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If you think jumping whoops is easy or easier, then I am sure you have never been on a sx track. Jumping is much more dangerous. Skimming is actually easier, it is a method: most of the time 1 gear higher, lift your front wheel on the entry, then gas while staying not rigid relatively on the back of the bike, then muscle and/or throttle it to adjust where the front wheel hits. Jumping is a whole different animal, especially jumping 3 per 3 or 4, good luck to you if you jump just 10 centimeters too long. You must have a perfect throttle control, perfect impulsion, perfect coordination, whereas skimming is more for big hearts. I would even add that Musquin has even a better technique because he often wheel tap in it.
The whole jumping/skimming debate is just for butt hurts. Skimming started around 1986, so whoops have not been always skimmed. The technique got more and more popular, but there has always been some jumping. And asking for tighter whoops is a bit ridiculous ; Reed or Steward would have always asked for bigger and nastier ones to make the difference.
I can make an exception for Musquin, as he's made jumping the whoops into a damned art form (no matter how you feel about the guy, his riding style is poetry in motion, especially in person).
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Build them up I say haha Lets close up this points race heading to Vegas
I agree wholeheartedly. One thing I miss about motocross from when I was growing up is how raw the tracks were. Seeing guys just skim through those whoops was awe-inspiring.
I'm still blown away seeing what these guys can do but I would like to see a little classic touch thrown in there. This definitely includes whoops.
Idk, for supercross there's always been three things I loved seeing on the track: elevated starts, real whoop sections thrown out in variation with one classic "standard" lane and massive, wide sand turns.
Just me. Some people are hating on Tomac, but he's definitely one of my favorite newer riders. I root like hell for him, Deeno, Webb, Peick and Hill. Just like how they represent themselves in this sport, regardless of results, and watching how they ride.
I thought they were just a bunch of tiny triples.
It was different.
It had an effect on the outcome of the race.
I liked it.
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