You’re a great mtb jump teacher and a friend to this guy … got so much value watching. I’m like your friend, natural talent, just never had the luxury of an instructor or peers. Living off of luck

Seth from Berm peak made a video about this as well. Not in the terms of “helping with jumping “ but just on how to make the trail more creative. So I practiced that almost everywhere, and when I transferred that to a roller ,,, woah ! Felt it click, it felt so right. Have now taken it to table tops, etc

It would be much more helpful to have you demonstrate what you’re trying to impart rather than just saying what he did wrong. If you showed the proper way in your own mind, what would be correct and compared it to what he was doing that would be much more helpful.

The crucial part is to explode only at the end of the lip or you get bucked. Everything else is basic bunny hop technique. Down and back, up and forward goes your body (not the bike!)

Great video! Saw myself in the video as I also used to have the habit to pop too early. Good to know it’s quite common for beginners. The only fix is to practice more. MTB hopper definitely helps here but you need a gap that forces you to take the full transition like it was shown in the video.

Seems like he's too immature to follow simple directions, trying to show off in vain

Its incredibly hard to fix bad habits while jumping. Do it wrong too many times and it becomes muscle memory. 15 min a day practice focusing on technique, repeat everyday for a week or two and you should be gettimg straightened out. Do not push the session past 15 minutes. Think about completely pushing off the transition and how it feels, after lights out / phone down at bedtime.

Great channel and excellent video! I have exactly the same issue with my jumps.

I really enjoy how you explain things Josh. The slowmo on the ramp was so helpful to watch. Love the stick idea too, last week Dan and I were contemplating rigging up some PVC pipe in a similar way to push our height on jumps. However, we thought putting something like that on a public jump would not be a good idea, lol. I guess that's where the portable jump really helps. Kudos to your buddy for helping you create this video.

I'm another in the trying to get in the air too soon club, definitely need to delay my pop. Good video.

Penny just dropped for me 😮. Always rode bmx street but not jumps. I have a good bunny hop (tucking that back wheel to clear stuff) but i either dead sailor or case mtb jumps constantly. I might as well be watching myself right there.

You have a prior video where you used two cameras to record your jump and show how way different the view perspective is from the rider’s perspective vs. a stationary camera recording from the side. The rider camera made it look as your front wheel was over the lip, so, naturally, you would already be fully extended by that point, ready to fly off. But the stationary profile camera showed really how far away you actually were from lip of the jump, meaning you extended fully way too early. That totally ties in with this video where you explain your friend extends too early (before the lip) causing him to ride the rear wheel for too long and getting out of shape before the rear finally is in the air. Very helpful video (it’s just one of the things I do wrong).

Another great tutorial. The breakdown of where to focus plus mixing up the scenery is great.

Former moto guy here, I had a hard time adjusting to the pop timing myself. Especially on small jumps. Why? Throttle. On a dirtbike, in the face of a jump, you feel the bike compressed. At the same time, you roll the throttle. Similar position, knees forward, chin over the bars. Sometimes, on a moto, you do coast or float jumps, but that's its own weird thing. SO. I know exactly what he's doing, and you are exactly right. Rep. Rep. Rep. For the timing. Just like a moto, once you "feel" it, you'll know it. Me, I nailed it down on the smaller 3 pack of jumps at Windy Ridge. Cheers,

Great advice. I do the same thing when I pop way too early. Hard habit to break but not impossible. I concentrate on heels down.

This isn't the same way to hit steep face jumps though right? Like a 6-7 foot high steep face jump?

I'm working on exactly the same thing right now. I tend to stand up too early while the back wheel hasn't left the lip yet. Even when I consciously try to wait longer, I still haven't got the right timing quite down yet. Still working on it though, and having video of it really helps.

dude that first jump that he sent with the non-intentional can.... i would have stopped for the day right there and then and tried again tomorrow

Nothing feels worse than floating through the air, off-balance, crooked, and frozen. It's a confidence killer and creates a phobia of jumping. If you can find the issue, you can fix the issue. peace.

tested this at my first jump line today. lip to landing. cleaned up so many problems i was having.

After watching this, I went to Lowes and bought 2X4….

Thank you so much, brilliant teacher, can’t wait to get back to the trails and try to replicate your advice

I always do that bump jump on trails just for fun but never put it together that it’s the same movement for bigger jumps, which I have a hard time with. I will be riding this location soon and it’s good to know that I don’t need to hit the tabletop with speed to clear it.

Awesome tips thank you!

Mate! This is the third video of yours I've watched on the trot. This advice is so useful. Thank you! Subscribed.

This is the best one I’ve ever seen.

Nnnnuts. I listened to you explain and watch you do it: it’s a bit of a chess game having to think 2, 3 steps ahead while keeping the bike rolling/dropping/hopping. No doubt I’d die even while wearing airbags.

Luv bump jumps ! Once there every bump is a jump regardless of size . Bigger jumps and gaps is a bit more deceiving though ... Thanx for taking time to put this out .

Nice

Such a good Breakdown💯💥🤟

Very good idea but a few tweaks to the execution and you will be an amazing editor 👍

Npc ass comments bro

I thought you put a lot of helpful info into this video and put it in easy to understand terms. I do wish you had shown the move in real time a few times. It is helpful to break it down in slo-mo/stop time but also real time.

Hi bro I really appreciate your content this video has helped me a lot, a how to drop video would be sick as well

0:33 wtf happened in your trunk? Nice Video =)

Sweet, gonna try it right now!

This was an excellent breakdown of techniques that was done quite well. I'm trying to move on to steeper face jumps/lips and struggled a couple days which led to me doing some research. This video is unique and very good.

Is that a Propain Hugene? I'm ordering one soon. What do you think of the quality?

Thanks man, just started riding again since I was a kid. I used to do all this stuff-but helping me to remember for sure and this is giving me some great warm up/practice ideas.

Looking forward to doing this.

Thanks, great info! I’ll get some 2x4s laid out tomorrow and practice that!

shoot video from the ground one. i think the zoom in and zoom out transition is a good idea but doesn’t work well in execution. maybe tweak that a bit? getting there. i think little tweaks like that is all your missing to get these videos to pop

Coolzers

Oh man, so much good info here! Wish I had this when I was starting to learn how to jump! Great vid

This is excellent. I really appreciate how show the “typical” description of compression doesn’t make sense and what show really dies make clear and repeatable. Thanks a million.

Well broken down, super helpful 👍

Nice thanks bro 😎

This is THE best jumping video....PERIOD

Ur comment on bunny-hopping was BRILLIANT

ya. amazing video so, I’m an og but I love to learn question. if I wanted to hop a curb and use the 2x4 board method and the bump jump method…. tell me about my timing…. will it seem like I’m about to ram that curb … until I’m not ramming the curb? The timing seems SO vital for all this to work and it gets spooky to wait that long