jumping technique is it the same a bmx ?

No its not quite the same as far as how the bike with react in the air, like on your bmx bike you can just pull up on the bars and bring the front end up with relative ease not so on a db usually has no effect in mid flight. you'll learn once you start jumping what work and was doesn't. be advise it isn't as easy on a db to pull out of a whip. but the same rule of big balls still applies. I suck at jumping my dirtbike still, but I rip it up on my bmx bike.

Yeah, totaly different, on bmx your distance can be almost doubbled by pumping on the takeoff, as you come tword the landing, you bend your knees and pump to stick the back tire down. You also outweigh the bike and can have your way with it in the air, on a dirtbike, it outweighs you and you go where it goes more or less.
On a Dirt bike, most of the jump is decided by the approach speed and throttle roll, you set your speed just slower than you want so you can roll on the throttle on the take off ramp, hitting a jump dead stick, with no power or even worse, rolling off the throttle is like instant death, as the front wheel will dive. In the air, you can apply full throttle to bring the front wheel up, or hit the rear break "with clutch in :)" to bring the front wheel down, this helps your attitude on landing but dose little for your overall distance.
So the learning curve, like the ramps are steep, you cant exactly go into it easy cause thats when you get hurt, you gotta pretty much wail into it. Just look for small jumps first, try to find sand to jump in so you dont get bounced bad by bad lanings.

Just look for small jumps first, try to find sand to jump in so you dont get bounced bad by bad lanings.

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I would disagree with finding sand to jump in. Sand can be tricky especially for a beginning rider. I would think that he is more likely to crash trying to learn in it.

The rest of it sounds pretty good. Remember to keep a neutral body position. And do not make drastic throttle changes on the face of a jump. Try to keep it steady.

The height, distance, and attitude of the bike in the air (front end up/down) are all affected by your body position, speed, throttle position, RPMs, suspension settings, etc.

I would suggest trying to alter all of those on an easy jump where you are comfortable so that you can get used to the different effects they have.

In general:

• The farther forward you are on the bike the harder you will need to be on the gas to counter that and keep the front end up once in the air.
• The harder you are on the gas, the farther forward...you get the idea.
• Most jumps can be made on a sliding scale of speed vs power setting. Eg: A jump that you have to hit full throttle and nearly wound out in 2nd might also be cleared at a higher speed with less throttle applied in 3rd or 4th.

Suspension advice is way beyond me...other than to make sure that your suspension has been recently serviced.

The biggest difference that I found with BMX was body positioning for landings. I found out the hard way that you *don't want to be forward when you land a BMX bike. Personally, I think the suspension and power of MX bikes makes them much easier than BMX bikes.

Take it easy and work up slowly...you don't learn much while busted up. :mad:

it's completely differant, listen to these guys. i used to ride bmx for a long time and about a year ago my friend got me into dirtbikes and i haven't looked back. i found out that your jumping progresses faster on a dirtbike than on a bicycle. i agree with gomer, i too think jumping a motorcycle is much easier mainly because of its suspension and weight.