- Welcome back to my class today, I have five
skill tips that can help you increase your jumping.
This will improve in any aspects of mountain biking,
if it's on the jumps, or out on the trails in the woods,
we can get air.
These five tips are gonna help you.
That is relaxing, practise,
the speed, the bunny hop technique, and confidence.
All five of these are gonna help you in your jumping skills,
so let's get started.
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- Alright, tip number one out of five, relax.
This one's super easy to not do.
Basically, get all stiff in the air,
and end up doing a dead sailor.
Little tip here, keep your arms out in front of you,
legs bent, and just relax in the air.
Be confident, relaxing coming into a jump is crucial.
You don't want to stiff up on the lip,
because that's where the dead sailor happens.
It could buck you over the bars, or send you nose high.
So keeping a good body position coming into that lip
with straight arms, legs bent, and confident
that you're gonna do this jump, is key.
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Okay, so if you're not relaxed, you're not confident.
You've gotta be coming into this jump
with confidence, with any jump.
I still suffer with confidence sometimes,
especially when the jumps are huge,
my confidence gets thrown out the window.
I mean, like this jump here, you gotta commit to it,
you gotta be confident that you're gonna clear this gap.
Just relax, but be very confident when hitting big jumps,
or any jump for the first time.
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Some of you that are watching this are struggling
to get high off those jumps,
but it's all about the technique, the bunny hop technique.
It's taken me years to perfect this,
to get the maximum height out of a huge jump, or any jump.
But this all starts in the bottom of the bowl.
It's all about preloading your bike, pushing your bike
into the ground, dropping your heels,
moving your weight over your pedals,
whilst you're riding up the lip.
You explode upwards,
pushing like this, not pulling,
'cause that's gonna send you nose high.
Exploding up, and then coming out,
at your peak, push forward to match that landing.
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This jump's pretty big,
you're gonna need a lot of speed to hit this one,
so that's my next tip, speed, judging your speed.
It really comes down to experience.
Look at the jump from the side,
see how big the gap is, and then move to the front.
The take-off, the business area of the jump,
look how big it is, judge it,
and then you move on to the rollin'.
So, now, to calculate how much speed you need
to hit this jump, basically,
it all comes down to experience.
Do I needa pedal, or do I just roll in?
If there's a local around that's hit this jump
and knows the correct speed, maybe ask him to trail him in,
or ask for information about doing this jump.
Alright, I think I've worked out the speed,
it's just rolling in for this one, maybe pumping a few bits
but just remember, speed is not always your friend.
Going too slow can hurt,
or going too fast can overshoot this jump.
I'm gonna give it a go, just roll and pump, right.
Wish me luck, eh?
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I overjumped that first one a little bit,
so a little bit less speed, which caused me
to case the next one,
but this comes onto my
last and final tip.
Number five, practise.
It's all about practise, practise, practise.
Practise makes perfect.
The more you do it,
the better you're going to get at anything.
A trick, a jump, speed, a course, anything.
Practise, practise,
practise.
I'm gonna hit this again.
This time, I'm gonna get it.
Butter smooth.
Maybe a trick.
(tyres whirring)
(laughs) Wow.
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