BOOST A MOUNTAIN BIKE. INTERMEDIATE JUMP SKILLS TO GET HIGHER (Part 1)

[@evanbarnes9984]

Wow, I think this is the single clearest explanation of both pumping and jumping on KZbin! His explanation of how to pump a roller made something click in my mind, can't wait to try it again

[@JoyOfBike]

Right on!!! Appreciate you.

[@jinavl]

@@JoyOfBike you guys have the only series that I can find the confirmed what I discovered on my own riding these last ten days..🤙🤙🤙

[@Liam-kj5te]

This is the smallest, most important mountain bike channel.

[@JoyOfBike]

Thanks so much!! Very kind.

[@coreycanuck1315]

The slow motion analysis of this video and your guest....absolutely perfect. Best jumping video on KZbin by a longshot! Bravo man! Thank you for posting.

[@JoyOfBike]

Thanks brother.

[@Gill2242]

I have revisited this video maybe 20 times or so and now it finally clicked. It is all in the hips. You really need to exagerate the hip hinge and get your torso from parallel to the ground to perpendicular to the ground as fast as possible. This Will generate the Thrust Needed to jump higher. A lot people make the mistake of squatting on the bike instead of hinging. This is the best video About jumping their is. Thanks a million

[@jeffreythompson6282]

Best jump video ever! Also, be sure to record yourself with a buddy, it's amazing how different I felt I was doing vs what I was actually doing!

[@JoyOfBike]

Thanks. And you're so right about the video. Biggest tool for more shred is in our pocket!

[@deandobson646]

One of, if not the best how to for jumping I've seen.

[@djUsurper]

The big difference between Christians and Alex technique? Look at their feet when they are hitting the transition: Alex feet are pointing back and away from the transition (11:23) (in order to lift the bike or squash the jump BUT Christians feet are facing towards the transition (7:13, 4:54), PUSHING the back wheel into the face of the jump to maximise the full transition. Subtle difference, big results. Such an awesome video, really helped me (even as a beginner jumper) to understand the proper techniques and form.

[@dan1one]

This comment is the key to it.

[@zacharymazzuca1150]

Yeah this is super helpful to note. Maybe feel the push through your heels to emulate this

[@usbsol]

Wow, thanks for this 🤗

[@christian.peper21]

Good insight!

[@christian.peper21]

Good insight!

[@WilliamSurles]

Seriously. This is the best mtb content on youtube. The beta in these vids is unreal. And over 40. Bro. Inspiration! (And all in my backyard)

[@christian.peper21]

Still stoked we were able to meet and ride together, Alex! Let’s do it again sometime 🙌🏼

[@wildcritters5297]

Watched a few times now. My favorite video so far. Such nuggets, really has helped me progress! Thanks dudes

[@JoyOfBike]

Great to hear. I love this one too. Got something coming up on wall rides. If there’s something in your progression you’d like help with don’t be shy. We will try to figure it out.

[@colinmacgregor8811]

I am 4 months off 60 years of age and this is so motivational guys! Clearest, most perceptive coaching I've seen and heard in ages!! Pity i don't live in Colorado!!

[@JoyOfBike]

Thank you sir! Come visit some time.

[@ericthorsell7515]

Watching for the millionth time (ok maybe the 30th) and love how informative yet simple it's explained. Almost every jump video talks about loading the suspension..... loading the bike..... phooey. Like Peper said, angle a roller and it's a jump. Get your timing off in a rhythm section and suddenly you're in the air..... then sprawled out on the ground. I agree with Christian, you're an above average. Average riders don't jump like you do, they sit on the side and watch guys like you.

[@christian.peper21]

🙌🏼

[@whiskyo]

Absolutely the best explanation on jumping I’ve ever seen.

[@christian.peper21]

Much love ❤

[@stefan1632]

5:25 is my aha moment on jumping nothing I've watched before has explained this aspect better thank you!!!

