How to ride a trials bike with confidence︱Cross Training Trials Techniques

crosstrainingenduro.com Technique is important but how do we learn how to ride a trials bike with confidence? Much of trials riding is a head game - you will ride better when you feel confident in your abilities. Here are some basic tips to improve your confidence when trials riding. Thanks to Tom Wager from Western Districts Trials Club at www.wdtc.org.au/ A surprisingly large part of trials riding is a mind game. Your skills and experience provide the foundation for your riding, but how positively or negatively you think plays a huge part in how well you will ride.
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Also, everyone will put themselves at different places on a spectrum between pushing things to the limit or just having fun and staying well within the comfort zone. So what can we do to develop confidence and a positive approach to riding? So having said that, a positive approach to a challenging section can be a good thing. Have you ever lined up for something new and thought to yourself I'll never make this? Want to learn how to ride moto trials bikes with our free trials training videos? Our moto trials channel also had lots of wheelies, reviews and events. moto trials training tips are based on techniques from A grade riders in our club. So get into it and learn how to ride moto trials - our vids range from basics for the beginner dirt rider to advanced hard enduro racing for experienced trials riding. Your body reacts accordingly and you will tense up, not allow your bike to move freely, your technique will be stiff and forced, and chances are you will bugger it up nicely. At other times, you will surprise yourself and sail through it, and the confidence gained will show each time you tackle it after that. Become a subscriber to this moto trials training channel and learn about traction, wheelies, pivot turns, clutch control, and other critical skills for learning how to ride trials - for beginners or enduro racers. Moto trials is a sport of balance, skill and concentration. Do you tell yourself "I'll never make this!" whenever facing a challenge? We've all experienced that feeling on our first lap of the sections that we'll never make it, but on the final lap of the day we are cruising through all the sections with confidence. One of the great things about trials is everyone respects the approach of others, so never worry about what others will think and bite off more than you can chew. Look at riders in the club who exude confidence and act in a similar way. Of course it will be an act but there is plenty of evidence from sports psychology that acting with confidence can lead quickly to true confidence. Focus on your strengths. Deliberately choose to think confidently e.g. "I have the skills and I can do this". Negative thoughts only get in the way of letting your body do what you've trained it to do. Confidence does not mean tackling the impossible with blind faith! This isn't negative thinking, but simply removes a concern that could get in the way of riding positively. Likewise, plan where to put a foot down if needed and make the most of that dab. Again, this isn't negative thinking but simply having a back up plan that allows you to focus fully on the task ahead. With practice, most of our trials technique comes from an instinctive subconscious level, and a negative approach interferes with this. Close your eyes and picture yourself doing the same techniques in your head. This visualization starts connecting synapses in your brain that will actually prepare you for the real thing. This introduction to trials techniques explains why trials riders are so glad they are in on the secret - we reckon you should be too! Visit your local moto-trials club and chat with some trials training fanatics today... Most top athletes use visualization as a powerful psychological technique for tackling new techniques, and it works. Watch videos of trials riders doing the techniques you want to learn. Finally, there is nothing wrong with a safety net. If you are concerned about falling in a steep part of the section, get other riders to spot for you. Learn to ride moto trials! Trials riding must be the best kept secret in the world of motorbikes. Part of this is because we now know the sections, but a lot of it is the confidence gained with each lap and we can relax and ride our best. First, let's be clear that safety always comes first - regardless of the class you are riding in there is nothing wrong with realizing a section is beyond your abilities, taking a five and skipping to the next section.
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This video uses music loops kindly allowed by www.looperman.com

[@aaronjohnmaughan]

This is as much advice for life as it is for trials riding.

[@duff600]

I was very happy when I dicovered this channel but I didnt think it would effect my bank balance so much :-(..I now have 2 enduro bikes and just purchased a gas gas trials bike..all great fun and great channels. thanks

[@crosstrainingtrials]

+duff600 damn now i feel guilty! still i guess it stimulates the economy.... :)

[@markdecalmer2252]

Same issue (pleasure) here. Can so relate to the bank balance :( just ordered a new Gas Gas also

[@dexterthompson1809]

I really liked the way you explained this on your video.. REALLY made a lot of sense. THANK YOU!

[@georgetaylor1730]

love your videos, keep em coming!

[@markjackson7650]

that dude tom wagner is awesome as are the rest of the featured members

[@maximusmiles8435]

Good advice Thanks for posting.

