Up to Which Height is a Drop Rollable? | Why JUST SEND IT may Send You Over The Bars!

Drop it or roll it? Up to which height is a step or drop rollable? Why not just SEND IT? Which height will send you over the bars, when you try to roll it? How do you know if you can roll a step or if you need to drop it? How can you avoid going OTB?
These are the questions I’m going to answer in this video and I'm going to give you 3 reasons why need to learn how to roll a step as one of the most fundamental MTB Skills.
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[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Here are the links to the MTB Tutorials I mention in this video: 👉 How to Dismount safely downhill: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnqad6RubtaXjcU 👉 How to Roll a Step: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJqrlJ-Ql6ifd6c 👉 More control in steep and loose terrain: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnmwloaqd7GDma8 👉 Gain Courage & Confidence in my MTB-Mental Training Course: mtb-mental-coach.com/

[@Mtnbikerules]

Is there a bit of a hybrid? Where you're hitting sketch with poor approach and roll out so you pop your front tire and roll the back? So not a full send, but popping that front tire to clear your chain ring.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

@@Mtnbikerules well yes, there are usually hybrids to almost every skill, but the technique you mention is pretty advanced and requires excellent timing and coordination (and explosive strength, depending on the size of the rider). But in general: yes this is possible, however limited to a drop height.

[@Mtnbikerules]

@@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire Thanks for the feedback! If you're ever in the COPMOBA area and want to put on a skills clinic, hit us up through MUT!

[@HakunaMatataAquatics]

I’m grateful for the emphasis on safety that you weave into all of your videos.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you, well, that's where I see one of the primary responsibilities of a good coach. Sharing safety aspects less expereinced riders may not even think about.

[@martinschwartz7342]

Thank you for another wonderful video. It was very helpful. I appreciate the concern that you show all of your viewers and their safety. You are a talented and thorough mountain biking coach. You are a gracious and lovely person. You have a heart of gold and you try to influence everyone to be a better, kinder person. I appreciate all your videos. They reflect the light from your soul, which is brighter than that of a thousand stars. Keep up the good work. The world needs special people like you.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you Martin, I appreciate each and every second you take to formulate your love-filled comments. I am very grateful to hear my light shines through the screen. You truly have a heart of gold, too! Let's make this world a more beautiful place together.

[@louisjalbert9865]

After a bad fall during a mountain bike ride two years ago, I came back to the basis and enroll in the Ryan Leech online coaching where you coach. I improved my riding a lot, I’m more confident and I have more fun riding now. I train now in parking lot and park where I can really focus on the skill I want to improve without worrying about anything else. I like your philosophy of riding and teaching and it contrast a lot with what we usually see on KZbin. It really fits with what I want to achieve as a rider. Have fun and improve without injuring myself. I hope to ride on your island one day. Keep up the good work Roxy !!!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you so much, Louis! So happy to hear. It’s amazing how much we learn on a parking lot, hm? And how much more confident it makes us on the trail. Thanks so much for sharing this and thanks for taking the time to comment 😍🥰

[@asustal]

I really enjoy your channel Roxy. I love MTB, but I don't think I'm always safe. The fact that you're showing us how to be safe is incredibly valuable. There's inherent risk in the sport, but you mitigate as much of it as possible. Thank you.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you so much, Arman! So happy to hear you like my „safety before ego“ approach 😎😊

[@homerholland6050]

Literally the best riding advice. Thanks for all that you do!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you so so much, Homer 😍🥰

[@onerider808]

You explain things well, Roxy; thanks!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Happy to hear! Thanks for sharing your appreciation. Much love, Roxy

[@equus22]

I love all your videos! Thank you so much, they help me a lot. Especially as an older, woman rider, I love how you break things down.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you ever so much, Elaine 😍🥰 If you’d like to work with my proven drills - you’ll find them on www.Roxybike-coaching.com And as a patron (I saw you just signed up - THANK YOU, sending you my gratitude 🙏) you’ll get 20% discount on the courses. Sending much love, Roxy

[@glennmiller9759]

You are an astute and skilled teacher for sure - thank you!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you SO much, Glenn. So happy to be able to help others with my experience/knowledge and so grateful to hear it’s well received. 😍🥰

[@wayneemslie8904]

Another excellent video 👍. I've watched quite a few other rolling/dropping videos and your one has been the only one that's mentioned the lead in which as you said can often be technical and take away a lot of the momentum you had. Thanks so much for posting - your videos seem to cover the whole process and not just an obstacle/feature by itself.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

thank you so much, Wayne! Happy to hear!

