Ate shit ladies and gents. Not sure what I did exactly. Am I too heavy on the front on this one ?
Advice? Have never bucked on my FS but did on my HT
byu/Datwagg63 inMTB
by Datwagg63
Ate shit ladies and gents. Not sure what I did exactly. Am I too heavy on the front on this one ?
Advice? Have never bucked on my FS but did on my HT
byu/Datwagg63 inMTB
by Datwagg63
9 Comments
Before I read your description, I felt you were too heavy on the front going over the lip.
You also seem to be jumping off the bike, instead of compressing into the bike during the transition, then releasing at the lip.
I can’t quite tell what made you launch the way you did, but it almost looks you decided to crash with how you just suddenly turned the bars >90 degrees from the direction of travel.
Damn good effort! To me it looks like you got the pop and body postion a bit off.
At :002 you push your body up off the bike with your legs pulling the pedals with you. Since you aren’t blancing that force at the front, the back wheel comes up really high and your front wheel goes down.
The motion should be more push rather than pull. Next time try standing up almost vertically as you come through the ramp of the jump, pushing with both your hands and then your legs at the lip to get a balanced take off.
The best video I’ve seen is from Loam Ranger – take a look! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9w2zSvuaGM&pp=ygUhbG9hbSByYW5nZXJzIHN0YW5kIHVwIHRvIHRoZSBqdW1w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9w2zSvuaGM&pp=ygUhbG9hbSByYW5nZXJzIHN0YW5kIHVwIHRvIHRoZSBqdW1w)
There’s a ton of jumping advice you need. Don’t have time to go deeply into it, but it’s available all over the web/youtube. Or take a jumping lesson, they’re amazing.
The one big glaring thing I’ll point out is you’re pushing your front end and bike down as soon as it begins to leave the lip (which is almost always what causes bucking) because beginners are afraid of the air time proper technique produces. Instead of pushing your front end forward/down as it leaves the lip, get centered, be very light with your hands, push into the jump with your feet and let your bars come up and into you. You gain a shit ton of control doing this. Once you get it, you’ll be like “oh fuck, ok.”
Jumping hard tail is slightly different in timing and effort pumping and and pulling etc, go again on a smaller jump and just work it out, on a hard tail your not having to counter the effects of the shock like you would on your fs
To me it looks like you’re way too used to scooping your back. It can work on full sus as rear compresses by itself going into the jump, and you just pop it back out, but on HT it obviously isn’t going anywhere and you’re just scooping your back up. That’s a sign of entirely wrong technique to begin with, and I’d highly recommend to train things on HT as it tolerates much less and makes you do it right
OG jump line? Great trail, spent many hours up there
You pulled with your feet but not with your arms.
A buddy of mine, who was way better at getting air than I’ll ever be, described the jump motion as a clean and jerk one. I find this to be particularly true on a hardtail as you can’t preload the way you can on a FS.
Get your weight back a little more and practice that clean and jerk right as your front wheel is leaving the lip.