Video: Friday Fails #103

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 Make sure to film at high frame rates for the slo-mo option.

 i was 55 3 years ago when i decided i needed to spend more time in the air. it's a lot of fun, hope your employer is cool about all the time off you'll be needing...

 @WAKIdesigns: Send nudes only

 Sorry for plugging in but Ryan Leech Connection has a really good online jumping course with feedback. We get people of all ages to fly. Even 70yr+ old geezers boost steep lips. So the time off job may not be necessary. Ryan Leech, Thomas Vanderham, Jay Hoots, Shaums March and a few more are involved.

www.instagram.com/p/BVXniHqByYp/?igshid=3gv8ty8pjwwg

 @WAKIdesigns: I've watched some of his online jump class. I used to be a member. It's very helpful.

 You can do it mate! I'm mid fifties and am doing it. I've only been riding mtb for 6 years.

 If you want any advice... I recommend you start small, and only progress further once you're really clearing the jump confidently. Also, keep in mind that the most important part of the whole jump is the takeoff. The harder you pump into the lip, the further you'll go, and generally the more stable you'll be (unless your suspension isn't tuned well, but that's also why you should start on smaller jumps). Good luck! Have fun!

 Just dont think that going big first and skipping small jumps will help. You will quickly end up hurt. I always say, go super small, give it time, even a year, but be very consistent, try it daily or as much as possible, and you will get so much progress and skills that will help to move up.

 GMBN makes nice how to jump videos as well, if you don't want to pay for lessons right away they also have a nice how not to jump vid

 It’s also worth mentioning what kind of jumps you practice on. Make sure this is a proper jump site with people visiting often. Quite a few jumps in Friday fails are horrible, just because they are small/medium doesn’t help much. Lip has to be at least 1m wide at the end, 1,5 bike long and at such length it should not be steeper than 30 degrees. Landing has to be at least same height. If anything is steeper than 30 degrees and distance to cover is 2bikes long or more it better be almost as tall as you. Big table tops are always safer than small ones.

 @kusa: I don’t agree about starting small, it’s an incomplete advice. Small doesn’t mean safe and it’s all about safe practice ground. Safe beginner jump is one that is at least 1,2m tall and the take off is not steeper than 30 degrees at that height. If it’s steeper, the landing has to be taller. Needless to say a tabletop. I got wasted and have seen people getting wasted on shitty small jumps with steep lips and almost no landing, even though distance to cover was no more than 1,5m. Our local 45degrees, 2m tall dirt jumps With 2m gap and 2,5m take offs are way safer than shit jumps I learned to jump on, that me and my friends built long time ago, because if you short them, it’s like dropping off 1m and it’s hard to overshoot them, especially with poor technique. That is because as you go up on steeper trajectory speed drops down.

 #metoo

 @WAKIdesigns: I don't get the downvotes on this one. I've done Ryan's course and other than his weird hand movements while he talks, they are fantastic. I rode around almost all jumps that were over a foot and a half high. Then in my late forties I took the course and it helped a ton.

 @rrolly: many appreciate the feedback that videos alone don’t provide, no matter how good they are. Including mine hahaha

 he's busy finding new stickers for the handle bar!!!

 It's too bad. Catch and release unless it's an XL frame.

 that's a giant banana peel, right?

 @plyawn: someone needs to add a image of a mariocart banana

 Sniper. Definitely a sniper.

 It's worth a slo-mo re-watch.

 Ya that was amazing...

 It even looks steep on camera and really loose.

 On his mom's beti!

 Here he is riding the local jump line at 12 years old.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAtB2KFGcd8

 Been there, done that...

 Looked like he had absolutely no business trying to ride that.

 @Skooks: Agreed. That was crazy steep!!

 First thought was who (mainly the person holding the camera) let him try that.

 @friendlyfoe @Skooks some of the best parenting I have done is letting my kids do something I thought they were going to fail at.

I've got a 6 year old that doesn't have great control, but loves bouncing through rock sections on her fully rigid bike. I wince every time I watch her going riding seemingly out of control

Let kids be brave. Let kids fail. Let them experience pain. They'll be better for it.

 So to play devils advocate, would you let your 4 year old try to boil pasta on the stove? Someone else actually posted pictures of the same kid looking pretty rad on a set of jumps. Maybe it was just that one video but he didn't look like he was ready for that line. Part of being a good parent is helping them not make terrible decisions.

 Whether that kid was ready or not, I give him a lot of respect for doing it anyway. I agree it's necessary to let your kid try new things. Now, there's no way to know this from the video, so I'm not going to try, but, I would just hope that the adult in this video took the youngster aside and said, "ok, this is how you're gonna want to do this." Letting kids try new things, good. Letting kids try things unprepared, ehhhh, that's what I call a, "don't tell your mom about this ok? Jesus, the swelling is ba...no, no, I didn't mean it. It's fine, it's fine, don't cry." ....Not that I have ANY experience at this at all...

 right! proper bike catapult!

 Yes, he obviously has a death wish!

 That was my favorite...

 @WAKIdesigns: Me too

 And don't grab a tree as you start to drop in!

 shhhhh....that's where a lot of good videos come from.

 @ReformedRoadie: haha that was my thought. Damn that looks steep even on camera, and you grab a tree!

 hahah I don't know if these are considered love

 Camp Sekani was on there... someone over-rotated just a bit lmao

 First time seeing Copper Harbor on here. Stairway to Heaven has been widened and there is a tacky material added, so it’s not as bad as it used to be.
My first ride there was up Stairway, and riding back into town I saw they had a shuttle. Haven’t ridden up since.

 beer

 Looked pretty sweet! The crash after that was the best.

 jorts

 Hahaha

 That one was hard to watch. His face met the ground really fast.

 More rebound *damping*. He hardly needed *more* rebound on that one!

 Yes he needs more rebound damping on the shock. On his hardtail.

 A little more HSC on that hardtail and he's got it

 Looks like he's jumping forward instead of upward...

 You could feel it the second the bike started sliding, just watching the video. He was drifting for a second.

 I felt so bad when I tried to have someone ride Stairway to Heaven with a cheap performance tire when had rained.

 Didn't realize that was Stafford at first lol. I can't deny I've overshot that one before and almost endo'd, but he got up without getting out... impressive lol

 His thighs must have been feeling that the next day.

 vibranium chin

 Think he just time travelled back to the future

 "daddy...I can't tackle the steep stuff on a Huffy"
"Here son. Put up or shut up!"

 Must have been mom's bike?

 More theremin! Highly suitable for those inexplicable fails (3:30 a good example)

 You are correct. A Beti