Transient wrote:It look me a little over a minute to realize that his bike doesn't even have a seat. That shit requires a lot of upper body strength, by the looks of it.
Although upper body strength doesn't hurt, most of those guys are wearing clip-less pedals. It enables you to get much higher jumps because you pull the bike up with your pedals as you launch using your legs so really strong leg and back muscles are probably more important than upper body strength here. I used to do stuff like this but not this extreme when younger. I've dropped from 7ft high onto a paved parking lot which is about the same height as the start of this video although I didn't have a full on jump bike like his my mountainbike had a full suspension which helped cushion high jumps which I did often in races.
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