Fitness!

[nzspokes]

The balls of your feet on the pegs. Gives you the additional "suspension" of your ankles and allows you to move around on the bike more. Being fat, old and lazy I move to the arches sometimes, when things are a bit less taxing, just to give my calf muscles a break. I've even been known to sit down.

Cheers.

[takitimu]

Cheers.

Stefan Everts was a big fan of not only the balls of your feet, but also pushing your down ankle below the foot peg.

Broxy has a nice article on this subject in Dirt Rider DownUnder ( I think it's the Jan one ) .

[Crisis management]

Ah awesome, the "learn to ride wrong first, then sort out the bad habits later" line of advice.

You're an asshole, that better?

Thank you for taking up that cause, I gave up tilting at windmills.

The balls of your feet on the pegs. Gives you the additional "suspension" of your ankles and allows you to move around on the bike more. Being fat, old and lazy I move to the arches sometimes, when things are a bit less taxing, just to give my calf muscles a break. I've even been known to sit down.

I use both, arches when I need lots of gear selection / rear brake (tight single track) and balls when it's suspension only (fast whoops etc).
I use the sit down when you can, stand when you have to technique to lessen the exhaustion, it's all about managing your endurance.

[NordieBoy]

I ride on the balls of my feet but only when sitting.
I can't lift my toes much (can point them, but not lift much) and if my arches are on the pegs, the toes get bashed all the time.

I need to do more standing on the balls of my feet to get more weight transference. Especially on the DR, as the pegs are mounted quite far forward.