What are the 5 most important mountain bike skills to advance your riding on the trails?! Use these MTB skills to ride with more confidence, conquer more features, ride safer, have more fun and add more stoke on your next trail ride!

Join the conversation!  Once Sage defined the title... we're off to the races in a really fun debate on the most important mountain bike skills to advance your riding.  Trail Stand, Endo-turn, Step-up, Bunny-hop/J-hop and Pedal kick.  Which skills do you have?  Which skills do you want to learn?  Do you agree with our top 5?  What skills would you remove? Which skills would you add?  Where and how do you learn some of these skills!? 

The guys also discuss skills clinics, power meters, road rides on your mountain bike, training indoors vs. outdoors, single speed MTB technique, pump tracks and much more!

Learn these skills and more with a mountain instructor and skills clinic like DirtSmart.  Dan enjoyed his weekend clinic with Andy at Dirtsmart and highly recommends it! https://www.dirtsmartmtb.com/

MTB Gratitude of the Week

Sage: Stages Power Meter - Sage has so much gratitude for the power meters designed by the company "Stages."  As the news comes out that Stages is in serious financial trouble, Sage reflects on how much he appreciates their products and all the awesome training he's done with Stages power meters on two of his bikes. Thank you Stages!

Dan: Backyard pump track! - Last summer Sean at Sticks and Stones Trail Co. installed a pump track in Dan's backyard (See it here: https://youtu.be/fIanVFip_sY). Since it's now spring in the northeast, Sean visited to tune-up the pump track, so now Dan is back to shredding laps in his backyard. Pump tracks are so much fun, teach great skills/habits and are a great workout! Dan has so much gratitude to his wife for her support and to Sean and Keeton for their hard work and trail building skills!  Thank you Sticks & Stones Trail Co.! instagram.com/sticksandstonestrailco

MTB Tip of the Week

How to do a trail-stand! One tip to keeping balance on your mountain bike while it's not moving forward is to pick something in the distance to focus on. There's another secret tip Sage gives out as well. Listen and learn!

The video version of this episode is also available on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/HB5EzqnMU4U

The Ride and Laugh podcast is hosted by Dan @the_ride_abides and Sage @TrailSage.  Join us as we discuss all things mountain biking!  Riding technique, mtb gear, bikes, nutrition, fitness, mindset and more! Feel the gratitude. Flow on the trails, Flow in life!  Please enjoy the content then like and subscribe.  Join the Ride & Laugh community in the comments and/or [email protected].  

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