As bikes keep getting longer and longer the endo turn is becoming a required skill along with the wheelie turn. This is my "every switchback" challenge from the past few years.

Track stands are actually pretty useful when commuting, especially when clipped in. At crossroads, you don't have to unclip, you can just stay on your bike and wait it out. + its fun

I learned how to ride sitting on the steering handle, with my back forward, and pedal. I did this at 14 and haven't used it for anything other than a party trick for over 30 years.

As mentioned by the other fella, track stands are helpful not only when commuting, but also on trails; especially the ones that are quite steep. I use it when choosing which line I have to pass instead of just walking the trail down *IF* I know I can ride the way down.

Pivoting is useful in a lot of Enduro and cross country races there is A lot of tight turns that you need to be able to go around fast.

Track stand is actually pretty useful when you roll up to a steep rock fall and want to scout your line before rolling down it. If you dab while doing that, you're going to have a hard time starting up again since you are right at the start of the drop-in. You'd have to get off your bike and hike back up the trail so you can get a run at it. But if you can pause without taking your feet off the pedals, it's no problem to just start up again and drop right in.

I have always found that the skills you don't need are the ones that are the most fun by far! Also they are helpful because you learn better bike control and most importantly you can impress your buddies at the trailhead lol

The "endo turn" is a pretty usefull thing when riding alpine terrain like in the Alps. In fact, lots of people there take classes in just learning that for riding alpine hiking trails.

Pumping (or more accurately carving) like that is how those "pushless" boards and scooters work. You know, the ripstick. Essentially converting a sideways shove into forward momentum. Lot of fun to do!

The rear wheel pivot is insanely practical. So many times I've missed the turn onto the singletrack and end up having to get off my bike and 180 because the trail is just not wide enough for my skill level. Definitely will be learning this one.

I think the most impressive track stand I've seen was by Steve from EMTB, who spent a decently long segment to camera sitting on his bike, arms crossed. THAT was impressive.

I practice my track stands and riding backwards when I’m riding behind my 5 year old. Her average trail speed is negative 3 mph.

I love the use of the hard tail. Thank you. I ride hard tail and some of these looked impossible on a hard tail bc of suspension.

Dude wtf why is his chain completely made out of quick links?

For me the Endo turn and trackstand are more essential than any bunny hop or similar 🤣 I do mainly ride technical alpine "hiking" trails, not adapted for biking. And that's the only way around a lot of corners when you absolutely have no space or need to hit the only rideable line. Trackstand is important to get an overview of what's ahead and helps you to ride slow. Sometimes there is too little space for doing it fast. Like an Endo turn right after a one foot drop with your front wheel

Tip: when you’re learning how to lift the back wheel it helps if you “grip” the pedals. Basically what you wanna do is to point your toes towards the ground and pull on the pedals while you shift your weight forward by gripping onto the pedal spokes. Otherwise great video as usual Seth!

Track stands are one of the best skills to earn. Helps with everything else!

Seems like Seth learned a lot of these things from his BMX days. I guess the best tool to improve your MTB handling skills is to get a BMX bike :)

Brings back memories from when I was a kid. Rode my bike so often it was just an extension of my body. Felt super comfortable and could do just about all of these moves :) Great vid Seth.

I like how the demonstration for nose bonking is just Seth walking the bike over and touching the front wheel on the log. Makes me appreciate the simple ways to do stuff

Actually just got into mountain biking So I find this fun to practise

This is great, old school Seth’s bike hacks ✨🙌🙌

Love your videos! Keep up the great work!

the knocking sticks, and stuff off the track is helpful, if you've got a few friends or other riders behind you that 'might not' notice it, so you moving it out of the way, is aiding safety, so that one I would say is a useful 'trick'. I am 30 years old, have been riding since I was a kid, watching Seth 'Bern Peak', shows me more useful ways. I've always wanted to get into 'mounting biking' but where I live, there isn't many places.

A nollie on a bike has always been a polish wheelie for me and my friends

Happy Father's Day Seth and to all the Dads out there!!

I broke my arm nose bonking lol. (snowboarding but same thing) It was a feature 10ft in the air with a kicker up to it. It was a propane tank. I nose bonked too hard and it caused me to get off axis and i landed on my arm realllly hard, not on the landing, just from 15 ft in the air onto flat. Was a big yikes lol

One of the best videos out there. Gonna learn some of these this summer!

I sheered off my rear derailleur on a ride once and my friend, a former track racer, taught me the Madison hand sling. He was able to sling me all the way back to my car with minimal walking. Fortunately, I haven't needed to use that skill since, but it's nice to have in my bag of tricks.

if I could say from years off a bike now days learning all these skills still gives you bike control and awareness , used to mess around with stuff like this out of boredom and often found I was able to recover from been a bit cocky or over zealous with my ability's or at least crash better 😂😂

5:06 Hey Seth, with snowmobiles we call that a "re-entry" theres alot of very skilled riders that can do different variations but its really crazy to watch and somewhat difficult to do at first. This definitely reminded me of that!

