Watch ALL the How To Bike episodes below! Ep 1: How To Actually Learn New Skills On Your Bike - th-cam.com/video/BGsNvd9EhvQ/w-d-xo.html Ep 2: Pro Mountain Bike Setup Guide - th-cam.com/video/PfUyN6znF3c/w-d-xo.html Ep 3: Decoding The Best Mountain Biking Body Position: th-cam.com/video/iVLJIuYwW_g/w-d-xo.html Ep 4: Absorbing Trail Features & Maintaining Speed: th-cam.com/video/Iu4plluUVtA/w-d-xo.html Ep 5: How To Use Your Brakes To Actually Ride Faster: th-cam.com/video/aFcj7078gtA/w-d-xo.html Ep 6: How To Get More Speed From Trails With Pumping: th-cam.com/video/04e_s9_LpVA/w-d-xo.html Ep 7: Line Choice Is Easier Than You Think With These Rules - th-cam.com/video/82T0m_uja4g/w-d-xo.html Ep 8: How To Corner Properly - th-cam.com/video/ZOqFywGllFw/w-d-xo.html Ep 9: Stop Crashing On Drops - th-cam.com/video/uJJAW0iNhUY/w-d-xo.html Ep 10: Make Jumping Easier - th-cam.com/video/IB5GmIL0slg/w-d-xo.html
1: Set A Goal 2: Make A Plan 3: Minimise Risk 4: Break The Skill Down If Required 5: Get External Feedback 6: Make Positive Changes 7: Visualise The Skill 8: Slow Things Down If Possible 9: Avoid Burn Out 10: Embrace Sucking 11: Profit Good Luck!
13 Don't watch crash or fail vidios unless you like psyching your self out of success. 14 Once you have mastered the specific skill DO watch fail videos of that specific skill to absolutely cement the skill by knowing what's right and wrong.
What a throwback to Mike's DH lesson, so good! It's hilarious to me that the process of learning new motor skills is always completely overlooked in how-to content. This is so thoroughly covered and well presented. Well done guys!
"In this ten-part series, Ben Cathro is going to break down fundamental bike skills and techniques that will make you a better rider." This is gonna be epiiiiiiiiiic!
This was a cool episode. I remember in the 7th grade I tried to learn to snowboard and hated it, and thought none of the coaches were saying the right things. It was frustrating, exhausting, and felt like failure. That same summer I learned to skateboard/longboard (mostly on flat ground, but still learned how to turn with my legs), and I just watched tons of snowboarding movies, thought about how boarding was gonna feel, etc., and the VERY FIRST day of my second season it was just about easier than walking. All done by mental connection, not ruminating on things like "point your front arm where you want to go" or "shoulders over knees over ankles" thins. Granted, I was already pretty athletic due to other sports so the "athletic position" was already easy, but the progress that your brain can make without much physical practice is pretty crazy.
I think I can add something to the mental fatigue thing: In bmx I realized that trying something over and over will help you get comfortable with specific movements - those movements can be bad incorrect though. So if you developed a pattern that for this trick is not good and you try your trick with your incorrect move you're teaching your body to do the wrong thing and it's really hard to get rid of. So I don't try the same trick a hundred of times on end, I'll try it like 10-15 times, then do something else and get back to this later. You're kinda starting a new session and have to get back into it again, which means you'd have to find your pattern again - good opportunity to try to find those mistakes when your pattern isn't cemented in again like it would be after 100 tries.
Just what I need nearly 2 weeks after putting my face into the ground taking a jump (and a concussion) that's way above my paygrade. Gonna take some steps back and re-evaluate my approach... :)
When I rode enduro on my motocross bike. I was asked to do a course before the series to reduce injury. The instructor would let us train for 15 minutes and then go for a ride on our bikes for 20 minutes. It made the skill intake so much better
Really talk well in this big man and it's the perfect balance of seriousness and banter. Keeping so grounded and explaining things for us mere mortals is mega and gives me hope I can improve more and more and have the patience to get there. Thankyou Ben and pinkbike really stoked to watch the upcoming content 🥳👌👌👌👌🙌🥰
Sick at home, Stumpjumper in the garage screaming my name, no ride today... And now your vid cheered me up hard. So funny, entertaining and informative. Love that fistbump, lol. Big thanks!
