MOVEMENT

It’s hard to incorporate good body movement into your riding technique when it still feels like the bike is fighting you. But we have to start somewhere.

Jan always puts it like this: Imagine you’re a pendulum and let the bike move underneath you. That way, your body will automatically start moving in the right direction when you handle different riding situations.

The advice for beginners is, as always: Ride a lot and play with your bike until you develop a natural feeling (Please: Don't just roll around, stiff like an uncooked noodle. PLAY as much as you can!)

By now, your balance is better and you already know some riding skills. Let’s build on that by fixing existing movement patterns to make your moves bigger & more powerful.

We focus on the very basics. Learn proper peg loading, how to move from left to right with dynamic switches, how to incorporate rotations through turning techniques, and how to move forward and backward by using hard acceleration and braking drills.

Use our one-handed drills Level 1 – 5. They are ruthless because you have to stand perfectly all the time.

Until now, we focused on isolating movements to learn exactly one riding situation at a time. It is the perfect time to do two things:

A) Fixing bad habits in existing movement patterns. Don't worry, you're not alone. Everyone has these in one way or the other.

B) Automating and linking series of movements together, so you have a much easier time with advanced techniques. In short: More riding, less thinking.

It is simple, but hard: Drills. Then feedback from Coaches and friends. More Drills. Filming yourself and analysing it (or having it analysed). Even more Drills.

If you face the truth, you can make big progress in a short amount of time.

If you don't and 'just keep on riding', chances are these habits will stay for a long time.

Bonus: If you want to increase power and fix your movement patterns off the bike, now is also a great time to incorporate trials-specific fitness training.