RIDER SKILLS: Stop the Flop

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This episode of Rider Skills with Clinton Smout focuses on a technique that doesn’t often get much attention. While experienced riders and instructors use it instinctively, it's rarely highlighted despite being essential for mastering great control....

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0:00.0	Well, today we've got another one of our exclusive rider skills series, and this is a subject
0:05.8	that I think just doesn't get enough attention. Experienced riders use it extensively. Instructors
0:11.5	know it well and use it without thought. Yet often when we hear mention about it, it seems like
0:16.5	at least in many times it's just sort of in passing, a comment, addendum, if you will, to what
0:21.4	has been taught already. And yet without the skill, you will never achieve what the great or even
0:27.3	the good riders can do. It's so simple to do that with just a little benign practice, you'd be
0:34.5	amazed at how your riding has improved and how your control has been
0:38.3	increased. Now, I say benign practice because I don't think it's risky to do. It's not difficult
0:43.6	to figure out. You shouldn't drop your bike while learning to do it. I mean, probably not.
0:49.2	Today on rider skills stop the flop. And I think for some riders, this is going to be the skill
0:53.8	that puts them into the next higher league of riding abilities. After I think for some riders, this is going to be the skill that puts them into the next
0:54.9	higher league of riding abilities.
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1:01.0	Did it make a difference for you, both on and off road?
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