Yes, nobody ever suggested pinching in tight-technical areas. Pinching is used when moving along at a decent clip when the bike might get out of shape from hitting things like roots, rocks, dirt bumps, etc.



Again, we could argue semantics all day long, but generally speaking, people who are visiting the forums and are wishing to discuss "pinching" are usually riding an off-road motorcycle of some kind. Trials bikes don't belong in the same class as off-road bikes in my opinion, as they not only are totally different in design, but are even ridden totally differently. Its like comparing a down hill mountain bike to an off-road dirt bike. There are similarities, they can both do the same thing in reality, but we don't talk about MTB riding here because they are way smaller and have no motor. Yes, Trials techniques are great for slow situations going through super technical terrain. In fact, Shane Watt's and Kurt Caselli, teach trials techniques in-parallel with off-road/motocross techniques in their training videos. Guys like Taddy Blazusiak, use trials techniques all the time when riding enduro, its critical. However, once the speed increases, he's back to running off-road/motocross riding techniques.

So yes, speed dictates which skills you use. If your doing low-speed technical riding, then pinching isn't as important to learn. However, when one thinks of an off-road motorcycle, one should first think of going at a good clip speed wise. Which is where techniques like pinching belong...

The main thing that people seemed to be disagreeing with was your attitude of completely disregarding other people's experience and saying that somehow what they do isn't off-road, when for many of us, it is the epitome of off-road.   There are tons and tons of posts regarding trials in the off-road section.

If you think enduro is trials type riding then you either don't know what enduro is or you don't know what trials is.  

Your fancy pictures show that legs were touching the bike.  Is that the definition of pinching?  If it is then maybe I've always done it.  I have to make a concious effort to take my legs off of the side of the bike, but there is no gripping involved unless I try to.

You need to get some trail riding done outside your comfort zone.  I think you are missing out on the more gnarly side of off-road (yes on dirt bikes).

Yes, when your legs touch the bike, you are basically pinching it. How much force you put on the bike when your legs touch it, is up to you. You've gotta understand something, unless you're a really small person, your legs will NOT touch the bike if your just standing on it. It takes effort to actually bend your legs in to touch the frame. This is why knee braces are so kool, because they take-up the space you'd normally have between your leg and the bike, so you don't have to really put much effort into grappling the bike.