How does he do it? (Warning: Another Jett Thread)

You guys are unbearable 

Talent. He has more of it than hunter. Just like how everybody has to shoot the same basketball but steph curry can smash threes from anywhere any time. 

Wait til you have a bike setup question. They get the pitch forks out for that. 

We just want the latest Millville weather reports...

I think in that clip he is gaining speed from going outside straightening out the bike a bike length earlier and can start to build momentum. Doesn't take much for a few mph to show later.

Also looks like Hunter is not very aggressive and on the gas to be honest. If it would have been first lap aggression from Hunter involved, Jett ain't passing him. Wasn't this pretty late, midd moto?

That corner jump where he passed Cooper ? Wild. He rarely seems taxed by the brutal conditions…. Which is incomprehensible. 

Because he is better then Hunter…seems simple enough?

Just like if you ride C class and you ride with an A rider both riders on the exact same bike, the A rider will leave the C rider. 

Why is this a thread lol.

Here’s how you can bear it: don’t click the thread with the obvious title. Self inflicted, man.

Jett had a better line that allowed him to exit at a much faster speed which he then benefited from on the straight. 

^^Pic above. Is that the left close to the finish? Jett was able to clear that bump in the middle consistently while others plowed often into it. I just shook my head. Somebody with video skills needs to make a compilation video of all Jett's riding the last few rounds so I can try to figure out what he does so differently. 

What about when he passed Prado? Prado took the inside line that swept out. Jett was one line out from Prado's. Mid corner Jett jumped out of his rut and knifed inside cutting across Prado's inside line and accelerated past him. How do you jump out of your line at practically a right angle and accelerate past a guy who's in front of you WFO? Wut

Hunter barely puts up a fight when Jett passes him most motos.  Anyone else trying to pass and he makes it very very difficult.  

Same way Jett and Sexton blew past 2nd and 3rd place like they were sitting still in moto 2 through the rollers. They are better lol. 

Piggybacking on this comment, Hunter tried to pull out to the inside of the rut to exit with more drive, but his rear stayed in, and he went into a drift, actually losing drive.

Just my .02. Jett appears that he is very light on the bike and it seems to me like he runs softer suspension settings as well due to his style. He doesn't get beat up/kicked around by the bike. Maybe I'm wrong on suspension, but you can see how easy he is on the bike and how light he rides it. 

The Lawrence brothers is the perfect example of how large of a difference talent can make.

They were brought up in the same house, trained the same way, now rides more or less identical bikes, train on the same program. 

Hunter is clinical in his technique but always looks quite stiff compared to Jett that just got that natural flow and gift that you can’t train your self in to.

Just like the feeling JS, K-Dub, Hansen, Bailey, The Dogger and JMB to name a few had. 

 

I think he sees things others don't and then processes them faster in his brain than others do and rattlesnake like reflexes. He just acts almost instantaneously. I also don't think he locks into his lines like others do. It's almost freakish. Like the Steph Curry comment, maybe it can't be explained or even understood by us.  

Someone on the broadcast, maybe James, mentioned that it appears that Jett is rolling a couple of mph quicker through most corners therefore allowing him to get that drive down the next straights.

Whatever it is I'm loving watching him race. Yeah for sure it is shit having one dude winning all the time but fuck me, we are witnessing something really special each time the gate drops. 

Jett just has that something extra. He’s generational, and I think it just comes to him naturally.  

Lol the irony. 

Although, you're probably upset still for getting called out on your terrible take that was "factual and backed by statistics"

“Cause he’s better”? Wow, solid analysis. Cute answer, but maybe let’s try for something that actually explains how it works? Like, its the kind of thing my kid might blurt out and I would laugh but lets not pretend its an actual explanation lol

Moto 1 they almost made contact, and Hunter passed him back.

Obviously, he is supremely talented and has one-of-a-kind instincts on a bike. But one aspect nobody talks about that I think helps him is his physique. He is on the taller side for a motocross racer, and I do think that helps in being able to control the dirtbike better than someone who is 5'7 (I'd say he's probably around 5'10 - 5'11). To a more extreme degree, you can see height help Sexton, especially in Supercross. The way he has total control over his bike through rhythm sections, throwing it wherever he wants to, is greatly helped by his height and length of his limbs.

At the same time, Jett naturally has a very slender, light build. Yes, he has a good amount of muscle on him, but he isn't naturally thick or wide. A guy like Tomac, who is around the same height, is naturally bigger and probably weighs an extra 15-20lbs. He's not at all overweight, he's obviously in peak shape, but his build is just naturally bigger. Jett's core and hips are extremely narrow and petite, whereas Tomac and Sexton are wide. The weight difference between Jett and those two definitely doesn't hurt when looking for power. Think back to the WFO era of 450s (mid 2000s - 2010s). The best guys were all small and light - Carmichael, Stewart, Villopoto, Dungey.

No, I am not saying being light while also being decently tall is the reason he is great. It is 99% skill, technique, and confidence. But the physique aspect of it probably makes him just a touch better than if he were shorter, or heavier.

Jett is beatable, all these riders are beatable. There’s some thing to say about Honda right now. The suspension appears to be high on spring rate or hold up. The bikes sit higher and don’t squat under power. The traction control is unreal also. They have the ECU and something else happening to get the starts.  Rider input has a lot to do with it but that bike makes a huge difference with the traction control. 

Every factory bike out there has some sort of "traction control" you are naive if you think otherwise, however, I think Jett's race craft is simply better than the others

The bikes not squating because he's not dumping the clutch in a shorter gear, he lugs the bike in a taller gear like Ken Roczen, it doesn't sound fast but those two are masters of it. Jett rides a soft bike and traction control and starts is all his input, he would be getting same results on a HEP suzuki. 

Everyone is racing corner to corner, Jett is linking the track to create flow and slingshot when needed. 

easy.

Jett is running Shell Rotella-T and Hunta is not.