"I BARELY SQUEEZE THE BIKE" - Jett Lawrence talks technique - Gypsy Tales Podcast 

I love the shots fired at forkner. I’m a Jett fan now lol

Jett is so easy to root for, the future is so bright for this sport

Just watching Jett race in person at Thunder Valley this weekend he definitely has better riding technique than any other rider that was racing there this weekend. The way he stands over the bike in a charge position and, grips the bike with his feet allowing the bike to do what it does and, "dance" under him and, not bounce/throw him around is pretty amazing. He looked so poised and, comfortable on the bike and, it seemed like he wasn't even riding hard at all....he definitely was the smoothest and, fastest rider out there.

Love how you mentioned head over the chin pad. Attack positioning should be the first and most basic thing, yet I always find myself being lazy and not holding the correct form.

Makes me question everything i’ve ever done on a bike

Jett is by far my favorite rider. His style is so fun to watch man. And his attitude and personality are great as well.

bless him, it seems like he struggles to put what he feels and does on the bike in to words. Probably because it's so natural to him, It's clear to see when he rides, while other riders are fighting the bike and track, Jett just looks like he's cruising effortlessly. If there was ever a textbook written on mx technique the Lawrence Bro's follow it to the letter

Luv this podcast the quality of the questions. The ‘it’s basic’ answer is so true of all endeavours in life but so hard to do. Practicing technique is the answer.

Barely squeezing/never arm pump?? Even for a highly conditioned elite athlete that's pretty incredible! I think he will be asked a lot more about this moving forward! I hope so. Very insightful his explained wrist technique.

Hands down, this kid has the best techique on a bike so far! Bright future ahead, definitely.

Love how you guys cover the technique part of the game so much ❤ greetings from Holland

That's the #1 reason i didn't make it; I always had arm pump, every ride. My dad never trained me with the proper technique.

Jett is spot on with good basic are enough to take you places, it is the same for any olympians. He is always refining things 👌🏼👽👑🇦🇺😀

Jett is absolutely adorable🥺🌸

I used to ride like Hannah (just not as fast!). To me, if I didn't crash at least a few times when practicing, I wasn't pushing hard enough. Bob Hannah himself taught me to grip the bike with my knees to lock to it to reduce it from swapping, etc. But today it's totally different; Rhyno's teachings, and how Jett rides is mind-blowing. If Jett weren't so incredible and utterly perfect, watching him would bore me to death! I'd be doing handstands and usually save it, "controlled out of control" is a fair descriptor of my style. When in doubt: WFO. And rough battles with other riders was the norm. Watching me, you'd probably learn little to NO proper technique, but it'd be captivating and entertaining--akin to watching a train wreck. Oh, Nostalgia!!

What a champion. Love the dig at Forkner 😂

Jetts ace !what a fun young man. Stay safe dude

Never having arm pump is a superpower for riding in and of itself. And would have more to do with genetics than anything else. Hunter and Jett would be the only two I’ve ever heard of such a thing. Even McGrath would mention arm pump sometimes.

Jettson!!! The future of Moto!!

I feel like the title should be I barely hold the bike cause if he isn’t getting arm pump his legs are doing good things ‘squeezing’ down there

Can’t wait to see him this season.

I try to squeeze with my knees for dear life when I ride. Doesn't always work out that way. I'm old and sometimes forget 🤣

Forkner shots are always appreciated

first time I saw Jett Lawerence was on a KTM65 at Kilcoy MX I was Flagging on practice day , my boy was just starting out and I did the right thing going out flagging on a practice day to help out the club. I see this Kid ABSOLUTELY flying around the track lapped my boy within a couple of laps and everyone else soon after , I mean f*cking flying so smooth so little and sooo fast , I'm like to myself is this real am I really seeing this !! It was like he was on a magic carpet . I came off the track at the end of the practice loop and I said to my mate Ray did you see that kid on the 65 OMFG!! My mate says oh yeah that's jett Lawerence he crazy fast!!!

Thought he doesn’t squeeze the bike but then he clarifies he barely squeezes the grips and thats fundamental to not having arm pump ever in his life (Apart to his phenomenal attack position).

