This line had three table tops in a row, and I didn’t have great footing going into this last jump. This tabletop had a little lip and well…Ended up with a fancy high end titanium collarbone
How can I keep from crashing like this on the little baby tabletops😅. I’ve done jumps since, but I’m scared of the ones with lips
Crash I had a year ago-what went wrong?
byu/yungsterlingg inMTB
by yungsterlingg
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That’s a textbook dead sailor. It looks like you rode off the lip basically sitting on the saddle
Incorrect jump takeoff technique resulting in a dead sailor.
Ben Cathro vid: https://youtu.be/aPP3VxpruW8?si=nrkb-oBb2bP0OSd9
The problem I see here. It looks like you went over the handlebars, when you should have stayed on the bike.
You weren’t standing up.
You weren’t balanced – your pedals weren’t level
You didn’t push into the takeoff
You didn’t do any sort of ‘pop’ to get airborne
If you just ride into a jump and ‘do nothing’ your front wheel will start to head downwards while your back wheel is still heading upwards… rotating you forward into a nose-heavy landing or OTB.
I’m sure this sucked and I have also fallen plenty but this is very funny.
You were sitting down, stiff as a rod.
If you allow your arms to give way and absorb the lift on the front end, you have to be very sure you also use your legs to absorb the lift on the back end. If not, the back inevitably gets more lift and you get bucked. Worst case scenario is fully seated with limp arms, in which case you might damn near do a front flip. Good luck and stay safe!
Everything
Read the below comment I made on another post and go back to the pump track. We couldn’t see your take off but I’m sure you didn’t push against the lip with your legs, so when nothing was pushing back it pushes your rear wheel up which makes your front wheel go down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MTB/comments/1l1n3cz/comment/mvmc8f5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
camera is vertical. should be horizontal
The sound on this is so good.
That lil E.T was nice though
You suck at jumps obviously
Ouch! I slowed the vid down as much as I could and it looks like you’re sitting in the saddle on take off. Do you sit on takeoff? If so, you should never be sitting going off any jump. Get yourself a dropper post or lower the saddle with a quick release on the seat tube prior to starting the jump line.
It’s hard to see but if you are sitting, you should consider taking a mtb skills or get a good book on the subject. Will probably save you from future injury.
I think you tried to jump the jump instead of letting momentum do it for you and you were off balance. Glad you’re ok – or at least your thumbs still work 🙂
Looks to me like you leaned to far forward
ET, is that you?
Joking aside, you tried to send it with absolutely no technique. Like zero. Just went for it full speed, sitting, and pedaling.
Never rode MTB, never jumped myself. It only takes a little bit of observation to understand the key here: Positioning.
You stayed seated and got yeeted.
you were filming. filming causes wrecks.
Lool shit.
Dont be a passenger.
Stand. Up. To. The. Jump. Stand up to the jump.
What’s with these weird questions?
Dont hit the ground.
You didn’t land right
You filmed it. I wreck x3 as often if there’s a camera going 😆
Beacon?
Watch the video! You were sitting down on the seat and just fired over the lip, so your bike + gravity did the rest as you dead sailored over the bars.
🤣
I can’t seem to edit the post, so for context, there are three table tops in quick succession, upon landing the second one, my foot slipped off of the pedal, and as a result I ended up sitting on the seat.
What you’re seeing in the video is my just having gotten my foot back on the pedal without enough time to reposition.
Been here a month or two and I swear half the posts are just people jumping while sitting on the saddle, slamming into the ground, and then asking what went wrong. Like bro, your seat isn’t a launch chair.
You seriously underestimated the rotation needed for the front flip.
Mm… Beacon…
I’m just going to pretend you do a perfect stoppie. Nice work!
Yeet
Did your hands also slip off the breaks? Because if my feet weren’t on the pedals before going into a jump, I’d be hitting those breaks and aborting the jump. But I’m also not going to have a sweet full send video like you.