yeah, but maybe you don’t have to compete with these show off 12 year olds
Looks like you’re getting a lot more height than last year when you posted some jump pics.
Ive been practicing about once a week. There is one jump line at the little bike park here that is 3 tables, It takes about 1.5 minutes to do a full lap up and down and I must have done 300 this month. Had some old dudes film me last time so I could see what I was doing and one of them corrected my form, it was helpful, but conflicted with other advice that ive gotten. I would love to know what ya’ll think.
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My elder shredder told me I was pre-loading too hard. Told me to keep my upper body still/quite and just squat down into the jump and slowly stand up as I went up the face.
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Younger shredder told me to smash the whole bike into the face of the jump and try to have the timing so that my suspension and knees are all fully extended as my rear wheel leaves the lip.
what do ya’ll do?
It depends on the jump for me. If it has a sculpted lip, I’ll pump into the face of the jump and pop off the lip.
Post covid me doesn’t jump much. I sold the DJ last summer, but it was fun for the time I had it.
I think a lot of it is muscle memory to get the timing right and being able to read the jump, which only comes with experience.
Bike park I was at two weekends ago had nice poppy lips. All I had to do was a “jumping off the curb” kind of sequence and it felt good/smooth. I was surprised. Like damn, I guess I’ve been hitting some pretty flat jumps by comparison.
i figured out the last few years how to boost much better, but was still chickening out on bigger jumps like this one where there’s a photog. so def have improved in that regard where i can go more upright on a wider range of jumps - though i usually don’t bother unless there’s a fun steep lip.
preloading too hard could potentially mean you jump early, i.e. your suspension is already rebounding before you take off so you sort of max out your momentum early.
the slow stand up is def the safer option - partially extent, let the bike take flight under you.
the full extension gives you max height, but this can actually fuck you up on some jumps because 1) it doesn’t work if the lip isn’t sculpted/gradually steepening up all the way up. 2) more height means a larger arch, so if you are barely clearing the distance, more height might mean you case it.
basically:
shallow tabletop = slowly stand up and let the bike come with you.
steeper lip = pull up, the steeper, the more you pull to ensure the front end comes up and the back doesn’t get kicked.
so, like @Crustradamus said, you have to read the jump. for me, the racier/low jumping is more natural and it has taken a lot of effort to overcome the muscle memory to do anything even mildly different. so, learn both ways now and you are good.
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Huzzah, we are finally getting some jumps and even drops here in Central PA.
Can the dirt jumper finally come out and play?!
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Damn that looks fun
They built three or four machine built trails here with some baby rollers and smallest of tables a few years ago here. It is pretty great. Since machine cut, kids and hybrids could roll the whole thing. Because in all that green ridges, it is rocky af.
It was just stunning it took even this long to get some pump track or dirt jumps in/around near town. But not as stunning when you understand upper middle class town is highly NIMBY. I mean, even Woodword 40 minutes down the road, and X-Games and great BMXer Jamie Bestwick couldn’t win them over to support mulitple options for bike shit in town, it was hard to imagine ever.
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What’s the deal with having stem length matched to fork offset? I’ve been diving into fit videos and this seems to be a new trend. There’s no logic other than it’s neat to match the numbers and feels good?
The consensus I got when I asked was that it had no real difference on handling.
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Wow. Val di sole was spicy 
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First draft of the Marino enduro sled. I’m trying to reuse everything from the Instinct.
I think I’ll lose the seat tube gusset. The effective seat angle should be 77.7, and I’d like to get the wheelbase under 1260.
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Where is this ?? I’m in Harrisburg.
This is Harvest Fields, right near Rothrock st forest on 322 before you get into State College. They have a few machine cut trails here that are also very family friendly, a few rollers and baby table tops.
This is the new skill section going in.
Lose the gusset as in shorten the seat tube, or raise the top tube, or ?
Raise the top tube so I can get my EDC pump under there, at least. I’ll probably have about 60 mm of seat post poking out, which should be enough clearance so I don’t buzz my butt when it’s fully dropped.
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But then where will your tiny fuckin framebag go? 
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Man, actually got a couple decent photos at the park this weekend, except the angle is so weird that you can’t see where the landing it so it looks like i’m just about to land on my rear wheel or something. when really i am just successfully executing my flawless bar hump trick until i learn another (ok I’ve been working on nose bonks as my 2nd trick, but per usual i can only do them on tiny jumps to start and no one would ever know i was doing it on purpose in a photo).
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Get me into going to the gym so I can do massive spills and keep on trucking
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Ain’t nothin to it but to do it