I’ve been riding for about a month, on my trek marlin 8 gen 2. any tips for my jumping skills.
Please be kind, i’m new to mtb and im young
by Ed_Likes_Bikes
I’ve been riding for about a month, on my trek marlin 8 gen 2. any tips for my jumping skills.
Please be kind, i’m new to mtb and im young
by Ed_Likes_Bikes
8 Comments
This is a great video, watch it:
https://youtu.be/s9w2zSvuaGM?feature=shared
Congratulations on the courage 👍🏻
Hit it faster my man! Loosening will come with speed and practice
Not enough speed, not hit with enough confidence your body starts to float instead of being with the bike
More speed. Your bike is losing inertia faster than you. It’s why you separate. You want your bike flying with you. Faster is safer, until it’s not. Good luck.
The first part of the video is way too slow. You should not hang in mid-air like this, gravity doesn’t like it.
/s
Is this a Trek Marlin?.
Take off looks awesome! Little more speed could help but speed up in small increments. Like each time a tiny bit faster. You leveled the bike out too which is good. When I was learning it helped me a lot to just session the same jump over and over making small adjustments to speed, yank strength, body position etc.. no joke I’d spend whole 2 hour sessions just hitting the same jump. doing the same jump over and over will let you get to know your body and your bike. YouTube is great for tips but at the end of the day the only way to learn is to find out what works for you.
Elbow pads and kneed pads are my tips and full faced helmet.