[@jessenurse9194]

I always visualise when I’m unsure, trying to get my son to do the same, do the whole move in your head then go

[@jessenurse9194]

Awesome, cheers good talk

[@merlinlepper]

Nice one dude! Very important points covered here! Great work!

[@crosstrainingtrials]

Merlin Maertz thanks merlin. i pretty much did the exact opposite in my entry to c grade last week so better start applying it to myself :-)

[@merlinlepper]

Bahaha! Classic :D This will be a great reminder video for all of us, each step of the way to the top! :)

[@marks938]

Sweet. Some very good points made there. thanks guys. Just need to get my head around it.

[@crosstrainingtrials]

Norfolk an chance likewise, i have to apply all this stuff myself... usually say to myself 'i won't make it!' and tense up, then am surprised when i clean a section. need to be positive from the start.

[@marks938]

So, who my I talking to here Mr B Morris? or most one else/

[@samualiam9981]

Is there a snowy river nearby?

[@agentredbone1667]

When I was a small boy age 6 or so my uncle put me on his trials bike. This is around 1990. I fell in love with trials. I still don't own one. Now that my kids are getting older I think I may purchase one. I'm a big guy. 6ft4 220lbs. What would you recommend for a good beginner bike for me? Im looking for used not new. I'm barely a middle class American.

[@fprintf]

I didn't see any replies in here to your question. One of the best places if you are on Facebook is to find the Trials bike for sale US classified group, where people all around the US post their bikes. Not sure if a link works here, but here it is: facebook.com/groups/1495277897377019/

[@iordeebeat]

Awesome trials (and life!) advice. BTW, what's the name of that techno song at the end in the background?

[@crosstrainingtrials]

I think it's either "Round 2" or "Clockworks" by Dolby. He went on to do heaps of similar music under his real name, Marko Furstenberg.... most of it is copyright-free.

[@robertforsberg6192]

Were do i order the power dress?

[@Sruikyl]

So as someone who wants to get into trials, the closest thing I have to a trials bike is a honda XR100 lol, do you think this would be an okay bike to get the basics done with? In my defense, the damn thing is light, right around 160 lbs, not much suspension travel, seems to be sprung alright for my weight, SUPER low torquey gearing (which is needed with like 8 ish horsepower LOL). How bad of an idea is this?

[@crosstrainingtrials]

+Sruikyl they used to have a trail bike class in many trials clubs, i think your XR is a good idea! the main problem is getting a good steering angle for tight turns...

[@airplanegeorge]

that was my question also except for a crf 100. front wheel seems hard to lift, could be me, clutch work is hard, one finger, two fingers the ones left have holding on problems. gona try an add on hydrolic clutch hoping for easier pull. ballance while not moving is right out, crf should do that , must be me. and springs, for hoping the wheels should the shocks be modified, like maybe with less dampening? how much easier would it be to learn if I had a real trials bike? sure looks easy when you do it.

[@wigidy12]

I live by Chicago in the US, and the closest place that does work on Sherco's is a few hours away. Have you guys thought about doing any videos about regular maintenance? Awesome channel guys!

[@crosstrainingtrials]

wigidy12 thanks widigy. maintenance vid is on the list so will eventually get around to it. so far there seems to be so little to do though, except for check all the bolts every second ride. they do seem to like vibrating things loose, regardless of two or four stroke!

[@wigidy12]

So true! I was used to having to replace top ends, fork seals, and tires on the enduro. I changed hand grips on the Sherco. Yet another reason why trials is the best 2 wheel sport. Keep fighting the good fight!

[@Dhc-Dave]

May I ask whats your thing against bultaco's , ossa's and montesa's.

[@crosstrainingtrials]

BetaBlade852 nothing at all, it's just an australian thing to make fun of each other's bikes. e.g. in our club the guys who ride those bikes like to make fun of my four stroke. :-)

[@Dhc-Dave]

ok cool

[@goetzguse5980]

Music ID, please!?

[@crosstrainingtrials]

don't know, it's just one of the freebies that youtube has for download to use as a backing track.

[@goetzguse5980]

min. 2.20---> !

[@rheniformer]

Please send one "Power dressing outfit" in blue with triple padding. I am trying to muster up the money, confidence and courage for a Fantic fixer upper, a Bugatti and one pierced earring with a cubic zirconium. I would also like to save up enough money to have the letter "M" banned from the English alphabet indefinitely.

[@crosstrainingtrials]

rheniformer your goals in life put the rest of us to shame. god bless you on your epic journey. :-)

[@alaynafolk4994]

You should get bigger pants!

[@leepalmer8627]

Htj