Video: Follow JC Part 2

 Yea it is fascinating to get the head into it and make the connection with the body as well. I am always amazed how the guys in Downhill can come to the start gate and get all the right moves. On every ride it takes me a good deal of turns to get the full mobility over the bike, even if I do fundamental drills on the asphalt on the way to the woods, turning, and bunny hoping. Maybe it's just so much training they do that their muscle memory is instantly accessible.

 i'd venture a guess its similiar or the same to how the DH guys warm up.

 In addition to the question of warm up, I want to know what dynamic stretches JC does to limber up.
@Wakidesigns/speedisyourfreind What drills do you do that you'd consider fundamental?
I definitely find that my mind and body are quite separate at the beginning of the ride, though I focus on imagining the turns of the run I intend to ride as I pedal up. At times the consequence is that I crash due to improper form and it snowballs from there into more and more crashes.
In fact I'm just crashing a lot right now, though I've mostly solved the issue of hitting trees by not looking at them

 @RONDAL From what I've seen they just do a physical warm up on the turbo, but I guess they do mental rehearsal while they're doing it. I was thinking more along the lines of a short skill based movements.

@Pastafarion I'm not really sure what drills one would want to do, that's what I want to find out!

I never have time at the start of a race to do anything skill based really, as I'm always straight off the rollers and onto the start line, although I have noticed an improvement since I started using rollers rather than a turbo, as riding on rollers requires thought and balance, so it kind of gets your mind in gear too.

 This is something that has been wrecking my head too! I recently did the first gravity enduro in ireland and needless to say stage 1 was a disaster! I fell and I was just puffed out if breath so badly. By stage 3 I was ready to race as I felt I had my eye in, body loosened and second wind. Surely the pros don't go in cold like that? As good as they are surely they need to loosen up too

 I meant drills like doing s turns, leaning the bike as much as I can, weighing the front end. Funno, bunny hoping a lot on the way just to get that movement right. My latest favorite one is to do S turns "through" a curb. It forces you to bunny hop in the middle of a turn, that is to weight the front wheel and dynamicaly unweigh it. It is always a great exercise to pump the bike on flat ground. Hard or next to impossible to do on a fully, but works on a hardtail. Pumping figure 8 is an ace exercise. Check leelikesbikes.com and betterride.net for drills. I mean I use it to just get some mobility and "disconnection" from the bike to het less stiff after a whole day in the office or with kids. Quite honestly one of better ways to get your arse moving around is riding really rocky and teisty trail with seat set to 3/4 of what you run for seated pedalling. That high seat will force you to move your hips around a lot .

 spinning on the trainer or turbo is far more beneficial to get your heart rate and central nervous system primed and ready than working on bike skills right before a race. don't get me wrong bike skills play a huge part and should be part of your training, but minutes before a race is not the time to be doing them. its about getting mentally and physically primed, and just like you see the DH guys spinning and visualizing, thats what the enduro guys generally are doing.

 So if there are no turbo trainers around,could you just do a few flat sprints and stuff before you set off?

 Surely in an enduro they'd use the first transfer stage to warm up physically, as they ride up to the start of the 1st stage. I'm more interested in whether they'd be doing skill based stuff alongside that physical warm up. It's different for the DH, that's a flat out sprint, and they start riding straight out the gate, so a turbo is essential.

 I don't think they do any skills based stuff. I think they are good enough when it comes to ride blind.

 @speedisyourfreind they don´t have rollers at the top of each special so they pedal in circles.. instagram.com/p/m-oFwCqk47

 That is uncannily identical to the warm up circles you get at XC races. Fair play

 How the guy in charge of the editing of the video likes it? I more than pleased with my marine and cycling products from Garmin and it's dope with video's overlay. I suppose the Virb makes the job easier, I hope the guys from Garmin will keep improving it, they are onto something here.

 I presume its one of the GPS equipped contour cameras. Some sort of telemetry read out.

 Yeah, I'm wondering about this too.... Starting to think it might be just a fake animation as if you watch the compass, it doesn't always correlate with the corners, but this might just be to the corners being to small for the GPS to notice... Really hoping it's real though as its freahgin cool if so!

 Its a Garmin Virb Elite, JC is sponsored by them. It links up to the Edge unit and is able to record and display telemetry via the GPS on the bike computer.

 the camera has gps on it, and it recourd de speeds and track, etc