[@williambreeze2659]

Thanks for the pointers.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you for commenting 😊

[@sprocket1238]

Thank you so much for the great instrumental videos you put out with your great skill level

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

thank YOU for the comments and thank you for watching!

[@kirybabe]

LOVE your tutorials!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

SOOO grateful to hear! In case you haven't started my free trackstand course yet, you may like it even more 🙂

[@ronnel1227]

Thank you 🙏 so much good information. Always my default playlist before i do a new trail and has been rough on skills lately

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you, Ronnel! So happy to hear. Hope you practice off the trails, too! Because that's where skills are built :-)

[@wchangose]

Another excellent video, thank you!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thanks a lot 😍🥰

[@pierregagne5769]

Tks for this nice and instructive tutorial!!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you for your kind comment!

[@soekanta]

Thanx this was very helpful!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you and you are very welcome!

[@thomasmedeiros5722]

Great explanation. The just send it mentality sometimes doesn’t that the landing or immediate terrain requirements into consideration. Sometimes jumping is easy but landing is what hurts you. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion unless they come to rest against a solid object. In riding mountain bikes neither of these results are good if you loose control or fall. I had a lot of Alpine Skiing experience that helped me when I started riding mountain bikes. Great cross over skills between the two spots.

[@Mtb-TrailTime]

I did this last week, I hit a rock and broke a chainring teeth. I had to replace it. I added a chain guard just in case it happens again. But also my sag is bad. Good tips! I’m enjoying the videos!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Oh no, but happy to hear you didn’t crash. Thanks for the comment and the kudos 🙏🙏

[@Mtb-TrailTime]

@@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire I didn’t fall there but down the trail I did! And pretty bad. I didn’t know the chainring teeth was gone at that time so when I positioned me feet the chain fell off and lost my balance. But I’m ok. A few scratches on me and the bike. Thanks for the response!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

@@Mtb-TrailTime oh no, get well soon ❤️‍🩹

[@C2Architect]

Good stuff!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you so much 😊

[@andreageller4804]

Thanks Roxy for your great videos! Your explanations and delivery are great! As a small woman your content totally makes sense to me! One of my challenges is finding bikes that are small enough… I would love to try a 29er but am concerned about fit. Maybe in the future you could make a video on bike fit for small women! Thanks again!!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thanks for the comment, suggestions and compliment, Andrea. I will definitely do that!

[@sabaideemtb8646]

good lesson. Thank you

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you! If you’d like to follow my proven drills, to turn these lessons into abilities, check out roxybike.podia.com/mountain-bike-online-courses

[@dewindoethdwl2798]

Rock-ring or bash-bar is a good investment. Avoids chewing the chain

[@corydalus981]

Another great Roxy video! In my experience, good drops, with suitable run-ins and landing areas, are pretty rare on the trails. Most drops I encounter are built features. Usually it is a sketchy landing spot that makes me very unwilling to go flying off a natural ledge. I practice rolling a LOT. This saved me last August in England, when I asked a local rider about a feature and was told it was definitely rollable, but it had actually eroded since that last time she rode it. It was VERY steep, and actually a quick 2-drop stair-step combo. My chainring caught on a root at the lip, but I had practiced keeping low and balanced so much, I managed to just slide off and keep my tires under me. Practice good!

