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- Right, big table tops
yes bike parks have these things
all over the place
and they are big.
And everyone wants to hit
the biggest table top.
They want to clear it
just to show off to their mates.
I hit the biggest table top out there.
So why are table tops great?
Well the best thing about the table top
is you can case that
and be completely safe.
If that was a gap jump and you cased it,
it'll totally wreck your confidence.
So table tops' a great place to build your confidence.
You can concentrate
on your pop off the lip,
you can concentrate on how much speed you need
to clear that thing,
just like these guys.
Look at that!
You don't even have to jump it.
He manualed it.
This guys coming in with a bit of speed.
Not enough to clear it,
but he's practicing
his jumping skills.
It's a super safe place
to learn how to build
your confidence on clearing big gaps.
And the best thing about this thing is
if you can clear a 20ft table top
like that one behind me,
you can clear a 20ft gap jump
out there on the trail.
It's all about building your confidence.
And it's all about being confident
hitting big jumps.
If you're not confident
you just going to stiff up
and it's not going to be comfortable.
Right, a great thing about this table top is
that it has a really long landing.
So if you coming in a little too hot
a little bit too much speed
and you find yourself flying
at the end of that knuckle
and landing quite far down
you going to still to be landing
on bit of landing
you're not going to be landing flat
and that is going to fill you with confidence.
And that's the biggest secret
about hitting big gaps,
is being super confident.
Believing in your skills,
knowing you can actually jump it.
You want to be relaxed,
you don't want to stiffen up
because that's where
it all goes wrong.
But, another point is,
you don't wanna be too confident.
You like, you see a big gap
I can hit that
but inside you're like
whoa man that's too big.
You gotta be careful.
That's the secret.
Confidence.
Let's go hit a big gap now.
Man, I've been thinking about this gap
It's pretty big, it's across a big chasm,
across a river
It's huge man.
I'm gonna get down there
and show you the thought process
on how to hit huge gap jumps
like that one.
It is
pretty big.
Right, this is this gap
I spotted from the left
and first impressions is
Bosses Only.
I think I'm alright,
think I'm alright.
but I'm still intimidated
because it's a blind jump,
it's quite big
so you don't know
how much speed you want
to come into it
until you jumpin' off.
The best about this thing is
it's quite a long landing
so you can go a little deep.
But another thing is,
is the lift.
And other riders are going to be watching me do this
so that's another thing to take into
consideration in my head.
But looking at the line actually
it all starts
way up there.
Right, yes the line coming into this thing
is key 'cause there's a big table top here
and it turns into it
so you going to be a little bit
you going to be going quite fast to clear
that big gap anyway
so for me already
I'm already spotting my line
I'm going to jump right is right
so I can aim myself straight enough
into that
you don't want to go to far left
because you got a little bit of a
drainage problem going there
and that's going to hinder your
entrance into that jump.
And also if you feeling a little bit
intimidated hitting that on your own,
you can hit it with a friend
training a friend
We've got Nico Vink here
I'm going to train him in
'cause I don't know this speed
He's just jumped it
so I'm going to follow him
get the correct speed
and I'll feel a lot more comfortable
following someone
instead of just launching to flat.
Yeah? - I agree
I'll train you into it.
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- Wow!
It's, you know you trust in your mate
to train you in
and you mess up on the speed.
I cased a little bit
- Did you? - Yeah
I don't know like just a--
- Yeah yeah
- ...just a buzz but
Should we do it again?
- Yeah, definitely
- Let's do it again.
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- Yeah, first time we did it
I thought we we were going to clear
that table before but we didn't.
- I was a bit worried
I was like why you manualing this table?
- Yeah, I was having fun and I forgot about it,
(laughs)
I think it's better to come in with trail speed
- Yeah, that's pretty key actually
coming in with trail speed alot.
You know you can over jump this a little bit.
- I would rather over jump than come up short.
- Than come up short that's for sure.
- Yeah - Cos you don't wanna land
in the hole. - No, you don't wanna.
- No. - There's safety netting.
- Yeah
- It's not going to help a lot (laughs)
- Even following a friend
that's a, you know.
He's confident.
(laughs)
But yeah, trail speed is key
when you come into things like this,
you don't want to go to slow.
- Yeah
- And I'd rather over jump this
than under jump it.
- [Camera Man] What is trail speed?
- Trail speed means you clearing
every obstacle with ease.
So you're not casing it,
you're not over jumping it,
you've got everything quite perfect.
You got the flow.
Trail speed is perfect.
- Yeah
No brakes, no--
- No brakes, you chillin'.
You not putting in some quick peddles
'cause that's when your confidence
is going to get shot out the window.
'Cause you don't know if you're going fast enough.
- Yeah. - Should we do it again?
- Yeah.
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- I'm buzzing the seat though.
