SGC Coach, Brandon Semenuk takes Pinkbike through the table top and he does it with a ton of style. Join him at Summer Gravity Camps this Summer to learn more.
SGC Coach, Brandon Semenuk takes us through the table top and he does it with a ton of style. Join him at Summer Gravity Camps this Summer.
Oh, so THAAAAT's how you do a wicked table! Just jump, pull the bike, and have fun!
Well, Here's my instructional for getting all the tricks in the book dialed, in 5 easy steps:
1) Find a sick ramp, and launch it. 2) Perform the trick you wish to do (there ain't much to it!) 3) Play with your bike in the air 4) have fun! 5) stick the landing.
that was literally the WORST instruction/advertising (for SGC) video, ever. Tables are so easy. bring your grip under your other armpit and try to put your shoulder towards your fork. and keep you knees together. dont think about your legs, they will just follow.
This would be a better trick taught by someone who has actually takin months to learn the trick. For someone who this comes natural too, he probably thinks its easy, and it is just popping and getting flat. They shoulda gotten someone like Simmons or Tippie.
honestly, the explaination wasnt that bad. there is not much more to a table, i think the only thing he could have really added was rotate your wrist and shove the arm in the armpit (where as he just said pull the bike to you). but its a super basic trick with not alot behind it. the main thing is to just keep trying it, because like trying anything new, it will be awkward until you've practiced enough. but super basic trick. cant really say much more than he said...
$10 says kaibrabo does hideous bowlegged mtb tables.
The legs will NOT follow, YOU need to tuck them over the toptube. Brandon is one of MAYBE 5 or 6 mtb riders I've ever seen actually do a proper table (toward your front foot, knees over the toptube, both feet on the pedals), and this was a teaser for a coaching session, not a coaching session itself.
It's rad you're out there learning, and it's not like I could do much better, but your knee's not over the toptube and you're tabling to your back foot.
hes not tabling to his back foot, his cranks have just dropped. thats how you do them. but eventually ur foot just comes off and the cranks will stay normal when ur cracking them big www.pinkbike.com/photo/6024802
Oh and brianpark, i know im tabling to my backfoot, but i ride in the position, and im right handed so most of everything i do is to the right, i wouldnt be able to do it any other way
I dont usually jump on the bandwagon like this, but this "how to" video is pure shyte. I can't table and was looking forward to seing this vid. Very dissapointed.
i think the vid was fine, what more do you want him to say? its a simple trick, only needs a simple explination. he mentioned the knees and pulling in, thats all there is to it...
SO MANY PEOPLE rag on instructional online videos on here because the internet's faceless and anonymous and clearly *everyone* on pinkbike is already a superstar who did a table 360 out of their mom's womb and off the hospital bed.... legit. sometimes there's just 1 key point that pops out at you that's helpful that will make the whole vid worth it. This is a quick & concise rundown on how to table... goodstuff!
Exactly, its up to the rider to be practicing/trying it and working out their own way of doing it, then a simple tip might just give you what it takes to get it the rest of the way there. Thats what i learned with tailwhips, 1 simple tip helped to completely change what was going wrong then they just came! Only thing he left out was rolling your hand/wrist round the bar as you tuck it up.
Give em a brake, if everyone was sticking a camera in front of your face, I doubt any of you could give better instruction. Very few people are good teachers even if they are good riders. Semenuk is a great rider but he's just a kid, not a seasoned teacher.
I guarantee 99.9% of the people out there that can table top could give better instruction. But I don't blame Semenuk, I blame the producers of the vid. He's just a rider and doing what the 'suits' are telling him to do in video. When the producers of this horrendous video saw the final product, they should have have named it "Semenuk sticking a sweet table", not , "How to table top....."
Certainly doesn't inspire me to peel thousands of dollars off my roll to send my kid to SGC. Tools. "Find a jump, roll into into it, Pop it, opposing shoulder, knees over top tube, bike will follow, blah blah, blah" hahahahahaha What a joke.
I can tell you that this is a trick that can take YEARS to master even though it looks easy, and even then you can still work on getting them better. Doing them on a hip will make it 1000 times easier. It doesn't matter which foot is forward on the pedals. 1) LOOSEN your grip on the bars going into the trick. Some people roll there hand under the grip, but if you just stay LOOSE on the bike it will be much easier because your feet will move around on the pedals a little bit. 2) Push your fist through your armpit while at the same time throwing your leg into/over the toptube. If you are jumping a hip, especially one that is 30-45 degrees the bike wants to lay flat naturally...all you gotta do is turn the bars towards the sky and put your knee over the toptube. Once you know how it feels you can do them on straight jumps, but they feel different. You have to focus a lot more on just using your arms and legs, rather than twisting your hips. Hope this helps!
i didnt find that too informational...i think in this video you will see better details even if you dont understand the language. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jhZkWjgEII i mean dont get me wrong. brendan is surely THE best out there but the vid was not a very good advertisement for a training camp imo.