Man it is incredible to see how good it looks when you jump those nice jumps. I would love to have a small bikepark like this on in the video to learn to jump better... (I cant jump I think.)
I’m returning to mountain biking after over a decade of only road riding…this entire series has been awesome! Ben is great at breaking things down into easy to understand steps. I’m making huge improvements in just a few months!! Thanks very much!!
there was this one kid once who wheelied across the entire car park to a bike wash station. It made me so annoyed that I swore to learn to wheelie no matter what. Took me almost a year of failing, but now I can finally annoy my mates.
Cathro, ow boy soo happy your able to expand your coaching skills to a wider audience. I've been amazed by your progress through your TH-cam content and this is gonna be another special segment to it. Well done man!!!
Excellent video, I think I read somewhere that "fun" was the reward of learning. So having fun or "being playful" while learning can go a long way I think
awesome vid! For the series though ... I'd really like to have a breakdown on how riders use their (knees) legs to control, turn the bike, off camber, "turn with the rear", etc. Watching World cups and even your ghost camera ... Every time top riders use their knees really differently from the "Group B" (which is not like that group are bad riders at all) and yet NO ONE has even done a video on this skill ... god knows how many times I've put this comment in GMBN videos and numeros other youtubers without a response. Hope you do something on it
This is a good start to the series. I think the step that I have failed at is #2, make a plan. For example, a few years ago, I wanted to learn how to manual. I took an afternoon and tried for 3-4 hours and wore myself out mentally and physically. I never went back and tried again. If I set a plan to practice 15 minutes a day, I think I can get it, and maybe within the 3-4 hours of total time I have tried in my life. I suppose I may want to also "Break the skill down" and make a wooden manual practice stand.
Well done Mr Cathro. Entertaining as ever. I'll be trying these in the kitchen until the downstairs neighbours call the feds 📞😂. Not been out to cb for years!
Weirdly I found your TH-cam @Ben Cathro because i watched you with @Mike Boyd on his channel all those years ago! Great video! Looking forward to the next..
Ben, do you reckon with this series and a fair bit of confidence we'd be able to not only ride your DH trail but also feel rather comfortable and have some good fun on it?
I think the most important thing with crankflips that you didnt mention is pointing your toes down, that reduces the chance of your foot loosing traction and failing to initiate the rotation. I still cant do them cause I’m too scared of shinning myself, but I have a feeling I’ll do it someday.
Watch ALL the How To Bike episodes below!
Ep 1: How To Actually Learn New Skills On Your Bike - th-cam.com/video/BGsNvd9EhvQ/w-d-xo.html
Ep 2: Pro Mountain Bike Setup Guide - th-cam.com/video/PfUyN6znF3c/w-d-xo.html
Ep 3: Decoding The Best Mountain Biking Body Position: th-cam.com/video/iVLJIuYwW_g/w-d-xo.html
Ep 4: Absorbing Trail Features & Maintaining Speed: th-cam.com/video/Iu4plluUVtA/w-d-xo.html
Ep 5: How To Use Your Brakes To Actually Ride Faster: th-cam.com/video/aFcj7078gtA/w-d-xo.html
Ep 6: How To Get More Speed From Trails With Pumping: th-cam.com/video/04e_s9_LpVA/w-d-xo.html
Ep 7: Line Choice Is Easier Than You Think With These Rules - th-cam.com/video/82T0m_uja4g/w-d-xo.html
Ep 8: How To Corner Properly - th-cam.com/video/ZOqFywGllFw/w-d-xo.html
Ep 9: Stop Crashing On Drops - th-cam.com/video/uJJAW0iNhUY/w-d-xo.html
Ep 10: Make Jumping Easier - th-cam.com/video/IB5GmIL0slg/w-d-xo.html
that`s all? i hope get other skills. bunnyhop and so on ......