- Are you? - Yeah
- You bottoming out or is your seat just too low?
- I think it's to low, maybe.
- Maybe
- It's quite flat that.
- Yeah, it's quite flat landing.
- So downhill bike worthy.
- Yeah
(laughs)
- Trail bike.
Nice, that was better.
- Yeah, way better.
- A bit more trail speed.
- Yeah
Smoother for sure.
- Mission complete.
- Yeah.
- Should we go hit
some more gaps?
- Yeah, let's find some bigger stuff even.
- Alright Nico, we're at the top of Chatel
This is your line
it is huge, it is fast
There's some two big tables
right behind us right here.
Man, tell us the do's and don'ts
on how to ride these things.
- Yeah, I will
(laughs)
First of all like always check it out
like roll down the hill
and scope like-- - Yeah
- Check out the steepness of the lip,
how far you got to travel in the air
because like riding or watching that thing
definitely changes your perspective.
- Alright, also I think a good tip is
to see who's riding the trail
and then when they come back up to the top
wrack their brains
ask them a few questions
on how much speed you need to hit this jump
or do I need to scrub speed to hit this one
'cause it's a little bit of a jump here
'cause you coming in to fast.
All things like that are pretty good.
Also again following a friend in.
I hit this kind of blind but I did ask you a few
questions on what's coming up on the trail
step by step so I kind of remembered that
and I just followed you to check my speed.
- That's what I do as well
even like any big jump usually when I got
I'm not sure I just follow in a friend.
- Yeah.
- Or someone that's done it before that I trust.
- Yeah.
- And that's one of the main...
- Yeah yeah.
'Cause it is super scary
when it comes to big jumps like this,
You don't want to mess up 'cause
you're going really fast
and the consequences are quite high.
- Yeah, definitely.
- And also, another thing
So if someone comes in and he cases
the big one at the top there,
the first table top
would you go for the next one,
would you try would you put in some cranks
to get speed to hit this or?
- No I would shut it down
and just like roll it
go up again take another lap
and build your way up to clearing the jump, like safely.
Like especially when you hit a jump the first time,
make sure you nail your run in.
- Yeah.
- And your jump before.
- Yeah.
- Everything's dialed. - Yeah, yeah.
Talk about being dialed
suspension on a a full suspension bike
especially on a downhill bike
you want to get that set up quite well.
Talk us through how you set yours up for jumps.
- Yeah, my suspension's a bit different from
most people riding
because I've got all the fast serious stuff
and all the big jumps I'm used to running
a way more ridged setup
- Yeah.
- Hard set up, slow rebound
- Yeah.
- And it's the same for this kind of riding.
- Yeah.
- Like so if you're riding a downhill trail
and your suspension's ideal for that
it's probably not going to be for this
with the high compressions and all that stuff.
- Yeah and the rebound
you don't want to have too much rebound
on that rear shock 'cause when you come into a lip
you going to suck it up
and it's just going to ping you.
- Yeah.
- Kind of send you a bit front heavy.
- Yeah.
- Into that nose dive
so you want to slow down that rebound
slow down that compression slightly
so don't boggen the lip
and kind of get the bike nice
and level in the air.
And also when you actually jumping a big jump
you don't really want to
work a big lip do you?
- No.
- 'Cause its going to kind of send you
in that way as well.
- Yeah.
It depends like if you're high speed
you're like gentle
on the take off.
If you got the margin to over clear
if you're not if you're a bit slow you can
pull back but that's
depending on your skill and what kind of terrain
you're riding-- - Yeah yeah
- and everything.
- I saw on a big long one like this 15 meters
kind of go up with the front wheel
a little bit high as well,
I wouldn't wanna kind of level up quickly
'cause that could also send you
nose heavy so don't be to worried
about getting a bit front heavy,
I mean front high-- - Yeah
- And land a little bit back wheel
and front wheel.
- Definitely, fully agree.
- Yeah.
- If anything front wheel up
if anything happens tap the rear brake
to get it down again.
But if you're nose heavy
there's nothing you can do-- - You're dead.
You cannot get out of--
- Yeah - You cannot get out of
going over the handle bars.
- Yeah - Right.
- So you don't want to... - Yeah.
- You don't want that to happen.
- So go front up.
- Yeah.
- Is pretty safe
if worried about hitting a big jump
just do that. - Yeah
- Get a few tips on hot to hit humongous jumps
just like these ones in this video.
Hopefully this helped you out
conquer that fear
helped you with the technique
it's all about being super confident
don't be too over confident
'cause it could end in tears.
Thank you so much to Nico for helping us out
get us through this little tutorial.
But if you wanna be at the stage
where you want to hit some huge jumps,
click this video right here
because it can help you.
I'll give you the right technique on how to
start to jump and get up into the air.
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