Video: Sunday Saves #3

 Pretty sure I know this trail. It's unfortunately common and a lot of the jumps now have shit landings because of these types of people.

 In their defense, it looks like the train leader misjudged the speed necessary to clear the rather large gap, and everyone else behind him suffered the consequences.

 Read this as "let's jump a train".

Disappointed.

 @goaskalice: Diesel Wolf gap still closed?

 “I cased it!”

 The Case Crew!

 Send in more bikes!

 That would be epic

 sure none were Ebises?

 I was gonna say! Send Scot Nicol a thank-you card, because I'm pretty sure his bike just saved your life.

 Noobisis

 You could say they were doing the job?

 That place grates meat.

 riding Bootleg without any pads is one of the scariest things I've ever seen

 @keeqan: i have paid those consequences.. that surface is hungry for flesh

 @keeqan: The only thing I wanted to say is dude at :30 might want to think about a full face and maybe some pads. Those rocks look pointy!!

 Yeah, that save on the pattos drop at 1:35- amazing effort to ride it out!

 A lot of those clips were Friday Fails hopefuls

 Yeah, I have no idea why my fork CSU creaks so much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 Suspension Saves.

 That's more of a moto thing, I don't think bicycle wheels have enough inertia for the brakes to matter much in the air. It looks like the mistake in a lot of these is that the rider is just rolling off the jump and hoping for the best - not trying to 'bunny hop', or rolling off a drop without trying to loft the front wheel...

 No pop, weird rebound settings, no skill or technique whatsoever, just point and pray

 @nvranka: sounds like I should stay earthbound

 @okiecalvin: most people who get hurt unnecessarily in mtb (not really talking about those pushing to go faster / bigger / harder, as that comes with obvious risk) are typically doing shit they have no business doing.

The key is to progress slowly if you never want to have bad crashes.

Take some lessons if you’re having trouble piecing it together.

It’s obvious many of the people in fail videos are way over their skis. Start small and be patient.

I’ve had some pretty bad crashes over the years, but never jumping as I am pretty conservative jumping. Didn’t grow up on bmx, and never had good jumps to session or friends to teach me.

But, slowly, I have progressed to a point where I can hit well manicured jump lines, even fairly big ones, with a bit of style and ease (ala dirt merchant / a line / etc).

Maybe loose steep dh tech is easier for me because it’s what I have been riding the most, and someone who grew up DJing would feel differently, but I find jumping to be the most dangerous part of the sport for me. All lips can be slightly different, different bikes feel different to jump, speed changes things etc.

Jumping feels the most unpredictable in some ways out of anything in MTB. For that reason, I’m always too big of a puss to hit anything that I perceive to be of real consequence (e.g. crabapple hits at Whistler).

One thing that is incredibly helpful (and this applies to most things, but especially jumping) is to have an experienced person tow you in. Sometimes you are hitting jumps way too fast or slow and you don’t realize it until it’s too late.

If you want to learn to jump, don’t be discouraged by videos like this. If you are smart about it, it can be fun and relatively safe. But patience is king.

 My biggest advice, if you can't remember last time you jumped from flat ground on your feet, you should keep your wheels on the ground. Try 10 times a day just jumping as high as you can in place and get your legs used to popping and landing, because you are certainly way slower than you think you are and thats what causes bad timing and massive otbs.

 A lot of people don't jump actively. They just go for it and hope for the best, instead of generating lift off of the jump and controlling the front / rear balance themself in the air. To be able to jump safely you should be able to "bronco" (some people call it bunnyhop) up a curb.

 Last guy catches on that he's actually probably not any better than his buddies.

 He said "WHAT in gods name just happened" but yes it was quite the event. I landed about 45 degrees from straight, put my knee directly into my frame and miraculously rode it out. The commentary was too good not to submit!

 @sendokevo: I thought it was funny after everyone did the exact same thing.

 Timing the jump too late. Meaning they’re “pushing” the bike down as there taking off of the lip of the ramp, instead of before leaving the lip of ramp.

 @Saidrick: I thought the main cause was rearward bias on take off and not pushing the front end into the lip, thus letting the front end slow down as it leaves the take-off

 @Otago:

You could be right, their timing could be so far behind the speed of the take off that they don’t have time to even push down.

 Go make the content you want to see in the world!