How To Climb Rock Steps / Get Up & Over Obstacles | Learn With Chris Akrigg

Learning how to climb up and over trail obstacles is an important skill on any mountain bike. In this video, trials bike legend Chris Akrigg shows EMBN presenter and long time downhill rider Steve Jones a technique that can help uses body weight and timing to help get up rock steps. Chris explains that good timing and technique can really help make light work of the situation and is much better than using excessive amounts of energy to bunny hop or speed to smash up the obstacle, which could result in damage to the bike.
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[@embn]

What do you think of these tips? Have you got any tips for people learning how to climb rock steps? Let us know 👇

[@kyled121]

How would you do it on a hardtail?

[@nomad-pq4yw8iy7v]

Chris makes it look to easy steve u teach us

[@antdx316]

Need to wear a full-face helmet when practicing these to be true role-models. Novices will try to copy w/o and lose their mouth/jaw area.

[@GiorgioHouse]

Hi. when I have no much speed, I do it by using the front brake. I pre -load, I press the Front Brake and I lock the wheel then I pedal and I leave the front brake. The Front wheel "explodes" high and I can pass the obstacles. Is it wrong? Cheers

[@PBeBeR974]

porter des protections aux genoux peut aider mentalement

[@DownhillSnail]

Chris Akrigg is incredible! He seems to blend the techniques of moto-trials and bicycle trials together to form an amazingly fluid style that looks both effortless and impossible at the same time.

[@andris8915]

Please more videos with Chris!!! Unbelievable what he can do with an EMTB!

[@IslandFilmMaker]

GREAT LESSON! Chris make it look like Childs play! Such a quick smooth movement. Like a BOSS!!

[@embn]

He's had a LOT of practice! Yea, such a boss!

[@johnoliver9806]

Great to see the trials master Chris Akrigg explaining and demonstrating such a crucial mountain biking manoeuvre 👍 more videos like this please.

[@Duncan23]

Chris' timing ability is on another level!

[@HeathenRides]

He's in total control very good timing shifting of weight and everything like a trails champ

[@reezone2310]

Trials on trails. Awesome 👍

[@aimeelkouby5681]

Hi EMBN team, having such an opportunity to be taught by Chris could be more effective if you guys describe the complete exercise broken into its consecutive parts, with emphasis on the rider's proper body movement

[@thim8009]

Just amazing watching him, and Steve don't worry you did better than I could.

[@julianeldridge1268]

Chris is a legend! always been my biggest influence in mtb. can we have more tutorials with Chris? ps i dont even have ebke yet but still helpful improving trail trials

[@marcsee4072]

Chris is very fit and sound technique

[@bentbitz1]

Chris is just so amazing.

For me it's enough to watch Chris. Quite enjoyable too. Will I ever try something like this? Nope, of course ;-)

[@BigSmartQuiz]

Let's start off small (three feet probably) !!

[@garretwhansen]

Great content, Chris is amazing.

[@cliveturner7643]

Back on The Glen. Great local area for biking 👍

[@graemeremington3700]

Wow, makes it look easy but it ain't!! Agree, 'start practicing on the gutter at the end of your street'....Chris Akrigg and his dog, amazing!!

[@APOCLAG]

Great video!!!

[@mallias2683]

Who pressed dislike on a video with Chris Akrigg and his dog?

[@derekharper6031]

A bot user not a human ..

[@richardkaz2336]

Mixture of momentum, quick reflexes, upper and core body strength and of course technique. What was that brown stuff running down Steve's leg.

[@simaomiranda6815]

awesome video !

[@embn]

Thanks!

[@tommontgomery2674]

I'll never be able to do this...What will happen is what always happens when I try. The front or the rear wheel will come to an abrupt halt and I will be bleeding all over myself and lying in a cactus patch.

[@bradsanders6954]

Gawd. Ive been riding singletrack on motorcycles for many years, and a step like this is nothing. On my E bike? It would take some doing, and working up from a small step. But I get the idea of what to do from this video.

