The 3 Most Common Ways To Jump A Bike!

How To Jump A Bike Pt 2 Technique & Timing
This is a video we have been wanting to do for a while! In our first how to jump video we spent a lot of time talking about how to execute the Pop technique. We have heard a lot of great success stories over the last couple years with that video but we wanted to expand a bit more on the ideas behind it and how to diagnose what you may be doing. In this video we explain the three most common jump techniques we see in the wild and how each of them can be a tool or a hinderance depending on your goals.

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Kyle & April

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0:00 - 0:51 - Goal Of The Video
0:51 - 2:31 Explaining The Absorb Technique
2:31 - 3:07 Example Of Using Various Techniques
3:07 - 6:01 Explaining The No Coil Technique
6:01 - 7:30 Explaining The Coil Technique
7:30 - 9:05 When To Use Various Techniques & Timing
9:05 - 9:44 Troubleshooting Your Technique
9:44 - 10:20 Outro

[tjcosta]

I've been working to help my son with his jumping, and after this went back to some video and could see his arms totally collapsing at the lip. I couldn't figure it out before but your explaination was perfect. Thanks!

[AprilRideMTB]

Hey Everyone, Hope you enjoy the video! Like i said i think it's important to be realistic that there is generally not one perfect technique that fits every situation in mountain biking. True mastery comes from practicing and understanding multiple techniques and being able to apply them when the situation calls for it. One of our goals this year is to expand upon some of the previous tutorial videos we have done and give a secondary layer of thought to the techniques. When we were teaching April the basics as she started to get really into mountain biking there was already so many thoughts running through her head that it made the most sense to simplify and focus on one main foundational technique for things like drops, corners, and jumps.

Now that she has progressed and committed a lot of thoughts to muscle memory we have been able to start playing around with modifications to those techniques and it's been super fun to watch the learning progress. It's also been hugely helpful in April's ability to troubleshoot certain features and understand how to change her technique to overcome them. We hope to provide a lot of useful content this year and if anyone has any questions on specific things please let us know, we will do our best to incorporate those questions into future videos!

Thanks again for watching and supporting!

Sincerely, Kyle & April

[Todd]

I’ve said it before, gonna say it again. Kyle is a natural teacher. I am never not impressed by his ability to break things down and lay them out in a very easy to process way. Kudos.
I would like to give a shout out to the progression in editing. It’s been really good from day one with no exceptions, but this video with the slow mo comparisons…nice touch!!
Great Job you two!!!
That park is badass. We just got a park built here, I would LOVE to see Kyle dominate it.
I hope you two have a awesome Easter Weekend. ❤

[The_Sampler]

Dude you do such a great job explaining everything and that combined with the video examples makes a fantastic resource! Great work guys!

[b.w.]

Hope to see more of you again! Greetings all the way from Europe. I am a bit jealous of all the cool parks I see in videos from the USA.

[Maxf]

I am 62 years old and I want to thank you for teaching this old dog some new tricks. Keep up the great work!

[leewinter]

Kyle and April, so happy to see you two back out there enjoying MTB’s and teaching. Been following you since early on and you have taught me some great techniques on my bike! Thank you and keep the videos coming!

[STLMTB]

you know what would be awesome after this video, is how to whip or other in air movements. It seems that having some sort of in air movement seems to help avoid the dead sailor.

[downhill]

Not only is Kyle a very talented rider but he is also an insanely talented teacher, great to see April looking so good on the jumps, great video, thanks team😀

[mrsmith]

Very useful tips - Thanks. 'Getting a little nervous', that's certainly me for anything more than two inches off the ground. Some lovely park you have there.

[powskier]

This was SUPER HELPFUL. I got information from it that I didn't get from the other hundreds of jump videos I've watched.

[faithg]

What a great instructional video, so well broken down. Thank you.

[azpazlot]

Nice to see you back on the trail Kyle!

[chrisridesbicycles]

Thanks for the great explanations. The no coil is 100% me. In my head, I was down to the back wheel but on the video my butt barely moved down at all.

[jasonlarson]

Finally, a video that truly brakes down how to jump.

[asafcohen]

Very helpful and instructive! Thx. I already feel that my jumps are more controlled and less random than they were yesterday, before i watched it

[Babybeamergirl]

Thanks guys your video’s are super, You guys have inspired me to get outside and enjoy life. I am 63 just picked up a new Kenevo and have been riding the trails at North Star . I raced there 6 years ago and am doing the live wire classic in two weeks just because I can . Hope I don’t die 😂

[caseyas]

Hey guys I really appreciate the approach of this isn't right or wrong but situationally there are different things you can do. In MTB I think we get stuck on a mentality of one right all the time but in reality there are so many positive outcomes. When I want to go fast I soak up the trail, when I don't I like a nice moderate pop. Sometimes I want to really boost it but that is a small percentage of the time for me. Is it wrong? Nope. It is all right for different folks at different times.

[jamesppeto]

At least I can put a name to where I’m going wrong. Great video guys will definitely help me with my pop timing 👊🏼👊🏼

[TheVantasticLife]

I used the preload "coil" technique today while practicing jump lines and it totally boosted me higher. Thanks for the tip!