RIDER SKILLS: Stop the Flop
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
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. With just a bit of simple, low-risk practice, this skill can dramatically improve your riding and control without the risk of dropping your bike.
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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. |
| 0:57.3 | After you listen to this episode, we'd love it if you'd drop us a note. |
| 0:59.9 | Let us know what you thought. |
| 1:01.0 | Did it make a difference for you, both on and off road? |
| 1:04.3 | We'd love to hear that. |
| 1:05.5 | I'm Jim Martin. |
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