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Motocross JumpingStay neutral on a motocross bike when performing a jump. Learn about performing a motocross jump with tips from a professional motocross rider in this free video.
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Video Transcript: Motocross Jumping
In this clip I want to talk to you about jumping your motor cross bike. Jumping, obviously, the most fun part of motor cross bike or it can be as long as you do it right. The main part is really staying neutral on your bike. Get up on your bike. You go into the jump, which I'm sure you've already went around the track. You know, you really want to go around the track, learn your lips of your jumps, because there's a lot different, you know, some jumps are kind of more angled where you'll just launch off of them and kind of more for distance, some jumps are a lot lippier. So, you want to really pay attention to what kind of lips you're going to be hitting on your bike most of all, so stay in neutral. Squeezing your knees, cannot express it enough about squeezing your knees, because wherever your bike is squeezing your knees and your head is pointed straight your bike will follow. So, you're going to go up. You're coming up to the jump face kind of nice and neutral. When I say neutral I mean you're not too far back and you're not too far forward. You're in a nice neutral spot on your bike. So, when you get up to the jump face what's going to happen is your bike, your suspension is going to compress into the face. As that compresses into the face you're going to feel it. Then right when you're going to, just when you're leaving the lip it's going to tend to, it's going to, you're folley is going to, it's going to become uncompressed and it's going to shoot you up into the air. That's really when you want to feel out your body and get it; get it correctly right in the middle of your bike. So, you're kind of; let's say you're starting to go a little further back. If you're right in the middle of your bike just move your body up a little bit. Move your body up. It neutralizes the bike, gets you that balance. Let's say you're kind of already; you hit the lip of the jump and you're coming forward on it. Well, move that body back. Also a nice rule of thumb to do on your bike is when you're on your bike; if you start to endo a little bit, endo is when your front wheel is low, you give your bike a ton of gas, as much gas it is. It's what we call the panic rev. Not really something you want to hear or something you want to do, but it happens a lot. What that will do is get your; get your rear wheel rotating enough with enough mass and it'll; it'll try to; the gravity kind of pulls it back down to the ground. Say if you start to kind of come back and your front wheel is really high. It's what we call looping out. Then you're going to want; then you're going to want to grab on your clutch and hit your rear break. What that's going to do is it's going to stop your rear wheel from rotating and kind of naturally it's going to put your bike and want to; want to slap your front wheel down. Definitely techniques that are good to use, but you definitely want to have enough practice when you use them.
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