How to Jump Your Mountain Bike - Hip Jumps The Ride Series How Tos Rich Drew

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Being comfortable hitting jumps on a mountain bike is a pretty cool thing. Now, if you're lucky enough to have access to trails and features like we have here in The OZ Trails, then hitting a hip jump is something you need to be ready for. The basics of jumping still apply, you just have to add in a few more key elements. Heck, you can even do it on an E bike like this Trek Rail 9.8. You ready to get hippy?!

The art of the hip. There are probably many different ways to extrapolate this particular move, so here's mine.

FIRST THINGS FIRST! It's a jump. So the jump basics still apply. You need to carry enough speed in, stop pedaling far enough out to get that firm base, and load into the take off to get as much lift and distance as you need. Now, this is where the hip adds some major nuance.

By nature a hip going to the right or to the left. These particular hips are made VERY well and have angled take offs. This means, as a rider, I'll be loading at an angle and generating lift in the opposite direction. This is a good thing and something that makes hip jumps super fun!

By loading in at an angle, you are now setting yourself up to rotate the bike on the imaginary horizontal axis. THIS IS IMPORTANT! Don't twist the bike in space, ROTATE it! How do you do this?

Well, keep the basics in mind and keep your hips over the bottom bracket. Once you're in the air, think about leading with that inside shoulder and using your outside hip to help initiate that rotation.

At this point, eye up that landing and ease 'er on in while matching the transition you're landing on.

Play around with it a bit and find that sweet spot! Let me know what you think!

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[bonzsk]

a tip that really helped me to nail this ... "countersteer in the air and point with the knees .... So if the landing leads to the right, you push forward the right arm whilst in the air; if the landing is to the left, you push forward on your left hand while in the air. Then, just point both of your knees to the landing". (maybe this way is easier to explain the part of "rotate in X-axis the bike")
That as the guy explained this, will put your body weight in the right direction, the bike leaned to where it needs to go, you'll maximize the traction at the landing and you wont just fire your hips all the way to the other side so it looks like you couldn't return a whip.
That was told to me by a dude wearing a redbull helmet on a DH bike with a bomber 58 on the front, on new dirt merchant's hip jump after the big drop ... so I guess he knows what he was talking about

[accolade]

My local bike park isn’t allowed to teach these, so I really appreciate this content. Thanks a lot!

[dukeofmtb]

I've been watching all your jump tutorials. Hopefully something will finally click. Gonna hit some jumps tomorrow. Wish me luck. 😅

[samuellincoln]

Coming out next week with the crew, would be cool to see you out on the trails 😀

[JaredRMorgan]

Thanks for another informative and fun how to! Can’t wait to employ what I learn once I’m back on my bike in full force! 🤘

[da]

Thank you, been waiting for the "hip" as well.

[kapbike]

thats was great tutorial .!!! Hips dont Lie ! I am exciting to do this!!!!

[chaseTheCase]

Awesome! We saw you guys out there Saturday at Coler ✌🏼

[jlerby]

That shot beginning at 7:22!! Lets get the camera crew a raise! 👍😎

[emoney]

Nice video Rich! I'm very Puerto Rican and you need to work on your Salsa🤣, however I need to work on my right to left hip jump. This is soul food for me. My weakness is right to left. Thanks for the content! See you soon!!!

[ronin]

Can't wait, doing the Lord's work. 😁💪🏾🤘🏾🤙🏾

[mikea]

Hahaha. Your hips don’t lie, boss! What happen to the unicorn!? 🦄

[kblaine]

Great content Rich....can someone chime in and tell me the Knee Pads Rich is wearing here. Thanks

[tropangbikers]

Nice video keep it up from Philippines 🤘🤘🤘

[mattwilson]

That was good instruction, but I was expecting something completely different. Coming from a BMX background, hip jumps weren't this. These would be more just carving in the air. Hip jumps in BMX are going up a transition and rather than jumping over the obstacle (table top, box jump, etc), you jump and turn 90 degrees over the hip of it and land on the side.

[thecount]

he said, 'are you ready', and didn't point!! a breakthrough advanced media for Mr Drew .... ;- ]

[markczechalien]

Awesome as always, when is the next clinic?

[rollwithmemtb]

Great teaching as usual👍
I keep wondering where the Slaughter Pen name came from? Is there a story behind it...?

[jonwebb]

You're a great rider but honestly I would love if you could break down what you mean and do more. Eg "Don't twist, do rotate". How is twisting different from rotating? Unless you show us the bad "twist" action I can't understand the difference. The words themselves mean exactly the same to me. One of the hardest things for people learning is the language barrier - great riders use so many terms that they assume learners understand - but how would they? How do I go about not twisting? How do I know if I'm twisting?

[ananthkutuva]

Will there be a Ride Series on super steep sections of trail?