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I don't know how they do it, my wrists feel like death when I try to roll them forwards. Too much pain, how do they even ride like that?

That was flipping amazing!

Maxxis high roller 2.5. Most reliable tyre I've ever used.

Those long metallic arms with stabilizers for gopros?

I gotta admit it'd be hilarious the sight of you running after someone with a brick in your hand.

The funny part is that after so long, his bars actually look weird now. I was seriously considering getting a mod just to go hop on some rocks

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It's all in the zumba hips.

Squat more! Refer to the picture I know it's super hard to get used to, like Bruno (Sulliotti) said, after years of using your pedals it will be tricky to learn.

Every video you put out you get so much better.

You must be some sort of wizard

You always get the random drunk smelly gipsy on a bike that gets close to you and starts asking you random questions and telling you "I used to do that back in the day" and you don't know if he's gonna stab you or what.

So sick! amazing video man! Straight to my favorites. Now time to go ride, that was some proper inspiration right there!!!

What if we put a ring in rad-fest and make them fight like in Celebrity Death Match. I'd pay extra to see that.

*sorry to pick on your video but it's just for demonstration purposes* Now look at the knees and hip bent in Pavel's preload, both femurs are in the same angle in relation to his torso. He also has his cranks almost parallel to the ground, because he is the one that will jump (he will throw himself, he won't push the bike) and the least emphasis he's putting there is how strong he will kick that pedal. If you look to the other video you will see that both legs are bent differently in the preload, and that the cranks are a bit steeper than a 45° angle in relationship to the ground. If you take off like that then inevitably you will have to kick the pedal a lot and most of your emphasis is going to how hard and fast you can kick that pedal. It's like you want to spin the back wheel really fast with that kick so that the speed at which you make the wheel spin will be the one that will give you the distance.

Come on Ross! You can do it! Go on we're waiting on you to go ride! Go go go go we believe in you!

Leap over your handlebars, hope for the best, protect your grill.

Actually no, it has been (almost) smooth sailing for months and months until now for some reason. I'll just say that if someone has something in their chest... just say it... It's' like one of those movies where some incredible bullsh¡t happens because the characters don't speak their minds.

Amazing! the control on those rocks with no brakes is unreal.

Sick man, missing this type of videos!

What I found that really helps me is to instead of relying on my pedals at all, I just "push" the bike downwards and bend my knees (not my hip) so I imagine I'm jumping mainly with the help of my quads instead of hips. Then jump but putting focus on the pedal itself, the pedal just gives you the LAST extra push, I mean LAST because that's the last thing you should work on, throw yourself first and THEN try to pedal.

I believe that a sport as weird as this one (as Ali mentioned) will never get traction from the general public, I mean who wants to train every day for 2 years to end up sidehopping 4 pallets? only die hard nerds (like us). To get it out there with more exposure is nearly impossible and the comps would only grow bigger within the trials community that already exists. Competitions are important in any sport, they set a "standard" for the fans to go about doing the sport, it just so happens that the majority of the riders do something so different than what they see in competitions that we see a big gap from the trails reality to the competition. I'd like to say that I got a solution but I don't, my only idea is make it a time-based thing (like any other bicycle sport out there) and make people roll around more instead of hopping for every move.

A good comp with all the rules we'd like to see would cost 60k dollars to organize? What if hypothetically someone could afford that a couple times a year just for the hell of it? Would it be possible to organize something really good with that money?

Bodybuilding and ping pong (weird combination). I think after bar height it's a matter of proper technique in everything and proper application of the strength; I'm a little bit above bar height and my technique is dreadful.