How To Use The Skid On MTB Trails | Essential Mountain Bike Skills

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Skids aren't just for kids! The skid is a mountain Bike skill that can be often used out on the trail to get round tight turns and manoeuvre the bike. But make sure you use your skid responsibly and don't ruin trails.

Although we wouldn't recommend skidding on new trails or everywhere you ride, in certain places a skid can be a great technique to quickly manoeuvre the bike.

The 'Scandi Flick' is a great way to quickly throw the bike round a corner and quickly shift your weight.

Off camber trails are a great place to use skids. If you find yourself trying to slide down the trail to get your tyres into a rut, then a quick pull of the back brake will get you firmly on to the main line.

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nothing beats blake cheering up blake 😂😂

ftrujillomunizaga

Thumbs up if you want to hear Blake saying "Hjiar" more in future videos.

Raumance

Our trails are usually gravelly and hard packed, you don't even need to grip the rear brake so hard to skid and it definitely doesn't ruin the trail.

Rose_Butterfly

I love his sense of humor, informative and entertaining.

SibrenFetter

The trail builders out there will appreciate what you said at the end of the vid. Excessive skidding in bike parks will accelerate trail wear and tear. If you can, reserve your skidding for the fire roads.

FPVSuperPersuit

Can you do a video on how to roost? We need more.

Bugattilover

Fricking awesome!! That was a fun way of explaining "the skid"!😂 I am a Scandinavian, so I must be naturally allowed to skid! 😎 Thanks for the tricks!

ulrikholm

I’ve been riding MTB and road for years now and I just discovered that the US has the brakes backwards (front brake on the left and rear brake on the right)

elnino

There's this steep paved pathway with super tight turns on it down a big hill near my house and it's so fun to skid along on the pavement with an old pair of bald tires and just skid down the whole place, it's more fun, and you're not even messing up trails! (I do it on trails sometimes, and it can be a blast skidding on wooden sections when they're wet because you get zero traction and you just keep all of your speed)

glzzy

I’m gonna skid all trails to pieces!!!

Janhartman

For your next video you should show how to fix the damage done by a lot of people skidding around Corners

sound

Sure it destroys tracks but it still is a lot of fun. I feel like i'm the only one who enjoyed the Video 😂 Good Job Gmbn

chrisve

Blake’s pro tip skid before every berm on the flow trail

chavoxo

Great video! Obviously it's best not to skid to maintain trails, but I still like to practice it on a few turns while I am out riding. That being said this video was really informative.

BTW Blake's videos are the best!! Keep em coming!

gtn