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Message: [QUOTE="JasonJ, post: 225172, member: 23758"] 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. [/QUOTE]