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Message: [QUOTE="pace, post: 897278, member: 48746"] My advice is to shortshift and carry a taller gear on the face of the jump, while holding a light throttle to maintain velocity. Once you're in the air, you have a few options. You can use body english to modestly raise or lower the nose, and get the bike to follow your intended arc. Pushing on the bars and optionally closing the throttle (in the air) is going to pitch the bike down. Secondly, you should learn how to brake tap as it's really the only way to abruptly pull the nose down in a panic situation. However, you can also routinely use the technique immediately after leaving the ramp to preemptively correct a nose-high flight path. Make sure you grab a little clutch before hitting the rear binder! Once you're comfortable with jumping the two stroke, I think you'll find that you can adjust the pitch of the bike pretty much on-demand in a more responsive manner than a four. The key to learning to jump however is mastering throttle control on the jump face. I see a surprising number of riders - even intermediates - going nose high followed with scary rear-wheel landings because they have never learned the fundamentals of setting up body position and throttle for the takeoff ramp. -pace [/QUOTE]