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    Would you help me to break down the differences in this jump?

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    1. nedapaz on

      Hey there.

      So my friend is able to even overshoot this little lip (he was demonstrating me how to boost it), but I can’t even reach the second log without smashing my back tire against it. My brain can’t really make the connections to understand the things I am missing, so I would really appreciate your help to understand what I am missing.

    2. MountainOfTwigs on

      First: are you wearing helmets? If no, buy some. Bones grow back, your brains wont.
      Second: “boosting” of a lip is so similar to a bunnyhop i would suggest applying that technique there. If you cant do an English bunnyhop, go learn that.

    3. NotTheSharpestPenciI on

      He jumps, you don’t, you lose ground under your wheels and that’s your air time. Practice bunny jump on flat, then once you get it, use it here.

    5. DIY_at_the_Griffs on

      I’d say the one on the right looks to be jumping before the ramp and the ramp is absorbed by the suspension / any little height gained from hopping.

      The left appears to jump on the ramp gaining some air from it.

    6. st0pmakings3ns3 on

      You do the same thing as i do: you absorb the jump rather than push into it and junp actively.

    7. willstones95 on

      I think you (I guess you’re the one on the right) are doing the jumping motion too early, at the moment of jumping you have too much weight on the front of the bike making the rear wheel bounce off the lip, which is quite dangerous on bigger jumps because it can lead you to go OTB. I’d say you should try focus on going high instead of far, getting as much airtime as possible and distance would just come by itself.

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