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This /\ is the way. Changing bars and grips won’t help the issue much. It’s very likely a fitness/breathing/technique issue

Continue working on your technique (especially your breathing), strengthen your legs and core muscles…proper technique, with proper breathing and loose hands, loose wrists, loose elbows, loose shoulders…unless you’ve got a physiological issue with your forearms, they will solve your arm pump problem…grips, bar bends, whatever are only a tiny part of the problem.

Bars in middle neutral position. Renthal Half waffle grips.

Maybe try a straighter bar so your wrists aren't at an awkward angle. Also, use a fat bar style bar Move the perches in so your fingers extend on a natural angle to your sweetspot in the lever. When sitting on the bike in a neutral position, put your hands on the bars in a riding position, then extend your fingers - that's generally where you want your levers as far as angle. Make sure you're not reaching too far with whatever finger(s) you use. If you can, adjust the levers closer/further away. If I don't have my front brake...

Learn to point your toes in, stand on the balls of your feet and grip with your legs when braking, accelerating and cornering and jumping. Typically arm pump is a symptom of overgripping and squeezing with your arms.

Yes legendary, icon certainly, current ..... not in the fucking least. Certainly deserves all the respect, admiration in the world, as far as handling current 20 yr olds - when his peak was 50 years ago....I don't know. As far as managing a des nations team when he currently works for a competing team in the usa nationals and sx series, that is not expected to be functional in the day and age of multi million dollar international investments and industry. Gee Ford let your employees work for a Chevy manager for a week once a year, how would that...

I’m probably in the minority here, but to me it feels like everyone overanalyses technique. Eli, Jett, RC, Stew, RV etc all have VERY different riding styles yet are insanely fast on a bike.. Obviously having a proper terchnique is important but I don’t believe there is only one correct way..

He does pretty good for a non-profit. Kind of like the NFL.

ppl recognize his skill set & talent , their just thrown off by his trash talk which me personally I don’t have a problem with it as I stated before

Steve is an enigma to me. He's buddies with some legit dudes like RV and DV but he also is tone deaf when it comes to his "jokes" and self-deprecating humor about being a factory mechanic. To me he lacks a lot of perspective on real world stuff. Maybe this take is WAY off, but his particular brand of arrogance is common in the grown man with no kids demographic...there is just a lack of humility there. He tries too hard to be a contrarian a lot of the time, especially with JT. All that being said, he still has...

This is the way

I used to love Mathes and read/listen to all of his content…not any more.

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Who's Matthes?