All great tips, but having a jump that is low risk that you can session is huge, at least it was for me. I spent a lot of time learning how to handle a steep lip on a step up, now im clearing 20' gaps. All this at 55.

I've been riding 30+ years and I'm getting SO much out of your videos. I'm binging you hard. Thanks!

Thanks for this technical breakdown and solid advice. Just when I think I've seen every how to jump video, I find this gem! So I'm about 2 years into my jumping journey and although the knowledge and foundation are important, nothing will work but getting out on the trails and practicing. The part you mentioned about weekend warriors (or 3 month warriors as you say) is so true. So many of us are so busy, getting to the trails every weekend is tough but repetition is the key. If you want to jump confident, safe, and fun you have to be on it weekly. If you really want to jump as bad as you say you do, then get your arse to the park or trails and practice!! Over and over.

Great job dude, well explained

Another great video and I am already looking forward to your next one. I find your channel to be actually the most educational in skill training as I came to the same conclusions myself the hard way trough frustrations & injuries. I whish I had this info years back, but then again if I consider my lack of experience I would probably not believe the "hard truths" spoken on the channel. I would like to point out and hear your thoughts (could be a topic for another video) on how cockpit setup (stack and reach mainly) affect jumping and maybe other skills or techniques. I found that incorrect bike size - stack/reach/handlebar rotation is the the most dangerous mistake you can make when trying to progress jumping skills. For example increasing stack and reach too much can get you to a point where you are so stretched out that you can go over the handlebars "even if you try" and you are landing rear wheel first all the time or reducing them both too much can make you OTB on every jump along with washing out in corners that are not very steep.

You got me at Bermbino 🧨👌 My biggest mistake is bailing out whenever I don't feel in control. Idk if it served me well or if it's a nuisance 😂

Dont worry if you struggle. As the video said. Jumping is not about knowledeg, its about the skill. There is so many things happening. you cant think about what you doing when you hitting a jump. Even if you seen this video, and everything sounds plausible. still, you race towards a jump, you wont convert all this with full confidence. You will struggle and it will feel like its not working. Its still can take time. It feels like you not progressing. But there will be a moment when its klicking. The moment, when the first time you jump and its the muscle memory doing its job. Its a eureka moment. Its the first time you dont need to focus on your body movement but more onto the jump itself. Thats the first time its feels like you doing it the proper way. and than progress goes fast. So train these things, and wait for the moment its becomes muscle memory.

Definitely good advice, thanks for the simplification, the standing tall has saved me many a time !!!

I managed to figure out something like the vectored lean by trying to reverse the bucking motion so I could get air at a minimal speed. It's cool that I'm actually doing something correctly. I still need to work on landing angle though.

I’ve been off mountain bikes since 2000. Got back into it with my kids a few months ago. This past weekend I tried a jump and ended up going over the handle bars. Busted my helmet and received a moderate concussion and some stitches in a few places. My Dr. told me to lay off for a month before I tried jumping again. Any way I did exactly what the last guy did in your video. Compressed to far back and was not sure till now why it happened. Awesome video. I am signing myself and the kids up for a jump clinic though. 😂

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This is pro -advice right there. I’m mean you’re pro in explaining things David 🤗

Hey there! Solid break down and instructions... I feel what i need to do, i know how to timely preload and make the slight angled hop to make a pefect jump. I am being held back as the lip gets higher and steeper to lean in the vector needed as i feel i will go into orbit. It is not the technique, it is the fear of going sky high....any tips on that other then repeat, repeat, repeat?? Fear originated from a nasty otb crash with neck disk damage, so it resides deep in my being. Cheers!!

I've been contemplating what you have described as a "vectored lean" for some time, some one else described this as a slight feeling like your feet coming forward of your hips slightly hanging off the bars, almost as if someone pulled a rug from under your feet. In practice it's springing off the feet perpendicular to the line drawn between the wheel axles at the point you need the wheels to take off from the lip. Pheew that was a long sentence. Personally the absolute hardest thing is standing up the whole way off the lip and NOT absorbing at all before the rear wheel is off the lip. Bearing in mind the biggest thing I have hit jumps wise is probably about 4-5ft height and about 10-12 across the flat table-top. I'm looking to progress to bigger jumps, but as you say, getting bucked is the number 1 fear. Great video.

"The great Burmbino"!!!!! That was the best!!!! LOL

oh ! stand up to the jump

Great advice. Drills not on trail are the only way to master correct fundamentals and build muscle memory. The thing that is counter-intuitive about jumping is that you must must push down with your feet and hands as you boost and pull off the lip of the jump. Pushing down to go up is hard to get the brain to grasp. It is the only way to keep the rider and bike as a connected package in the air. The other thing is you have to drive the heels down into the lip and transition to a toe point on the pull as you clear the lip... a lot of reps are necessary to get the timing and muscle memory down.

Great vid. How do you find the time while you’re touring with greenday? 😂

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So how do you jump DJ lips? Was thinking of learning to dirt jump as it will be a faster way to get good

SHOOOT!!! You’re in Asheville ?????? Dude. I’m on beech mtn. So when can I get some private coaching?? I thought a part of this video was @ kanuga (sure looked like it)

Hey mate, do the techniques in this video work on hardtails?

Is that loading the same with a hardtail? Does the nose springing up but the tail not cause issues?

I always did this instinctively but I learned on mt bikes with no suspension at all. LOL you had to pop the lip to launch. Basically suspension forks require an earlier motion than a rigid fork. LOL For the record, I suck at jumpimg, but there was one time I launched a little too huge on a jump and one of the best riders I've ever seen, who was a junior world champion in 97, told me it was the biggest jump he'd ever seen. LOL I was freaked in the air but I just imagined I was on my three wheeler and I landed pretty smooth. Might have been 80 or 90 feet to a nice long landing slope. I was on a Foes with a Risse fork. That stuff was bombproof

If you had to chose Landing flat or casing the jump 😊

I find if you hit a jump ANY size doesn’t matter l find that if you load the suspension and then if you think it’s going wrong just pull the bike up towards your body, it’s hard to explain but it basically kills your speed and the jump at the same time so you can just ride away , until you’re ready to jump 👍🏾trust me it works

Glad I found your channel recently , my last name is Davidson also maybe we are related

Wish you were in my area for some private coaching. I just won a literal fu@k ton of money playing the lottery.

I am going to practice this tomorrow for sure. Great instruction.

Practice on stepups, lf you screw it up it's less distance to fall. Of course you're not going to screw it up...right?

if you carry your bike uphill, it will carry you in the air.

i feel like you should be teaching jump basics on a hardtail to teach the rider how to absorb some of the impact not just brute forcing it with suspension

13:26 roflmao oh boy childhood memories of so many cooffin jumps yes way different method for these jumps do not do without proper advice.... and years of basic skills in jumps.