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In this next clip I want to talk to you about riding in the whoops or the whoopty doos.
They can be a lot fun, but it's really good to learn the right technique as you'er going
through them. So, basically what you've got going on is you want to be on the balls of
your feet. That's real important; right on the foot peg. It kind of allows your body
to really take those impacts. You know, let's say you're going to jump off a ten foot; a
little ten foot building. Where you're going to land on your heels it's going to hurt a
lot, flat footed it's still not going to feel good. Land on your balls of your feet; that's
kind of that natural compression. It's going to absorb that. So, it's kind of the same
thing, because it's kind of like when you're hitting the whoops every time is just a pounding
to your body. So, you really want to absorb that through the balls of your feet. It also,
it's not; it's not; you never want to have your frit, kind of like when you're in a corner.
So, you're coming out of a corner into a whoops you want to get that weight backwards, standing
up and even have it; there's kind of, everybody has got that little crease between their fender
and their seat. You kind of want to put your body right over that crease. So, get your
body; what this is doing is keeping your front end really light. Really it's called when;
whenever you hear the term skimming the whoops or blitzing the whoops. It's when their front
end and the tire just skims on the top of each whoop. So, your balls of your feet, you're
squeezing your knees, keeping that bike facing, you know, keeping that bike straight facing
forward. Then it's just kind of take every whoop as it comes along. You just kind of
get that nice, nice; you want to be just really fluid, really one solid motion. You don't
want to be a lot of up and down, because actually the point would be to keep your head in a
perfectly frozen line. You watch guys like Chad Reed, Ricky Carmichael pounding those
big stadium style whoops, you know, their head is just one, like, just one tight rope.
It's real cool to see. So it's balls of your feet, nice smooth motion, nice relaxed arms,
squeezing that bike in between your knees and get through just fine.