1: Set A Goal
2: Make A Plan
3: Minimise Risk
4: Break The Skill Down If Required
5: Get External Feedback
6: Make Positive Changes
7: Visualise The Skill
8: Slow Things Down If Possible
9: Avoid Burn Out
10: Embrace Sucking
11: Profit
Good Luck!
still racing next year?
If you're on your own, don't balance your phone in a tree, when you stack it and can't call for help..
12: Get Mike Boyd to help you :D
13 Don't watch crash or fail vidios unless you like psyching your self out of success.
14 Once you have mastered the specific skill DO watch fail videos of that specific skill to absolutely cement the skill by knowing what's right and wrong.
@@jd4000 to watch your fails can help you to understand what u are doing wrong
Never been so stoked for Summer School! Bring on the lessons Professor Cathro.
Sit down, turn off your phone, quit slouching, grab your bike and do a massive skid.
Ah yes. Mike Boyd on pink bike! Stoked af.
Right! So cool that he agreed to come along.
Same! Love watching mike's videos always inspires me to try learning something new, just wish I had his sticking power 😂
There is not enough Cathro on TH-cam.
I just went looking to see what he was up to, stoked to find that he's doing stuff for pinkbike!
What a throwback to Mike's DH lesson, so good! It's hilarious to me that the process of learning new motor skills is always completely overlooked in how-to content. This is so thoroughly covered and well presented. Well done guys!
"In this ten-part series, Ben Cathro is going to break down fundamental bike skills and techniques that will make you a better rider."
This is gonna be epiiiiiiiiiic!
Anything with cathro has got to be good
I love this guy. The intro alone was better than most videos I've seen on youtube.
"Failure is the root to success". Wow. I'm definetly saving this. What a quote, i needed this
This was a cool episode. I remember in the 7th grade I tried to learn to snowboard and hated it, and thought none of the coaches were saying the right things. It was frustrating, exhausting, and felt like failure. That same summer I learned to skateboard/longboard (mostly on flat ground, but still learned how to turn with my legs), and I just watched tons of snowboarding movies, thought about how boarding was gonna feel, etc., and the VERY FIRST day of my second season it was just about easier than walking. All done by mental connection, not ruminating on things like "point your front arm where you want to go" or "shoulders over knees over ankles" thins. Granted, I was already pretty athletic due to other sports so the "athletic position" was already easy, but the progress that your brain can make without much physical practice is pretty crazy.
I think I can add something to the mental fatigue thing:
In bmx I realized that trying something over and over will help you get comfortable with specific movements - those movements can be bad incorrect though. So if you developed a pattern that for this trick is not good and you try your trick with your incorrect move you're teaching your body to do the wrong thing and it's really hard to get rid of. So I don't try the same trick a hundred of times on end, I'll try it like 10-15 times, then do something else and get back to this later. You're kinda starting a new session and have to get back into it again, which means you'd have to find your pattern again - good opportunity to try to find those mistakes when your pattern isn't cemented in again like it would be after 100 tries.
aaahhhh... the crank flip.
we will now have a moment of silence for those who did this without shingaurds...
F
F
F
15:05 So true. Many times at a bike park someone that has just clear a gap will then help the next person try and clear that new gap.
Awesome video Ben!! First Henry and now Ben, Pinkbike is making moves!!!!!! So stoked to see you on here Ben!
this ben cathro needs to be a commentator on espn or rebull rampage
absolute natural
Just what I need nearly 2 weeks after putting my face into the ground taking a jump (and a concussion) that's way above my paygrade. Gonna take some steps back and re-evaluate my approach... :)
in 4 simple steps: 1. try
2. fail
3. repeat
4. success
by the way, awesome vid, as usual :D.
Great advice, presented in a fun, easily digestible manner, that you can apply to learning all sorts of physical skills, not just biking.
