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But Marvs a nice guy, and he's French so you know you can't criticize him and stuff or else you are in the same boat as the guy giving him the finger.
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Maybe you need to call him and tell him to just let Eli by.
He doesn't deliberately crossjump any more than any other riders. Fading from one side to the other side on jumps to line up for the next corner is a completely different thing that 95% of riders out there with any kind of skill does(including me).
Like some of you already mentioned. I'm still waiting for the 15 minute long compilation of Marvins outrageous riding antics that no one else does.
Looks to me like he hooked up at the last second and it shot him into Kenny's line. I'm not a fan of cross jumping when anyone does it but I would not say this is intentional cross jumping, could happen to anyone.
1. Stupid
2. Has never jumped jumps with a "slippery" base right after a corner
Like you say. We can clearly see that he loses the rear end and it throws him off when he gained the traction back.
The part I don’t agree with is deliberately swerving in front of big jumps instead of holding your line. I can’t say I’ve seen that out of Marv. As others have pointed out, slick approaches to jumps causes a lot of riders to drift from inside to outside approaching typical short approach SX jumps.
References (sorry no compilation video)
-Jason Thomas- always commenting on how Musquin crossing jumping
-SwizCorner Pulp Mx “Nations Collide” article
-Musquin v Webb 2015 Washougal
-Musquin-Seely 2018 SX
Pit Row
For a great example of cross-jumping, watch Cooper Webb at Daytona this year on the long straight. He literally goes side to side trying to hold off Tomac, who was going a lot faster. Tomac did the right thing and cleaned him out, but the problem is that Eli has little practice at riding like that so he crashed too
That's the problem with cross jumping. If you have to shut off on the face of a jump you are already committed on doing. Or you can't shut off in time and cross lines. Either way it's super sketchy. Super dangerous and that is why RACERS hate that move. It's an unwritten racing rule. If folks here at Vital don't understand it then they have never raced and/or have never been cross jumped on.
It's dangerous and every racer knows this.
Go ask Eli Tomac, Cooper Webb, Justin Barcia, etc what they think of Marvin's cross jumping....
Or will folks here also ask them to provide video proof.
It would really surprise me to learn that a rider intentionally crossed over into another rider in the air to shut them down or possibly connect with them in the air, it can only end poorly for both riders.
I do agree that being out front gives one the track and the rider coming up on the leader is obligated to pay attention to the maneuverings of the front runner and negotiate himself past, the leader has the track.
Since none of you inbreeds know how to spell it.
Dimetime: Your saying if your ahead of a guy you can go left, right, left, fly off jumps left right, left right all the fuck over the place? What about the fastest way between two points is a straight(ish) line. What about holding your line between corners?
your two cents?
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