To be a great motocross rider, you have to ride with good form and ride fast. You can’t just ride all the time and not think about your habits, good and bad, and expect to be a successful motocrosser. To be successful, you have to practice riding with good form, even if it means starting slow. By doing everything accurately, it gives you the foundation to go as fast as possible. If you continuously ride with bad habits, you will never reach your potential. Eventually, you will have to change the way you ride to get faster. So, here are some tips on riding the “right” way.

Have you ever been at a track where there was a jump right out of a corner, which you couldn’t quite get over? Here is one way to get the extra boost you need.” Seat Bouncing” is where you use your suspension as a spring, helping you get over the jump you’re trying to clear.

Riding Tips by 818
How to Seat Bounce

1. As you’re coming up to the jump, stay at the same set up speed, but this time sit down on the back of your seat, compressing your suspension.
   
2. Once you are on the face of the jump, you will feel your suspension compressing even more. Stay in the same sitting down position.
   
3. Finally, as you’re coming off the lip, shift your weight forward onto your legs and off your butt. This decompresses the suspension, using your shock as a spring, and giving you the boost you need to clear the jump. Make sure as you’re coming off the lip you maintain the same speed. Only let off the gas once your back tire is off the ground. If you let off too early the “Seat Bounce” won’t work and your front wheel will drop, most likely sending you over the bars.