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[QUOTE="wayneg, post: 700784, member: 24675"] One other thing that I've noticed after having a bit more experience riding trials is that you gain sensitivity as to what your wheels are doing (good riders have this anyway, but at the lower end of the spectrum the subtle differences between full drive and partial slip). Trials is all about traction, and having the mindset of always trying to get the best traction can help with line selection for normal off road riding, and probably motox as well - especially if you're riding in slippery conditions. One fault that I had as a trail rider was that when faced with a slippery uphill I would usually keep the throttle on the whole time and be scared of letting off - sometimes with disasterous results. Now after approaching similar conditions on my trials bike I would tend to only fully open the throttle when there is good traction and use smaller amounts of throttle when theres not much traction - same result but less energy lost, less crashes and because you need to look ahead to do this properly less target fixation problems. Steering with your feet is something that you normally don't do so much when riding in the woods or MX - but it can save huge amounts of energy and lessen the impact of arm pump or tired arms. When you watch some of the truly smooth MX riders such as Stefan Everts, you notice just how easy they make going fast look - I believe that they use their feet to do a lot of their steering as well, and I guess that skill and confidence help with the rest. Compared to a clutzy and slow rider such as myself, you can see most of my efforts are more to do with trying to direct the bike by using the handlebars, and the result is someone that is pretty tired and making a lot of mistakes by the end of the race. Have you ever got to the end of a race or days riding and the last part is torture?? That used to be me, with huge mistakes and fairly entertaining crashes happening by the end of the day. I have improved my trials riding quite a bit recently by telling myself to use my legs and lean the bike in each section to turn and by slowing myself down while in the section, before entering the start flags at each section. I have noticed in recent trials that at the end of the day I want to go and do another couple of loops whereas it used to be a hard struggle just to get the bike back on the ute. [/QUOTE]
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