Brandon Semenuk is a very good rider! but a how to video should show much more how to do it, like standing on the ground and showing every little movement (:
Hoots is one of the best instructors I've seen/ heard. I'd to like to see his tips on popping a table. For starters, he's show it on a tiny jump that's not a huge gapper, and bust 20' into the air.
i bet 50% of everyone whos hated on this video cant do a decent looking table. the line between and nice tabel and and ugly table is soo thin. Insted of hateing maybe take the tips into consideration next time your out riding, might help....or just keep hateing.
I think you've missed the point here... Like many people I've never done a table in my life and was watching the video to learn how - it is titled 'how to table top' after all! Unfortunately the video doesn't really deliver. Not hating, just a bit disappointed.
Jesus Waki. You really are one pathetic, conceited chump. You make obvious effort to appear intelligent and yet expose yourself every time as the dumbest bastard on here. Maybe if you took your head out your ass and stopped masturbating over your own reflection you'd see that we ALL think you're a dick and it'd be better round here if you stopped taking the bullshit pills.
"Electricity based public transport". Man alive. What a bell-end. Poland wouldn't exist any more if it weren't for all the money being sucked out of the UK right now by Polish 'visitors'.
We owe you money, that's it. I could talk about what you owe us, but it will never make a sound. Never did no matter how much all Slovians screamed and bled. Your grandfather died, so that CEOs in UK and USA can spread their influence further to do good business.
well we're all very sorry for not being of any help to you even though we tried. wanna know how to tabletop for real?? get off the computer and ride....or stay on here and keep sucking.
www.pinkbike.com/photo/5879599 I know how to tabletop, that's how I know the instructions in question are weak. As far as who is sucking, I'd put my skills against yours any day, dawg.
www.pinkbike.com/photo/6514628 hey all good bro, i'm not here to start a pissing contest with anyone...i'm just tired of reading comments of kids bashing everyone. they want to be able to learn tricks just by watching a video rather than going out and really working at it! this sh*t takes time to learn! i was genuinely trying to give a better explanation because you're right, Semenuk's how-to isn't very informative...but while we're at it here's a photo of one of mine.
SGC Coach video 2 how to back flip: just ride at the take off really fast then just as you hit the lip pull back on the bars close your eyes and let rip a giant fart.........................
I love the comments, priceless just as this vid explanation: " like uhh that bike is prime, tables must feel dashing" "Yeah you just come in super hot, send it, and ride away clean", "omg boss". I always believed that schools fail to teach people some fundamental skills necessary in inevitable life in society, like: ability to communicate a thought reated in your brain, through vocal organs so everyone can understand at least a bit of what you tried to say.
Off-line world didn't understand me kffhhhhhhh, so I started biking pfleeee pfleeeee, no I can throw a sick-O table off the hip yyy, I showed them I have a passion yyy pffff. Now Off-hype world doesn't understand you buahaha
bueheh. if somebody learns to do a tabletop by watching that vid, I will torture Oxford for years to give the very person a Honoris Causa PhD title buahah
I like it, arrogance between countries, trouble is: it is english speaking countries who should have least to say, as it is very easy to kick your arses, because well, we citizens of undeveloped world know shyte loads about U, and U know shyte about us. Stop it
keine worries, ich habe merde dag i arbete today, pardon moi kaka grande adiamo! and don't use google translator for polish - it doesn't work, it simply can't with our fkd up language
Is that all U guys got? Maaah... Disappointed really... Loaded, c'mon throw more of your diabetic shyte, it's your chance NOW! Steeze, please don't fly up so high, the only reason you sit next to a computer screen is because Brit investment banks make a great business of shagging you well and U suck Chinese bank Willy that is in better and better position to tell U fk off, and turn you to a Disneyland with Mickey Mao. Arab oil is nearly over, current development in Arab countries shows that you might not even be able to suck the rests from the titty. People in India and South America will soon stop sending you food, for howyou treat them. Too bad you have no electricity based public transportand yourfood production isso much petro-chemicals based. You go down big time, I'll watch it with pleasure from my quite self sufficient Europe, drinking Barolo... It's from Italy, you know, somewhere on the way between New York and Iraq
Jesus Waki. You really are one pathetic, conceited chump. You make obvious effort to appear intelligent and yet expose yourself every time as the dumbest b*stard on here. Maybe if you took your head out your ass and stopped jerking-off over your own reflection you'd see that we ALL think you're a dick and it'd be better round here if you stopped taking the bullshit pills. "Electricity based public transport". Man alive. What a bell-end. Poland wouldn't exist any more if it weren't for all the money being leeched out of the UK right now by you guys.
