2. on a steep jump you SHOULDN'T be aggressively on your front - this is the same on a bike, skateboard, whatever. You should be balanced on approach, and if you manage to stay loose the bike will kind of tell you where the body needs to be. Don't try to force this to get on the front. Yes, you need to pump / push off / stand up from the lip but don't go up the steep trying to be aggressively on the front. Don't lean back either, unless you are going for a backflip.
Yes, I am no expert myself but you seem to be and that picture illustrates perfectly what I was trying to convey:
one needs to be balanced and listen to the bike for the steep portion, not try to get aggro on the front
Yeah, that Minaar video is more like an advanced technique. It's more of a "scrub", and a whip. I have the dvd, and it didn't work for me when I was still learning (and learning still). Try doing that when you are still learning, you'll probably end up on your back facing the sky.
But once in a while I come across a jump (always a larger one, 15 foot + air time) where the takeoff and landing really don't match up - like a mellow take off ramp onto a steep as hell slope.
So on those ones I come in rear wheel landing first which I hate (even pushing down on the handlebars and tucking my the rear under my butt doesn't make up for it).
Whats the correct technique for this type of jump, being weighted forward on the bike on take off so your nose will drop more aggressively than normal? or tapping rear brake in mid flight to bring nose down?
Muscle memory is actually the memories stored in the brain that are much like an accumulation of all the details of the muscle movements and thinking that is required when doing something like "jumping". It's a procedural memory that guides the rider to become very good at something through repetition, but in exactly the same way it can make the rider absolutely terrible at that same thing.
So it makes sense to practice but to practice proper technique. (I'm still learning and I appreciate threads like this)
Go to the pump track. Keep the bike from eating up the lip. Like other have said the vike want to soften the ramp. Preloading and letting the bike move into you untill the lip keeps you speed control.. eat your speed the pump track is very simaler. Dont let the suspeshion eat you speed and dont lwt you weight fight the ramp
I picked up a DJ bike to work on my jumps, but it definitely doesn't translate how to jump something that's a longer travel full suspension (6" or 8"), but it helps get the basics of the jumping and bike handling.
Much harder to jump a bike with suspension, so I'm curious about the differences. That, and the cool videos
I picked up a DJ bike to work on my jumps, but it definitely doesn't translate how to jump something that's a longer travel full suspension (6" or 8"), but it helps get the basics of the jumping and bike handling.
Much harder to jump a bike with suspension, so I'm curious about the differences. That, and the cool videos
I bought a DJ to work on jumps as well, jumping might be harder on a FS but the landings sure are easier. Getting bucked off casing a landing on a DJ is super sketchy. Anyone else find FS jumping more confidence inspiring as well?
Also ^^^^ on the Hastings jump up ther, that lip is even more vertical than the pic shows
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