Well... has its point, if your body's inertia is balanced with the bikes momentum then is not much need for squeezing the bike, at that point skill must be related to the balance that BMX riders might have, as their point of contact is the pegs and the handlebar, but on a MXbike if you nail the lines and the shifting as you would do on a supermini i see quite normal that this young professionals end up changing the riding learning curve. This kids had also, access to internet with loads of footage in slow mo, high definition, hypereallistic videogames,... I used to purchase VHS terrafirma via paper magazines by post back in the day.... that was my inspiration for all year.... times change.

Smart kid . Hope he can avoid any major injuries, cuz he is definitely raising the Bar for everyone, like RC and Bubba.

Excited for this season!!

sneaky dig at Forkner. love it

18 years old. LIKE A BOSS. It is already a big Star.

'People don't know how important technique is' That's the truth, just watch how many people sell their trail bike because they 'need more power and suspension' yet they'll never take the time out to learn proper technique. If Jett was on a crf250 trail bike with stock suspension I bet he would smoke the lot of em. If you want to spend more money because the race bikes make you feel cool, just say that and admit you'd rather seem like a good rider than be a good rider. I was getting my cycle endorsement and someone was there with their friend who had to put his foot down during the test while doing the U-Turn, so what does his buddy who rides without a helmet tell him afterwards, that he needs an even bigger bike now that he has his endorsement.

I absolutley LOVE you lawence boys! Its so flipin cool to have you guys come over from australia and just be bad asses. My new favorite lites riders. I will following yalls careers. Im 49 yrs old from detroit mich and ive been racing since high school i remember havin moto mags in grade skool me and my buddy zoom and our kids are both knarly on bikes. But you boys are cool to watch fa sho fasho. Im a HUGE mcgrath fan from WAY back so i watch people careers from the beginng to end

Digging the Platoon Flannel !

Must be nice to say you never experienced arm pump!!!

Learnt his skills when he was young😳🤣🤣🤣

Ilove this kid ! something we did in Freddie spencers racing clinic retaught me s motocross fundamental and really reintroduced so many skills that were natural when i was 12 trying to handle 125. He was insidious about steering the bike with your core had a us doing laps at "knee on the ground speed" with just your for finger and thumb on the throttle bar and left hand loose as in off the bar completely. Doing laps like that including smooth downshifting blips no front brake no clutch. transmitting all the energy down your legs through the pegs into the rear wheel to the ground . He insisted you should be able to corner at any speed and accelerate at 100% in that posture. Then there were some comments about Kieth Code and counter steering blah blah . He reduced the the muscle memory more to downhill skiing ( a sport form years ago) than cycling or arm strength . That enabled you to use your front brake in corners leaned over reducing your radius and increasing lean angle long after you had committed to the apex , and he demonstrated this to you while you were on the back of his VFR850 with his knee on the ground talking to you with one hand on the bar .... But transmitting weight and centrifugal force to the ground through the suspension into traction was the key not manhandling the steering across the limits of traction, "driving the bike with your core". That is why you can always go faster with your tennies on if you forget your boots practicing, your feet grabbing the pegs and directing the bike i never got ARM PUMP IN MOTOCROSS (not ever but not often) because i was too small for a 125 I couldn't even begin to hang onto the bike that way and be competitive at all. Why I was on a 125? is a long story about minimum wage and washing dishes that i wont bore you with .. Jet is the shit !! he looks kinda like Jerry Robin on that old cr 250 at Lorretas great style and smart enough to interrogate him self

This guy is a smart rider. Stay loose and let it flow. Seems nowadays I hear more arm pump issues from MOTOGP riders.

I rarely if ever squeeze the bike, it locks the suspension and balance out of your knees.

Kid is into analogies. Kinda needs to work on his analogies

Yes he looks 100% relaxed on bike. Jett so fast because he's calm

"I've never had arm pump in my life." I didn't either at 19. I thought armpump was a myth. In your 30s, arm pump is insane

Technique is the basis and speed comes with racing but you need good technique.

When I was a kid, Johnny O'Mara and others called it G.I. Joe grip. How the G.I. Joe had a pre-formed grip to drop a gun or sword/knife in but looser. Let the bar float around inside your palm a bit rather than use your fingers & palm to clamp down.

