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    What is your best trials technique?

    Passin a little time before Evo drops! Thought id ask around, see which are some of your strongest points trialwise. Some of you guys do upstraight bunny hops very well (ex. Mongold's highest jump WR) or some of you can cling onto a bar, flip back on it and jump forward, or just straight out pipe hoppin.

    I feel my strongest point is doin a backward wheelie. The balance as well as speed needed to maintain a wheelie feels so natural to me, i wish this was implemented as a skill game! Another technique that ive learned to excel at is a dropdown back wheel bounce. I wish i had a good explanation why those come so easy to me but i dont understand it myself.

    My weakest point is doin a leanin forward wheelie/brakin on curved ramp (think Unfair Bombardment timesaver) i was never any good at this and no matter how much i practice, i cant do it consistently.

    *This is not bout how you can do one thing better than the next guy aka speedrunnin vs ninja. Its bout which technique comes easy to you and why- individual strong and weak points. Itd be interesting to see how this varies between different riders.
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    Re: What is your best trials technique?

    Originally Posted by jhitman
    My weakest point is doin a leanin forward wheelie/brakin on curved ramp (think Unfair Bombardment timesaver) i was never any good at this and no matter how much i practice, i cant do it consistently.
    I cant think of a particular technique I struggle with aside from the one you mentioned, im still unable to hit that timesaver on Unfair Bombardment.

    My strongest point would probably be rear wheel control, and I try to implement obstacles that require wheelie techniques in my custom tracks.
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    Re: What is your best trials technique?

    Must Strongest point is probably bunny hopping. I can get over an electric cabinet every single time. It's not even a struggle anymore.

    My weakest point is probably high backflips. Sounds strange but I can't do them
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    Re: What is your best trials technique?

    My technique is.........full throttle & enjoy the ride!

    Seriously, my back flips are ok, my front flips need work, my bunny hops need work, & my endo wheelie is non existent.......oh, my longest wheelie is 96m, & after that it all goes tits up!

    Now this is just showing off............flash git!

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    Re: What is your best trials technique?

    My strengths are the slow, hoppy ones like nose stall balance, back wheel hops, things like that. Think QC's pure and real trials tracks.

    My weakness seems to be really fast paced easy and medium tracks. I dont know the exact technique I am apparently not doing right, but I am ranked well over 1000 on a lot of them.
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    Re: What is your best trials technique?

    I've always liked reaching up to a high obstacle, getting the front wheel on it and holding brake, then hopping to my back wheel and carrying on with the track.
    Best example I can give is the start of my track "Greener Pastures".
    There is just something sweet about switching from front to back wheel on the smallest of objects.



    Edit. Better example at the end.
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    Re: What is your best trials technique?

    flipping onto my back...
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    Re: What is your best trials technique?

    Going really fast.
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    Re: What is your best trials technique?

    Getting to the last checkpoint very fast then ******g up or landing on face.
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    Re: What is your best trials technique?

    Originally Posted by EuphoricFusion
    There is just something sweet about switching from front to back wheel on the smallest of objects.
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    This.
    Also any ramp that requires a hop like the beginning of Technique, or the backflip on KOTH. And being horribly inconsistent
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