How To Jump A HardTail Mountain Bike: The Ride Series MTB Skills Clinics Rich Drew 

Super thanks to Rich for having me on and helping me jump better!

great job on this one Rich!!!

i acc found this soooo much more useful than other jump tutorials especially cause hes teaching someone thats not already a pro

I’m 52 in a few months time, I’m an ex late 70’s / 80’s Bmx rider and love big jumps, it’s hard to explain and instruct someone how to jump after so many years doing it naturally, I discovered this channel and immediately subscribed, the instructions that Rich explains are pure gold, I love each instructional video and look forwards to each new theme - well done Rich !! 👍🏻

this guy Chip seems super chill, I'd love to shred with him

Another great one! Awesome job Chip, Rich and the dudes working behind the cameras to get these shots and put out these edits. This got me hyped to take my hardtail out tomorrow on the trails here in KC.

Super awesome videos Drew! I love watching them!! You always explain things in a way that’s understandable to the amateur riders like me. Thank you Drew!!

Awesome work Drew! And Chip what a legend.. thanks for helping make this happen!

Not only are these videos informative, they are entertaining and enlightening. Your sense of humor along with your student’s progression is par excellence. 😎👌🤘

This is legitimately the best breakdown of jumping on RU-vid.

The last 2 jump tutorials, with in progress teaching have been the most helpful jump videos ever for me. The visualization of the changes have helped the cues seem to make way more sense. Thanks man!

Great video Rich! I am impressed with how you and Rob are so good at articulating what you need to do on the bike.

Cool, keep going with "noobs" on the trails, pls!

I've seen tons of tutorial videos about jumps, but, no one can explain it as clear as this one! Some really important key points for jumps are thoroughly expressed in this video! Good job man, keep it up!

awesome video again Dr. Drew...I'm a hardtail person and this video really helps a lot!!

Great job teaching !!! You have helped me so much!!! 🙌🏼

Great Teacher , great student, enjoyed it ... wanting to do more with jumps on my hard tail, and this helped a lot ... thank you both ... God speed!

Finally a video on how to jump a hardtail! Love it!🔥♥️

Great stuff, Rich! I'm glad I ran into you today, this is just what I needed. Now I'll feel more comfortable getting my Marlin off the ground!

I am glad i came across this video as i am learning on my hardtail! Subscribed

Driving the heels through, that is so clutch. I see my friends pop the front tire up and exactly like you said they push the bottom tire down, but I didn't know it was with the heels thanks man.

That was an awesome step by step tutorial and made complete sense. I had to subscribe because me like others in our 50’s and BMX riders in the early 80’s want to get back out there. I’m looking forward to seeing your other tutorials 👌🏻

Brilliant info, brilliant coaching. Thanks from England

WOW!! Almost best Beginner jumping video!!! THANKS A LOT!!!

Thanks Rich, good content and very helpful for a 39 year old trying to get back into biking who's never really done jumps or drops.

This was so helpful in tryin to develop my technique...loved this Rich 👏🏽👏🏽

Another great video. Thanks for the hardtail love. I find jumps easier on a hardtail.

thanks rich....it is very helpful

Thanks for your videos Richard! 👍

Perfect!!! I was hoping you’d do a hard tail jump video!!! Thank you!!!! Love your videos!!! Thank you!!

You guys make it look so smooth and easy. I’ve watched a 1000 videos still look like a toddler trying to walk.

Thanks for this excellent video!

This is exactly what I needed.

I've got to thank you Rich, discovered your channel about four weeks ago, purchased a hardtail for my girlfriend last summer after riding around in Whistler for a day. She loved biking and had never done it before, I know starting to ride at the age of 40 is random but she really does enjoy it. You break everything down so well that's over the last three weeks she has really progressed, so much in fact that she just goes out and hits trails all by herself now! Thanks for your videos and keep er up my man! Greatly appreciated! Only problem is I feel a new bike for her if she keeps riding like she is! :)

Awesome. Thanks for the video.

Awsome explanation and step by step guide. Great tutorial vid

brilliant explanation - thanks a lot!

Great tutorial Rich Drew. Hoping to put this to practice this weekend 🤘

Yeah dude! on the money with this style of video. I enjoy watching the progression of an average Joe who is receiving some A grade coaching. Flat pedals and a hardtail that's where it's at! Really enjoying your stuff.

