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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Pro Downhill Racing and Grow Cycling Foundation with Eliot Jackson – Ask a Cycling Coach Episode 279

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Giant Factory Racing’s Eliot Jackson joins us to break down what makes pro Downhill racers unique and how average cyclists can learn from them, as well as a discussion on his Grow Cycling Foundation and how we can support them to make cycling more inclusive.

 

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

 

  • Eliot Jackson’s background in motocross
  • How Eliot made such a quick progression in mountain biking
  • Bike setup tips from Eliot Jackson
  • Beginner mistakes from a pro DH racer
  • Why bike / body separation is so important
  • How to turn a mountain bike
  • What mountain bike and road bike handling have in common
  • What sets apart the best mountain bikers in the world
  • Manage risk on the bike
  • How to build confidence in your bike handling
  • Why pro riders can process everything at such high speed
  • How to train for downhill mtb racing
  • How to memorize a course
  • How to race if you are having to ride a course blind
  • How to mentally recover from a mid-race mistake
  • What is Grow Cycling Foundation?
  • What motivated Eliot Jackson to found Grow
  • Grow Cycling Foundation’s fundraiser for the VeloSolutions pump track in Los Angeles, CA
  • How can you make cycling more inclusive?

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:05.8

We are here with a very special episode this week

0:08.0

It's I'm actually joined by two two guests one very familiar trainer road in canondales and repair stop amber

0:13.9

Everybody and

0:16.1

Then we are also joined by in this case Elliott Jackson so giant factory off road racing

0:21.8

Downhill pro pro downhill racer. I should say he's race for team USA on that front at world cup levels and even at the world championship level

0:28.7

And he also is with the man behind gross cycling foundation of course with the rest of his team there. How you doing Elliott?

0:36.2

I'm doing great. I am super excited to be here

0:40.2

Thanks, man. It's kind of funny

0:41.7

So we have that this is like a reconnecting of things we were actually never connected

0:45.2

But it's kind of funny just the same so when I got into mountain biking years later

0:50.2

And I saw that there was a guy named Elliott Jackson racing and I was like that's the same guy

0:54.4

I race to motocross that completely waxed me for years

0:58.0

People probably don't know

1:00.0

But you used to race motocross at a very high level for years before you became a pro downhill racer correct

1:06.8

Yeah, totally and it's so funny like we were kind of chatting about it before the podcast started where it's like a blast from the past thinking about

1:16.4

All of these national level races. There's you know world mini and Las Vegas and

1:23.0

Yeah, it's it's so funny to relive those moments and think back about

1:27.2

All the training and all the hot days all the little towns and stuff like that

1:32.9

Yeah, all the time on the road going to races and yeah, yeah fun sport

1:38.3

That's where my roots are that's where your roots are and we actually are going to talk a lot about downhill racing today

1:43.0

But from a very objective perspective as far as what can we learn from the mentality and then also the technicality of a downhill racer

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