For the nose bonk, absolutely use curbs to get used to it. Make sure you can throw your weight onto the front wheel and lift your rear wheel off the ground comfortably. Then find a small curb to practice on. When I say curb I mean you're riding parallel to a standalone curb with room to land on the other side of it that's the same height as where you started. Bunnyhop over the curb sideways and throw your weight a bit forward to land your front wheel on the curb then land on the other side. I'm a BMX rider and it's how I learned, now I can nose bonk things about 2 feet high comfortably, but it's the same principle in MTB. It's different than nose bonking something head one sure, but it's the feeling of landing nose heavy on something for a split second that will translate to an actual nose bonk over something. I'll try to visualize it (S is start, F is finish and | is the curb, depending on which side you prefer to turn/spin.) Hopefully that makes sense to someone because it worked wonders for me years back and is much more low risk that trying it on a fallen tree in the woods. Definitely make sure you can bunnyhop sideways before trying tho. | F | S |

Your channels are amazing and all your videos are great! I think it would be neat to have people standing near all the features as you ride them to show the scale and slope in a different way.

I loved that little "Oh shoot, where is the master link, oh wait, they are all master links" move as a nod to the chain made entirely out of master links!

Dude I can’t wait to try these

Track Standing in my Point of View is a Skill you should essentially Learn and Master, Trust Me When you use Xc or Road Bikes with clipless pedals, It's Gonna be 100% comfortable and probably your most used skills on the Road and stoplights, even on mountain bike trails when things takes too long.

I'm actually really satisfied that you went over what a nollie is, and the significance of the trick done in the other video. There's no way I'd ever attempt a nollie off a steep incline like that, very impressed.

Love the nose bonks! It's become a go to for short awkward little table tops.

All good info and a top notch presentation as usual. Happy Father's Day Seth!

That chainless bike propelling would have come in handy today. My derailleur completely destroyed itself on the trails today. Ended up taking the derailleur completely off (it folded over into the spokes) and converted the bike to a one speed to get back, but the chain kept slipping. Most of it was downhill so it worked out, but that skill would have been useful.

I actually find Nollies to be extremely useful for exactly what Kyle did with it. Going off slight or large lips, it helps to get wheels on the ground quicker and more smoothly. Sometimes I'll just hop the back wheel up into it too

I got to tell you your so great and I love your channel and the energy you bring! I am actually in North Carolina for the first time and tomorrow my parents have blessed me with the opportunity to go to berm park tomorrow (Monday) from 9 to 12:30. So excited and I really appreciate everything and the excitement you bring to the mtb community!!!! Hope to meet you one day! -13 year old mountain biker, Adisson Watley

I have used most of these as a daily commuter. All the repositioning stuff is quite necessary navigating the city sometimes.

The track stand is wildly useful skill to have for technical climbs, just because it means your balance on the bike is wicked good. That weird bump that used to throw you off balance is much less consequential once your balance is really good.

I use the front and rear wheel turn a lot to be honest. Really helps on the tight corners. Need to give some of the others ago sometime though.

Just got my new mtb man it feels amazing i am starting the addiction guysss

Trackstanding and pivoting are super useful when doing rock gardens and switchbacks. They are skills you should learn

The pump movement is also possible to do on a pallet jack. Stand on the forks turn the handle left to right and also shift your weight side to side.

You do some of the same things in motocross or dirt bike riding the wheelie turn the nose bonk it works! A little bit more weight of course but the wheelie turn comes in handy for tight trails etc where a normal turn would not work. Good stuff Seth thanks for the tips!

Seth you are one of the best mtb’ers i know👍🏻👍🏻

Im 52 and finaly have a good mtb and internet ,im learning alot from these videos ..i only have one day a week off work to ride ...but i guess ill get beter a litle at a time ..im poor and live in México city no social security or medical insurance so i need to be carfull nothing too risky because if i dont work i dont eat

The rear wheel pivot, would totally be practical for sessioning a feature. 🤘🏽

It’s the simple videos like this with easy and quick tricks that make me want to just ride my mtb practicing these in a parking lot😌

Great video. So many of these are things we learned messing around riding bmx in garages and basements. Ahh to be young again.

every video made by seth feels like the high of summer fun idk how to explain

With little experience I have still managed to do some nose bonks, it looks way better from the front so ensure your friends are not just following you.

Nollie to nose bonk is one of my favs things to do.

Nose bonks are my favorite and nollie's are practical for popping into downhill transitions.

I agree those skills not being necessary for riding a bike, I think they are a bit rusty for me now but it sure made the ride to school a lot more fun though

This is one of my favorite videos

One of best channel for cycling. I love it.

I mostly do Bmx racing and for fun we will do a pump race where you can’t pedal at all and can make the full lap. SUPER fun and a hell of a workout 🤘

that was actually fun to watch and i am going to learn every one of those skills

Riding without a chain is a very useful skill, my derailleur got mangled at a bike park recently and I had to ride the second half of the day with no chain.

