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Seat Bouncing
Seat bouncing is a good technique to use when you’re approach into a jump
is short and you need more height and/or distance and/or don’t have enough
time to stand up for the jump. Since you’re sitting on the seat your body
weight is going to go straight into the bike and therefore compress the rear
suspension more, causing it to rebound harder and give you more lift
(airtime) out of the jump. If you were standing your legs could absorb some
of the compression and rebound, keeping you lower. When seat bouncing
clutch and throttle control are very important and usually pulling back on the
bars at the right time is also important for these two things are what control
whether your front end is high or low. You see, you have to deliver the
power to the rear wheel just right with the clutch and throttle as that rear
wheel compresses into the jump and rebounds out of the jump. The timing
with the clutch and throttle and jerking back on the bars is critical in order to
keep the front end from dropping. This is an advanced technique and even
then can only be used on short approaches where you’re accelerating all the
way through the compression part of the jump. The jump face also has to be
smooth with no kickers in it.
My All About Jumps and Whoops DVD shows and explains this technique
very well. You can see free previews and all my Technique DVDs are
currently on sale for 50 and 60% off at; www.garysemics.com
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