95% of YouTube is Wrong About Jumping. Here's Why.

 Focusing on body position is holding your jumping abilities back more than you know. In this video I'm UNLOCKING jumps for you with the "Triple extension" technique. 

We are on a mission to solve the crash crisis by restoring athleticism.




Transcript:
If you love jumping, but you hate having to walk around a feature or you have to hold back or you land short and you're sick and tired of being stuck on the skill of jumping mountain bikes, this video is for you. I did a survey and it's the number one skill that everybody wants. And if they don't say that they want it, they're lying to themselves because this is the most fun thing. I'm making this video for you because stand up to the jump is a great concept, but many riders do the technique the wrong way. And I'm going to show you exactly why and how. There's three aspects to it. And when we break each one down, they're systematic. And so you're going to see, okay, when I do this, I'm going to get to the next level. And when you get to the next level, you're going to be able to get to the next level. And it's going to send you up soaring. And it's going to feel like absolutely riding like a kid. Let's get right to it. Now, here's the thing. Most everyone's going to tell you to stand up to the jump. And this is not wrong. There's a lot of clickbait that tries to get clicks because they're like, "Don't stand up to the jump." It's like, yeah, you actually do stand up to the jump. The reason why you can't jump, the reason why when you go up to the jump and you feel that sense of everything is tight and now you're in the air and now you're doing a dead sailor. The real root cause is because you're jumping using the wrong jump mechanics even though you're trying to do the right thing. So, one is you need to fix your mechanics. Mechanics. You are not here for the penmanship. I should have been a surgeon. I missed my calling. It's okay. Now, when you fix your mechanics, you're going to feel effortlessness, weightlessness. You're going to feel like a freaking hero out on the trails because you can just imagine flying through the air and you can do it. Okay? So, when you jump your mountain bike, what you're actually doing is you are combining elements of balance with a moving platform under you because the tires in your body, if you'll notice as we go up the jump, everything seems to kind of rotate back. Can you see this rotation? So what happens is most riders what they do is they try to preserve balance by creating extra movement and then what they do is they compress their legs at the very end. But this rider is showing what's called triple extension. And I talk about this in some of my videos, but watch this. So this is Lee. Lee's been off the bike for 20 years. When I worked with Lee, we were able to get him soaring through the air. This is a Jared's Place 1.0. So when you jump your mountain bike, we need to create this pop. And there's two fundamentals there. There's the compression, there's the absorption. The reason why stand up to the jump doesn't create this for you is because the hinge is killing your riding. Static does not fix a dynamic movement. Okay? So, the entire thing about standing up to the jump, go video yourself. Watch how your hips don't move. Let me say this again. Watch how your hips don't move. Yo, here's the deal. Your hinge and your positions on the body are the number one thing killing your jumping. And here's why. Because when most riders get into a hinge, their mechanics break down. Okay? When your mechanics break down, that means that you're not able to create tension in the core like I'm doing right here. I can actually punch myself and I can breathe fully and I can interact with my channel here because I have core activation throughout the entire body. This gives me strength throughout a range of motion and I can use my body the way it's intended to be used. This is not something I recommend you do. So don't start punching yourself and breathing. It doesn't that's not how you fix this. When you have a hinge on the bike and your mechanics break down and you don't have core activation and you don't have diaphragmatic breathing, then everything around your core gets stiff to maintain those G forces. Okay. The reason why you get compressed and why stand up to the jump is such a popular term is because you get two to three G forces. So if you weigh 200 pounds on a bike, that means all of a sudden you weigh 400 lb. Those G forces compress the body and if you use positions to deal with a dynamic movement, you won't be able to stand up to the jump. Okay? You will never be able to feel the feeling of floating through the air and going, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe it. I'm flying." You must fix your mechanics first. Here's exactly how I'm going to break it down for you. This is based on me working with hundreds of riders worldwide in our virtual performance center. And when I see riders come into a jump, they move everything except for the things that they need to move. And they're trying to preserve these static positions that they've been taught to do for so many years. Plus, you also have the desk body or the and again, if you don't think you have desk body, if you sit for two to three hours a day or more, you have desk body. Desk body deactivates your core muscles. It trains your