Have you tried these on the trail? If so, do you have any tips or issues with them?

Thanks. Understand the theory.. but.. would it be possible to have a vid with techniques shown side by side so can easily see how they differ? My preload timing is pants.

I love your simple advice videos, they encourage us to try various techniques. Please keep them coming, because there's always someone just starting, and others who need a reminder of the basics.

9 seconds ago? That's the earliest I've been to *anything* :D

This is an excellent playground to work this out. I hope I had something like that close to where I live...

Rich, this is just what I need to teach…. Thank you, sir Richard. :-)

That’s a very good tutorial, but there is so much more to it than it seems! It’s not for nothing we see people going OTB trying this stuff, including myself!

legend brother thankyou

Brilliant video , very helpful. Would be awesome to meet you one day guys on the trails . 😌

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A couple of things. First, let's be honest. Most of us aren't going to be winning a bodybuilding contest in the near future. At least in the upper body area! (Not all, I admit.) When training & racing seriously, my teammates and I suffered a lot of upper body atrophy. Returning from nationals one year, we stopped at a lake for a quick swim. I snapped a pic of my teammate who's forte was sprinting; the dude was an ANIMAL! The picture ended up being that of a freak of nature! Tree trunks down below and little twigs up top! It was hilarious. Today you'd assume the pic was totally photoshopped. And as you get older, fatter and lazier (like me), you will probably keep those thighs & calves of STEEL, but the arms, shoulders, etc. tend to get pretty wimpy. It's hard enough for most to find time to ride enough, much less add another entire regimen to their exercise routine. So your upper body won't have the muscle tone to be able to achieve the pre-loading, lifting and positioning comfortably. I know I felt a lack of strength in that arena for a while. And for those long descents where your hands are on fire? Grip and wrist strength work will take care of that! So the second point is hit the weights. I recently got back to regular upper body strength workouts and it has paid off with jumping specifically and riding in general. Rode Soquel Demo last week and two Sierra flow trails yesterday and now I'm happy to say I have the upper body strength to attack every berm and jump without feeling spent half way down the hill. What a difference a few months of upper body work outs has made. Feel so much more confident. Third, you'll reduce your risk of upper body injury in a crash if you have upper body muscle tone (and mass if you want). So being fit up top will help prevent a crash in the first place, and then prevent more serious injury if you do. It can't hurt (unless you're competing for a TDF win and are obsessing over strength-to-weight optimization at the pedals). So my jumping advice? You GOTTA have the upper body strength to do all the things required to jump successfully. The strength will give you the stamina to keep it up after the 15th set of doubles and the confidence to do it right! Not to be sexist or anything, but the wife has struggled over the years with lifting the bike's front end. She doesn't really have the strength to lift it confidently. Never even got to the stage of riding even a short wheelie.* So fourth, having upper body strength will pay off in ALL SORTS of mountain biking situations, especially getting through the technical stuff. And bunny hops? Man, bent and upright rows were MADE for improving bunny hopping skills & increasing height! I'm pretty sure if she worked on this skill, she'd be more able to hit the Utah or Sierra "gnar" more ease and confidence. Pump some iron, kids!!! *Wheelies are also a crucial skill when it comes to mountain biking. Now you don't have to know how to ride one a mile, but being able to for a short distance is so very helpful. It allows you to approach all sorts of technical rock climbs with ease. Lift up that wheel and put it where you want. It's simply a natural progression of weighting and unweighting your wheels - the front wheel in this case.

Hi Rich! I am learning to jump now, but If I understood correctly, you are not just executing pre loading. There's also a nice row and shove. There are 3 moviment patterns. Press - row- shove. That's for me is the most difficult part. Do It all in onde fluid motion. I think only a pop in flat ground teaches the press motion for an adult beginner. When you add the take off, It gets rough for beginners. No row, and your front wheel Will hit the ground First, in the worse case, sending OTB.

Interesting timing! I am in Bentonville, Arkansas, and rode a trail called Cease and Desist yesterday. There are a bunch of long tables that require a lot of speed to clear. I know when I was out was at Trestle Bike Park a couple of summers ago I rode the expert jump line and on a couple of them my back wheel kicked up higher than the front wheel and it scared the crap out of me. As much BMX riding and jumping I have done in my life, I have very little experience riding a full-suspension bike at much higher speeds hitting such big long floater style jumps. My guess is I need to get this preload thing down, but I also don't know the timing. Lee McCormick just recently talked about the timing of going off jumps and how bigger jumps actually require you to slow down your pump vs smaller jumps where you have to pump and pop quickly. Any pointers on the big fast floaters I see people do all the time I am all for it. Maybe some videos explaining them. The jumps in this video are similar to what I do a lot and am comfortable with, I mean the larger floaters like what we see Sam Pilgram and Tom Cardy hit all the time.

This is what I want, I hope my youtube grows and I can buy a bike like that

Really enjoyed the squashing technique part! I wonder slowing the rear rebound helps when learning so as not to land OTB?

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Can't squash for the life of me but I'm 50+. Is it still possible to learn? You young guys have all the strength 💪. Lol

Also do you just preload using your body and legs…. Or do you push down with your hands? I find if I aggressively try to preload the forks by using arms, the takeoff becomes super sketchy

What will be the setting on fork?

I’m late to this ik, but i’ve just started to mtb and on my fork there is a suspension lock and a preload thing with a plus and a minus I have ridden over curbs and gotten all rumbled up like you did with out preloading. So is there any changes I need to do to the preload part of the fork? Also I have a Trek Marlin 6 Gen 2

Sic dude

does preloading make you jump further and higher? and squashing make you go shorter but not as high?

I need to unlearn squashing jumps!

But I don't see how you exactly preload? I don't see any special movements? It's just pushing your vork down just as you enter the jump?

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Aha, that is why i dont get height, i always squash my jump 😅

i'm just really struggling to get air, my timing is rubbish!

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I'm a natural squash master....cause I'm freakin afraid of going high 😂

i cant even compress my fork like that

And that’s why I’m healing up a broken collar bone

It all looks the same to me 🤔

Instructions unclear. Unfortunately the video isn’t informational enough for those of us who squash every jump 😅 . Another video explaining how to preload, when, body position, with slow motion showing it all would be welcome.

Nice video. Horrible jacket looks like a bin bag

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I am convinced only special individuals can get their bikes off of the ground lol. I am not one of them

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That’s not a proper boost! This will just fatigue your upper body.