[@emorty1703]

Wonder what tyre pressure?

[@theveryaverageelectricmoun8879]

Are you using clip in pedals to pull the rear up?

[@andrewpeat530]

I now feel really inadequate, mashed motor I am thinking 😂😫😂😂

[@HeathenRides]

Isn't it more important to have the right preload and rebound setting than having the exact right gear i would think you can do this in second third fourth or fifth gear without huge difference specially if you have the acceleration and shuttle settings right,, on levo i would use hundred percent acceleration and 25-40 percent shuttle.. and bouncy rebound like what you do the best bunny jump's whit

[@stevowyeth]

You don't need to adjust your suspension for this. It's the technique that is key. People do these moves on fully rigid bikes just fine.

[@HeathenRides]

@@stevowyeth it's better with a hardtail than a air spring damper will low pressure and slow rebound..when my levo was new and I was bicycling it home from the store I was doing bunny jump's up some tall curbs from the road and the back wheel came so slowly up from the ground that it hit the corner of the curb and bounced again after I noticed that i adjusted the rebound to approximately the same setting when I wanted to do it again.. later a neighbor i used to bicycle with wanted to learn bunny jumps and I noticed that even he did very good he never got over the obstacles but crashed he's backwheel into them i thougt first that he's timing was just late,then I tried he's bike and I could just feel that it needed to be adjusted after I turned it 7clicks it became close to perfect and he always cleared the obstacles after that.. later he he went to the store and got more air in and he's bunny hops became really good and higher than mine even i thougt him how to, but also it's ligther because it's not electric

[@stevowyeth]

@@HeathenRides if you're relying on your suspension to bunny hop you are also doing it wrong.

[@HeathenRides]

@@stevowyeth I used to ride BMX before I bought the levo those have no suspension, suspension doesn't make it easier it's not a trampoline it suspense damping all motions putting in sufficient air and stiffen the rebound males it move less not more,, you seem to get this backwards

[@stevowyeth]

@@HeathenRides I'm fully aware of how suspension works and my first point still stands. This is a technique, you don't need to adjust your suspension to do it. If you feel you need to, you're doing it wrong.

[@mrd6093]

DID YOU SAY YOU WAS 55 YEARS OLD? HEY THAT GT BIKE IS NICE GETS ME THINKING OF THAT BIKE NOW AND FINDING A DEALER.

[@GiorgioHouse]

Hi. when I have no much speed, I do it by using the front brake. I pre -load, I press the Front Brake and I lock the wheel then I pedal and I leave the front brake. The Front wheel "explodes" high and I can pass the obstacles. Is it wrong? Cheers

[@HeathenRides]

I wish I could switch my levo in that gt ,, very nice bike ,i like coil spring dampers in that up\down position instead of horizontal position and I'm so fed up with brose motors,, brose attempts of EMTB motors is just a sad story for us consumer's.. I'm losing huge money for each day it's broken

[@FreeBless]

How to set my suspension on bike slow or fast damp?

[@gamkagan]

what bike is Chris riding?

[@kriswillems217]

I would like to see Chris doing that on a hardtail, will it be as easy to do ?

[@lovesecret0119]

Hardtail will be way easier

[@Tasteful_Living]

I can't put my bike through that 😫

[@embn]

You can practice this move on a curb, small step or couple of stairs. Anything under your axle/BB height is a safe place to practice this

[@Dave-po2ir]

I WISH

[@aharongina5226]

TTTTTTTTT learn to use that letter

[@stevestewart5496]

Learn the prerequisite skills. when you teach you need to break it down.

[@tintinlavigne5257]

Aouch rip the dérailleur hanger🥲

[@johnglynn7795]

Off the electric; your TOO young. Safe riding...

[@davealston3881]

This is for pros

[@davealston3881]

I’m just an average rider not an expert