Ryan Young Training
By all accounts the Trials Training sessions provided by Ryan Young on the weekend of June 4-5 were a smashing success.
Saturday summary: (re-posted courtesy Leslie Matheson from Facebook): Day 1 of Ryan Young Training School @Whale Rock Trials, 2022, is in the books. We covered bike setup, proper turns, camber turns, wheelies of every sort, balance, pivot turns off a tree, bunny hops, log crossing, skid plating, holding pressure, and a few more I’m sure I forgot. Beautiful day, perfect weather, many smiles, and much thanks to Jim Ellis for organizing and hosting.
Sunday summary: (re-posted courtesy Jim Ellis from Facebook): Sunday continued with front wheel hopping and moving it sideways. Then nose wheelies and rear wheel placement, which look effortless when Ryan does them. Enough schooling on flat ground. Into the woods for flywheel carries up a steep slope over numerous roots. Ryan had ribboned a short Section for the discipline and planning of tight turns up a winding hillside with barely enough room between the ribbons. 98 Hillside (all the existing Sections in Bunn are named) is a favorite steep, winding, off camber climb followed by a steep descent into a sharp turn or two over roots and up again. Plenty of opportunity to control the ride with the clutch. Such a delicately controlled demo there by Fly'n Ryan in precision creep mode. Then, an inspired Leslie floored all with a flawless Clean of the Advanced line. Headed westward toward the creek to Bridge Logs for skid plating over large logs, stuffing and clutch popping over logs and other techniques I have forgotten. We continued with airborn uphill splatters onto Bicycle Rock. Then several bolder students tried holding pressure over the uphill boulders and ledge leading to the rather tall log in Turtles. By this point some of us were attentive spectators as the highest elevated log at Matchstick was tackled for the first time ever, eventually successfully, by Kevin, Martin, Evan, and Leslie. I call that dramatic progress. A few bold riders tried a tight right floating turn immediately followed by two clutch pops up a short angled ledge and instantly over a moderately large log. The full day closed with a downhill u-turn closely followed by tight winding uphill turns in the upper gully of 98 Speed Bump. The students ranged in age from 11 to 79. Fine sunny weather about 80°. So many skills and so much territory covered.....thank you Ryan!
Check out pics from the training here.