Awesome! 64, hip replacement…. Back after a long layoff. Working on rebuilding confidence. Riding retro, Kuwahara, Brodie, Proflex. Loving the videos!

Great video! Breaking it down bit by bit.

Ok so I've watched many videos on how to jump a mtb. None made any sense at all to me and they just seemed to be a guide on advanced jumping technique. This video made total sense and I think for the first time I understand the dynamics of a jump and how to preform one correctly. Thank you!

Duuuuude, this couldn't have come at a more perfect time Rich. I'm coming to Bentonville tomorrow for the week and have had issues with this very topic. I was planning on spending time trying to learn how to jump and you just came through in the clutch for the win

Very good video. Thanks!

Pumping never clicked for me before trying it on my hardtail, on my full suspension I couldn't feel what the bike was doing and therefor did not know what I needed to do. Maybe I need to go back a bit on my hardtail and try some of the jump tips from this video 😁👍

Thank you, love how simple you made it sound - also can I just say - NICE GLOVES … 😂

I hit Coler today then went to All American. Great trails!

He’s like a supportive sports dad 😂

Compressing the forks through your legs is often overlooked and works surprisingly better then through your arms. I've been critical of some of your videos but you nailed the basics on this one. Next up the pop and steeze.

Awesome video and breakdown

*So* helpful!

I think this video covers the jump process a little better than the jump series. You really stress the ramp pumping plus opening up the hips to create that pop. This last tip is going to unlock air time for me. Can’t wait to go try it out. Thanks for another great video.

Great Video brother!!

Great vid, thanks

thanks for a great vid Rich. Nicely explained. Fancy coming over to the UK sometime to teach me lol.

14.28 This is my issue. I tend to be forward and as soon as my front wheel comes off the lip it starts to go forward. I learned this racing BMX so I could go far and low (fasted way to jump) but now I am trying to go higher and I struggle to overcome this old habit! I am definitely getting better and on mellow jumps like this I have in nailed. It's the steeper lips where I struggle the most.

cool clip 🔥

Will be visiting soon with my Bird hardtail 150mm Pike. Ready to send

great video bro

Yet another great video ! I would love to catch up with one of your Clinic's if you're ever near North Carolina !!!

Make more videos with Chip, great to see rapid progression and good results in a short video

I live in Bentonville and didn't realize he was local! About to buy my first bike, so trying to learn all I can!

I have really enjoyed your videos. I have ridden for years and I am pretty comfortable on most jumps with shallow to medium lips. I watched the steep lip video and would say that looks like my limit. Any steeper and especially when more abrupt like a dirt jump park, and I seem to fall apart. I definitely suffer from some of the 7 bad habits sometimes. I feel like the more I try to pop, the more I just go up and not forward. I can go in with 25% more speed than “teenagers” and they clear it perfect and I straddle the back of the landing. This type of steep jump is usually built as a double so hard to find safe ones to practice on. I guess I need to be convinced to drive my heels through the bottom bracket and keep weight over the BB on such steep lips like approaching 60 degrees. I have talked to guys doing it and they feel like they pop vertically, not against the angle of the take off. I would love to see this covered in an in depth video and even more side shots in slow motion, pausing to explain the movement of the head and hips, and forces on the feet and hands. I also have a son who can hit steeper stuff than me and I really want him to learn how to properly transition to expert and pro lines, because he is going there, hopefully with some good techniques. I think you are the one to do it.

I have a hard tail , this is a great video

Oh no now we got Rich Rebuilds and Rich Drew

That's a thumbs up from me!

I saw this guy in person on a bike ride he told me about his channel

Hey rich I’d like to see a video of someone say like chip who is comfortable on table tops(like myself) but doesn’t really have the confidence to hit doubles of the same size and how to get over that fear. Keep up the good work 👍🏻

So great! I want to see how you boost this particular jump pls

just invested in my first full sus still keeping the hardtail

OK ... gonna try my Kona Hardtail on some light jumps. Those big ramps tho! I rode a Pivot full suspension once in Colorado . Was nice

Every jump video: Compress you rear shock Me:But how to jump a hardtail? Rich Drew: Watch this progression on a Specialized Fuse Me: Yes!! Yay! Wait...? That's even my bike! No excuses now! Thanks!

