How To Ride Advanced Technical Drops | MTB Skills

How confident are you with riding drops? Which situations do you struggle with and need to improve? 🤔 Let us know 👇

more like "a world of pine" amirite? amirite?!... never mind.

Love this, looking forward to part 2 :)

you say pull up. Blake says never pull up. so which is it ?

A few more sequences at 100% speed would really help visualise the speed needed for each drop. Having said that, the slo-mo is great for showing body position and balance.

I thought red was the pro lines?

This video is great! I just started mountain biking last week and am going to bike park Wales on Saturday! Now I'm ready to do 50 shades of black! So excited 😁😁

Good vid... Really was a good overview of tech drops.
I find them hardest when there is a sketchy run in, like the left hander over a janky rock to 4ft log drop, on Cole not Dole at bpw.

Once u can ride one drop properly (and NOT by hopping off the end), you can ride any..... IN THEORY!!!! 😮
The mind monkey is your nemisis

"Gauge your speed". I often hear this but I would love to know what that actually is. Is it 15 km/h, is it 25 km/h or are we talking 50 km/h? How can you figure it out first time you meet an obstacle - without being worried about having to find out you were too slow and therfore end in a bad situation.

This only works the second time. How do you ride unseen

Squash it? You ride moto Rich. I was expecting a nasty scrub!

Why is no one ever mentioning/commenting a no speed drop (don't know what is the name) - that Dale Stone/Dangerous Dave often use. Basically like a pull up from standing still into a drop, now that is easy to mess up 😀

I've been rebuilding my drop confidence after a huge fail, its not easy because of the commitment it takes. The most important part is commitment to the drop, you can't the speed needed to do a drop and then try and roll it or the other way around. Wade Simmons did a Pick-A-part video on drop fundamentals thats helped me a lot. Cheers

Note on the colours: in Whistler it would go blue, black, and then red for the so-called pro lines.

Can never watch your videos with headphones or earbuds. Your background music is distracting in almost all your videos, GMBN, GMBNTech, AskGMBN, etc. Too bad you can't find something else for your sound mixer to do. I wouldn't want to see anyone lose a job.

Major props to you and anyone else who can ride those things. I know my limits and they're nowhere near that high.

If you’re new and practicing on smaller drops, how can you tell if you’re doing it right? No matter what, I always hit my front tire first but I’m able to keep control.

I have trouble with my feet coming off pedals on drops, obviously poor technique but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Awesome video 👌🏻

Asking for the 10th time. What happened to the POC HELMETS??

I’ve said this many times drops with blind And sniper landings are so technical most of them are blind as hell makes them really technical to do and takes years of practice to get them perfect plus Boner logs are really technical. because they are uphill takeoffs. so you have to go a little bit faster than you would normally and you don’t want to be coming Too slow on those because never mind making it to the landing just going off the edge is a long way down

Lol world of Payne.

Hang on. Pretty sure that the correct drop technique is to always push the bike forward and away from you as you leave the take off. Pulling up and manualing off leaves you prone to all sorts of horrors or has Ben Cathro got it wrong in his how to bike series?

I’d really like to see you explain the GBU qualifier drop, I been looking at it and it’s scary to be but I want to attempt it sometime in the future but it would be nice to hear the correct technique

hiii

Step 1... live in a country with health insurance. Or you can be like me, an American with a $100,000 in medical debt and a leg made of metal.

FIRST :)