how do you practice for mx?

[soundbeltfarm]

when you go to the track to pratice, what do you do?
do you just ride around lap after lap with mates or do you pick out somthing and keep practicing it,
also what other trainging do you do away from the track?
and what thoughts go through your mind while getting ready for the start of your race?
thanks in advance
Karl

[crazyxr250rider]

Just practice areas of your riding that you have identified as needing improvement,seek advice from more skilled riders when you get the chance to practice at a track eg,talk about line selection tecniques in ruts if you are trouble with a certian rutty section.
Before the race visualise yourself getting a good start and finish pos. and how you are going to get there.
Love racing wish I could afford too

[soundbeltfarm]

opps sorry i might have not worded my post properly,
i mean what do you do yourself , for the questions i've asked?

[Sensei]

A must is to learn how to jump your bike & land it as this is one of the main areas that you must get or you are just wasting your time . Even though i can jump well I'm not as skilled as others that race MX all the time & they would be better to give you the ins & outs of jumping & landing . You must have a place you can practice on you farm Karl . Cardo is very important as is strenght work for your forearms & legs .

[soundbeltfarm]

yeah i've got a bit of a track through some pines on the farm ,
try to get up to barret as often as possible,
yeah i get chronic sore arms, i think half of that is from my poor technique with the bike trying to rip my bloody arms off and then gripping to hard with my arms instead of more effort from my legs i think.

[crazyxr250rider]

Thats what I do when I can afford it :blank:

[Pierce]

yeah i've got a bit of a track through some pines on the farm ,
try to get up to barret as often as possible,
yeah i get chronic sore arms, i think half of that is from my poor technique with the bike trying to rip my bloody arms off and then gripping to hard with my arms instead of more effort from my legs i think.

Yeah definately mate.

Grip the bikes tank with your knees. Do this by standing on the balls of your feet (rahter than the arch as Gary Semic's says) and kinda pushing outwardson your pegs. This points your knees in towards the tank and means you only hold the bars to steer. The best riders don't get arm pump for this reason.

Me on the other hand always get arm pump haha. Hence the reason why i'm gonna sell the CR250 which is constantly trying to rip my arms off and stick with the tame CRF250 :yes:

[cheese]

Hey Jimmy or Rupert there is a bike for you!

[Reckless]

Yeah definately mate.

Grip the bikes tank with your knees. Do this by standing on the balls of your feet (rahter than the arch as Gary Semic's says) and kinda pushing outwardson your pegs. This points your knees in towards the tank and means you only hold the bars to steer. The best riders don't get arm pump for this reason.

Me on the other hand always get arm pump haha. Hence the reason why i'm gonna sell the CR250 which is constantly trying to rip my arms off and stick with the tame CRF250 :yes:


Hey youre not publicly addmitting the Cr250 is to much for you are you LOL!

You can settle the CR down to quite a good do it all bike that will tractor from down low and be very managable. I've done it with mine. Tuning, Fly wheel weight, gearing, Milder supension etc. Maybe you should stick with the 2smoker and work on it. Much cheaper to maintain!

[CRF119]

I find what you eat and drink the day befor and during the day and also after the practice makes the big differance. Also i ride for 25 min flat out at full pace that way you are always challenging your self your arms leggs etc are always working if they are not sore and your not puffing after 25min then you wernt trying hard enough. After 25min come back in have a short rest a small snack i normally drink 750mls of powerade. The rest and food intake is just as important as the riding its self.

Also how you ride the bike is important, the people who look fast on a track are not always the fastest, smooth is fast, Going to a 450 taught me this and it also taught me that corner speed is most important because every time you are having to slow down and accelerate the faster you will get tired, if you hold more speed less acceleration for the next jump or overtaking manouver is required.

Going back to basics can some times help. 1 thing i got into a habbit of doing is staring at the ground and not looking far enough ahead or out of the berm or corner you are leaving. This will also allow you to identify hazzards and chosse a faster line further up the track

Hope this helps

[crazyxr250rider]

Bingo, looking ahead!!!

[Pierce]

Hey youre not publicly addmitting the Cr250 is to much for you are you LOL!


Haha I think I may be. I did know that a heavier flywheel makes a difference but wasn't entirely sure how much of a difference. I'm only new to riding (well new to riding in this decade of my life) and not too sure the 5 months of riding is quite enough experience to handle the wild ride of the 06 CR250R :doctor:

Plus with the rainy season ahead of us I was thinking hone the riding skills on the CRF then summer re-evaluate the situation again. After all I am healing a broken ankle and will be in rehab for ACL/knee reconstruction:Pokey:

[GR81]

i used to spend a lot of time practicing my flat corner, cornering... obviously it never helped tho :( haha

[CRF119]

Also 1 thing i forgot is bike time! You can speend all the time in the world training but bike time is most important. It keeps the fitness up skill leavel always improving and confidence. Half the time its mind over matter and keeping up your confidence will allow you to just look at a jump and hit it strait up!

I average 3-4 hours a week my hour meter normaly clocks up 150-200 hours over a year. New bike has done over 50 already.

[raglanash]

Hey CRf119 where are you clocking up all those hours around Hamilton??
Nothing like seat time to keep the skills up. If you practice at a track try dialing one thing at a time, one corner, one jump etc, then when you have them all sussed string it all together into a fast lap.

[mattwood]

im probably not the right person 2 be giving advice or anything coz im not good at all :)

buuuut isnt it always good to try and ride with someone who is faster than you and will give you a challenge to keep up with??

[crazyxr250rider]

Yeah that can improve your speed in some casses but its usualy best to take your time to practice certian areas of you riding during practice rather than cut lap after lap making the same F-up over and over slowly getting faster.

[telliman]

just point and squirt!

[CRF119]

We have a track by the zoo just out of Htown, would love to invite all of you but town has kinda moved closer and neighbors not so nice theese days so got to keep numbers down. We used to ramp the FMX ramp just down from rotokauri school but new neighbor is a dick, he has sound control on speed dial. lol.

I also do a bit of marking out for some of the rotorua trail rides. Winter is comming so that will be good once we can head back into the bush. Thats when the real skills are tested.