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

OH WELL DONE, Cory! Your diligent practice has paid off! A similiar thing happened to me - a guide just towed me into a big gap jump without saying anything and I knew I was too slow to clear it - so I super quickly dismounted to the rear of the bike at the edge of the jump, my bike dangling from the jump and me standing safe on its edge. If I wouldn't have automatized the dismount to the rear, that would have been a snapped collarbone or worse... For sure... Amazing to see how practice pays off, hm?

[@corydalus981]

@@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire Oh, I have also been practicing your safe rearward-dismount technique. Hopefully I won't need it but...I probably will.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

@@corydalus981 awesome! I need it all the time - when I attempt different lines - that’s where progress takes place. Attempting different lines, dismounting, then sessioning them and riding them in a controlled fashion, once you’ve scoped the line. Everyone who rides into sections to check them out needs this technique - otherwise you can only ride sections of you’re 100% positive you’ll ride them and then you’ll never be able to try new lines 😊

[@sabaideemtb8646]

good listen

[@stephenharden7681]

Awesome.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Happy to hear you find it helpful, thanks for sharing your awe, Stephen 😍

[@denniswells2885]

Great videos - wish you were around when I was riding mountain trails in my 30’s but now I am almost 80 and find it hard to get a good bike as I am only 5’2” and only riding trails

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Hi Dennis, kudos to you for riding at 80!! Really inspiring! I’m 5’1” and I can recommend the Lapierre Zesty in S - or if you can’t get the brand where you are, there are several bike brands nowadays with S and XS frames! Hope you’ll find one soon!

[@mtbboy1993]

Another great bid. I like to mix it up, so if I ride a trail I can repeat, I might do that, or take all the wrong lines intentionally, but if it's gnarly that's not something beginners sohuld do, unless the trails are easy enough. But so I've no encountered such big drop on a trail, but done drops that high on walls in city centre, one is a 20cm wide skinny basically, but that's even harder, or trails where you ride on top of a pointy rock. Another issue on a drop on a trail can be moss, or grass, or dirt that can move or come loose, which can make front wheel wash out off the drop, or rear while make you slide sideways. so some riders use their shoes to brush away that, but if wet or covered in mud it can be tricky. The bike type also makes a huge difference on drops, too short reach, or really small bike, can make it harder, less room for errors, old school bikes for example. But not impossible, but bikes like this are more sensitive. super short rear end so loops out easier, steep head angle, shorter front end, so dives easier, especially with a heavy fork. long stem, putting too much weight on front wheel, easier to face plant. modern bikes are great.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Agreed. Thanks for your comment!

[@tmayol1005]

Nice video! Oooh! You are in Mallorca again? Sweet home😍

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Yep, back at home and booked for coaching daily :-) Home sweet home!

[@zap...]

I can't tell you how many times I've been bombed out at the bars and have approached a set of stair and asked myself that same exact thing.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Well then you now have the answer ☺️

[@davidrowe8747]

65-year-old here, lacking confidence in riding lumpy bumpy track on my fully rigid bike - your video was very helpful and clear, thank you. Your teaching style is excellent (former teacher here, too).

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you ever so much, David! So happy to help and so grateful to hear this from a teacher! Enjoy practicing! The more rigid the bike - the more important the skills :-)

[@kcyclopoints]

Nice 👍

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thanks!

[@vlogerrabin]

Nice

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thx!

[@mikeandadeeloquellano433]

Roxy, I am new to MTB. It's just today I found you through RLC Online MTB Coaching. I am so happy to have found you. I'm the same as you, a petite rider. What's the difference of drop it from roll it?

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thanks so much 😍🥰 Ryan has a drops course coming soon 😊 And so will I in future. Stay tuned 🙃😊🙏

[@saeedsalim7962]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@scottrulander4567]

Hey Roxy! Thanks for the great tips. If a rider decides to "drop" rather than "roll"... Do you recommend the "Peek and Lunge" technique for slower speed drops? It was recommended by a mountain bike coach in Sedona...

