Do you want to go higher? Stop sucking your back tire up and push through the lip.
Hopeful_Student6684 on
Little more speed wouldn’t hurt
AdventurousAd34 on
get better
Humble_Nothing6556 on
Push through the lip and pop
helium89 on
Looking at the last jump, you’re getting a good press with full leg extension, but you’re reaching full extension way too early. Try to either slow down your press or wait a split second longer to start your press so that your legs reach full extension right as your rear wheel reaches the lip. From a safety perspective, it’s probably a good idea to slow down your approach quite a bit while you’re playing with timing. It’s perfectly fine if that means you aren’t clearing the jump for a while. Once you get the timing sorted out, slowly bring the speed back up.
After you get really good at pressing all the way to the lip, it might be worth coming back and revisiting the earlier press that you’re using now. The early press results in a lower trajectory, and it is one way to handle kicky jumps at higher speeds (at really high speeds, you will need to learn to use a whip to scrub the jump, but the early press is a good skill to have). The key is to actively absorb the lip after you press. Currently, you’re absorbing a little bit right as your rear wheel reaches the lip, but you’re mostly letting the rear end kick you forwards. If you do the press the way you do in the video and then allow your legs to bend more as the rear wheel finishes the jump, you should stay lower and feel less like you’re about to go ass over kettle.
seriousrikk on
You don’t need to hump the stem.
It looms like you are extending nicely in that last jump, then as the front wheel goes off the lip you are moving your hips forward. Keep the hips back as you go up the takeoff – imagine a line drawn straight from the ground up through the bottom bracket, your hips need to be on or near that line. It looks more like you are standing bolt upright instead of staying in a good position on the bike.
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Do you want to go higher? Stop sucking your back tire up and push through the lip.
Little more speed wouldn’t hurt
get better
Push through the lip and pop
Looking at the last jump, you’re getting a good press with full leg extension, but you’re reaching full extension way too early. Try to either slow down your press or wait a split second longer to start your press so that your legs reach full extension right as your rear wheel reaches the lip. From a safety perspective, it’s probably a good idea to slow down your approach quite a bit while you’re playing with timing. It’s perfectly fine if that means you aren’t clearing the jump for a while. Once you get the timing sorted out, slowly bring the speed back up.
After you get really good at pressing all the way to the lip, it might be worth coming back and revisiting the earlier press that you’re using now. The early press results in a lower trajectory, and it is one way to handle kicky jumps at higher speeds (at really high speeds, you will need to learn to use a whip to scrub the jump, but the early press is a good skill to have). The key is to actively absorb the lip after you press. Currently, you’re absorbing a little bit right as your rear wheel reaches the lip, but you’re mostly letting the rear end kick you forwards. If you do the press the way you do in the video and then allow your legs to bend more as the rear wheel finishes the jump, you should stay lower and feel less like you’re about to go ass over kettle.
You don’t need to hump the stem.
It looms like you are extending nicely in that last jump, then as the front wheel goes off the lip you are moving your hips forward. Keep the hips back as you go up the takeoff – imagine a line drawn straight from the ground up through the bottom bracket, your hips need to be on or near that line. It looks more like you are standing bolt upright instead of staying in a good position on the bike.