[@nimuthapa]

The best jumping video ever!!!! I have searched and searched forever and finally, I get to this. Thanks

[@JoyOfBike]

Heck yeah. Keep shredding!

[@bensonCP]

Blew my mind! Didn't realise there was so much in the technique, not just speed

[@oscargonzalez9198]

Dude this video right here is what made jumps click for me. Feeling it in the back tire for sure made an improvement. Thanks for the video!!

[@MarkJolley]

I took a jump clinic in Draper from Christian and he was such a great teacher. If you ever get the chance, you need to do it.

[@maker_mitch]

Talking about it from a trigonometry perspective is the ah ha moment for me. That makes so much dang sense.

[@JoyOfBike]

Mitchel Lindsay Thanks!!! It is fun to add some maths to the vids.

[@steveschafer6298]

New to the channel. North of fifty. Great content and enjoyable! Good job on the jump 👍

[@JoyOfBike]

Thanks Steve. Keep ripping brother and welcome to the crew.

[@robertsmith1071]

This is probably one of the best videos I've managed to find to learn how to pop. so many videos tell you what you need to do but this actually shows us. Made me realise I do the same thing as you but now I know how to try fix it! really good watch. Christian is a rad teacher!

[@JoyOfBike]

Wonderful!! Thanks

[@bikesandbibleverses]

Just got into MTB at 40. Of the hundreds of KZbin videos and channels I've gone through, this channel is at the top of the list.👏💪 Thank you.🙏🙏🍻

[@JoyOfBike]

This means a lot. Appreciate you.

[@michaelleyba5396]

This video series is the best I have seen. I love the commentary accompanying the video analysis. Great work Alex!

[@JoyOfBike]

Michael Leyba So pleased you dig it. Keep shredding!

[@coffeemtb9457]

Never saw a better jump Video and I´ve seen some! Many thank´s for that 😃

[@christian.peper21]

Appreciate that 🙌🏼

[@michaelculhane3058]

So much here. Great editing to go with his words. Your best video yet.

[@woody2505]

This is by far the best jumping physics video I've seen. I've spent so much time thinking about this stuff, convinced the normal mtb videos are missing the key data! Great video!

[@JoyOfBike]

Thanks man. Christian offers a new POV and the fact that the full extension of the arms and legs are staggered is a nuance I haven't seen in other vids. MTBAlan has a great vid on jumping and he talks about it a bit too.

[@woody2505]

@@JoyOfBike I'm just in the middle of learning to American bunny hop properly and that slight delay in the timing is the exact same epiphany I had about two days ago. Suddenly I can see how driving the rear wheel through the transition of a jump would work too.. now I just to need to get it consistent!

[@JoyOfBike]

Bunny hops are probably the single best thing to work on. They will take all you riding to a new level of joy. From finding new lines on the trail to popping jumps.

[@JoyOfBike]

woody2505 Really appreciate it. Most of the folks that can really pull have spent time airing out quarters on a BMX bike. This technique is key to survival airing out because you have to time the arms and legs separately to jump straight up and come down where you took off from. I’m working on it on the DJ but have yet to air out a quarter. Keep shredding.

[@sgazzz]

Woah, that tilting the pump cup over to match a takeoff was mind blown ...great vid boys!

[@stickythrottle5259]

5:32 I've never heard this explanation before! This is greatest thing ever!

[@JoyOfBike]

Right on!

[@henriklantzhedstrom6709]

Went out jumping yesterday. This helped me SO much to progress. I have learned so much from you guys.

[@JoyOfBike]

Wonderful

[@dannybarrera7637]

Thanks for all the tips. I like how you and Lee Like Bikes disect all the secrets of all the techniques. Amazing. I hope I remember all this when I practice so I don't go bucking, or over the bars. 👍

[@MTBTrailRider]

Just wanted to say I love your content. Love the how to content and just the style of your videos. Really enjoy it. thats all. :)

[@JoyOfBike]

Sending the love back!!

