Training: Drop into drop on downhill

How big are you thinking? And how steep? Any videos to give an indication?

if you can do one drop then 2 of teh same order should be no bother. its a bit unnerving committing to not stopping after the first drop though but, other than a bit of encouragement (assuming you are happy doing the first drop), i cant see what a coach can do? if you are completely out of shape after just one drop you need to practice single drops on their own some more.

Anyone here managed to overcome this or found someone that can help coach them through it. Be interested to hear if there are any places to train with this specific feature combo in UK, especially if it is progressive from one into two drops close to each other.

We got pretty much that at Katy Curd coaching in the Forest of Dean last Sunday = sign yourself up!

Show us pictures.

Also, ride it with other people multiple times.

Wind Hill bike park - check out the mid section of Rootiful South. Drop to drop to drop, none too big, but rooty and eroded as well as drops, and the speed builds, so it's careful line choice and speed judgement. Or just jump the whole thing, obviously... 😉

Best to follow a competent rider at a medium type pace, this way you can copy their line, speed and body position. Probably best to master a single drop first.

A couple of other basic things that you probably are already doing:
- Riding flats can help for technical features.
- Drop your heels and have the pedals more in the middle of your feet.
- Make sure you've dropped your post
- Don't wear a backpack. I find they can be distracting as they their weight moves around.
- Get off your bike and have a good look at tye feature from a couple of different angles.
- Session features a few times to improve your technique.

Good luck, I'm sure you'll get it.

The track 'Black Magic' at Descend Bike Park at Hamsterly Forest has a section with a few successive drops in a straight row.

One of the ‘qualifiers’ at the start of the trail from the midpoint road at BPW is a double rock drop IIRC, though not sure if it is the type of feature you mean. BPW runs coaching on drops.

^ Coal Not Dole.

Coal Not Dole.

Exactly the one the OP made me think of. I look at it and think if I was half competent I’d launch off the top and land after the second. But I’m less than half competent and chicken so I double plopped 😬

Coal not dole I can do. It’s nice manicured and safe with just the right amount of space in between. Challenging but not dangerous.

What gets me is where it’s off piste over rocky or janky found going steeper downhill without enough space in-between drops to recompose yourself. Probably more like inverted humps than drops. I think the answer is you just need to clear both in one hit.

There’s a section at Forrest of Dean that’s like a massive gap in a pretty steep down that takes guts to take. Can’t remember the name but I get exactly the same feeling looking at it.

depending on how "sharp" the drop is, its sometimes easier to roll stuff that you may think you have to drop (as long as you're not catching your bb). I find it easier (and certainly less risky) to get down the larger drop in field jumps at the bottom of ffestiniog that way.

Coal not dole I can do.

If you're familiar with BPW how are you with the double drop just before the road break on Root Manoeuvre? There's a large bowl and a smaller drop just after, on a left -ish turn, low consequence but nicely tricky to have a go a couple of times to nail it well. I always head over that way when II'm down at the park there's some nice tech features that are quiet and you can swap from RM to Fifty Shades and back.

Bottom of Race Track at Dyfi has a tasty double drop if I remember rightly, in fact the whole lower section is quite gnarly.

There are 3 in a row at Lee Quarry near Manchester.
Not too bad individually but the whole feature is quite big and scary (for me at least!), would not like to try launching over more than 1 of them!