I went down to the local jumps today and the BMX guys who build them have taken it up a notch; before the jumps were big, but the first few were doable for someone with intermediate skill and some balls, now there huge, the whole line could easily be in a video. I want to do these jumps, but I don't want to get hurt. I hurt my wrist pretty bad this summer and I don't want another bad injury. So my question is how do you learn to bail or fall with minimal injurys? I seem to freeze in the air when things go wrong. So any tips a falling "properly" would be helpful.
How to crash with out getting hurt?
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two words...
Downhill Domination
Downhill Domination
With mad skils!
yeah i was up there in monroe this week and those jumps are pretty awesome, can't wait.
juancho said it well, ditch the bike when your wrecking so you dont get tangled up in it.
When I did that I ended up breaking my foot...boostindoubles said:
Then again I *did* overshoot the landing also
Stay loose, and a favorite from middle school gym class, practice shoulder rolls.
if you know you're gonna eat it, let your body do limp.
You said you freeze...don't...relax.
... just chill.
ive got two words for you,
STOP IT
STOP IT
"All you have to do is go that way-really fast. If something gets in your way, turn!!"
(come on, someone else out there has to get that one!)
(come on, someone else out there has to get that one!)
If you dont think your going to make it, throw a foot over the TT (like a one footed can) and then kick the bike down into the gap(you know, between the lip and landing, and gracefully land your two feet onto of the top of the landing, and run down it. Its as easy as that.
If I hafta do that I usually jump over the bars like a heel-clicker, more natural for me that way... but I dont really think about it its pretty instinctive.McT said:
When you're in the air if u start tilting to the side and u think yur not going to make the landing, throw your bike to the side in the air and just try to land on your feet. If you think you are going to make the landing, and you actually fall, try to role over your shoulder. when ever i do hat i never get hurt.
Heres one of my recent crashes:
http://www.snowpics.net/view_single.php?medid=2603
Theres a lot of situations where you cant control yourself or cant do anything at all, I just try my best to not be too tense, and just take the hits, after a while you'll build a stronger threshold for pain,helping you withstand greater pains,I've crashed a lot from sk8ing,DJing,& DHing, so now i find it less painful crashing
for example the crash i had in the video, didnt hurt to bad, but now my bikes F'd in the A....
http://www.snowpics.net/view_single.php?medid=2603
Theres a lot of situations where you cant control yourself or cant do anything at all, I just try my best to not be too tense, and just take the hits, after a while you'll build a stronger threshold for pain,helping you withstand greater pains,I've crashed a lot from sk8ing,DJing,& DHing, so now i find it less painful crashing
for example the crash i had in the video, didnt hurt to bad, but now my bikes F'd in the A....
heres a really good way to avoid crashing dont crash... thats always been my motto lol
i agree with what a lot of people said. pitch the bike if you can, but if it's something unexpected then tuck and roll. it's saved me on almost every one of my "bad" crashes on the ones that didn't work to well to try and ride it out.
make sure that you're really feelin your speed and run in before you hit that new set.
make sure that you're really feelin your speed and run in before you hit that new set.
bballboy388 said:
Its less painfull in the morning
i hate waking up with the dam sheet stuck to me
so just dont crash
and above all else, if your looking to crash without getting hurt. wear some safety gear. like a helmet
or you could just wear layer upon layer of bubble wrap.......kinda hard to move though
I was pretty good at this when I skated a lot...
As evidenced by recent events, I no longer am.
do the loose goose and shoot for something that won't hurt you.
grass is best, then dirt, then bushes (cause of the risk of sticks+glass), then the dreaded... TREE
As evidenced by recent events, I no longer am.
do the loose goose and shoot for something that won't hurt you.
grass is best, then dirt, then bushes (cause of the risk of sticks+glass), then the dreaded... TREE