Trees make the best brakes!

Dan Dare

Found the best brakes for my bike today, they're called trees.. https://vimeo.com/46252174

ilovedirt

Nice, think I did pretty much the same thing in the same place on your first little off last weekend!
You could do with working on your jumping technique a bit though by the looks of it if you don't mind me saying. You didn't really look slow, but it looked like your were kind of trying to squash the jumps and not really clearing them. Try and push into the takeoffs and boost over them.

Dan Dare

My jump technique does need work, you're right I was squashing most of them today, I've found in the past that if I take some of them at full speed I land very close to flat or even worse on some of the jumps (and I don't think they're doubles, the pair at 1:10 for example) I've landed so close to the start of the next one that it's just been a case of holding on and seeing where I end up. I actually quite like squashing them, it feels quicker to me.

ilovedirt

It depends on the jump, some of the jumps at degla are very strange, some of them are nice. Though some of them send you off in weird directions, some of them are quite long, some of them are very short so you end up over-clearing them, some of them are VERY close together. Seems like that b-line section was built a little hap-hazardly in places... Some of the black bits before that are quite good though.

Briggo

I'm disappointed, I was expecting death in this video.

oodboo

Dan Dare wrote:

Found the best brakes for my bike today, they're called trees.

I have ribs that would disagree with that statement.

bennett_346

Those jumps look tiny for the speed of that trail, looks like you really do have to squash them. And a few do look like you need to hip them slightly to stay on line (no bad thing).