Yet Forkner is a beast. Today it's so damn technical for me I found you must proper stance and things like that but I was trying to really mimic some people but everyone after a certain level has there own sort of style.

In all honesty it pisses me off when people say they don’t ever get arm pump, like damn must be nice 🤣 props to him but I can guarantee you I could ride with the most absolute perfect form and within 2-3 laps my hands and arms pump up

When you have good cardio, you find that you hardly hold the grips, and then you don't get the armpump. That's what I found many years ago

Let Jett do the talking 🙏

Important to note... the title is misleading. He says he barley squeezes with his ARMS. I'm sure he squeezes the bike with his feet/legs very firmly.

I mean at this level hitting marks is key , hard to explain when you in a flow it's effortless and feels almost automatic when you're focused it's like your bike is doing all the work we see it all the time when these guys holeshots and dissappears ,and barely looks like he's trying or riding hard.

Everts technique still works!

Jett is the next GOAT

Would love to see Nato Crawford on the podcast soon, I believe he’s returning or has returned home from Europe?

My dad always told me if I drop my elbows he would ductape them up and he only had to do it once.

twist the throttle perch forward so when you on the gas you're wrist is straight ez

This I have to think about. He never had armpump. Thats the first rider I heard saying this. I beleave him. But thats a big issue for me.

Austin "Chicken Wings" Forkner

Yeah that make sense, and like, and yeah, so fast, people don’t like understand... This is brutal

Hahahaha, the Forkner wrist.

Chicken wings 😂😭

If you punch someone with a hook you need to bend your wrist a bit.

That’s really not what I imagined you as when I listened to the podcast on Spotify I didn’t think you would have a beard like that

Move over all past greats..................Jett is the deal

Watching from Kansas in the states

"I BARELY SQUEEZE THE BIKE" indicates to most people "squeezing" with your knees. I know you're pretty good at click baiting, but I hope this isn't click bait and it's an honest mistake.

We might get to see him punch forkner this year. Aussi

Jett really just called out Forkner like that lol...

what a just heard? forkner chiken wings? 4:51 🤣

What is with the hate towards Forkner

Let's not have this conversation without mentioning Ryan Hughes.

I can’t wait to see the guys who transferred from Geico to monster Yamaha shock the Mx world

Yeahhhhh Jett

Hunter who

i barely squeeze my yz 250 too

He’s definitely gripping the bike lol

Love the chicken wing reference

That wasn't a shot at Forkner. People have just gotten so thin skinned and unconfident they don't know the difference between a "shot" and an honest observation. AF does chicken wing it it, because although his elbows are up, they're closer to his torso than guys like Lawrence, or Dungey back in the day.

Tbh I have never squeezed the bike

I never knew Forkner had chicken wings, bahahaaaaa

Btw my name is brian pearce not jaden whatever his name i bought this phone. And shout out to my old favorite free styler ronnie fiasst!!!!! Go ronnie. Matthew 633 baby!!!!

Jett looking like Justin Beiber here!

Always said "squeezing" was over rated. Too much emphasis.

He barley squeezes because he's just not fast at all through the whoops. Let's go Haiden Deegan the new king of SX and MX and SMX🎉🎉 You need to have arms to get arm pump. You can't pump a 9 inch arm😂😂😂

Is that why you did an endo when you got the lead?

The more i use my legs the less arm pump i get.

fast a F. Personality of a rock.

Forkner has how many wins and you are going to rip on the guys style damn bummer to see some one acting like a punk as a rookie

little bang bang at forkner ;)

Just casually shits on Forkner, no bid deal lmao.

Boom, that was no bu**sh*t 💪🏻

SWEET AS EVER

Gypsy’s show in a nutshell: wear trendy flannel, get rider on show, give him props on style & douchiness. Take a dig at Dungey. Rinse & repeat.

jett lawrence is the fastest in the world

Chicken wings Hahahaha Forkner!

Like forkner chicken wings! lol 😂

I noticed if you have good riding technique your waist and legs should be the only thing getting tired. Your back and arms shouldn’t be working hard at all

Ain't no thang but a chicken Wang

Uppaa

Dam was 5hat a shot at Falkner? Its almost common sense LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Haha chicken wings Forkner.

Lol “it’s almost common sense” forkner get a clue lol