[@joshuamcdonnell122]

One of the best how to jump videos I have ever seen! Well done.

[@JoyOfBike]

Appreciate you!!

[@markmccall6273]

Brilliantly explained. It's what we all think we do… but now we've got the building blocks and the logic to really work it out. Reality versus dream!

[@hyunjindoh]

What a wonderful jump lesson!!!! I found this yesterday and still repeat watching. It's inspiring and amazing. It exactly same theory I learned and practice nowadays. Thanks a lot~

[@JoyOfBike]

Wonderful!

[@matthewdoppel8588]

So good. Also the belt haha! Thanks for the great tips on jumping!

[@JoyOfBike]

Cheers!!

[@letsgoletsgoletsgoletsgoletsgo]

WOW.... i learnt a lot , "getting friendly with the front" i will do this !

[@christian.peper21]

Definitely a good way to set up!

[@namewastaken360]

I'm super motivated to go and hit my local jumps at lunchtime to try and apply all of this!

[@michaelleyba5396]

This is the best boosting how-to video on the internet. Thanks for doing this video Alex!

[@flundberger24]

This is a great video. The explanations are among the best I’ve watched. Great work!

[@JoyOfBike]

Glad it was helpful!

[@amyd.187]

So yeah going thru most of your videos, (since I’m a new subscriber) plus the detailed explanation does the job. what I appreciate that others don’t really do is that you play and then replay in slow mo the recordings of what you’re doing whether it’s a jump or a drop. That helps so much. In this particular video it actually allowed me to see in the best way possible the right body positioning for a jump as you and your friend are jumping. Super helpful.

[@OktaFierce]

New GOAT jumper instructional vid. Very well done gents thanks.

[@dekun007]

so cool i found your videos. tomorrow i wil emprove on my technique and jumps :D

[@marcazcona2636]

Really enjoying all of your content. Being older (53) I need a more analytical approach to learning and you nail it. Thank you and please keep creating.

[@JoyOfBike]

Welcome aboard!

[@rdavies1305]

I loved this! Gives me faith I whilst airbourne I will survive, thank you:

[@jj1a2]

WOW! I watched the whole internet and still I had the feeling something was missing... and this just filled all the gaps... amazing!!! thank you guys

[@JoyOfBike]

Wait til I tell my kids that the ultimate authority on the entire internet like my work!!! Best compliment ever!

[@christian.peper21]

Wow stoked to hear that!!

[@neilthompson3263]

The belt joke ffs. Your videos are deeply informative, super entertaining and inspire me to spend more time on my bike. Thanks Alex.

[@JoyOfBike]

🙏

[@lastnamefirstname7652]

That was one of the best lessons on improving an intermediate level want=to learn jumper! Alex and Christian,thank you, thank you , thank you!!

[@JoyOfBike]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@LeftCoastElectricSB]

Tried this today at pump track. Huge help. Pumped way faster. Less fatigue. More fun. Still working on the jumps. Thanks for these videos. 😂😂😂oh my god! Ohmygawd!!! I say that alot watching the young guns too. 😂😂😂

[@GaedeRafael]

For sure the BEST "how to jump" breakdown I've seen (and I admit... Spend a lot of time in KZbin recently 😂) Fluiride Channel is also nice!

[@rorysteward23]

Finally this is what iv needed to see. I've been wondering how to get more height and get better at a pump track and the slow motion and explanation is perfect. Subscribed, liked and double thumbs up

[@JoyOfBike]

Appreciate you and welcome to the crew!!

[@ManualVorlaufer]

One of the best videos on the topic. Great explanations.

[@JoyOfBike]

Thank you!

[@softserveadventures5791]

Best of the best. We need more peper.

[@JoyOfBike]

He moved to Utah. Check out his insta!

