MotoTrials How To: Crash? Progress Faster by Learning to Crash!

Learning to crash is key to progressing! This video was produced for a 2019 issue of On The Pegs magazine. Be sure to take a look at www.on-the-pegs.com for free trials and enduro news and entertainment! Subscribe for more: / @patsmage

[@mototrials582]

Sweet trick at the end!

[@TrialsProgression]

Super work pat. This kind of info is way under rated. More helpful than what most people would want to care to admit, but I'll be practicing these for sure. Save the bike and my body for this 1st time 40 yr old rider

[@PatSmage]

Thanks! I hadn’t seen it done and came up with it after my wife had a bad crash that could have easily been saved, so after teaching her some of these I thought it was fitting. It is usually overlooked though!

[@TrialsProgression]

@@PatSmage for sure. Keep em coming. 🙂

[@sendaaja8809]

Best trials tutorials by far. Please make more, Pat!

[@derekjarman1638]

Slick move at the end👍👍

[@garretthorner]

One of the most useful skills. It’s so easy to break bones when the bike lands on a leg or something. Thanks, Pat!

[@TrialsProgression]

Ah ha 😉 Enabled super thanks. 👊 You've improved my riding with your videos and meeting you was a pleasure as well. Thanks for all you do for the sport.

[@PatSmage]

Somehow I missed this but thank you very much! I appreciate it and that is awesome to hear. Keep it up!

[@fprintf]

And here is the video we talked about! Awesome Pat, thank you.

[@twinshock175]

I wish I knew this when I was starting out.

[@OGMmoto]

Great video! Love the last bit!

[@RogerBadgerDSFlyer]

Starting out with my first trials bike. A whole new and exciting world. Your videos are ace. Thank you.

[@TheFrog767]

4:07 the master is up.😀🎯👋🍻

[@shaynemackey3614]

Love your vids. So helpful. Thank you!

[@dannynelson1213]

Sick vid helps a lot keep em coming

[@adrianzamoramora]

Very useful skill to develop. Thanks Pat.

[@szymontengler9588]

Great vide as always!

[@smacdougall100]

Cool! First YT vid I've seen teaching crashing techniques 😊. Useful info and not something I've ever thought of doing. Gonna try that trick at the end too 👏👏. Thx again for doing these Pat!

[@PatSmage]

I hadn’t seen one before and thought it would be a good idea after teaching my wife some of these moves to hopefully save harder crashes.

[@flapper111uk]

Sweet finish 👌

[@danwarner9399]

That last part was cool, almost as entertaining as watching you juggle while static balancing. Great videos , keep em coming, and thanks for sharing! My first trials bike is ordered and will be here in a couple weeks. Can’t wait to try the basic techniques, I’ll probably get pretty good at crashing!

[@PatSmage]

Gotta mix it up and throw some weird stuff in! Good to hear you have a bike on the way, enjoy the ride! 👍

[@johnhassall1782]

I generally use the forward roll technique!

[@easternyellowjacket276]

This is a great video on how to handle yourself when things go wrong. Do you have a video explaining controller setup with handlebars and levers, etc.?

[@biketothetop]

You're such a great teacher and demonstrator... clear, concise, and precice👍 Loved that ending move😎

[@PatSmage]

Good to hear, thanks! I have had to really work at it but feel I’ve improved a bit over the course of these videos.

[@lucastill5623]

how does this guy only get like 20 views on his vids they are great

[@krazed0451]

The same reason he has criminally low views/subs... He doesn't play to the YT algorithm, he just releases quality content on his own schedule ;-)

[@PatSmage]

Yeah the KZbin game is tough, especially if you aren’t all in, but as long as a few people get some value from them it’s all good!

[@jonbraid2520]

It is so wrong, when there is very few people doing what Pat is and so well. But I like to see it as my secret weapon, because I have come on so quickly due to Pat's channel!

[@KushnirovAleks]

Thank you very much! At first glance, simple advice is very helpful in developing correct and safe skills. This is a very great value for me. I'm your fan from Ukraine !!!

[@PatSmage]

Good to hear, thanks for watching! It is definitely important and usually overlooked.

[@carrollgodro9780]

I did not see the scrub coming :-)

[@LetsGoRoundAgain]

Glad you did this vid, think my wee girl thought it was a bit weird that I teach her how to fall off/ditch her Oset, I have been vindicated, tho I am not the best at falling off...it's usually not very pretty :o)

[@PatSmage]

Good on you for teaching it! I didn’t think of it until my wife had a bad crash that could have been saved, so we worked on it after that. Definitely important!

[@jeffhayes1855]

Nice video! It’s fun seeing what can be done with the motor off, like when you demonstrated hops in another how-to. So what are some good places to look to find moto trials events to watch in the Midwest? Anything near Des Moines?

[@PatSmage]

There are a few clubs in the Midwest, the WI club, WOTA, has an event in Manchester, Iowa but that’s a bit more eastern. It’s an easy one to watch though. No nationals in the area this year though, Ohio would probably be the closest. Nebraska has locals and regionals in Nehawka as well. There is a nationwide calendar in the works that should help find events a lot easier!

[@jeffhayes1855]

@@PatSmage It was a trip to Manchester where I happened upon observed trials for the first time. I had 30 minutes free to stay and watch. Your father kindly explained the event.

[@69robinwood]

Hi. What boots and helmet you wearing. Great vid!

[@PatSmage]

Gaerne classic boots and Airoh TRR helmet: factoryonemotorsports.com/

[@MrOlddave]

I always wondered how the pros get off so gracefully. I figured they were planning where they could bail without killing themselves. You forgot one big one. Whenever I crash and go over the bars, I seem to freeze and ride it right into the ground. Probably the worst thing you can do under the circumstances. Cost me a torn up shoulder, rotator cuff and capsule. I have seen you jump over the handlebars when you had to. Do you practice that too or is it just instinct?

[@PatSmage]

Ouch! Hope you have healed up or are doing so well. Guess I didn’t feel like going over the bars that day, haha! That one was something I learned as it happened and didn’t try to practice it. Sometimes there is nothing you can do, but the more it happens the earlier you can feel it coming, and the better you can prepare for it. If you see it coming in time, you can usually jump off the pegs to one side of the bars, and keep holding on. Takes some strength but sometimes you can keep the bike upright. Other times you just have to jump straight over and ditch the bike, just try not to clip the bars. That’s usually the most scary way to crash!

[@fh4248]

Could you make a How To about making little correction hops with the whole bike? Love the How To series ✌🔥🔥

[@adrianzamoramora]

This might help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bISVhopjbtJ5b9E

[@fh4248]

@@adrianzamoramora I know this vid already but I mean with both tires at the same time like you can do it on the Bicycle but thanks 😀

[@PatSmage]

Good idea! I am taking a break from doing more for now (still have a bunch coming), but will keep it in mind if I do more.

[@fh4248]

@@PatSmage yeesss nice 😆🙏🔥

[@jonbraid2520]

Recently I crashed and went backwards feet in the air, landed on my coxis, square on the corner of a boulder. I thought, that's my tailbone broken but I was fine 😅

[@PatSmage]

Ouch, good to hear you’re all good!

[@nizak]

Did you practice these things? Or did you just mess around with your bike for years and now you’re good?

[@PowerPete999]

Nice unicycle mount, but I can't remember it's name

[@PatSmage]

Kick up mount? I did learn it on the uni first, haha.

[@hughrobertson-payne914]

That’s just showing off…..!😉 (pretty sharp though 😀)

[@DrewBroadleyNZ]

“But the minder has the bike...” - yeah, about that...

[@PatSmage]

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a full time minder? We can dream haha.