- Woah.
Wow!
Man, this location is sick,
the dirt is perfect for digging in.
Today is the day
where I show you how to build a progressive jump,
one that you can progress on,
and like,
just get all your skills up together, but first,
you need one of these.
The spade.
The perfect tool for digging.
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Right, it's location, location,
where you're gonna build this jump.
You want a super-easy run in.
You don't necessarily need a slope
just like this one behind me,
but in the future,
when you've progressed on this little jump,
and you want to go bigger,
you're gonna need more speed.
That slope
is definitely gonna come in handy.
But you don't really want to be building
in a location where there's a foot path,
a lot of foot fall from the public,
'cause it might just get knocked down and all your hard work
is gonna get destroyed and thrown out the window.
But yeah,
this spot right here looks like the perfect
spot to build a jump.
It's easy run in,
and the dirt is perfect to dig with.
So, the base of this jump
is a little bit of a civil-engineering thing going on.
Basically, the wrong way of building a jump is going
from this, straight up.
It's gonna topple over.
It's not gonna be structurally strong.
But, on the other hand, when you build a jump that's
let's just say four foot wide on the bottom of your base
and it works up to two foot, it's a bit like a pyramid.
It's gonna be structurally strong.
It's not
gonna fall over.
Best thing for me I've worked out that
you get your bike,
to mark it out
and that wheel base is the perfect base layer
to your landing of your jump.
Okay, so now the second
dimension
is how big are you gonna make your jump?
Well, for a beginner,
your bike
is the perfect length
and gap
for the jump.
Right, so you've got your dimensions,
the length,
the width, the everything.
Now, to start building.
That's gonna take awhile, but a little pro tip from me,
is you're in the woods,
and there's a lot of dead logs laying about,
putting them in the jump
and covering them with dirt,
safely,
is gonna cut down the lot of work.
But just don't go and put
like an old bicycle or whatever's laying around
that's metal in the jump.
It's not gonna be safe.
And you don't want to cut yourself on that horrible stuff.
So, yeah, let's go find some logs.
(whistling)
Oooh-hoo!
(whistling)
Oooooooh, lucky day!
Look at that, it's like digging for gold.
(whistling)
Ah man, so long digging.
What?
(gasp)
(whistling)
I needed you; you were the last one I was looking for.
Alright.
Last one,
in.
It's pretty easy to go overboard when
collecting loads of logs.
Building a jump just with logs is not gonna be safe.
You want the dirt to cover all those logs so,
if they aren't, you know, the odd thing happens and you fall
on a log, it's gonna hurt.
You wanna make it safe.
So that's the perfect amount of logs.
Now to cover it with dirt.
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A little tip here,
don't tend to
dig deep holes right near where you're building this jump
because
that hole's gonna be an obstruction
and if you fall in it,
it's gonna hurt
or do some damage.
So try and dig
around, or scrape the ground, instead of digging deep holes.
Scraping is the same as digging a deep hole,
you probably get more dirt, for scraping a whole area.
(slow rock music)
Okay, so you've got
the rough shape.
Now it's to
carve that little sand castle jump
out of that dirt you've just stomped in, so,
best way of doing it is walking down the landing,
making it not so steep, 'cause you want to land on it,
don't want to land in another take-off.
So walk down, make it a little bit hard,
make the dirt compact.
Push the dirt down.
Another question
you've been asking, whilst watching this video,
is how tall
are you supposed to make this jump?
Well, for this one, in proportion of the size of the jump,
I recommend two foot
is the
pretty much optimum height to build it.
If you're gonna go bigger, you wanna get more higher,
so you're gonna build it taller.
(slow rock music)
♫ Heeeey, hey
♫ Heeey, hey
- Right, when it comes to the lip end,
aka the business end,
you don't want to just carve out that lip straight away,
'cause it's gonna be super soft,
and a super soft lip
can send you over the bars.
So what is
a good tip
get it real solid,
whilst building it, give it a good stomp with your feet,
with a spade, walk up and down it,
like the landing, walk up and down, get it hard,
and when it's hard,
really hard,
then you can think about
carving it up.
Stand on top of the table,
just carve it.
Doesn't need to be super steep.
'Cause it just, it's gonna give you enough,
enough air time
and not kick you.
You don't want a kicky lip.
There.
Done.
Solid.
That
is a table top.
That is a basic way on how to build a jump to progress
your jumping skills.
You can spend hours
through the day, through the weekend, after school,
progressing your jump skills.
But yeah, I think now
I need a bike to guinea pig this thing.
We've got one right here.
(rock music)
So there you go.
My basic tips on how to build a jump
just like that table top behind me.
Didn't take me that long at all,
an hour, an hour and a half,
but if there's four of you dudes
out there in the woods,
gonna take you no time at all.
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