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you're referring to a small adjustment mid air to get the wheels over a crest and avoid clipping it. Jett is especially good at "catching downsides". He was doing the exact thing you are referring to over the single after the rollers at Red Bud, he was the only guy getting it clean, the others would case it slightly, the maneuver your mind is blown by is the difference between clipping a rear wheel and landing clean on he downside (and saving maybe 0.3 seconds) You just cant see this weekend's one from the same angle as the Southwick one. He isn't the only one doing this though and its a common thing for pro level guys to do, its just a mid air adjustment that will be muscle memory for most of them.
PS, In answering the OP - Jett has to have an abnormal vestibular system, that manifests in the above and many other micro adjustments that mean he always looks perfect everywhere and is never "pushing past his limits" visually. Balance is everything in this sport.
That’s the most forward on the bike I ever saw. He’s always off the back on the bike. Honda engineers got it together to get the bike to turn.
Hunter = 2x 250 champ (1 sx/1 mx) no 250 sx or mx wins.
Chase = 4x champ (2 being 450) 13 450 mx wins and 16 450 sx wins.
Hunter is doing well, but he has a ways to go to think he is on either ET3 or CS4 type level.
Also trained under Heiko (Roczen’s dad).
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10 minute foundation training on YouTube = Jett’s success.
Well he’s ahead of their level right now 🤷♂️
Imo... Jett and hunter have the same bike... both ride new school... same coaches... so whats the difference??
Form factor, that's what..
Jetts larger form factor allows him to hit bumps at greater speed as he has significantly more leg travel then his brother..
But wait... there's more!! Jetts form factor creates more leverage when accelerating... all of us have seen jett next to someone on the flat, and he yards them!!... it's because he is putting more leverage into the rear tire for more traction...
Imo... jetts extra size allows him to go faster than shorter guys... it reduces the upper limit for speed in guys like hunter or deegs...
Think we found RC’s vital account…
did you mean to type that hunter has no 250 sx or mx wins?
I was watching him come through the deeply rutted off camber after the brutal downhill on the south end of the track. He would enter a rut in the middle of the track at the bottom with the front wheel but then immediately pop a little wheelie and weight the back wheel all in one quick little move. He was so much more efficient there than anyone I saw all day. He has a riding technique IQ greater than anyone I've seen since MC or JMB. I was watching him do the leap in practice and he did it in such an uneventful fashion, his bike sounded like it was idling. He didn't boner air the takeoff and would drop the front at the landing just enough to land gracefully get back on the gas down the landing ramp. He carries so darn much speed where others don't it is ridiculous. If you don't know what you are watching, you could almost be bored by it lol.
When I saw him at Washougal it looked like he was riding a mountain bike the way he hopped braking bumps and put the bike anywhere on track he wanted. Watching Sexton chase him the difference was stark. Jett pulled away and made it look easy, where Chase (and the rest of the field) definitely make it look as rough as it is
No should have been 450, my bad.
At race speeds during the beginning of a race Jett can see and read the tiniest of things to pick apart the track for being just a tiny bit quicker here and a tiny bit quicker there when he puts them all together his lap times get better as he goes.
Jett is a master track chef cutting slicing and dicing
Oh man!😂😂😂
Sounds like this video to me
Not to start another PED discussion, but the way Jett sees the track and is able to process information reminds me of JS7 when he was still on adderall. He’s racing the track not the other riders.
Should have told Hunter he isn’t on Tomac’s level last weekend, because he obviously didn’t realise and passed him.
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Should have told him again this week.
All I know is we’re all watching something special, Jett is so smooth and effortless it’s almost disgusting. Hunter has really asserted himself this year too. They should probably return those red bikes to the NHRA trailer they stole them from because they’re rocket ships!
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