Hold the ‘attack position’ longer, ideally until the bike reaches the lip of the jump, then pop from the hips. We can’t see your entry position: you ‘pop’ in the first few frames of the video, just as the front wheel enters the ramp.
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I think you are doing a few things.
Firstly, you seem really stiff leading up to the lip. If you are wanting to boost off of something, there needs to be a pressured pumping motion with your legs and arms.
Second, once you leave the lip there is an ever so slight forward shift in your shoulders that results in a noticeable loss of momentum, since your back wheel is still on the lip, it results in the bike wanting to dip forward.
Thirdly, as a result of the second, you shift your hips back pretty far leaving your arms pretty extended and your center of gravity further back. This motion pulls the remainder of your momentum out, and puts you at a suboptimal landing position.
Tie all these together and you’ve got a “cautious” method for small jumps that will quickly turn into dangerous and risky method for bigger jumps.
The motion you use for the rest of that pump track is the same as you should use on the jump, if you think about it, a jump is just a really big roller with the top cut off, so treat it like one. Generally speaking, shifting your hips too far over the front or back of the bike is a recipe for bad control, you never want either sets of limbs to be fully extended, because then you don’t have anywhere to go.
TL;DR: pump the lip, pump the landing, move your hips and shoulders towards the bike rather than back or forth, aim for the moon
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Looks fine to me.
You maxed out your pump and pop too early
Hold the ‘attack position’ longer, ideally until the bike reaches the lip of the jump, then pop from the hips. We can’t see your entry position: you ‘pop’ in the first few frames of the video, just as the front wheel enters the ramp.
I think you are doing a few things.
Firstly, you seem really stiff leading up to the lip. If you are wanting to boost off of something, there needs to be a pressured pumping motion with your legs and arms.
Second, once you leave the lip there is an ever so slight forward shift in your shoulders that results in a noticeable loss of momentum, since your back wheel is still on the lip, it results in the bike wanting to dip forward.
Thirdly, as a result of the second, you shift your hips back pretty far leaving your arms pretty extended and your center of gravity further back. This motion pulls the remainder of your momentum out, and puts you at a suboptimal landing position.
Tie all these together and you’ve got a “cautious” method for small jumps that will quickly turn into dangerous and risky method for bigger jumps.
The motion you use for the rest of that pump track is the same as you should use on the jump, if you think about it, a jump is just a really big roller with the top cut off, so treat it like one. Generally speaking, shifting your hips too far over the front or back of the bike is a recipe for bad control, you never want either sets of limbs to be fully extended, because then you don’t have anywhere to go.
TL;DR: pump the lip, pump the landing, move your hips and shoulders towards the bike rather than back or forth, aim for the moon