FOAM PITS & AIRBAGS: SENDING IT WITHOUT THE BILL
8 min · Full library · written lesson, video in production
After this lesson you know how to use foam pits and airbag facilities to progress jumps, drops and freestyle - on bikes, boards or skis - so the consequence arrives only after the skill does.
The Technique
- The progression ladder that every serious freestyle athlete uses: trampoline, foam pit, airbag, resi or soft landing, then dirt or snow. Each rung proves the trick before the next rung raises the stakes. Skipping rungs is how seasons end.
- Foam pits are for learning the movement: the first attempts at any rotation or new shape, where landing does not matter at all. Expect to be terrible; that is what the foam is for.
- Airbags are for learning the landing: the trick is known, now you practise meeting a surface with your gear - bike wheels down, skis under you - with forgiveness left in the system.
- For mountain bike freeride and dirt jump specifically: airbag time transforms progression on drops, whips and flips. Most riders plateau because every attempt on dirt carries full consequence; one airbag day can safely hold fifty attempts - a season of dirt tries in an afternoon.
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