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[QUOTE="jmics19067, post: 435481, member: 27963"]
basicly  yes   I said that  when I let off the throttle on my wr 400 while in the air I would drop like a rock , it was easier and smoother and safer for me if I kept the throttle open.  If I approached a jump and went off of it at half throttle I would keep it at half throttle  as best as I could   until I landed. I am going to pick and choose  the sentences I wrote and try to explain what I meant by them
 
  go  over a small jump with a slight rate of accelaration   if the bike tends to nose dive  try the same jump with slightly more rate of acceleration  if the bike  is front end high  try a lessor rate of acceleration  keeping the throttle steady  and  slowly work up to  bigger jumps and bigger rates of acceleration as  you feel comfortable on what the bike is going to do.

now I am a novice  and I believe I am trying to help another  novice  survive the jumps not nessecarily attack them WFO.     If you are leaving the jump at a ridiculous rate of  acceleration  going  nose high  then backing off the throttle  and or tapping the rear brake  is a smart thing to do to save your skin.  something  I dont believe  most beginner/ novices  especially myself  feel comfortable doing.  If you  leave the face  of the jump  at that  sweet spot  of acclelaration where the bike   just  kinda floats off the top off the jump  maintains a nice  steady arc and level attitude through the air that you are comfortable with  and lands with a decent attitude in relation to the ground you are landing on  there  is no need  to play around with blipping the throttle ,shutting off ,brake tapping   and /or  panic revving. Then when   you are landing with the throttle on  you help resist bottoming and start  your forward momentum immediately. 
 I hope I am making sense with what I mean here. I definately do  not wish  any disaster  of   hitting the jump wide open  and holding it there to any one.
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