When you are turning you want your weight on the peg on the inside of
the curve, so making a left turn you would want your weight on the left foot. It sounds weird but it works and really allows you to turn harder through the whole turn as to where I always felt like the bike wanted to straighten out when standing through a turn. The only way to become a good standing rider is
1. To stand all the time if it hurts then you are doing it right and if you have a hard time standing at all do some weight training or weighted walking / hiking to build you legs to allow the stand. (A starting goal is stand for 1 hour straight while riding.)
2. Practice standing at very slow speeds, make sudden stops and starts without touching or removing feet, general trials riding techniques help big!
3. You need to practice and perfect your riding stance. What I mean here is your arm position, legs, body weight over the bike.
*If you stand too tall or straight your weight is off and also you can not attack terrain well. Too close to the bike you can't accept terrain changes or
little throws in the trail, hence the huge problem with trying to ride fast when sitting.
Hope it helps.
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