Waki, you say you will kick our English-speaking arses, but please remember that the Nazis didn't just walk out of Poland of their own accord.
My grandfather, and OUR grandfathers and great grandfathers, fought and died for your right to have internet access today.
We owe you money, that's it. I could talk about what you owe us, but it will never make a sound. Never did no matter how much all Slovians screamed and bled. Your grandfather died, so that CEOs in UK and USA can spread their influence further to do good business.
ok it's not funny anymore, I was expecting more hate stuff, but well regular: we freed you from Nazis bullcrap. mah... I'm done here. Rustybones's right I'll be going now.
WAKI the only thing you owe anyone is an apology for being such a jackass and making us read your idiotic posts. Seriously what is you deal? Why do you have to try so hard to be different? You honestly look like an idiot and are just reaffirming all negative Polish stereotypes.
ps- How may Poles does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Just jump, pull the bike, and have fun!
Well, Here's my instructional for getting all the tricks in the book dialed, in 5 easy steps:
1) Find a sick ramp, and launch it.
2) Perform the trick you wish to do (there ain't much to it!)
3) Play with your bike in the air
4) have fun!
5) stick the landing.
The legs will NOT follow, YOU need to tuck them over the toptube. Brandon is one of MAYBE 5 or 6 mtb riders I've ever seen actually do a proper table (toward your front foot, knees over the toptube, both feet on the pedals), and this was a teaser for a coaching session, not a coaching session itself.
www.pinkbike.com/photo/6483515
I can't table and was looking forward to seing this vid. Very dissapointed.
sometimes there's just 1 key point that pops out at you that's helpful that will make the whole vid worth it. This is a quick & concise rundown on how to table... goodstuff!
Certainly doesn't inspire me to peel thousands of dollars off my roll to send my kid to SGC. Tools. "Find a jump, roll into into it, Pop it, opposing shoulder, knees over top tube, bike will follow, blah blah, blah" hahahahahaha What a joke.
I can tell you that this is a trick that can take YEARS to master even though it looks easy, and even then you can still work on getting them better. Doing them on a hip will make it 1000 times easier. It doesn't matter which foot is forward on the pedals.
1) LOOSEN your grip on the bars going into the trick. Some people roll there hand under the grip, but if you just stay LOOSE on the bike it will be much easier because your feet will move around on the pedals a little bit.
2) Push your fist through your armpit while at the same time throwing your leg into/over the toptube. If you are jumping a hip, especially one that is 30-45 degrees the bike wants to lay flat naturally...all you gotta do is turn the bars towards the sky and put your knee over the toptube. Once you know how it feels you can do them on straight jumps, but they feel different. You have to focus a lot more on just using your arms and legs, rather than twisting your hips.
Hope this helps!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jhZkWjgEII
i mean dont get me wrong. brendan is surely THE best out there but the vid was not a very good advertisement for a training camp imo.
I'll be leaving now....
That is a how to vid..... that vid with Brandon is not... But that is a bangin table!!!
I hear what your saying man, but what has geo-politics got to do with table tops???
"Electricity based public transport". Man alive. What a bell-end. Poland wouldn't exist any more if it weren't for all the money being sucked out of the UK right now by Polish 'visitors'.
i can watch many time as i can to practice~
i failed like crap when i did the end like him in the park X_X
I know how to tabletop, that's how I know the instructions in question are weak. As far as who is sucking, I'd put my skills against yours any day, dawg.
hey all good bro, i'm not here to start a pissing contest with anyone...i'm just tired of reading comments of kids bashing everyone. they want to be able to learn tricks just by watching a video rather than going out and really working at it! this sh*t takes time to learn! i was genuinely trying to give a better explanation because you're right, Semenuk's how-to isn't very informative...but while we're at it here's a photo of one of mine.
Off-line world didn't understand me kffhhhhhhh, so I started biking pfleeee pfleeeee, no I can throw a sick-O table off the hip yyy, I showed them I have a passion yyy pffff. Now Off-hype world doesn't understand you buahaha
Chill out, brew and let the groms have some fun with the slang... this is the internet, not Oxford.
I like it, arrogance between countries, trouble is: it is english speaking countries who should have least to say, as it is very easy to kick your arses, because well, we citizens of undeveloped world know shyte loads about U, and U know shyte about us. Stop it
ok it's not funny anymore, I was expecting more hate stuff, but well regular: we freed you from Nazis bullcrap. mah... I'm done here. Rustybones's right I'll be going now.
ps- How may Poles does it take to screw in a light bulb?