- Welcome back to my series, you beautiful human beings.
Today is your lucky day,
I'm going to teach you how to use that jumping skill
before going out on to the trail.
Last time we showed you how to do the pump manual.
Today, I'm going to do the jumping part,
so let's go.
(soft music)
Ha ha ha.
Deja vu.
This is where I taught you
how to man your pump,
but we want to double this one.
So you're gonna need a lot more speed to do that.
So, we've got this section here.
This is where you can introduce
your manual pump skills
into manual pump in this double,
we're just pumping it to get more speed,
to double this one.
And this is where the body hop technique
comes into action to doing the jump.
We've spoken about this a lot.
Now what I mean by doing the body hop technique
to get the jump going on it
is you push down,
you're driving that front wheel up into the air,
pulling up on your hips,
curling your feet on the pedals
to lift the back wheel up, in the ground
looking ahead, spotting your landing,
dropping your front wheel in and your back wheel,
and landing safely.
But when it comes to landing on a pump track
it's super important you get this right
because you don't want to over jump
and kill all your speed.
Look at the length of this landing.
It's pretty short,
so we always say when jumping you land
two wheels a time.
It's a safe way of doing it,
but that's when you're out on a big jump
and on the trail.
On a pump track, if you land like this,
you're killing all your speed.
So the best way of doing this is by matching,
coming in, putting your front wheel
down first, pushing down through it,
again that back wheel as soon as it hits the ground,
you push and you're pumping through
to gain maximum speed through on a pump track.
I can't stress this enough,
by learning the skill early on in your riding,
by progressing from the smaller one
to a bigger one,
look at this, right.
Look how steep this is.
Kay.
You don't want to land this two wheels
because definitely that front wheel's
gonna dig in on the bottom of that bolt
and spit you over the bars.
So you want to get this technique
dialled in perfectly.
So you wanna get that front wheel in
and then match it with that rear wheel
and pump through.
Right now I'm going to demonstrate the two ways:
the right way and potentially the wrong way
and hopefully not crash.
(tyres whizzing)
Wow, that is the wrong way.
Now that was super uncomfortable.
Now for the correct way.
(tyres whizzing)
You get so much more speed
and it's way more comfortable.
Alright, this is the biggest jump on the pump track
so I'm gonna use two techniques to clear it.
First off, what I'm gonna do
is use the manual pump technique to get the speed.
The second one is I'm gonna keep that jump
quite low so I can clear the distance of this jump.
Alright, so you've built up
all that momentum and speed
and now you're gonna use it at your advantage
to clear this jump
so you don't want to use it to go up into the sky,
you want to use it to keep low
to clear the distance of this jump.
And that all starts off at the takeoff.
This can get a bit confusing
because I am actually teaching you
how to get some air,
but I'm actually teaching you
to get the air, but keep it as low as possible.
So your technique changes slightly,
so what you wanna do instead of exploding
up to get as much air as possible,
what you want to do is,
you're exploding, but you're bringing the bike
up more into you
and when you're bringing it up into you
you're pushing it forward
to drive the bike low and forward to clear the jump.
It's pretty hard to explain,
but just think of it as a low roof.
You're coming up, you're pulling up on the bike,
you're getting it up into you
and then when you're coming up into the air like this
you're pushing, you're driving it forward
so it's like you're doing a mid air pump.
So you're getting it and you're pushing forward
to drive that bike forward to match that landing.
So what you wanna do is use the speed
to get over the jump
not to get into the sky.
By using that jumping technique
that you've learned on the pump track
is super beneficial when you bring
it out to the trail.
Such a tabletop like this one right here,
yeah you can use that manual technique
to find out how much speed you actually need
plus if you don't have enough
speed you can kind of squish
and get that back wheel down.
Just to save yourself from doing a big case,
but then when you go back up you know
exactly how much speed you need
to actually clear the jump.
But when it comes to a bigger jump
such like this one here.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna squish it first
to find out if I've got enough speed to clear it
cause I don't want to go too high
if I just go off it, pull,
don't have enough speed, I'm gonna case it.
But when it comes to jumping it and boosting it
you want to come in with a lot more speed
so you got the trajectory of your bike
going up, yet you've got the distance as well
cause you're going a lot faster.
So all these skills that you learned
with jumping from the pump track
to the trail it'll be no time
until you're doing this.
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