How to Friday Fail || MTB Crashing: Practice Like a Pro #10

I'm Linnea. I've been racing mountain bikes for six years and I've hit a bit of a plateau, so I've recruited the help of Simon Lawton, owner of Fluidbed. I wanted to take you on this journey, share all the lessons and learnings, and help you up-level your own skills along with me. Welcome to Practice Like a Pro. So, today's the big day. The day where I get to check your style. Yeah. So, counter-directional steering in the air. I know you've been doing your homework. All right. Okay. How's your homework been going? So, I put in a long session just a few days ago and the first 30 minutes were a little discouraging. Okay. But I kind of worked through a process. The first thing I tried to do was just hit everything straight. So, what I did on the Semper step-up was I wasn't comfortable doing everything at once, so I just hit it straight faster and popped harder. Okay. And then I did it slower and added the turn and I combined them. Okay. But it turns out that doesn't work here. Oh, on lower Semper? On lower Semper, it wasn't working for me because the jumps are so tight that it wasn't forgiving enough for me to hit the jumps straight. If I hit the first one straight, I wasn't going to make the second one. Exactly. So, I had to just pick them off one at a time. And then maybe 40-45 minutes into it, it actually started to feel pretty good and it felt a lot more tangible at that point. Good. My thought today was to kind of like take a look at the trail and see if there are ways where we can maybe just do like one jump and get your counter-directional steering and then maybe straight over the next one and stop and then come in straight over the first one, counter-directional on the second one. So, just starting to put the puzzle pieces together and we'll just be focusing on cutting out before the step-on step-off. So, that way you're not worrying about that terrain piece. This is all about the three turns with the counter-directional steering in the air and all about getting some functional movement in the air that's going to lead to absolutely non-functional flamboyant style. Wonderful. Let's do it. Cool. Can't wait. I will be warm soon. Sometimes I'm warm. Yeah. All right, here she comes. The case right there. Jump three. A little tire tap. This is totally not my air marks. The first jump actually went okay. The second jump was awesome. That's the one you sent me the video of. So, I'm wondering if like if that, I'm kind of wondering if hipping right is easier for you? You know, part of it is that first jump has a really tiny lip. It's like this big and I think it kind of throws me off because there's a lot of timing that needs to be just right on it. Remember when we worked on your featuring and your jumping and one of the things that we were working on is trying to get you more amplitude and kind of more hang time? Yeah. I really want you to focus on that today. Deliberately standing into it and and starting to like allow it to really kind of like pop you into the air more than it might otherwise. I think it's going to give you a little more time in the air and a bit more relaxed shoulders at the crest of the arc. Okay, I'll go back up. Body leans left. Body leans right. Oh, didn't feel good. You all right? Yeah. Shoulder? Head? Shoulder. Is my shoulder intact? Yeah, I think so. Let me just, let me just see. Feels crunchy. Does it feel crunchy? A little bit down maybe, but if you just smack the crap out of it. You got really high up there. Like, oh, you can see you washed out on the berm there. That's what happened. Your front wheel went over the berm and I was trying to figure out like what happened there, but you can see like right here, you landed up here. Oh yeah, that's totally what happened. And then your front wheel came over and you were like, I think I got this, and then it was just like clap like that. Because the tops are still soft. You just went like, speared, speared right down into the uphill landing on that one with your shoulder. Yeah. Let me just, let me see your shoulders next to one another. There's something, might be something wrong with this one. It's definitely a little lower than the other one right now. It feels crunchy. Oh, it's broken. Yeah, it's broken. Well. Oh yeah, it is. So right here, broken collarbone. Oh, my first one. I mean, we never expect those things, right? Like, it's always like, how did that happen to me? Okay, well, let's get this fixed. Yeah. It's very broken. It is. I hope it doesn't require too much, too many high-tech mods. Well, I guess we'll find out. We'll put you in the truck and see if we can get you off to the hospital. Yeah. It all happened so quickly, you know, and obviously, I was concerned about you, and I am concerned about you, so I didn't really think about it. But what I'm thinking now is, like, you didn't get your body leaned in the air, and that's why you ran over the berm and then tried to turn. Because I don't need belly service. Oh, oh, the bumps. What brings you in today? I've, I just broke my collarbone. It's shattered. All right, what's your last name? Kent. Tell me about the crash. Uh, well, came off of a double high-sided a berm. It was really soft on the top of the berm. Um, so basically, my front wheel just pitched, and then I went flying, and I kind of cased the next jump with my shoulder. And you're wearing a helmet. Helmet was not damaged, it appears. No, the helmet fared really well. A few little scrapes. There you go. It all went into my shoulder. Nobody ever gets hurt at duty. No, never. No. We keep you guys in business. All right. You broke your collarbone. Oh, dang. So, but they're supposed to fit that piece in the middle of it. Oh, man. I know, so the muscles kind of spasm and pull, and that's why you're having a lot of pain. Oh. Yeah, so it's basically, like, it's not cracked. It's literally broke, broke in the middle. Oh, right through. You have three pieces now. Oh, yeah, that's not, that's not how it's supposed to look. Ready to park it. Thank you. Thank you. I'm free. Look, they cut my shirt, so I think I get to keep the gown. Really? You get to keep that? That's pretty sweet. I think so. They didn't tell me to leave it, so. Simon's getting me drugs in the pharmacy, and then we have to figure out, hold please, and then we have to get my car home from duty, and my car's a stick shift. So, just wondering if you have any follow-up questions. I mean, I think you have your homework. Yeah. Some, maybe some screws, some plates, some things like that. Can I get an extension on my homework? Man, I thought you were such a conscientious student. I've been trying to get ahead with my homework, but I might need a little extra time. I'm going to consider that. Can I have, like, a two-week extension on my homework? I think we can give you a two-week extension this time around. I need time for this to heal before we move it back to the camera again. Yeah, that sounds, that sounds fair. I'll give you two weeks for, for cosmetic healing. Cosmetic healing. Yeah, no, I'm looking forward to next time. Be back here soon. Sounds good. In the meantime, I'll give you a ride home. Why, thank you.