[@christian.peper21]

Haha thank you

[@kirill23]

Man I'm so happy I've found this channel, you are so cool and your vids a so good at explaining things, I just don't know how to make it to the end of winter to try all this great stuff on trails (46 yo rider from Russia)

[@xynore_bojaka9888]

This explanation.... dude ya'll nailed it! Can't wait to try that sketchy jump again.

[@andrewmitton7127]

your videos are game changers! already applying the new found wisdom on the trail today. grateful for the wisdom and knowledge of how to fly and make it home in one piece!

[@JoyOfBike]

You’re too kind!! Sounds like you had a great ride. Cold and snow hear today!

[@andrewmitton7127]

@@JoyOfBike luckily a sunny day here in SoCal between our MUCH needed recent rain storms! So grateful for the channel, and its authentic stoke. Can't wait to learn more and progress in 2021

[@Ndcent23]

Just started riding this year, your vids have helped me tremendously. Appreciate it!

[@DownhillDesireMTB]

agreed!

[@alanolive2569]

Brilliant, one of the best explanations. Off to try it!

[@kevincollet2468]

Great explanation, and most of all, great vibe. Thanks for sharing! Will definitely try these tomorrow at the local park🤘🙏

[@evanbox1618]

I’d love advice on how you keep your feet on those flat pedals when flying through the air / dropping / zero g. Thanks for your quality content!

[@kendrickbyrd5841]

Wow I can wait to try this. Love the slow mo it really shows what to do.

[@bravoswede]

Best large jump vid out there for us newbies! Awesome!

[@JoyOfBike]

Right on!! 🙏

[@07_RoadKing_CVO]

Great video...just subscribed. Former BMXer as a kid now over 50 also and this vid is very helpful with the mechanics and technical explanation of why I tend to go a bit too forward regardless of how fast I hit jumps.....I need more arm pop to go with already good leg pop it seems. Thanks!

[@andrejgorkic2193]

Brilliant stuff guys. Helped me so much.

[@shellderp]

what confused me is in other vids lee talks about rowing to get the jump started, but here he's pushing his arms out at the start of the jump, and that's what most jumps looked like to me

[@letsgoletsgoletsgoletsgoletsgo]

6:05 to 6:08 looked like a huge row to me , that how i understood it

[@johncole3010]

I did exactly what was described. Took a new jump with a small kicker that gapped into a landing going into a broad ditch. I hit it too fast and didn’t pop as much with my arms as the legs as I extended and wound up going past the apex and riding the front tire for awhile until the back settled down. The second time I hit it I was going slower and fell a little short but had better control.

[@mountainbikingforlife4158]

This is the video tutorials I ve seen on hoe to get more pop off a jump. Thanks for the great video.

[@christian.peper21]

Appreciate it!

[@grigoryancreative]

This is so good, thanks for making these videos!

[@JoyOfBike]

Glad you liked it. We'll keep 'em coming.

[@SuperTrammel]

This video. Transcendental jumping insight. More insight than offered by a six month retreat at a Buddhist monastery.

[@JoyOfBike]

Oh I’m all about this. Transcendental jumping is brilliant. You have my mind and heart reeling.

[@steveumscheid3763]

Great easy to understand video on how to get more air on a jump! Like very much! Thanks

[@JoyOfBike]

Appreciate you steve!!

[@suits2sandals]

Awesome video, we have been on the road for a couple of month now and really trying to get our jumping to progress! This video did a great job of explaining it!

[@JoyOfBike]

That is awesome!

[@loddie9]

Love the channel and finally found the subscribe button! Let's talk safety...@6:45 in the video you are wearing some type of neck brace/support. What type is it? What options are good for MTB? As cycling can be a dangerous sport, how about a video on safety gear - particularly as the body is more fragile and slow to heal at ages 40+?

[@HandyBob11]

Thanks

[@JoyOfBike]

much love!!

[@0ntoowheels]

By the beard of Zeus!!! Amazing video!

[@bleepbloop368]

Thank you! The best jump boost tutorial I’ve ever seen.

