thank you for the ego check iff you read the entire thread I started out trying to help and give adviceshootr said:Ok Montashu...
I think that this goes back to PNJ's post, the key element of his post was that the ability to bunnyhop is REQUIRED to Dirt Jump WELL.
For a brief moment discard your notion that you are the next Nyquist.
You may believe you jump well, hell even your freinds may believe it.. you might be the best jumper of the group.
But in reality you don't jump well.
You make it over the jump.
The fact that you are "learning whips" has little if anything to do with your ability to jump well.
I have coached more than a few people at jumping and aerial manuevers in general and I can tell you that your approach is poor. There is a reason why certain skills in ANY activity are refered to as "the basics".
This is because these basic skills are necessary to progress. In order to run, a person has to learn to walk.. and before that they must learn to stand upright.
This thread was started by an individual who was looking for honest, solid advice on ways in which he can progress as a dirt jumper, however your ego could not contain itself and you decided that it was important to use this topic as a means of showing the world just how accomplished you are..
All you have succeeded in doing was providing proof that you are indeed an idiot,
Please, return to your village, they need you.
PNJ is most decidedly correct in stating that the bunnyhop is the first and most critical skill in mastering dirtjumping. It allows you to control the bike's trajectory, it provides a margin for errors in speed judgment, AND it sets the bike up correctly when attempting aerial tricks.
Regarding the original poster's question, PNJ's advice is your first step, however I would like to add that judging speed and distance is a VERY natural thing to do, your mind will make the required calculations subconciously without direct input.. just as your mind does when you attempt to toss something to someone.. you never put thought into trajectory and velocity when doing that.. because it is natural.
If you find that you consistently case doubles or tables.. analyze whether you case different size jumps at the same location.. for if you always hit the knuckle, then you are most likely focusing your attention on that point.. as it is the closest point to you when you are in the air, making it an ideal focal point.
If this is the case, your mental approach is that you are in fact treating the jump as an obstacle that you must get over, your mind calculates the required energy to just take you there..
The remedy is to change your mindset regarding the jump itself, remembering that your objective is NOT to "simply get over it" but to in fact JUMP it.. that it is not an obstacle, but an activity in itself.