Mountain Biking - Riding Up a Hill
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I have been mountain biking since 1993 and have been active in Mountain Bike Advocacy since 1997. I am a self-proclaimed MTB Junkie. I have been involved with MTB advocacy for over 11 years, 6 of those years on the Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts (MORE) Board in various positions, including President twice. I have helped to maintain and/or build and design portions of the trails at Fountainhead, Schaeffer, Rosaryville, Gambrill, Cabin John, Wakefield, Accotink, Colt's neck, Cedarville, Conway Robinson and Riverbend. All legal mountain bike venues within 100 miles of Washington DC. I am the current International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA) Representative for the DC Metro area. I also represents IMBA on the National Rivers and Trails Coalition Working Group. I am currently President of the Board of Directors for the local Trips for Kid’s Chapter. I was Race Director for their first 2 Charity Mountain Bike Races held the end of October I joined Potomac Velo Bike Racing Club in 1999 and have helped run their MTB and cross races for over 9 years performing various duties including course designer, assistant race director, announcer, course setup, registration, and awards. I have raced both MTB and Cyclocross since 1995 but have spent the past 4 years doing a few MTB races while I concentrate on the sport of Off-Road Triathlon, XTERRA . I am also a member of the Bike Lane Elite Racing team. I started racing XTERRA just a couple of years ago and was totally hooked from the beginning. I have competed in 16 XTERRA races including the 2005 and 2007 National Championships in Lake Tahoe finishing 5th in 2007 and ended up Mid-Atlantic Regional Champion in 2004. I also competed in the 2007 XTERRA World Championships. I am also currently a staff member for EX2Adventures. They produce local off-road races that challenge competitors of varied interest and ability. From Trail running, mountain biking, adventure racing, off road triathlons they pretty much have an event for anyone. I have given MTB instruction clinics to the newbie’s before the 2004 VQ. I have competed in two VentureQuest races, the EX2 Off-Road Half Marathon, the Backyard Burn 10 mile Trail Runs, numerous Cranky Monkey MTB races, and the EX2 Off-Road Xterra Triathlon three times. I love mountain biking and all that it does for me. It is my passion and also my mid-life crisis.
Shawn Punga was the other member of the team that did the video. As an active member of MORE for over three years,his involvement with the club has included trail work, trail advocacy, and trail planning at Fairlands, Patapsco, Hoyles Mill, the Upper Rock Creek project, the Watershed, Schaeefer and Roseryville. He has organized and taught a variety of different skills clinics, for different levels of riders as well as leading dozens rides at nearly every venue in the area, His contributions were recognized in 2006 with a Silver Spoke award for Ride Leader of the Year.
Mountain Biking - Riding Up a Hill
In this video Scott Scudamore and Shawn Punga of the International Mountain Biking Association will teach you the basics of riding a mountain bike.
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Scott Scudamore: Hi! My name is Scott Scudamore and you are learning how to ride a mountain bike with confidence. In this clip we are going to talk about going uphill. It near as dangerous as when you are going downhill. We talked about the control descents, but it's very, very important to be in a very easy gear and when you are coming up to a hill that you have to start to climb, you want to get into that easy gear early. So you do not want to wait until you are already started up the hill before you get into that easy gear. So, the idea is that you want to spin, you want to have your chest down a little bit on the bike and you also want to skew it up in the saddle almost to the point where the front of the saddle is almost poking in the bike. The steeper the hill, the more forward you want to be, you are pulling, but you are also pushing down. You will see when Shawn does this; he has actually has to keep his front wheel down as he is climbing; he is kind of pushing down and then pulling back. As he goes up his elbows are pointed down at the rear axle. He is actually pointed down; he is relaxed and he is spinning the wheels as he is going and he will go right up. So, as you look, you see, he is going up the hill right now; he is actually got his elbows back; he is spinning really good; he is keeping the front wheel down and he is going right up the hill. So, the most important thing to remember is, skewed up in the saddle as much as you possibly can to where the pulling of saddle is almost poking you right in the butt. So, you got your elbows in, pointed down, towards the axle, so you are, are pulling back, but at the same time that you are pulling you are kind of pushing to keep the front wheel down, so it does not rise up. So, as you are going up the hill, if you find yourself where you are loosing control, it is very important for you to fall into the hill, not away from the hill where you are going to crashing down the hill that you just came up. So, if you crash into -- the other point is as you are going, as you are going up the hill, keeping those elbows down and the front wheel up or the front wheel pushed down into the hill and you will climb up. You climb up without the problem. If you have lost control and you've had to stop and you want to start up again, you want to try the start a little bit at an angle to the hill and that will give you the momentum to get going again. So, in this clip the idea was to give you the tips for you to be able to attack any hill that is on the mountain that you come up against.
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