[@christian.peper21]

Stoked to hear that!!

[@MrTrav36]

Great video !!!!! Best jump coaching video i think i have seen . Thanks

[@JoyOfBike]

So glad you liked it!!

[@jonathanjones8895]

5:15 how to pop a jump. Looks exactly like a bunny hop to me. The roller is lifting the front wheel but everything else is textbook bunny hop.

[@annakaposhko6695]

Jmh b

[@scottluffman927]

I know this is an older video, but I’ve been struggling to take the next step. I watched this video like three times last night, used the technique and cleared several jumps I’ve been struggling with. I’d suggest this video to anyone that is past the beginner stage but to the, okay where do I go from here? Stage

[@christian.peper21]

Stoked to hear it was helpful!

[@anewriderstyle2595]

I really like the way you explain and perform the how to jump dude....keep it up...👍👍

[@mikehondaboy512]

Very informative and of course, very entertaining!! Love the edit!! New sub here from 🇨🇦

[@lloydranola]

Great channel! Just subbed. I even took a class with Lee years back (on the other vids). Btw, that sit down beginning looks cool with the sunset but if you had a reflector to avoid the back lit faces it would look pro :-)

[@xlbirdlx9776]

Wow, best video on jumping ever!

[@tfwrestling1988]

Thank you so much! Great stuff, I believe this will help me tremendously!

[@michaelleyba5396]

At 5:20 (and at 6:00), Christian describes pushing the bike away from him, thereby loading his legs, and then he fires his legs. I see that same motion in your bunny hops Alex. At the start of each bunny hop, you first extend your arms, thereby unweighting the front tire, and loading your weight over your back tire. Then you extend your legs hard and you get the back tire airborne. That initial arm extension at the very beginning of the jump motion is something I have been missing.

[@JoyOfBike]

There is definitely some overlap!!

[@marcsee4072]

Just discovered your channel. So so so good and i love the science you apply

[@JoyOfBike]

So stoked you found us. Welcome to the crew.

[@marcsee4072]

@@JoyOfBike i think I found you just at right time in my baby mtb steps :) love the drops videos and references to K&A and all the speed science. So great to see logic and your enthusiasm and energy is just spot on. Australia has the wettest summer in years - so just waiting to clear up a bit and take kids to pump track 🤟yeaw

[@marcsee4072]

wow so natural and simple yet when you are over 40 and never has done anything like this, the FEAR creeps in. great video guys, great insight. i think Pump track is so essential for this movement practice and then perhaps just one jump with flat landing to get that position dialed for jump with air ;-)

[@JoyOfBike]

Pump tracks are pretty amazing. They allow you to make the proper row and anti row over and over. Really bakes it in in a way that's pretty near impossible in the chaos of a trail ride.

[@marcsee4072]

@@JoyOfBike and there i was wondering "why did they put Pump track at this jump park"? now i know ;-) first big jump park in Sydney, Australia ;-) www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/recreation-area/bare-creek-bike-park

[@JoyOfBike]

That place looks amazing! So cool that they built it and so cool that they keep the staff to maintain it. That’s a lot of work!!

[@marcsee4072]

@@JoyOfBike yes an amazing place. rode it 1st time with my twin boys 8yo last weekend. just the skill development part and then straight to your videos haha but the pump track is sick as well, now i know what to do with it ;-) \m/

[@adamlukas8927]

Yoooo it’s Valmont!! My local park!😂

[@justingeorge4598]

Your videos are pure gold! next time you are moab we should have a jam sesh at th dirt jumps

[@JoyOfBike]

I've always heard they're kinda beat from my buddy Kyle Mears but I've never gone to look for myselt. Do you live in Moab?

[@JoyOfBike]

But I don't think Kyle likes dirt jumps. : )

[@justingeorge4598]

@@JoyOfBike haha I mean he never pulls in to ride he just cruises on by. The boys have been putting in work. they run pretty good right now. There is word of a major revamp this spring. The jumps are pretty heady but its definitely a good vibe there.

