Never let off the gas too early before a jump

[Neytiri]

Ouch !

YouTube- helmet cam crash parklands

[FirstDuc-1098]

love the crawling to the bike
hopefully on serious damage

[KawiSmurf]

love the crawling to the bike

First time I've seen that from a helmet cam perspective...

The shadows are great, you can really see how steep his angle of approach is when he hits.

[DBB]

Ouch is right. Hope is was ok.

Do you compress the suspension just before lift off? Jumping is a mystery to me. Whats the proper technique?

[RyanNicholson]

The first thing everyone told me when I started riding dirt was never, ever, ever let off the gas going off a jump haha. I was getting semi comfortable with it last year... still need a lot of confidence building though.

[DuncanMoto]

If you hit pause just as the front wheel hits you can see it bend instantly.
I love the shadow of him practically off the back of the bike.

[Paul_E_D]

I've had some comical crashes, but the crawl cam shot is priceless.

DBB, stand up and maintain steady throttle til full airborne while learning to jump.

[breakdirt916]

I knew what to expect before I even watched the video, but still...wow!

I hope he's alright!

[Paul_E_D]

Oh yeah, When jumps go bad it really hurts, and that was a small jump. The take away is to start small and build up to bigger jumps with experience.

[gregp]

It looked to me like he chopped the throttle right before take off. That is the wrong approach for that type of jump. Jumps are usually best handled, at first anyway, with neutral throttle - no accel or decel. If you have to, just a bit of acceleration is better than any decel. As one progresses, you can apply different techniques to each jumps particulars: flat landings, or downhill landings, short run ups, heavily rutted, short landings into corners, etc.. Never mind the whole "Bubba Scrub" thing....that comes later.

[DBB]

I've had some comical crashes, but the crawl cam shot is priceless.

DBB, stand up and maintain steady throttle til full airborne while learning to jump.

I do stand up but I usually blip the throttle right at the lip. Ill try steady throttle next time out. Which will be tomorrow,...hopefully.

[FTMS]

I almost did the same thing last night on the track. I was tired and miss judge my timing and the front end just dropped in the air. Lucky is was a sandy landing and I was able to ride out of it but it was not pretty.

[typeone]

ouch! hope he was OK.

i have some classic tape somewhere of a friend of ours who traded bikes with someone. he was a fast, confident and talented MX rider but the bike he borrowed randomly BOGGED off a lip of a long double... the result was the same. it was so painful to watch, even though the cameraman was giggling.

[SP GSX-R]

the crawling is epic

[seth399]

aha here is one I took running into the back of another bike that didn't hit a triple jump thing, skip to 1:20 or so, the lens got all F'd up due to cold/hot weather and moisture but you can see me eat it onto my head aha

[CBR929RE]

aha here is one I took running into the back of another bike that didn't hit a triple jump thing, skip to 1:20 or so, the lens got all F'd up due to cold/hot weather and moisture but you can see me eat it onto my head aha

wow you guys don't even wait for your tires to get warm

[rbrais]

Ouch is right. Hope is was ok.

Do you compress the suspension just before lift off? Jumping is a mystery to me. Whats the proper technique?

All depends on the jump. The steeper the launch, the more throttle it takes to counter the rebound of the suspension. Once you get some experience, you can read a jump and just pretty much know what it will take. Until then, just keep trying a jump, increasing speed a little each time. You'll get the feel of it.

[Kurlon]

All depends on the jump. The steeper the launch, the more throttle it takes to counter the rebound of the suspension. Once you get some experience, you can read a jump and just pretty much know what it will take. Until then, just keep trying a jump, increasing speed a little each time. You'll get the feel of it.

Note, it'll hurt for a while when your lack of speed has you flat landing at the bottom of the jump, or worse into the face of the next one... ow ow ow ow ow...