(I am not here to shit of the creator, I like his videos otherwise)
This is The Loam Ranger's evidence that his jump technique is good enough to teach to others. Taken from the infamous jump tutorial with millions of views on youtube.
His back wheel has left the lip almost an entire bike length before the lip is over and his legs are totally extended here.
Using this technique on bigger or steeper jumps will cause a dead sailor and most likely crash.
Please stop giving people this advice. It is bad.
I am sure I'll get ripped apart for this but I see this advice handed out in every jump post on this sub and someone is gonna get really hurt.
If you disagree with me please at least answer this- If this is how you're supposed to ride a jump what is the rest of the lip for?
by drugsovermoney
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I don’t disagree with you, but at the same time this advice is probably fine and even helpful for most average riders riding normal flow trail tables at average speeds. Steep dirt jumps lips are a totally different animal that most mtb riders will never touch in their riding career.
How bout, learn to ride your bike in a stand up position. Then get a few thousand reps on some small jumps and a few hundres hours in the pump track. Then you wont need some bad advice to get you hurt. You will understand how to jump from experience.
I found this to be very useful for learning and progressing up to steep lips. Agree it does not teach how to handle the compression from there on tight radius jumps. Trying to figure out how to adjust technique and fight that last foot of lip push on the back wheel that sends you forward.
The loam ranger is not a great rider. Ben Cathro has a better jumping video for learning technique.
The dude is kind of a kook and this is bad jump advice
It’s horrible advice. That dude doesn’t know what he’s talking about on much.
Depends on what you do with your upper body. If you just go limp arms after takeoff, it could be bad, but if you pull the bike bike and up toward you, you’ll boost to the moon and be poised for a good landing.