My daughters will be more into it

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem

      I’m totally going to do this. I worked with kids quite a bit before running fun runs for school fundraisers. And my wife is a teacher lol.
      What do they want to learn and roughly what age ranges are we talking
      5 year old v different from 9

    • @precisionedge9259
      @precisionedge9259 Před měsícem

      @mountainbikeacademy mine are 9 and 12 both been riding about 9 months and they are getting to faster so they are start to get squirly. I've been riding so long I don't know how to teach. I just do it .

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem

      noted

  • @PopcornSticker
    @PopcornSticker Před 18 dny

    Bro took shrooms and understood the higher achalon of manualing

  • @dchang7211
    @dchang7211 Před měsícem +1

    Bruce Lee of MTB. Be water my friend.

  • @scene247
    @scene247 Před měsícem +3

    Gravity Guardians should be on a t-shirt or 😢

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem +4

      I am trying really hard to come up with a slogan for us all to rally our cult behind
      so you kinda like it?

    • @pat_unit
      @pat_unit Před měsícem +2

      @@mountainbikeacademy i do too, greetings from Germany :D

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před 26 dny +1

      Nice! Greetings from South Carolina :)

    • @scene247
      @scene247 Před 25 dny

      El Paso, TX

  • @jerrynotgerry
    @jerrynotgerry Před měsícem

    do my pupils have to be super dialated like yours in order to manual?

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem

      No. They’re probably dilated because the garage is dark and I only have a little light on. I like my little background accent lights too much.

  • @lejendpolevault5345
    @lejendpolevault5345 Před měsícem

    Mystery Method lesson 2, the approach.

  • @Mtb9r
    @Mtb9r Před měsícem +2

    Does a manual make you a faster rider?

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem +1

      Prolly not but it’s really cool

    • @Mtb9r
      @Mtb9r Před měsícem +1

      The reason I asked was I have been racing since 1990 never could manual, but I could always wheelie, I always find that lofting the front wheel over certain obstacles on the DH definitely keeps my flow. happ trails hammerheads

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před 26 dny

      Nice! Yeah I guess maybe in some situations it could? But for that wheel lifting yes that’s a solid skill let’s gooooo

  • @jeromep4148
    @jeromep4148 Před měsícem +3

    You always lament that you get no negative comments on your videos. Is this video your forthright effort to change that once and for all?

    • @Sean-wy2jw
      @Sean-wy2jw Před měsícem

      Is this yours? 🤣

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem

      I’m just making as many of these as I can in hopes of achieving gnarvana

  • @markomat666
    @markomat666 Před měsícem

    Zoom. Out. Until at least 1/3 of you is in the shot. You're welcome. ;)
    P.S. Good tutorial tho

  • @tallroc
    @tallroc Před 27 dny

    I can manual forever and I don’t think anything you are saying is what i feel when manualing

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před 27 dny

      “I can manual forever” = you won’t lol you’ve already got it down. What does it feel like for you? Aside from “awesome” of course

    • @tallroc
      @tallroc Před 27 dny

      @@mountainbikeacademy well zero use of core more lower back ,scapula depressed. Learnt on bike without brakes only to go to using brakes and would recommend using brakes. Getting comfortable with how far you can actually lean back on a mtb by learning to bail.

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před 26 dny

      Fair enough! I def know people that got it a different way so you’re not alone.
      I’m going off of specifically what I’ve done and what I see in my riders I coach! Thanks for sharing this 💪🏻 because there’s definitely ways to make it work! Keep shreddin

  • @1Sparrow1
    @1Sparrow1 Před měsícem +4

    If anyone creates a video and says you have to watch to the end or the whole video because you will miss "important" details, I auto magically stop watching the video. These are just marketing tactics to get people to watch the whole video to improve their viewer statistics. It's fine if you have lots of time and are just watching for fun, but if you're looking for a specific answer to something and want to be efficient and not waste time, then these tactics become very annoying and a turn off. I go to the next video that gets to the point and does not play these games.

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před měsícem

      www.loom.com/share/57cfef46431345ad95a65c5a7a675d0a?sid=e48a413c-2268-4ac4-89ad-17402bdddfbe lol bro - everyone else watch this please

  • @yo_its_devo
    @yo_its_devo Před 28 dny +2

    These videos would be better if you didn't spend half the time talking about how everyone else is wrong and just focused on your method.

    • @mountainbikeacademy
      @mountainbikeacademy  Před 28 dny

      Fair. I did use 3 examples of how I used to struggle with videos of me...so I was picking more on myself than anyone else.
      How would you help someone differentiate between other methods and yours without talking about how the other methods work?
      Serious question^

    • @ellerybice3787
      @ellerybice3787 Před 19 dny

      What are you teaching that is correct?

    • @yo_its_devo
      @yo_its_devo Před 18 dny

      @@ellerybice3787 not a fan of constructive criticism?

    • @yo_its_devo
      @yo_its_devo Před 18 dny +1

      @@mountainbikeacademy not bad to point out things to avoid just feels over done imo

  • @Descenter1976
    @Descenter1976 Před dnem

    This was a movie.... I had to skip it, just to much unnecessary yapping for my short attention span.