When to ride seat out in front?

General
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Learning jumping and doing drops and i am a little confused. When do you jump/drop with seat out in front? is it a height thing? I watched universe (again:D ) and can’t find anything consistent.
Any help would be appreciated…

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Re: When to ride seat out in front?

You pretty much do it when you feel the need to. Seat out in front can allow you to jump higher to allow the wheel to clear the obstacle and also might help you avoid hitting the seat hard against your body if you do a big drop.

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Jumping seat in front gets me a little more height so if I’m unsure if I’ll
make it on to something - out comes the seat.

As for drops I’ll only pull the seat out if there’s no room to land and ride
out of it. This helps reduce the stresses of landing dead on the cranks as
you can bend your legs to absorb some of the impact.

Cheers,
Neil

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Subject: When to ride seat out in front?

> Learning jumping and doing drops and i am a little confused. When do you
jump/drop with seat out in front? is it a height thing? I watched universe
(again:D ) and can’t find anything consistent.
> Any help would be appreciated…
>
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if you jump off somthing high and your crank snaps or your foot slips off your groin would be thanking your so much for puting your seat out the front, so if your going of things like crubs and gutters i wouldent worry about it but if u are jumping off picknick tables even onto the seat it helps