Jump your mountain bike by pumping. Learn the technique for perfect pumping.

everyone can

jump

,

jump

ing is just a matter of going fast enough to hit an obstacle and fly in the air, that's just physics, no skill is needed to fly in the air, no skill is needed, what matters It's once you're in the air, how do you do that? What are the mechanisms that get you safely to the other side on our way to Dave Big Wave's bomb track in lovely Broomfield Colorado, where we'll meet? with lee mccormick who wrote a book on

mountain

biking probably the book on

mountain

biking and the guy is a genius when it comes to the mechanics of mountain biking once you reach a certain age you have a job you have to show up on monday you can't just send him and I have a theory that the best way to start jumping is to not jump.

Get on a pump track and

learn

the mechanics of how the

bike

moves. You will rise into the air. You will jump. Are you urinating? This is the introduction to the meeting. lee hello this is the same guy right here the same guy yes and this is lee mccormick but he calls himself lee he likes

bike

s i like bikes and he changed his name legally his last name is now like bicycles mike's bike and Your wife is the lady likes bicycles This is like bicycles have a seat, I like black chairs, man, so I have this theory and I said it was

your

theory too, which is that if you want to jump on land, a really safe and smart way to do it is not to do jumping jacks. don't take

your

dirt jumper or whatever you have, hopefully it will be a hard tail.

Go out to a place like this. You probably have a pump track near you. If you get to a place like this and just focus on that movement. The movement is the same movement that then you take a breath and nod, thank God, okay, okay, it rained a little, but uh, then it rained on us, we're back to that, okay, I'm going to try it. come in, you turn around and then when you get here, I'll drop by there and then we'll see if we can't, I'll just stop and capture it, yeah, okay, so we'll try to try again.

I'm going to roll around here I'm not going to run at all and you try not to kill me a pump a skip and a jump are all the same rowing and anti-running motion that the universe has given us signs of love waves and a pump track It's quite a literal weight, you can see the shape correctly, so as we have, we have waves, we have valleys and crests, and when we are in a valley, the bars are coming towards you, so you have to lift your feet. moving away from you, then you have to push your feet because it gets a little red, actually one thing is that the arm pull reconciles the angle change through the channel so that you stay balanced in the middle of the bike, which is incredibly important when you jump, your movement is actually around the bottom bracket, so that's the key man, that you're on your bike, you stand on the bottom bracket, you stay absolutely still and the bike spins around you like this and my nail dirty would be the handlebars, the handlebars follow an arc around your feet a dirt jump set is also a wave, it's just that the wave tops have been left out, you're riding the top of a wave, it's air instead of land, yeah, but I mean, you can draw that

perfect

line when you see people jump. exactly

perfect

, all this happens, yes totally, what's strange is that I've been a mountain biker for 32 years and this knowledge for me is only five or six years old and it took me that long, so I think for most People, it's a really amazing and different way to see riding in crushers, you have to be careful with those excuses.

Alex and I are considering this to be like the biggest double out there, so we'll try to address it here, where it's a little bit. a little bit steeper, yeah, and then we gotta get over one, two, four, it's like 17. My feet are shorter than yours, so it's called 20 bigger than the other one, let's call it 18 or 20 feet, yeah, It's like 50 feet, it's big, 50 feet, it's about i. I think I'm going to try to get it here and then hopefully fit it in here a little bit because I think there's a good chance it gets pigeonholed yeah it could happen in a rounder part yeah that makes sense so we're just taking the hint of

pumping

just the rollers and the

pumping

motion and let it follow its natural progression to jump, yeah bro that's life you're the only guy I know that makes a karate sound that was good it felt really good oh Yeah, buddy, it feels like that.

Well, so close and you haven't, you haven't jumped many of these jumps, almost none, almost none, so that's because everything we did for the first half hour was moderate speed, perfect pump, it was like climb. the pump right and then when you and then when you were in the air you felt very comfortable so you say: let me go bigger, let me go bigger, let me try this, you know me, I'm very conservative, like the impulse was not So. I can't even ride there, I'll just leave, yeah, and if I was in the wrong group I wouldn't do it, so a big part of

learn

ing to jump and being a good rider is getting good equipment, it's really important.

Lee actually ended up doing things that he hadn't done before on that pump track and uh he was just in the zone and I pulled over and he kept driving so I know he still had great vibes, great vibes. with a group of people who were there, they love the pump track because the kids are just getting into the sport, kids like those my age are getting into the sport, so it's beautiful to be there, it's been too long, I was so happy to be back and uh so hit the like button, subscribe and we'll do more, see you around, let us know what you want to see and what you need us to do and what you're interested in and we're done.

You don't have to focus on jumping to jump, that's what this video is about, getting good at pumping and the jump, the jump, yes, it will happen because you will go faster, you will do the right thing. shape and you'll know what to do right you know what's really fun is if you can find a really big roller like a big one you can start by pumping it and then you can treat it like a table and you can jump. At first you'll be just a couple of centimeters off the ground and you'll be able to glide along the top and feel like you're flying, but you're so far away that there's a big roller, it's a wooden roller on the easel.

I know what I'm talking about and you hit the front and I don't think you're more than a few inches tall, but you're a few inches long by about 25 feet, right? and it's such a great feeling.