Riding Roots || MTB Skills: Practice Like a Pro #18
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2025
- Fluidride Coach @Jason_Gainey returns to help Linnea tackle some PNW roots!
If you happen to ride Tiger Mountain in Issaquah, WA and want to tackle some root sections on EBAD, check out the full episode (29:47) on fluidrideonlin...
🎥 Filmed and edited by Kyle Ilenda
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ABOUT LINNEA ROOKE
Linnea has been racing locally in the pro category, but until this year she had almost no formal training and was held back by major gaps in her technique. While she was able to carry speed well on straight downhills and high-bermed turns, she lacked foundational cornering skills and was timid in the air. In Feb 2020, she met up with Fluidride to help with a filming trip in Baja, and was fascinated by Simon's teaching methods. Wanting to be part of this mission, she left her career in healthcare in July 2020 to officially join the Fluidride team as COO. We started filming this series to document her journey of cleaning up bad habits, adding new skills to her toolkit, and chasing her dream of riding with style.
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ABOUT JASON GAINEY:
Recently joining the Fluidride team, Jason is an accomplished enduro racer in the PNW. Following many years in BMX and dirt jumping, he picked up mountain biking at age 39 and was soon bringing home pro podiums in enduro! His experience in multiple disciplines also brings a uniquely fun and playful style to his riding.
Slammin ruets!
Compressing the suspension to be light on the roots is so brilliant! I love the way you guys break down concepts and make them seem simple - you have the best MTB skills videos I've seen.
The opening sequence was so hilarious! I love how they hated the script and Linnea giggling 🤣
Very informative video! Coach Jason is so skilled and Linnea has progressed so much! Just be careful with that shoulder!
🤣 🤣 🤣 We're lucky to have Jason - great person and great coach. Thanks for all your support! -Linnea
This is just what I needed! I'm loving these guides all the way from Oz!
Thanks for tuning in! Want more? Check out fluidrideonline.com if you haven't already. Lots of folks from the land of Oz on our site there!
Fantastic.
Thank you both.
Fantastic vid guys! Super useful. The Ruots thing was hilarious though😆
Good video. Tons of roots over here in New York, so this is helpful. 👍
Awesomeness as usual 🤙🤙
Hey Linnea, if one of your goals is improving your race times, can you time yourself on the same run each week (or two) to measure your improvement? I think it’d be great to watch!
Jason did a great demo and explanation!! Thanks! Helpful session!
Thanks for all the kind feedback here Barb! 🥳
Great riding ..Linnea is killing it ! :- )
Awesome!
First time watching your videos !
Love your channel !
Great video !!
Great stuff u and Simon 🙏🙏🙏😍these tips are game changing, if people listen look and follow they will step up ridden many levels 👍
Awesome riding Linnea. Time to race a EWS !
Ah yes Washington roots. The bane of my trail riding experience lol. That was a great season. You guys made that technical section look super easy.
Linnea - like a boss!
Perfect timing! I live in a desert area, so I don't ride a lot of roots. But, I'm working in Santa Cruz, and I'm riding half speed, because of roots. Great video!
Changing terrain takes time to get used to! Enjoy Santa Cruz. I spent some time there last winter. Plenty of roots! -Simon
Doctor: Be careful not to fall.
Linnea: Take the blindfold off before biking the exploding volcano. Gotcha.
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Really Helpful! Thanks!
And another great lesson. Can you give a brief explanation of passive pumping here?
It's essentially moving with the undulations of the terrain without pressing into the basins of the terrain - just letting the bike go without pressuring. Hope that helps!
Thanks, I looked on your pay site and under the Natural Terrain skills section is a passive pumping section. As soon as I saw you on the rollers it really clicked because I recently found passive pumping out of necessity. I was trying to gap 2 new rollers and found I was going way to slow. It was definitely going to be a front wheel case. There is a bermed turn right after the rollers, with a swamp behind it, so I didn’t think pumping through was a good idea so I just relaxed and let the bike come up and let it go down both rollers. I was shocked how fast I came out of the rollers and that I didn’t wreck.