[@justingeorge4598]

@@JoyOfBike but yeah I live in moab and Kyle's a legend!

[@JoyOfBike]

@@justingeorge4598 Awesome. I'll bring a DJ or a BMX next time!!

[@marcstein-wiese833]

so good, can‘t wait to try that out when snow has gone ;)

[@JoyOfBike]

Yes!!

[@zomambik]

Alex - clear evidence that your channel is increasing its reach - yesterday I bumped into a random mountain biker and it turned out that we both were avid followers of Joy Of Bike. A first! By the way, re-watching this video (again and again...) after my last Sunday's jump session. There is a jump that exposes the flaws in my current jump technique. The transition is quite short and steep and the jump is quite long in proportion. I case it every time with a scary near-OTB. After watching my own footage and comparing it to this video I have realized that to clear jumps like that I need to go higher. 1. to match the curve of the transition and avoid the rear wheel buck 2. to cover a longer distance and clear the jump. To make it safer I need to do the scary thing :-)

[@davidroberts7250]

Jumping on the speed bumps in my neighborhood thinking if it's this tough I'll never get the big jump but the way this move is broke down I think why hell yeah it may be a year but I'll get it.

[@bigkeithxx]

Holy Crap! As I am watching I am able to see myself going through the process and it scares me a little... that I may be able to get some nice jumps in before summer eeek

[@vladimirbarkhatov]

Holy shit. Holy cow. Holy smokes. Def in my vocab now✌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@amyvanpelt5147]

I dig that purple, sparkly bike of Christian's!

[@JoyOfBike]

It's incredible.

[@hamimahmadi6963]

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[@45graham45]

lee likes bikes always says to keep weight over the BB rather than forward or aft (like at 5:12 pump). Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

[@pbillings808]

Lee's "deep hinge" pushes the butt very rearward (seen at 5:23) -- text-book LLB. The very aggressive "forward row" (starting at 5:24) drops the heels and a little rearward shift gives slightly more leverage.

[@45graham45]

@@pbillings808 Thanks. Great video btw.

[@Pollyeverything]

Solid vid guys. Cheers

[@bauke-LV426]

So awesome to see Dr. Peper do the motions. I filmed myself yesterday on the pumptrack. I imagined myself being all Arnold Schwarzenegger going round on the pumptrack, but unfortunately looked even more depressing than I thought it would be :) Anyways, not giving up! I heard Lukas Knopf once say it took him about a 1000 laps to get it dialed, so that leaves me about 900 to go hahah. Anyways, I wanted to ask you guys if you could make one of them Pocket Tutorials from the section "Pumptrack and Jumping". Maybe just the pumping motion. I noticed that funnily enough on the downside of a roller I tend to come forward, instead of backward. I also didn't quite know what to do on the downside so I kept loosing contact with the ground, which slowed me down. Basically your "anti-row". But I see, actively push the bike forward on the downside, move weight back, sit off the back and extend, get weight over the roller and repeat. Check. Doesn't sound that hard now does it 😊

[@JoyOfBike]

That could be a good pocket tutorial for sure. Thanks. 500 reps for the body to learn. 1000 reps for the mind to see it. 10,000 for mastery.

[@bauke-LV426]

@@JoyOfBike check. So I do about 40 laps in 1 session, that's once a week. So that is 10000/40/52 = 4.8 years, so that's about September 2026. I'll put that date in my calendar! Looking forward to it already :)

[@habanerat]

Another great video!! Thanks!

[@JoyOfBike]

You bet!!!

[@sebastienbouchard1711]

Something just clicked for me. If you don’t push off with your arms at the lip then you won’t have confidence to push with your legs from fear of getting bucked forward. I would end up squashing every lip. Off to the dirt jumps! Thanks so much

[@danielforce4462]

Is this technique what they mean when they say “bunny hop off the jump”?