Originally Posted by
Baby Puke
The trend at the top level now is to have your holder basically push you up to the rail and give you a gargantuan push to get you going. You can see all kinds of photos of this on Instagram, the coaches seem to be having a contest who can give the most outrageous running push. I'm not getting that in my races, so I still do the corkscrew.
Thats definitely an interesting take on it. I wish I had a pusher like that! None of these riders had a push though - we all left from the inner rail under our own steam, no pusher available.
It just seems to me that to get up to speed to comfortably / safely ride round the top of the track in the corners on a big gear you need to put a big initial effort in for that first half lap. Corkscrew seems more efficient but the fast boys all went to the top straight away......maybe they just have enough fitness/energy to waste haha