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Originally Posted by hooligan
Falling is a part of learning. Go out there, learn how not to do face plants, learn how to take falls, then youll avoid doing the same mistake. Keep your shoulders in line, lift as you hit the lip, land eveen, weight distributed evenly, match bike line to tranny line, go with enough speed.
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Also make sure the bike is nice and small and easy to move around. If a bike fits to big it will be hard to learn to jump
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