body to be in a seated position with the hips facing forward. And the older we get, the more time we spend in this position, the worse it gets. So, what you're doing is you're asking a desk body to do static movements to fix a dynamic problem. So, scientifically, you can see that this doesn't even add up. It does. It doesn't. And so what you're going to notice if you pay really, really close attention to the rider is watch this last moment here. And you can see the rider's leg, the femur right there, and the spine. Watch this angle change. Do you see the slight angle change right here? Okay. So, a lot of people when they say stand up to the jump, it's the right concept, but you are applying it wrong. This is killing your air time. It's creating unsafe environment for you. And the reason why is because most riders are jumping with their knee joint or they're jumping by pulling their back up kind of like a deadlift, but they're not moving their hips. This saps your power. It keeps you from being stable on the bike. And frankly, it's it's causing crashes. And it's the purpose of why I'm making this channel. It's the purpose why I'm sharing this with you. Because there is a progression problem that's causing a crash crisis. I'm on a mission to solve it right now. And for those of you again that don't know me, Dave here. This is what I do. Share this with a riding buddy right now. Let's blow this video up. If we get to 250,000 views, I'm going to put out a free jump course this winter and I'm going to give it to everyone who comments on this. I've got an AI that basically finds people that subscribe to the channel. So, go ahead and do that. Now, here's the deal. You want to fix this first. And how do you do this? The easiest way is to fix it off bike. Now, if you don't have a team of professionals, if you don't have a a doctor of physical therapy, a chiropractor, if you don't have a movement specialist, if you don't have all of these people, then you need to find a way to get some expert help on this because, and this is what a professional would do. A professional would go hire doctor level people, specialists in movement. they would hire all these people and assemble a team and work with them at a very high level at a very nuanced level to fix the movement. Okay. So the body what we need to do is we need to be able to move the body in such a way where we essentially preserve the tension in the torso but we extend power out through the hips. Okay. So the main joint we need to focus on here is the hips. Now, what I want you guys to be able to understand is that when you are able to articulate the hips, then you can have power on the bike and control. And if you're still watching this, I want to give you a tip on this. This is going to come down to mobility. And if you watch my channel, I do give a lot of tips around the horse stance hold. I give a lot of tips around, you know, just be more mobile in the hips. This is something that you kind of have to work on daily. That's why I said in the title that you're going to hate this. You really are going to hate this. You're going to have to work on boring, boring ass mobility. Do you see? I It's literally boring. It's your your butt mobility. You get it? Okay. Geez. And when you when you make mobility in the hips, you're able to use that joint and you don't lock up everything around it, which creates more movement. And when you create more movement, you can tap into the power that you have. All right? So, that's the first thing. You got to fix your mechanics. Now, once you fix your mechanics, then you need to work on your compression and absorption phases of the jump. There's really two different phases to it. And if you want to float through the air like a kid, woo, then what you need to be able to do is time the compression and the absorption phase of the jump and you need to modulate. Okay? So time and modulate, compression and absorption. There's a lot of different philosophies out there depending on who you go to. There's the PMBBI model, the BICP model. All these models are really good. Ultimately, there's really two things going on. you're compressing and creating resistance to the forces of the jump pushing you in the air. And there's absorption. That's where we take a little bit of that force and we reduce the effects on our body or we reduce none of them and get a massive pop. And so this phase of the jump, the first phase is we need to what's called preloading the bike. All right. So, what we do is we I like to think of free falling a little bit and then pushing a nice even pressure from the bottom of the jump, which is right here down in this trough. And nice even pressure up to here. Now, if I'm jumping here and I want to pop it, I'm going to go stable amounts of pressure, stable amounts of pressure, stable amounts of pressure, and then I'm going to go rapidly and swiftly pop hard through my hips at the very last second here. Boom. All right. So, what I'm doing is I'm compressing equally and returning the same amount of force into the jump that it's giving me. So, it feels pretty even. And then if I want to pop in the air, there's going to be a moment where it's kind of like I'm trampoline bouncing or I'm jump rope bouncing. And in that last moment, pop. Okay. So, timing and modulating these things requires some practice. Now the key here is if you do want to soak the