You’re more just pulling up your bars as you roll.
Practice hopping on flat ground. Even bunny hops and high bar hops (j hop or horse hop some people call it). Get comfortable with your hips and glutes hovering further back.
When you’re comfortable there. Practice hopping with your front end high, then tucking the rear upwards and landing almost even. (Rear tire gracefully landing right before the nose).
Practice manuals, this will help you control the lowering of your nose. It’s foreign for quite some time, keep at it, slow speed, nose up, pump as your balancing and if you go too far back, just land on your feet. Get real used to a gentle lowering of that nose. You’ll get it right after a bunch of tries, then chase that feeling again. Like golf swings, pay attention to what you did right. Get in the groove and just keep doing the manuals as you coast around.
You want to preload with your posture as you approach (you can see you gave the fork a good push, which is good), then pop up when coming over the lip, front tire first and rear tire following through with the hop. (This involves more than getting the bike up in the air, it involves learning to set it back down more gracefully.) you can see your fork getting a full compression, if it can be adjusted, do that as well.
If you’re landing flat, aim for the graceful rear tire touchdown immediately before the nose guides down (think lowering the bike, not letting it fall) and if you’re trying to align to a landing, you’ll need to get used to shifting your body just a bit forward and the nose aiming down with a more even glide into the landing of the jump.
But it all starts with being able to properly hop.
As you get better, you’ll be prepared for gnarlier trails and be able to react by instinct to random drops, etc. there’s been times I’ve been following friends and we each pick slightly different lines, buddy rides a berm to the side of a drop, I last second need to react as the bike gets ready to soar. You’re building your reaction if you keep practicing your hops and jumps and continually focus on how each launch and land felt. They won’t always be perfect, you’ll case jumps, but you’ll get to a point where that’s rare and you feel really connected with how you’re controlling the bike.
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You’re more just pulling up your bars as you roll.
Practice hopping on flat ground. Even bunny hops and high bar hops (j hop or horse hop some people call it). Get comfortable with your hips and glutes hovering further back.
When you’re comfortable there. Practice hopping with your front end high, then tucking the rear upwards and landing almost even. (Rear tire gracefully landing right before the nose).
Practice manuals, this will help you control the lowering of your nose. It’s foreign for quite some time, keep at it, slow speed, nose up, pump as your balancing and if you go too far back, just land on your feet. Get real used to a gentle lowering of that nose. You’ll get it right after a bunch of tries, then chase that feeling again. Like golf swings, pay attention to what you did right. Get in the groove and just keep doing the manuals as you coast around.
You want to preload with your posture as you approach (you can see you gave the fork a good push, which is good), then pop up when coming over the lip, front tire first and rear tire following through with the hop. (This involves more than getting the bike up in the air, it involves learning to set it back down more gracefully.) you can see your fork getting a full compression, if it can be adjusted, do that as well.
If you’re landing flat, aim for the graceful rear tire touchdown immediately before the nose guides down (think lowering the bike, not letting it fall) and if you’re trying to align to a landing, you’ll need to get used to shifting your body just a bit forward and the nose aiming down with a more even glide into the landing of the jump.
But it all starts with being able to properly hop.
As you get better, you’ll be prepared for gnarlier trails and be able to react by instinct to random drops, etc. there’s been times I’ve been following friends and we each pick slightly different lines, buddy rides a berm to the side of a drop, I last second need to react as the bike gets ready to soar. You’re building your reaction if you keep practicing your hops and jumps and continually focus on how each launch and land felt. They won’t always be perfect, you’ll case jumps, but you’ll get to a point where that’s rare and you feel really connected with how you’re controlling the bike.