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Message: [QUOTE="tedkxkdx, post: 646076, member: 39245"] Since your starting out you want smooth transitioning ramps that don't throw you up abruptly. The landing area should be slightly down hill and I would not put any double type mounds on the jump. An easy ramp slope would be 2X your bike length and about 15 degrees. 15 does not sound like much but 30 is what some pro jump builders say should be the limit. A 25 degree seems like a 45 degree when you first start jumping them. Learning the basics of jumping takes basic jumps and then you do them repeatedly, say 30 X in about an hour. I have 11 jumps in my supercross track in the back yard and they all started out with shallow ramps and the steepest is now 27 degrees and it pitches you up pretty good. You can always progress but you cannot back out of a jump once your in the air and panicing. Go to my gallery and look at the pictures there. [/QUOTE]