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Hi Scott, I generally don’t give „default“ drop advice, as all drops are different AND it very much depends on the strength & flexibility of the rider, travel & type of the bike, and type of drop (straight, on a decline, distance to landing, etc). There are too many variables… Also the price of error is too high, therefore, without knowing the rider and that he/she has the fundamentals needed, I won’t give advice on drops - as your safety matters to me and I’m very aware of the responsibility I have as a coach. However, I will be publishing some drops content on my patreon channel in near future and I do work on drops with clients in private (online and real life). Sorry I can’t give you the answer you may have expected 😊😊

[@scottrulander4567]

@@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire That makes sense... Thank you for the response and care...:)

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

@@scottrulander4567 thank you for comment, the response and understanding!

[@johnwebster7672]

Hi Roxy Thanks for your tutorials Just checking regarding your Lapierre E bike and sizing. Im 165 cm tall and the minimum size available is a medium. Do you ride comfortably on this ? Thanks John from Australia

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Hi John, I’m on a S and I’m 158. On their website there is a size calculator - have you tried that? It’s the best ebike i have EVER ridden 😍😍😍 so can truly recommend it!

[@nowrideyourbike-nyrb]

It will also matter if how much deep is the drop and the travel of your suspension.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Isn’t that what I say in the video? 😄

[@nowrideyourbike-nyrb]

@@Roxybike_Ride.and.InspireI think you haven't 😅

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

@@nowrideyourbike-nyrbi sure do 😊 In the video I even show it with a close up on the chainring.

[@sukokino2409]

Thanks for All your tips,, I only felt down 6 times ,,hahahaha

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

sorry to hear! Hope nothing is injured!

[@sukokino2409]

Nothing hurts,, thank you,, are you coming for the MTB festival?? In sedona?

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

@@sukokino2409 happy to hear. No I am booked out for coaching until October here in Europe 😅

[@josetxulopez4569]

When in spanish?? Thanks

[@flowstateofmind]

1.2m hohen drop zu flachen landung Oder 1.2m roll von fast vertical zu flach Welchen option ist möglich/richtig? Oder ist es gar kein option?

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Du findest die Antwort im Video :-)

[@mezzotint4274]

Great explanations. But you should work on your video quality. Although ist is full hd, the video quality is very bad. It is probably to high compression.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thanks 🙏 yeah, I live on an island. Sorry 😁 the upload won’t give me more.

[@r.t.vrinjitmgvlogs1986]

Damee

[@Atokhold]

Just send it! 😂😂😂

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

😂😂😂

[@julieannnilmao8027]

can i ask you for a bike even the one you fought for.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

I don’t quite understand your question?

[@radiocontrolled9181]

The words 'incredible' and 'incredibly' are misused in so many ways these days, hundreds of thousands of times per day. Just like the word 'literally'. LOL

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

What do you mean? ☺️

[@radiocontrolled9181]

​@@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire Hi Roxy. I was referring to the part where you say it - go to 1:38 and you will hear it after a couple of seconds. I notice that these two words (incredibly and literally) are very much misused today. I mean .. really? Will it make me an INCREDIBLY able and versatile rider? 😄 So damn good that no-one will ever believe it? Hahhhaa 😋 Well, nevermind maybe I notice these things too much and I let them annoy me. Let me tell you something. I really enjoy watching your videos and that you are a very good teacher. I like your down to earth style and I wish we were neighbours so we could ride together 😊 Your videos are very well made and are very precise and helpful. I am currently practising the nose pivot turns, something which I always wanted to learn but never did. Keep up the good work and take care Roxybelle 🖐💓💫😎

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

@@radiocontrolled9181 thanks. Have fun practicing 🙂🙂

[@pushpopaddict]

Too much yap yap yap. No Show. No Show how you drop it . Only show roll. Than nag nag.

[@Roxybike_Ride.and.Inspire]

Thank you for this extremely disrespectful and non-constructive feedback. Maybe you should have listened to the nag nag. You could’ve learned something. P.S. this video is not about drops. And if you’d like to really learn something then I suggest to listen to my podcast kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWGYo4p5gN52kJosi=_XT0kj2bWwNJuIJZ