Robin Wallner is one of the most successful (and stylish) riders on the Enduro World Series. In this video, he walks through three great tricks you can practice anywhere to improve your riding.
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#1- “Pedal kick“ to start the manual. The right amount of pedal kick can get you into correct position way easier than just pulling back.
#2- Regularly ride around town and do “micro manuals” off of the small ramps at the end of city blocks. These so called handicap ramps found in every city everywhere were the key to helping me find the balance point. These small transitions will actually help you to “loop out” into the correct position.
And then after a year of trying - you’ll be able to manual to the moon and back, and a trick that is easily relearned if you get rusty
First part of a bunny hop is a manual, just get back further and throw in a pedal stroke.
1. pushing the bike forward with my elbows behind the bars before i sent my weight back
2. Looking at a point head height into the distance. (this was massive, absolutely helped me get the weight back and over the balance point)
Only the initial movement is quite similar, but the bunny-hop is dynamic and all about pretty ample movements, while the manual is all about balance, posture and muscle tension micro-adjustements on the fly...
He no doubt knows his stuff tough we have to excuse him that if he's going to cover three different skills, he'll never be able to cover them completely. At the end of the day, these athletes haven't been racing these past months and still want to give something back to their sponsors in the shape of those last few seconds. Whoever really wants complete instructions over the internet should probably take a look at the Ryan Leech Collective. It is paid and it is complete. And indeed the bunny hop course branches off the manual course (after the part of getting the front wheel up properly).
Doing a back hand spring is just initiating a backflip, then landing on your hands. Sounds easy...until you realize you cant backflip. So now I have to learn half of a trick, and hope I do it well enough that I can learn the actual move I'm training.
OK, you learn something new every day...
Look good and bitey, could do with them now for Scottish summer.....
Dude, go ride your bike...
Robin is one of the coolest pro riders that I have ever met: Great rider, great person, can do tricks on a bike and tell jokes.