landing!

evening all,

this might have been posted already, i couldnt see it 

keep your knees bent through the jump. it might help to hold a grab for getting started. but just experiment with it. it gets down to practice.

practice makes perfect... keep going at it and youll get beterr

thats great guys thanks....

Here is my advice...

The biggest key is to bend those legs. bend them A LOT!  This will help you ride up the face of the jump and stay balanced. The biggest thing I see is people have their legs to straight and then come off "in the backseat" or leaning backwards and land hard. My advice in steps.

1) Get more speed than you think you need
2) Squat those knees and approach the jump
3) As you ride up the face of the jump stay focused on the top edge of the lip
4) As you ride and get closer to it gradually, but in one fluid motion, extend your legs. This will come with time because you want to extend the legs as you leave the lip.
5) In the air stay centered, with knees bent, and stay focused on the landing.
6) As you come in for landing extend the legs and "reach a bit" for the landing
7) As you make contact compress those legs and squat again.
8) ride off like a porn star and pick up a hottie in the next lift line.

joe

Work your way up.  Start small and gradually get bigger

And remember, its much much easier to knuckle then it is to clear the landing on most jumps.

a good tip for when hitting a little bigger jump is to look toward the ground where you wanna land.

ya you def don't wanna land towards the back of the board , stay centered and reach for the landing a lil bit! when you hit the lip of the jump " at take off" a lot of newbies are already leaning back cause the slope of the ramp tends to do that to you, you have to get use to controlling balance and the board, don't let it control you ;)

work on your flat land ollies. get plenty of speed so you dont case the landing. when your about to land bend your knees a little and you'll ride away smooth. its really easy if you practice.