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Flats -as long as I stick with clipless I don't think I'll ever properly use weight transfer to move the bike around, instead I'll just pull my feet up. This works for hopping branches, and you can take a load of speed into a jump and pump into the face and go quite a long way, but there's a limit to how much you can develop, for me anyway. I've already made progress on bunny-hop style jumping that has eluded me for the past 30 years, but I'm a long way from comfortable.
I may well go back to clipless, but I am going to stick with flats for a while to try to break some bad habits and learn some good ones.
QECP - first time actually riding there rather than passing through, they could do with a few more signs! The red is steep, narrow, and switch-backed, more of a climb than anything else. The blue is more open and flowing, spending a lot more time going down, and I did enjoy that more, but was picking my way through both of them due to the pedal situation