How to Look for Exit in Mountain Biking Cornering

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MICKEY DENONCOURT: As I walk through this corner holding my handlebars, I want you to look at what my head is doing. If you look now at what the shape of the corner looks like, you'll see that--like right now, for all intents and purposes, my bike is heading straight forward. When instead of looking--heading straight forward, I'm looking over that way, sort of pass the--outside of the corner, I can see the next corner from here already. So as I walk through, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking this way--looking this way and now--right now is where I'm at the sharpest part of the corner where it really starts to significantly change it's shape. And now finally, my shoulders are squared off with my head. And as I head out of the corner this way, I'm constantly looking up and ahead and forward for the next corner which I can see is a right hand corner. So by the time I get five feet out of this corner, I'm going to be looking right and setting up to go that way. I mean, your bike has wheels, rolls, momentum, it's a machine, that's what it does. It rolls over stuff just fine, it naturally arcs through corners as long as your body stays neutral and you work a little bit on weighting it. So as the pilot, your job is to anticipate what's coming up not reactive what's going on beneath you because that should be fairly natural until it gets really rough.

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