When I rode enduro on my motocross bike. I was asked to do a course before the series to reduce injury.
The instructor would let us train for 15 minutes and then go for a ride on our bikes for 20 minutes. It made the skill intake so much better
Really talk well in this big man and it's the perfect balance of seriousness and banter. Keeping so grounded and explaining things for us mere mortals is mega and gives me hope I can improve more and more and have the patience to get there. Thankyou Ben and pinkbike really stoked to watch the upcoming content 🥳👌👌👌👌🙌🥰
Noooo way!!!!!!! Mike Boyd in a pinkbike video!
Look forward to more lessons, quality content 🤙🏻
Sick at home, Stumpjumper in the garage screaming my name, no ride today... And now your vid cheered me up hard. So funny, entertaining and informative. Love that fistbump, lol. Big thanks!
brooo that was so suprising!! I didn't expect Mike Boyd to be on here xD
Man it is incredible to see how good it looks when you jump those nice jumps. I would love to have a small bikepark like this on in the video to learn to jump better... (I cant jump I think.)
Your new series link came up on my Google news link. I'm going to start right from the start. 41 year old overweight northern male , wish me luck 🙏
I’m returning to mountain biking after over a decade of only road riding…this entire series has been awesome! Ben is great at breaking things down into easy to understand steps. I’m making huge improvements in just a few months!! Thanks very much!!
there was this one kid once who wheelied across the entire car park to a bike wash station. It made me so annoyed that I swore to learn to wheelie no matter what.
Took me almost a year of failing, but now I can finally annoy my mates.
Awesome 👌🙌 I'm rubbish at wheelies and currently practicing lots. Hope to get good in time 😅💪
you guys done such a good job with this video
My new favorite biking channel.
Mikes comment on short (15min) sessions is super solid advice!
THIS IS THE "TUTORIALS OF ALL MTB TUTORIALS" 🤘👌 good job Ben!
Great episode. I’ve been trying hard, but can’t quite master making the blue lightning bolts come out of my eyes, like in the intro clips.
This is one of the best video tutorial I have watch in 2 years… well done!!!
I learned what a Tow-Hitch is .... thanks a lot Ben . It was awesome !
Also sometimes called a “cabbage”
@@BenCathro As am I
As an educational psychologist I fully endorse everything stated in this video! Excellent video and tips.
Loved that, and looking forward to the "make peace with sucking" sticker!
YES!! Please! xD
Or a "Sucking is gid" t-shirt :D
Boyd and Cathro! Love it
How to learn new skills? Buy the most expensive bike you can find, the most expensive gear, and watch TH-cam videos all day.
He just like me fr 😂
"it works for me" 😂😂
( Remember this sentence of the famous Rick Hunter 😅)
Cathro, ow boy soo happy your able to expand your coaching skills to a wider audience. I've been amazed by your progress through your TH-cam content and this is gonna be another special segment to it. Well done man!!!
good tips. Ive been practicing manuals on my 73 lb ebike. lol. its a way different thing than on my old trek.
One of the best skills videos in a long long time!
I’m super pumped for this series. Thanks for providing this
Excellent video, I think I read somewhere that "fun" was the reward of learning. So having fun or "being playful" while learning can go a long way I think
awesome vid! For the series though ... I'd really like to have a breakdown on how riders use their (knees) legs to control, turn the bike, off camber, "turn with the rear", etc. Watching World cups and even your ghost camera ... Every time top riders use their knees really differently from the "Group B" (which is not like that group are bad riders at all) and yet NO ONE has even done a video on this skill ... god knows how many times I've put this comment in GMBN videos and numeros other youtubers without a response. Hope you do something on it
Absolutely class vid. I love all the nuances in there.
big love for cathro on this series, really good stuff
This is wholesome and helpful. Top work Mr Cathro & co!
This video is a masterpiece. The bike is just an entertaining example of great tips for learning any skill in life 😀
1:25 HAHAHAHAH that GMBN callout thoughhhhhh
Probably the most valueable skill of them all....
