How to Take Large Mountain Biking Drops

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"MICKEY DENONCOURT: Interestingly enough, larger drops are usually easier to deal with, because they are more cut forward, straight forward, when you do it, cut and paste. You survey them to make sure you have a good landing, make sure that your speed to go off with them is good, and then depending on the steepness of the landing, you either want to land more rear wheel first, so you can absorb everything with your legs, sort of like, when you are sucking up any other sort of hit, or if you want to land with both wheels at the same time, if it is steeper to go a little bit more quickly, have more control when you land. This drop right here is fairly flat, so I'm going to go into it at fairly low speed. Then just sort of roll easily off, soak up the landing, and keep ridding. So, I just, sort of rolled off that rock, got my weight centered, got the bike on the ground sort of soaked it up, landed a little rear wheel heavy, just because it is kind of flat, and because I came into a so little speed. It was hard to get farther out to the good transition. Overall, I was pretty happy with it, safe, easy to deal with, start with smaller drops, work your way up, and don't go outside your ability level, and your comfort level. "