How to Apply Basic Bmx Skills - Looking ahead to spot your landing on a bmx bike jump

Another key component in jumping new jumps especially along with staying loose, is making sure to look ahead and spot your landing. A lot of times it is very easy especially if you start getting tensed up and things aren't going your way. It is very easy to start looking down at your bike or you start looking down at the top of the jump or past the jump or if you are jumping a double where there is nothing in the middle, sometimes you will start going down and looking in the gap and really that is not where you want to be looking. Essentially what will happen is that your body is going to follow where you look and this is a basic lesson that you learn when you are driving and other things. But basically you want to keep your eyesight exactly where you want to go. So if you are jumping a new jump, even if you are going too slow or too fast whatever the case may be, you want to make sure you come up over the top of the jump and you start getting airborne, you want to look down and see right about where you want to land and once you are headed there and you are about to touch down, then you actually want to look out farther down towards the bottom of the landing so that you don't get balled up as soon as you land. Because ultimately when you are jumping stuff, the real goal is to sort of flow through the object. You don't want to every focus on one point. Each motion flow into the next and if all of a sudden if you are looking too close to you, it inhibits that flow from happening. So I'll demonstrate again looking farther ahead. See right now I am looking at the take off because that is where I want to be. I'm up over looking at the landing and now I am looking out. So basically as you can see, the whole key is constantly looking forward for the next step so that once you hit the take off where you should be looking, you hit that, get up over and look towards the landing right exactly where you want to be. When you are coming down to land in the correct area, you want to start looking ahead past that, towards the bottom of the landing. You get close to the bottom of the landing, you look ahead when sure you have a natural smooth flow of all the events that are being described.