May 19, 2015 | Mental Skills, Mountain Bike Skills tips, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice
Three Issues Keeping You From Mountain Biking at Your Best, Part 3 Your body has NO idea how to ride a mountain bike correctly! Your brain might know some skills but your body doesn’t preform them. A great example of this is looking ahead, we all know to do this...
Mar 24, 2015 | MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice
When mountain biking we often overlook crucial mental skills that help us use our physical skills better and more confidently. The mistake we will work on today I have nicknamed, “Riding with Fully Rigid Eyes”. I came up with the name, “Fully Rigid...
Jan 14, 2015 | Mountain Bike Skills tips, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice
There is a lot of misleading advice for cornering your mountain bike, often from top racers who aren’t actually doing what they say they are doing! Greg Minnaar and I got a kick out of Myles Rockwell’s announcing at the world championships a few years ago....
Oct 21, 2014 | Mountain Bike Skills tips, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice
Stop Being One With Your Bike! Mountain Bike Better Today. The most common mistake I see riders making is being one with their bikes. You don’t want to do what your bike is doing! Ever get “eyeball jiggle” (when your eyes are bouncing and you can’t focus on the...
Sep 8, 2014 | BetterRide Students, Mountain Bike Skills tips, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice
In the last 25 years one topic that has come up multiple times is how foot placement affects mountain bike handling and cornering, especially going into a corner or switchback. I have heard always have the outside foot forward so you can start to pedal earlier on the...
