How to Jump your MTB (with NO FEAR)

I've been working on this one for quite a while. About a year, to be exact. I really feel as though this one move I cover in the vid can help riders (like myself) who battle with jumping confidence. What do you think?

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[freesmoke]

Who else is getting super nervous and excited watching this only to put their phone on their nightstand and go to bed 🥴

[jasoncass]

I've been mountain biking around 40 years and never could jump very well at all. Could it be as easy as just standing up? Well, I tried that yesterday on my brand new local jump trail and was amazed that I was clearing doubles and tables that I would always case before! This simple thing immediately unlocked what I've been trying for figure out for decades. Thanks Ryan!

[ScootsMcDoots]

I cleared my first double today thanks to this video.

I've always been terrible at jumps and so I would avoid them unless they were simple little bumps. Thank you so much

[Na-jujf]

It's funny how we jumped our bikes all the time as kids, but as adults we forgot how. Probably more fear now. Nice, quick and to the point tutorial!

[hernandez]

I will be singing "stand up to the jump " in my head every time I hit a jump from now on . Thanks. No, seriously, thank you.

[therealridedmc]

That’s a bold move incorporating a choreographed rap chorus into an MTB jump tutorial. 😂

[bimmerfan]

I don't know what it is but your "how-to" videos just click for me. I'm hot garbage when it comes to jumping but after having this in the back of my head I was the most consistent I have ever been today. Just like your cornering video, just clicked for me! Idk what it is but thank you and keep it up!!!

[Goaty]

Cleared my first tabletop yesterday! The feeling of landing on the downslope was the most incredible feeling I've had riding! OMG, I couldn't wait to ride the jump line again! My confidence went through the roof. Thank you so so much. I'm 50 years old, and I have been riding since 1985, and your tip just changed my whole ride experience! I am so pumped! Then I hit a new trail and I was clearing the tabletops and it was so much fun. Thank you! Huge fan!

[substrata]

I am a coach and experienced trails rider, this is exactly what I teach my students - you need to create some tension throughout your body against the transition, standing up fixes 99% of beginner / intermediate riders jumping issues. It’s the same motion for doing a hop on flat ground or off of something (not double wheel hop, but front wheel then back). A jump just helps you get that front wheel up that much easier. Sweet vid!

[charlesstevenson]

At 65, and only riding for about three years, your videos just make the most sense because they are direct and simple. Your cornering video is awesome as well. Thanks a lot!

[vlbz]

This made all the difference. After a year of struggling this helped me clear small jumps in literally one day. I'm confident now, I will be able to hit larger jumps as well, relatively soon.

[kccheng]

No joke this is THE video that made it click for me. I'm at the tail end of my 30's and just getting into dirt jumping hoping to keep up with the kids and to improve my mtb riding on flow trails. So glad it came out in the summer. My first practice run after watching this vid felt amazing. Then I set my phone down to record myself and adjust my body position more. Seeing yourself is the best way to improve along with watching this vid ;). Thank you so much!

[lingmlbb]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

I’m a 14 yr old Aussie, and only started mountain biking late last year. Today I went out with my twin to hit a local jump track, mill creek’s “hit the turps”. Just before we got there, I watched this video and let me say, I wouldn’t have been able to jump without this advice. Remembering to “STAND UP TO THE JUMP” let me hit such decent bike to two bike length tables with “NO FEAR”. I was able to clear these jumps fully, despite muddy conditions. I am so excited by this progress, and can’t wait to go out on another jump track soon!
THANK YOU!!!

(I am now a loyal subscriber)

[jasperk]

I like that tune you put in all our heads. One thing though; at 4:28 the 3 body positions clearly show your weight is always pushing perpendicularly into the ramp and not the ground. The posture of your back isn't important, the 90° angle of your straightened legs towards the ramp is what counts. It is just physics.

[reverentalexanderchezeley-]

I don't care what those professional mountain biker's say, this is the greatest video on how to jump a mountain bike I've ever watched (and I've watched a lot to).

Once I started to stand-up to "all' dirt jumps, wooden jumps etc, I was away once I mastered the technique.

I went from a beginner rider to an intermediate rider to an advanced rider at age 50, not just in jumping, but braking properly, riding burms, shredding, drops, steeps, preloading before a jump, landing the bike safely on a ramp, whip's, bar turns. Riding switchbacks downhill and up Hill correctly, preloading my bike two feet before a small kicker jump to trick the mtbike.

Riding flat corners and much more practicing practicing practicing going over and over and over jumps, mtb trails, all by just sitting down and watching this dude with ravenous, meticulous zeal, then putting the standing up to the jump technique into action, and coming off the bike Umpteen times to, lol.

My wife hit a line of six table tops and two burms 32 bloody time's man, 32 times with sweat pouring off her at age 53 in the middle of a heatwave.

Why?

Cos she wanted it badly. Cos she was hungry and she refused to give up or give in, man those Yanks are troopers.

All because of this dude Lomeranger and this one video, I owe debt of gratitude to this guy for unlocking in me a talent at age 49 that I never even knew I had. I had tear's in my eye's over it earlier whilst me and my USA wife we're waiting for the bus.

Why was I crying?

Cos in the 70's and 80's growing up we had nothing like this in Wales, UK where we were poor. No trails, dirt jumps etc, nothing. Also since my late teens and early 20's I'd always wanted to do extreme dirt jumps and mtbike downhill, fast Enduro trails.

So thank you loam Ranger for being the main part if making that teenage dream a reality for me through one video, at age 49, better late than never I suppose, heh heh heh lol.

My USA wife thinks ishould turn professional, but I have no interest in that, nice compliment from her though.

Thanks dude.

Saint Anger

[PaoloDenti]

the loam ranger is the best on YT, no BS, straight to the point. Dude, you are the best.

[MrAlexTech]

Needed this my dude! 😄 Still turn my trousers brown everytime I run up to literally any jump 😅

[dkdaddy]

This video combined with your cornering is the best how to content on the internet. Simple, entertaining and easily actionable. The why really helps. Thank you.

[juandiegojimenez]

My friend, you are a genius! Just came from the park today and cleared my first double! I followed your instructions and immediately felt the difference. I never leave any comments but wanted to thank you for the advice!

[StephanRidesMTB]

Exactly what did the trick for me. There’s still a lot to learn after that tip, but that makes jumping 100% safer than just rolling over a jump…
I also very much liked your similar cornering video! 👍👍