I had the skill of planning my menu when on return run back to the truck. I know it’s not a physical skill but none the less😂 As a well rounded mountain biker who rides technical trails honestly everything you showed comes in handy you’d be surprised what situations come up when you ride a lot. Bunny hoping up a rock ledge with a little momentum on one of my favorite trails reminds me of what you were doing. And I climb very steep rocky trails so I’ve actually crashed on the uphill before trying to power through something. Fell down a few embankments for sure. So track stand & balance can mean literally your safety. Anyone new if you truly love being just on your bike & improving go out even in your neighborhood & find things to ride it translates directly to when you ride trails. That keeps you hungry because you see & feel the improvements. Happy Trails.

For the Nollie hooking your foot on the rear pedal helps lots too

Ripstiks are specifically designed for pumping. Pretty cool

Track stands at lights rule, but I am not quite there yet. More practice. Need to try more of these just for sheer fun. Great video. - Cheers

A side nollie off a curb every once in a while feels really useful to me!

I love looking foward to a video on the weekend in the morning to eat breakfast to

Hey Seth I love your videos and keep it up

I use the track stand frequently while commuting. It's ideal for brief stops at intersections.

I was on the path to the parking lot when walking people in front of me randomly stopped. I stopped and track stand. The people behind me were all... woah. did you see that! that's amazing!

track stands are actually really useful when its wet out, if I'm waiting to cross a road or something and I don't want to get my pedals slippery I do a track stand and wait for traffic to pass.

Maybe not for enduro, but for urban cycling, track-stands are an essential tool in your arsenal; especially with clipless pedals.

You can easily ride a bike (literally) backwards by mounting the bike with the handlebars behind your back and then pedal backwards, it's a lot easier than it looks and looks really impressive

Awesome! These are all my favorite skills/tricks to do! Looks like you might have a little trials background in there...is that right?

Love these tips videos!

Id say the wheel lift turn is useful on a smaller scale for sure. Going over step up roots on a switchback - super useful, but you don't need to go that "extreme"

this had some cool stuff i could do. im a clidesdale with asthma. close as i get to off road is rideing on grass. great stuff Seth!

Pivoting on your real wheel is actually useful. For example if you notice that you don't have enough speed for a jump, you can just turn around and ride down the takeoff instead of getting off your bike at the end of the takeoff and risking to fall over.

The rear wheel pivot seems practical in some scenarios such as a bear or other dangerous animal or unavoidable obstacle where you can quickly turn around and if needed haul ass the other way.

This has somehow encouraged me to learn useful bike skills more than waching videos telling me why I need to learn useful bike skills

I love to pump propel myself, it's actually quite fun, especially on a boring, flat road

With a background of scootering and a tiny bit of skating pumping comes very naturally to me on a bike

Nice video Seth always enjoy them. Keep it up

I broke my chain miles away from where I was parked, gave me time to figure out what was the most efficient way to go forward, jumping and throwing the bike between your knees seems faster than "pumping", like way faster 😂

You can even track standing in place on a scooter. 10:28 Nice one. Love this trick. Furthest i have gone doing that is a mile and a half along a canal path after my chain broke. Also been discovering you can ride up certain stairs sets by hitting em fast and treating them like a ramp or roller. As long as they ain't too high you can shoto up em!

You have a sick house, Seth. Seriously. The garage alone!

Whilst not entirely necessary. I feel like both the track stand, and wheelie/endo pivots. Are skills that can be very useful on more techy and freeride lines...

The the slow Mo's audio is hilarious 🤣🤣 As a beginner these "tricks" are going to be entertaining when tracks are not a option but you still want to improve your biking skills Great content🤩👍

Track standing is an Essential skill for Cross Country Biking for me like for real they really are useful

I'd say if nothing else, all of these sills would help improve your overall balance and bike control...which is always a good thing

I managed to learn many of these "unnecessary" mtb when i started bmx and i think they are really usefull in some cases but they are mostly for style

As a predominately BMX rider it's funny to watch a lot of this stuff. Riding backwards and overall balance is a necessity in say street riding, where a lot of mountain bikers would struggle. But they can roast a berm in both directions and pump like nobodies business and leave me in the dust. I can throw a 360 down an 8 stair but turning to fast to the right side (my non dominant side) is so difficult for me lol. Crazy how different disciplines inside of cycling are so similar yet so different. Looking forward to getting better on the MTB side of things though. The feeling of suspension is so comforting, like rolling down a bumpy road in a Rolls Royce lmao.

Pumping on a manual pallet jack is pretty fun.

Yeah dude, dig that jersey too!

Some of this looks like magic to me.

Seth- Are you on Cameo? My 8 year old son is turning 9 in 2 weeks. He has been watching your channel since he was 4!! He’s ridden mtb’s since 5. He LOVES watching your channel and especially your older how-to videos. I would pay for you to do a birthday shoutout on Cameo for him. Thanks!

4:10 something great to do on smaller tabletops, i do it to sort of get myself in the landing earlier