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Top 5 Tips on How to Improve Your Mountain Biking Presentation By Mountain Bicycling Guide

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Top 5 Tips on How to Improve Your Mountain Biking

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Mountain Bicycling Guide

BACK OFF THE BRAKES

Just use one finger on your brake lever. Two fingers will utilize half your forearm strength. 90% of accidents in the Whistler Mountain bike park, reckons Sarah Leishman, a coach and former pro patroller, come from overbraking.

STAND TALL

Neutral means stacked means ready to move with somewhere to go when you need to respond to changes in terrain that isn't OTB (over the bars)

 LOOK WHERE YOU WANT TO GO

Looking where you want to go means staying committed at speed, all the way through a turn, to where you're going

DON'T LEAVE IT TOO LATE

World Cup Downhill Racer, two-time Canadian National Downhill Team Member, and podium finisher at the last World Cup of the 2012 season, Casey Brown is also a former BC Junior Freestyle Ski Champion, forest firefighter and artist

PUT YOUR LOVE AND HATE INTO IT

Brown had all kinds of awesome tactical advice, but the thing that stuck with me, after I attempted my first fifty drops with no real desire to actually get air between my tire and the ground

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