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1 hour ago, Greetings said:

Amazing athletically but exactly why trials is so unappealing to the public. It's just a guy jumping really high who happens to have a bike attached to him. The bike needs to be rolling to justify the point of using it. Merely an observation.

but this is what trials is? Arnt you bored of watching people bust out back flips on a trials forum?

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In fairness, he does do an absolutely horrifying looking roll-down to manual push-through thing that you wouldn't really see many riders do these days.

The wrong way sidehop/up to front thing where he stalled it on the front wheel for half an hour was boss.

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4 hours ago, Greetings said:

Amazing athletically but exactly why trials is so unappealing to the public. It's just a guy jumping really high who happens to have a bike attached to him. The bike needs to be rolling to justify the point of using it. Merely an observation.

I kinda agree with this, videos like this just are not appealing to the public they're not even appealing to me! 

We need more videos like the CLS videos aggressive riding and music coupled with that personality all videos like that have! 

 

Very skilled rider though! 

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great video! one of my favourite riders right now. was he one the riders in the china video of the famous one (was it coustellier? can't remember). there's quite a few asian guys with great videos and skills on youtube lately.

i find his landscapes infinitely more interesting than any bucolic crap that confuses bike videos with tourism commercials. absence of ballet moves and a  Mogwai soundtrack is always an extra plus point.

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This is seriously good and all, but personally I would like to watch the insane flow and smoothness of the likes of Ali C, Aaron Browne, Ben Travis etc. over this fairly repetetive beast-moding.

The basis of trials is getting through the environment without dabbing, in which case this guy straight up wins. However I don't really mind who can sidehop the highest, it's all about being smooth. I've said it before, but I don't care if someone is going up a 6 inch or 6 foot wall as long as it is silky smooth, and nobody is beating the aforementioned in the smooth department.

Just my thoughts :) 

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Some of those moves are stupidly big, I love his right way sidehops to two hes got so much power coming from somewhere. I'd watch more of him riding its just a different style to trials in my eyes and hes clearly one of the best at how he rides. 

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I love watching guys like him go big. Mainly because I can watch it over and over to see how he does things. How does he preload? How does he tuck? What wheel lands first bla bla bla?

Some might say it doesn't matter how big he goes but to me it does. Reason being, the bigger he can go, usually, more line possibilities open up. If he can hop up a 6" wall smoothly, good on him but he's going to be very limited to what he can ride. If he can hop a road side rail, it opens up so many more interesting lines.

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I'm a huge fan of his riding so I'm glad he appeared here. Luckily you can find a bunch of videos
here:
https://vimeo.com/user13362142/videos

and here:


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUjmv0T_zqIcojcF_3yZQqA
 

and here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXvpbBfOtLb-E38Z823lrNw/videos?view=0&shelf_id=0&sort=dd

and here:

http://i.youku.com/u/UMzUyNTMwNjI0

 

My personal favourite is the DEA one in the vimeo channel.

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6 hours ago, Greetings said:

Other things aside, we really need a Youku trials video thread. Youtube is banned in China so they use their own service. Their own content aside, a lot of european trials vids end up there for the Chinese riders to watch.

That's actually a really good shout I raise my hand in approval of this idea. 

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On 27/01/2016 at 6:53 AM, onzatpro09 said:

This is seriously good and all, but personally I would like to watch the insane flow and smoothness of the likes of Ali C, Aaron Browne, Ben Travis etc. over this fairly repetetive beast-moding.

The basis of trials is getting through the environment without dabbing, in which case this guy straight up wins. However I don't really mind who can sidehop the highest, it's all about being smooth. I've said it before, but I don't care if someone is going up a 6 inch or 6 foot wall as long as it is silky smooth, and nobody is beating the aforementioned in the smooth department.

Just my thoughts :) 

Felix mucke could watch him on a kerb for half an hour..

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