MOUNTAIN BIKE CORNERING DRILLS IN SUNNY SQUAMISH | Finn Iles

So we just arrived in beautiful sunny Squamish here this morning and we're going for a ride with the big gang here. We're going to do a bit of a bit of a pedal and then after we're going to head out and do some cones and do some bike work and timing. Yeah, we're going to switch to GoPro, iPhone. Oh yeah. Teletubby style. Teletubby style, yeah exactly. We'll get some clips on the ride and yeah. Tell me what this is all about Casper, you're on camera. Okay, well this is a trail right here called Sauce. Built it with Miles Qualtrough actually last fall. Casper really hand built. Actually, he just took over a really old trail. No, no. Don't give me that. First 20 seconds. Dude, old Andrew is it? Poacher man. Yeah, dude. Yeah, let's go man. Oh, he's going. ****, oh god. Suspect moves. Down he goes. All right. Inventor, creator. Oh, rider down. Jesus, it's wet boys. Just finished our ride here. As you can see, still sunny and beautiful but probably some of the sickest riding I've done in a long time. Stoked to be back riding a Squamish, sick crew. So we're going to head down the hill and do some cones and do some drills and a bit of timing and yeah, shaping up to be real the next day. We're out here working on cone drills. We got a huge crew. The track's starting to run in here and basically what we're going to do is work on technique and then get into some timing. And we've got enduro racers, downhill racers, cross country racers. We've got like a huge variety of riders. So it's kind of cool and I feel like it's really good to see all different types of riding and everybody can work on their riding at some point. So it's cool that so many people are out here doing it. Good hustle dude. Damn, I'm working at it. These cross country guys got nothing. Try to get your elbows higher, Sean. Dude, how's my pace looking? Pace is looking fast. Dismal. Squad members, we got more squad members. Dude, look. It's a cone. No track alterations. Yeah, my name's Joel Harwood and I run a coaching company called Blueprint Athlete Development and so we're here hanging out with a whole bunch of great bike riders just working on our technique today in a sort of a safer controlled environment and having some fun. And we're about to see who goes fastest and should get pretty interesting. If I'm watching people ride and if something falls apart and their front wheel pushes, I usually see their body position fall apart first. And so I think that that's why I always want to begin there. But body position is good first, active pressure is second. And then now for the third one where we'll stay for the rest of the day is I want you to direct your active pressure, right? So we all talk about outside hand pressure. So if I watch you ride, you've got active pressure. If I'm turning to the right, I should see more pressure on the left hand and that's what's going to lean your bike. And again, you know you're doing it if you can feel your chest and your tricep both doing something and working, right? And then obviously if your front wheel pushes, you know you're not doing it enough, okay? And so we're still going body position, active pressure, and now we're going to direct that active pressure a little bit. So basically what everybody's kind of working on right now is upper body and sort of keeping your elbows up and strong so you can keep weight over your front wheel to create grip for the front tire. Especially in this sort of environment, it's a lot harder to create grip for your front tire than it is for your back tire. So we're sort of just working on that. It's like step by step you work on that. And if you overdo it and your back wheel starts sliding, you start to adjust the weight of your hips. And we're just doing cones, lap after lap you know. And then we're going to do some timing, you know. I'm kind of scouting the competition right now. I think Casper and Rami. Yeah, time run. Put some ponies down. Yeah, well yeah, you should see it out this first corner, man. I'm cutting dirt. Nobody's perfect. Pull in. Honestly, I'm pretty gassed. It's a lot of pedaling. But we just finished the cone session. I think Jesse was the fastest, wherever he is. And then Rice Burner here. And now everybody's heading over to a place called Coho. And we're going to ride some actual trails and basically do the exact same thing and just do timing on a bunch of different trails. We moved to a new zone and now we're doing more technical cones. So it's a lot tighter and there's roots and there's rocks and there's more finesse, less power involved with this one, which is good. You think you got finesse? Oh, I got finesse on the bike. I just don't have finesse at anything else. It's all in the name. Yeah, exactly. Track walking? Yeah, Miranda's really analyzing it right now. She's Yeah, let's get on it. So hey, the rules for here, or there are no rules, is you get one timed run. And we've got 15 minutes for this track before we start timing. So basically, we just walk the track, track, just this little cone thing. This one's a lot more technical than the last one, because we actually have roots and rocks to sort of navigate. There's a bit of competitive spirit here, for sure, because none of us have been racing. So like Jesse, Remy, you know, Henry, everybody here wants to win. But Casper and I have a little bit of a deeper competitive relationship than that, because both of us used to ski race together, we used to bike race together, we used to do a lot of stuff together back when we were like 12 years old. So, you know, it's been a little while since we've been competing, but I gotta beat him, you know. I don't want to lose to that guy. I believe in you. Yeah, thank you. Ah, DQ race, DQ. Just a beautiful day in the greenery. Good old fashioned cone drill. Casper. Yeah. Do you think you can beat the man to your right? I already did. One, zero. Nothing to say. Not a cool man. I'm cool, man. Yeah! 976! Super sick day. Yeah, it's good to be competing. Like normally it was just me and Mark that are competing because there's time against each other, but here there's such a different array of people, like you have Casper, you have Remy, you have Jesse, you have freaking Henry, you have Elliot, you know, there's so many people and you get to like compare your times to so many different people and then you can watch other people ride, sort of see what they do and change your own lines and I feel like it's really beneficial to your own riding style and yeah, it's always good to be competitive because we haven't had that all year and it sort of makes me excited. I just want to keep ******* going at it, but yeah, a lot of fun. So we're just rolling back into Whistler. Huge shout out to Joel at Blueprint Athlete Development for a hell of a day. It's so good to get so many good riders together and work on lots of different stuff because you can always learn things from other riders and it was also really fun to be underneath the clock or on the clock because you get to time and be competitive and that's something we've really been lacking this summer. Super awesome day.