Video: How To Scrub with Remy Metailler
This has been my most requested video for over a year. The scrub is a technique that allows you to stay lower to the ground and therefore make a shorter trajectory on a jump to go faster. You are less likely to overshoot and as a result do not have to brake as much coming onto a jump. Every downhill athlete uses that technique to win races, but it's also a very good skill to have for any advanced rider sending it in the bike parks.
Photo courtesy by Matthew Tongue
Video by Alexander Chapellier
42 Comments
1) Decide to really boost and whip a big jump.
2) Banish all fear from my mind.
3) Approach jump really concentrating on popping as late as possible.
4) Resist urge to pop too early.
5) Bottle it, pop too early, do a scrub.
This technique can also be modified to perform a racer's jump and nose bonk/manual.
0) start morning with solid sockeye salmon breakfast
- arms too stiff and fully straight
- legs too bent
- feet pointing down
- hips in front of BB
- handful of brake the moment you feel something wrong
Extra style points for sunnies with full face helmet and no show socks
Entry speed is faster and exit speed is faster?
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