8:00 He retreats to the back seat to counteract the forward rotation imparted by being too forward on takeoff. Drive the heels even harder, pushing the bike slightly forward before takeoff which will result in a push that is exactly in line with the acceleration of gravity PLUS the ramp. Staying vertically over the BB means the push from the ramp -- perpendicular to the slope at the lip -- will be BEHIND the center of mass (pretty close to hips). Any force not directed through the center of mass causes rotation.

Can you please do a tutorial on how to jump a kicker on a hardtail?

Rich this is the best tutorial I've seen, thanks and any on drops?

Timely video. Just got a new hard tail with some crazy geometry. Love the bike, but sometimes it feels like the back end is heavy and my feet come off the pedals. Guessing that since the front lifts easier, I'm getting too far back on the lip when I don't really need to.

Cool hardtail. Possible bike check

I would have certainly loaned my Nukeproof Scout 290 for this. Only one in Arkansas ;)

I love hardtail

Sessioned Drop the Hammer on a Ragley a couple of yrs ago. The following morning, my 51yr old back was so not happy with me...

Great vids Rich but I have a question: In my country we learn to have a good attack position on the bike for jumps which is achieved by synchronizing the body´s center of gravity (two fingers beneath the belly button) with the Bottom bracket (center of gravity of the bike). Locating your hips over the bottom bracket, as you recommend constantly in your vids, you are effectively putting your body´s center of gravity much forward than recommended. Isn´t that dangerous???.

Awesome! Needed this video, thanks. PS. What Leopard print gloves are those? They look super sweet. Keep up the good work.

I'm learning so much about you Sir Rich! Can it be in XC MTB?

Rich, hope you see this. I'm considering getting a Full suspension after learning how to jump a hardtail fairly decently. You say its an advantage to have a rear shock? I've also heard from others that its harder to jump a full suspension compared to a hardtail. Wasn't sure what to expect if I bought a FS. Hope to see The Ride Series clinics out here in NC one day! Appreciate your videos! I've watched your how-to jump videos over 100 times until I finally was able to clear a 15-foot tabletop (I couldn't jump at all at the start). Added some front wheel steeze as well, haha

Hey Rich do you ever make it out to Canada? I live in Toronto!

Wow, your a great teacher! I'd like for you to coach me, but I live in california lol😂

Awesome tips as always, I'm learning a lot. I have been practicing jumps and I'm comfortable with them but how can I get height. I want to learn to get maximum height out of the jump.

the video is really helpful for me as a rider who is riding a hardtail.always wondering is there any difference for doing a jump between a hardtail and a fulsus.managed to clear a table top recently but require to go in the jump with high speed and couldn't land consistent with the front wheel first

is it possible to jump a hardtail as 86 ib because im skinny as hell and how do you even pump if your light as its kind of hard for me

Driving through the heels...what does that mean? Do i lean them more backwards and push into the pedals? I have the same problem, i started jumping with my fully and now on my hardtail i realized i must have cheated and had no clean technique.

Hi Rich, after I watched this video, I recorded my jumps. I'm on my early 40's and I wanted to learn hitting small jumps. Can I send you my jump clip and ask for some advice, big thanks!

What are some examples of riding techniques that are different between hardtails and full squish bikes? Drops, maybe?

Rich, loving your videos but have an observationL The low athletic position to opening up or standing up is a very similar movement to a deadlift. Would you agree? and would working on deadlifts for explosiveness help with generating lift or boost?

I feel like my problem is with my arms. To bunny hop, to manual, to wheelie i have to pull on the bars. I feel like arms are rarely brought up. I understand preloading fine. But then i need to pull the front wheel back to get it up and i end up off balance from that.

Cool what do think about the marlin 4 by trek as a starter mountain bike ?

I was out today and I felt a lot more comfortable on the jumps today. I have been watching the videos that Rich has been putting up the last month or so. If I was closer I would come to one of your jump clinics to learn even more. Thanks!

I'm so confused. wouldnt he really launch if he did the row and anti-row?

Was Cease and Desist named after the trail on the North Shore that was shut down because officials thought it was to dangerous?

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Maybe do a video on how to avoid getting bucked. To me it seems scary not to push the bike out, I’ll get bucked for sure. Do you get bucked easier on a full suspension bike? Thanks