Video: Mahalo My Dude Work on Getting a Flatter Table in 'Tables Are Easy'

Feb 3, 2022 at 15:20
by ifhtfilms  

Tables, un-turndowns, inverts, or whatever you want to call them are one of the steeziest tricks out there. But are they as easy as they look? Matt and Kaz embrace their inner pretzel to find out.

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Its an old one but if you concentrate on your hands to do something like this it really makes it easier.
Also its essier to learn them on hip jumps, as you naturally twist yourself a bit.
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 There is only one combo of sweet foot placement and side to table to where you can put it flat out of a straight jump and land quite straight. That is your forward knee has to be above the bike while tabling. But the missing info in every single video is that you have to be good not only at keeping your BOTH hands loose over grips, you also need BOTH feet to be loose on pedals. Otherwise you turn it into a flat whip that is very hard to come back from and whole thing isn’t flat at all. Feet must turn over pedals period. Actually the inside foot leaves the pedal and slides onto the crankarm when you start pushing it to the max. Needless to say 5.10s and long pins don’t help beginners to get that feel for feet turning at all.

Hipped jumps help to get that fantastic picture of you doing a pancake no matter which foot first you ride and to which sise you table. Just remember that expert tabletopers point the bike upwards on hipped jumps.
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 @calmWAKI: Initiating on the way up with lower body rather than trying to lay the bike over by the bars at the apex is key. Seems like that’s the most common mistake. AKA the Schleyble.
Same with whips, waiting til almost apex and only moving the bars produces awkward tweak with whipped landing. Hit hip takeoffs basically straight and yank the bike over at apex after dropping my shoulder. If the landing is relatively inline, turning off the lip is never good even though it seems intuitive while taking off. And knees together, keeping the crotch off the table is pleasant.
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 @emptybe-er: For sure any good looking big move starts before the jump and that is why hipped stuff just puts it together better because things just align out of sheer necessity. You take off leaned already instead of needing to draw an S turn before a straight lip which is not always wide enough - same can be said about landing. I do struggle to nail a table with the forward knee above as I am bad at making my feet light over pedals. So as a part fo learning to unplant my feet I am learning a one foot table. Kirt Voreis also gave me a tip on his insta for freeing feet by angling them sideways on the pedal.

All in all, observing good riders I get an impression that a smooth 45- 60 degree table or whip, looking like a continous move from bottom of the take off looks far better than nervous yanking to just gain few more degrees. And that smoothness, that "sail" leads to better technique in the long run. Most importantly it allows to use these tricks as actual technique for effective handling of features on the trail. For so many riders, leaving a take off (be it jump or a big rock in a rock garden) at an angle feels super sketchy and we avoid it.
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 @calmWAKI: I started learning one foot tables on straight little table top jumps by tilting (just a bit not flat) and swinging the bike away from my foot, keeping shoulders over the bars as the bike comes up into you. One of the easiest to learn and get comfortable with.
Hips are easier to table, whip and 1 foot but if it’s a straight take off, you won’t be carving into a hip, not gonna work. Whips are the only thing I initiate on take-off, definitely don’t want to start a sui or nfc or even a table on the takeoff. One foot tables are still my favorite, so much possible variance and they feel rad on a nice big hip once you’re comfortable with them. Kirt guinea pigged my largest jump line about 15 yrs ago and it’s still open for public abuse. He also filmed part of a nwd segment on my jumps that year. My claim to fame. He’s my fav rider because he can do it all and has been forever.
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 Light pedal feel is easy with the right shoes and screws. Stiff-soled gooey rubber shoes made for pedaling and huge 5mm+ screws or pins is not it unfortunately. It’s all about rather flimsy skate soles and 2-3mm short screws (pins suck) I’m just thinking out loud here, definitely not assuming you don’t already know that.
But I do wish 5-10/addidas whatever would bring back the old 3/4 dirtbag. Why do the cool shoes always morph into something pathetic? Because most just buy vans or something probably..
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 @emptybe-er: I have pedals with a bit shitty grip and skate shoes Smile I wish Vans would make a shoe with stiff sole. They are all too soft or my feet are too week.
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 @calmWAKI: it’s definitely the vans. Since I switched to 510 i dont know how i ever rode w the complete lack of under foot support than vans offer
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 @pargolf8: Makes you wonder how kyle does it at 200+ lbs with roughly the same size feet and pedals.. A good insole helps, and arch support may help if you need it as vans usually don’t have much. Stiff soled shoes are only good for pedalling, crap everywhere else
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 @calmWAKI: Me too. Sk8 hi are so flimsy, I used to love half cabs because they still cover ball of ankle and had a touch stiffer sole but they look different now. Rawleys were nice yrs ago. I’ve walked around the vans outlet pushing my thumb into the tread on every shoe, the soles vary a lot
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 Tables, unturndowns, and inverts are three completely different tricks. And all 3, as any trick, start by pumping the lip. This is the part that gets lost by most people starting to learn tricks. Focus on the pop, the rest is repetition
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 Tables are easy... I jumped a 10m table at the Namur DH track years ago. Landed flat in the middle. That hurt (cracked my Tazer FS as well). Tables are not easy.,
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 Love a good table! Unturndown is very stylish as well but a completely different trick, and terrifying on any mtb.
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 Personal opinion....unless youre quite tall, a proper table on an MTB is very difficult. I can buzz my shoulder on my bmx but struggle to do a "proper" table on my big bikes. Frames too big to fold the knees over.
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 Heres a tip, Don't call it a table unless its flat please. We'll give ya "Schlayble" instead.
Otherwise its a glorified bike lean. If your "tables" aren't really tables don't worry just fold er over harder.
If you set a beer on your table top without it sliding off, it's not a tabletop mountain bikers.
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 Sick!
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 I wonder if the increased bb drop and wagonwheels makes flat tables harder, like it does with manuals?
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 Ma-hola mi amigos!
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 I know these feels, my tables are only slightly better than 45 degrees lol
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 ah ah that photoshop part was easy!
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 WTFJH Eek
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