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Message: [QUOTE="High Lord Gomer, post: 989007, member: 16469"] An important technique that most people have trouble with initially is landing with the front wheel slightly before the back wheel. This does a couple things: [list][*]If you are slightly sideways, you can have the front wheel pointed in the direction you want to go and the rear will tend to follow it.[*]You can/should be landing with the throttle on. Having the front land first allows you to be on the gas and accelerating as soon as you hit. The pull of the motor on the chain adds a stiffening effect to the rear suspension and will help absorb the landing more.[/list] The last thing you want to do is land rear wheel first. If you do that, you have to be off the gas and wait for the front to be slapped down violently before you can get back on the gas. Slapping the front down, jerking the bars out of your hands, and possibly being thrown over the bars are all ill effects of landing rear wheel first. [/QUOTE]