How to jump a ramp???

[loosekid]

hey guys new to fmx now confident on my bike want to start jumping just want to learn some technique before hitting a ramp like body position before during and after?? any help would be appreciated cheers!!

[paddo]

gday mate. welcome to the sport. well i strongly suggest jumping smaller ramps first because everyone has their own 'attack position'. do some small ramps first and urs will naturally present itself. no one is the same everyone has different preferences.

wen im jumping i.

run up - sitting, arms up, find correct speed < very important haha

about 5 - 10 m away from bottom of jump/ramp - stand into my attack position

on ramp - same position above seat slightly towards the front, arms still up

in air - standing up when not tricking.

landing - standing, soft but still strong u dont want to get bounced down into ur seat. absorb the jump using ur suspension and ur legs/arms. << this comes very easily with practice.

good luck mate.

[joel rinaldi]

there bud just take it slow dont try and go big all at once. if you have jumped big dirt hits you should be ok. but push the ramp right up to the landing and get use to the hit of the ramp then when your ready slowly move it back and keep doing this till you are were u want to be or as far as you can go.

good luck man

[KoRe KrEw]

hey man, make sure you get tapping the brakes to pull ur front down dialled before you go movin the ramp back to far ay

[rm125kid]

i would agree with wat 'Paddo' said
everyone has there own style and you just need to start out and get use to it...
sure learn all the basic bike controll things like the back break and stufff....
but id say just give it time and take it slow, get use to how the ramp kicks you and the feel of the bike in the air

personly i sit down untill i get to speed, depending on the run up if its bumpy i stand (but thats more dirt stuff) and then just centeral, knees bent and arms up... in the air try to just relax in a sence, dont freak out and think about wat your doing.... then just land as normal....