So I thought I had jumping down pretty good until I started trying to learn how to boost off the jump. After hitting the trails and attempting this I ended up eating shit and it's gotten in my head. I think I'm timing the leg extension a little too early. Wanted to get some thoughts on my form.
Jump form
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by throw123sy
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I’m not really a good person to listen to since I don’t know much…but it looks to me like you have the form down for the takeoff but yeah might just have the timing a little early. Once you’re in the air, the thing that looks off to me is your back wheel starts coming up properly and then just….stops. Not sure what you’re doing to totally stop it’s rotation but the end result is your back wheel coming down way earlier than your front.
Compared to what I see out of the GMBN guys or Skills with Phil, etc they keep that back wheel rotating up and land both wheels at pretty much the same time. Maybe you need to shift your weight backward more while you’re in the air? They’re basically standing straight up on takeoff and then kind of shift down and back/push the bike forward in the air to get that back wheel up.
Definitely watch the youtube vids on jumping.
The two main things I see wrong are you aren’t pressing into the jump all the way through. So you’re ‘jumping’ before the end of the jump’ and you also landed back wheel first. This makes your landing unstable. You will want to match the landing with both your wheels. You can accomplish this by pushing your handle bars down to match it. This will stop you from feeling like you’re dead sailoring so much also.
You seem to absorb the lip by bending your knees at the point when you should be pushing away with your feet and standing up.