This is a good start to the series. I think the step that I have failed at is #2, make a plan. For example, a few years ago, I wanted to learn how to manual. I took an afternoon and tried for 3-4 hours and wore myself out mentally and physically. I never went back and tried again. If I set a plan to practice 15 minutes a day, I think I can get it, and maybe within the 3-4 hours of total time I have tried in my life. I suppose I may want to also "Break the skill down" and make a wooden manual practice stand.
This is going to be a great series!
Fingers crossed! 🤞
Well done Mr Cathro. Entertaining as ever. I'll be trying these in the kitchen until the downstairs neighbours call the feds 📞😂.
Not been out to cb for years!
you gotta get out
Well done Ben and the pinkbike team, so well put together
Amaaaazing video, so comprehensive! Superbly presented! Big up from Brazil here!
Ben x Mike - Yaaaaaas!!
Yaass Ben!! Epic video, what an edit, that blend of humour and serious coaching skills... Loved it.
More Boyd please! Maybe he could give some tutorials on some bike tricks or just keep learning
I've been waiting for this my entire mtb life. Superb Ben, superb!
Love this series already, great way to learn, hopefully??👍🏼
Did not expect to see Mike here, amazing!
This is Ben Cathro and this, is his mastercless....
Weirdly I found your TH-cam @Ben Cathro because i watched you with @Mike Boyd on his channel all those years ago!
Great video! Looking forward to the next..
Very Well Explained. Loved your Videos Man!
my first real mtb helmet is coming tomorrow, i cant wait to go to the trails
this is gonna be an awesome series cant wait for the next one
Ben is the best... such a great video
Great learn how to learn video and very well explained! :D
Ben, do you reckon with this series and a fair bit of confidence we'd be able to not only ride your DH trail but also feel rather comfortable and have some good fun on it?
No guarantees but I’d certainly hope so!
Great video. Thanks for putting this series together. You should have turned this chapter “Making Peace with Sucking”. 😊
So stoked for this series
Love the honesty! Good work on the vid y’all!
I think the most important thing with crankflips that you didnt mention is pointing your toes down, that reduces the chance of your foot loosing traction and failing to initiate the rotation.
I still cant do them cause I’m too scared of shinning myself, but I have a feeling I’ll do it someday.
Awesome Video!
Love the style of chill and well-reasoned teaching.
Great video and looking forward to the rest. Can you tell us where this is please? Looks a great place to play and practice.
Nice to see Cambu getting some love
Ayeee Mike Boyd my man
Love how Ben's brain works! Analytical, bringing it to the next level. Addressing my Strava friends, etc... breaking it all down.
What a great and totally lovely video. The best host! So looking forward to all episodes! Great job Ben!
Impressive video and great explanation of learning in general,very interesting, thanks for this series!
Such a great Video , hope Mike is up coming videos , you two work great together, funny as but super informative
Fantastic advice for learning pretty much anything! 👏🏾
Superb! Looking forward to these
Love your work Ben! Can't wait for the next instalment.
Amazing, thank you 🙏
That´s awesome! When will the next episode be released??
Awesome seeing Cathro ride features I've rebuilt and maintained!
Where is it if you don't mind sharing, looks like guisborough but seems a bit far for Mike
@@michaelpalmer9174 Cambusbarron
Never expected to see Mike make an appearance on here. It's great to see him!
Looks like cambusbarron 🧐, been wanting to head through and try it out, might just have to now
It still goes like.
Excellent video, thank you.
Awesome boys! Thanks for motivating to go out there riding right away!
Cambusbarron is where I started to learn jumps/gaps :)
jajaja so good video love the jumptrail! now feel motivated what gest me going the longest while bike is delta parole or other rokk music!
Excited for cornering!
Heck yes mike Boyd + bikes = my full attention
So cool to see Mike on boyd.. ehhhm.. on board! 😉🤙🏽
Great video, thanks for the motivation!
Oh I needed this soooo much! Thanks for the knowledge. It opened some boxes in my head :-D