[Closed] in simple terms..How do you get good air on tabletops?

You gotta get down to get up.
Nice and low into the bottom of the jump, you know bend your arms and legs and straighten up on the up.

For me it's having the confidence to stand tall and give the bike a good push - but all too often I protectively squash the damn things!

good air = keep weight centred
high air = pump
style = practice

other than paying attention to approach speed it really is that simple.

Keep weight centred. As in, don't stay vertical resulting in leaning forward and absorbing on the up slop? Stay centred with the bike.

You'll get a few tips on here, but you'll need to combine that with hundreds if not thousands of attempts of hitting a jump and developing a feel of what works and what doesn't.

Without getting too bogged down in technique and over thinking things to start just accept your going to land on the top and experiment with verious speeds with the aim of getting into the air and levelling the bike to land both wheels at the same time. Just keep relaxed for now.

When you're comfotable with that go try it on different table tops. The steepness of the take off and length of the take off will make a difference which you'll need to become familar with.

When you've done a fair bit of this and your comfortable with keeping the bike undercontol whilst you're in the air you'll be ready to start experiment with techniques to get more air or less air.

If you go for too much air too early you're just going to end up on your face, probably scaring yourself or worse.

Pretty much covered above.
One extra factor can be the bike design & travel. I can get a much better pump on the DH bike than I can on my Heckler.

Go slower and pump the transition rather than faster and trying to pull up.

Once you get the technique you'll be surprised at what you can clear without having to go too fast.

I'm fairly mediocre at jumping, but brief time I spent messing about on a bmx helped a lot with understanding the timing and body movement of how to boost a jump.

Wait for Tony. Too much chance of messing your head up if you try everything you find on the internet.

Wait for Tony. Too much chance of messing your head up if you try everything you find on the internet.

Because you can't possibly teach yourself to jump without coaching 😆

I have no doubt he is a great coach, but the level of hero worship on here is pretty funny.

Don't ask me, i can literally squash anything! (i'm the only person in the world that can hit the big tables on DieHard at BPW, at about 300mph, and not even get the suspension on my bike fully drooped, let alone get the wheels off the floor........ 😉

+1 for what smatkins said. Practice and practice and accept you won't have it buttery the first couple hundred times. And baby steps.

Actually, the way I think about it sometimes, although I'm far from an expert on the matter, is that jumping and squashing are fairly similar motions, just a fraction of a second apart. When I soak a lip up by the time my wheel is at the lip my bars are at the leveling out point of a bunnyhop. So I push through and bend my knees to soak up the rear. When I jump I start that same bike movement from the top of the lip rather than the middle.

Well Tony got me to clear a double, and if you knew how I ride, that's quite a big achievement. 🙂

Speed.....lots of speed.

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It's not hero worship. The op says he's booked with Jedi. Therefore, knowing a little about coaching, it makes sense to not cloud things this close to seeing a coach. If he'd not booked, the advice might be different.