jump up or stay low like this then the compression phase probably needs to come much earlier and then the absorption phase needs to be very pronounced. So this is a video of Luca Shaw. [Music] I think he was winning US nationals if I'm not mistaken. So pretty cool. Let's take a look at Luca's compression and absorption phases during this jump. So right here you can see Luca free falls his body down and right there we start compressing. Okay, notice the shocks and you see a little bit of movement in the body where what he's really doing here it looks like he's standing his torso up like this. Nay, my friend. Nay, my friend. I tell you, I tell you the truth. What he's doing is he is extending through the hips. And I can tell you because I've met Luca and his brother Walker. These guys are absolute freaks of nature. They can generate an insane amount of power through the hips because they are mega athletes. So that's why he's able to do this. Okay. So he's generating force through the hips right here. And then he's absorbing almost a bike length before the end of the lip over here. Why this is so important is he's already chosen his landing spot right here. And he's going to intentionally absorb using the entire body all of the forces coming up into the bike and throw a little sideways. Maybe do a little pedal so we can shift gears. Very cool. Which, by the way, if you don't know that, that's why the guys pedal in the air a lot of times because they need to shift midair. This trajectory is what puts him on the winning line right here. So, watching the trajectory, he's staying nice and low. Okay. Now, how you may want to apply this is you can start jumping out on smaller jumps, jumps that are not quite as steep as this one. So, this one's about 15t long. What you can do is you can absorb jumps and stay low and then add a little bit more pop, add a little bit more extension, add a little bit more until you find that sweet spot of what gets you to where you want to go. That's why tabletops are so helpful. Okay, so timing and modulation, early absorption equals low trajectory. Late or small absorption equals higher trajectory. And then you also have even compression. That means the beginning of the jump all the way to the end, I've got nice even pressure equals lower relative trajectory. Okay? So if the jump launches you here, you're just going to go that way. If the jump launches you here, you're going to go that way rather than like this. And if you have ramped compression, this is where at the low part of the jump, you're pushing in maybe equally to the force that the jump is giving you, and you increase the force you're giving the bike and standing up more and compressing through the hips more as you go up, then this is going to give you a higher trajectory. If you want the most pop, do these two. If you want the least pop, do these two. That's how you modulate and that's how you control the trajectory. Now, if you like this concept, I did a complete other video on the torso plus two tire technique and it really helps you what to do in the air once you're in the air on how to land the bike properly and it's a good concept to study up on if you're interested in that. Number three is you need to fix being stuck. The truth is if you're practicing jumping more than once or twice a week, it should take you about a month or two to completely learn this skill and feel comfortable with it. If you've got a little bit of experience, remember how I talked about the static positions, the hinge, tall position, low attack, ready, boss position. You need to look at the hinge, you need to look at the tall and the low position. Okay? So, you need to look at one, your balance. Are you able to actually have balance in all of these positions? You need to do this on flat ground first. If you can't switch positions from tall to low and back again without completely not even needing the hands, then you do not know how to generate balance on the bike in the first place. You need to watch my video on the pedal press. You need to go out there and work on your core strength. It's incredibly important. If you can't do this, then there's almost zero chance you can do this on a jump. It's just impossible. Okay? So, you have to fix being stuck in this way. That kind of covers the tall and the low and the switching of those. The next one is the hinge. Okay. Number two is the hinge. When you hinge over on the bike, you need to be able to do this in a way where the core doesn't deactivate. Frankly, I don't know how to tell you how to do this without analyzing your body and doing a full-on analysis here because this is extremely complex and difficult to do. So, if you want to fix it, you can guess for a few years or you can just work with us. Click the link below and apply to see if it makes sense. Okay? It's expensive. It's as much as a bike for most people and less than a hospital bill. So, just do it. And so big G forces means we need diaphragmatic breathing, core activation. When you do this, usually the standing up to the jump is just a mechanical fix. Like you need to use your hips more. And that's kind of how you get you fix being stuck on this. All right. So when you fix these things and your body's working the right way, then you're able to do some cool stuff like Lee is doing here. That's it for today. 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