Practice Like a Pro #19: Pronouncing Roots
Hahaha was gonna comment the same, i guess mtb community has weird jargons, ae. Roots, ruts, roost.
It’s a yankee thing. I have lots of family in MN and they say it the same way.
Roooooooooooooots!
Amazing! So inspiring channel. Keep it up :)
Can you also demonstrate how to ride fast over roots like this when one is going uphill?
This series is all about the downhill, but it's an awesome idea! We will likely be able to address this in another series like our Feedback Fridays!
Thank you for another informative video, lots of wet roots here in England!
Great riding and explanation. I was just trying to explain this technique to someone who was sliding on roots today.
Thank you! Now you can supplement your explanation by showing them this video and hopefully, with our combined powers, they can ride roots with confidence. :) - Coach Kagen
Love ur videos
Always love your video guys! Keep it up! Can you guys do a bike check? And bike settings? That would be very helpful to us viewers... thanks guys!
that scene around 3:48 feels like there's a stalker or wild animal listening in to their conversation
We wanna go over these ruuts
Well done ! Can you do a video on climbing up roots like that ?
We certainly can, but the goal of this series is two fold. 1) to break her record down Predator, and 2) to create style in the air. We have climbing videos on our pay site www.fluidrideonline.com, but are happy to do some for YT as well. Just not in this series as it would be really out of place. Stay tuned!
10 points for proper use of the word “janky”.
Whenever I hit a rooty section, the Clash start singing 'Rudy Don't' Fail' in my head. Then it gets stuck in a loop 😆
Actually more to the topic...you nailed the root dilemma for me perfectly. I look at that last big off-camber root in the first rootball and grind my teeth thinking about my front tire slamming into that pocket and hurling me OTB. So when you say 'passive pumping' this means compressing a bit before the first root in the cluster - then unweighting / getting light to launch off that first root to get even lighter? I think other coaches call this a 'bump jump' (see Seth Bike Hacks 'How to Bump Jump a MTB - Get air off roots!' vid). Is that the same thing? Really this is the best root tutorial I've seen yet, thanks guys!
... oh, and LInnea: you need to audition for Pink Bike Academy. Contact them. Perfect for it honestly ...get that Orbea contract and 25k. You're a star girl! ;) 👍
Is he saying "Ruuts"? Good vid.
He's a country boy. Pronounced that way in parts of the US:)
Man I need that Wolf Tooth sweatshirt. Where did you get it?
omg why cant he say roots!!!! Love you guys and your videos, thanks so much.
hahaha 😝 Thanks for watching too!
Am I crazy or did Linnea momentarily sit on the tire at 9:34, going over the log? Looks like she got slightly bucked? I'm guessing this represents being a little too passive in the passive pumping technique?
I would bet real money if you were time the complete run that you would find going around those roots and completing the full run saves both time and keeps more gas in your tank for latter.
Roooooooooots
ROOTS
Linnea Rooet.
Make Simon come back when you tackle this again in the wet.
Looks like that root ball used to be worse before someone came by with an axe and chopped a couple of them out.
Nooooo! Wet roots? Ok, I'm sure I'll come back and ride some:). -Simon
Ruuts what is that
Is a ruut a root with a rut in it or just roots in a rut?
Just another way to pronounce root. County style!
That’s fine for going downhill, but what about uphill??? Here in Louisiana rains wash out the trails and going uphill is tricky!
Light weight over these RUUETS
Now do one going uphill.
We certainly can, but the goal of this series is two fold. 1) to break her record down Predator, and 2) to create style in the air. We have climbing videos on our pay site www.fluidrideonline.com, but are happy to do some for YT as well. Just not in this series as it would be really out of place. Stay tuned!
Great video, but I’m pulling hair out every time he can’t say ‘root’ properly!
Pretty Girl ...
She says Root, He says Rooouit? LOL PNW Accent?!
lol No....that is not a PNW accent haha
Potato, po-tot-o ..... lol
First lesson in making root video: sont pronounce roots like that