mostlikely a dumb question...but

[griemar]

How does one jump rc's? I've seen so many video's and have watched so many ppl at the track take these jumps, yet if i hit a crack in the road that makes my truck bounce it breaks. How do you do it?!?

 

[ohmygahitscoby]

There's no such thing as a dumb question. Of course, to make an RC jump, you need at least a ramp or something to launch it off of. I don't think a crack in the road will do it. To make it go forward in the air, you throttle. To go reverse, you brake. I believe that's how it goes.

 

[foggy]

most of the time i do a spot of jumping i break something.
watch a few more vids it's not all walk aways.

 

[hpinitromt]

i did this a few years ago taking a 12 foot dropoff with my savage21

 

[foggy]

i did this a few years ago taking a 12 foot dropoff with my savage21

now thats great I've gotta start takin pics of my carnage lol.

 

[griemar]

OK, let me better explain. I goto 2 local tracks here. One of them has a course that includes a few singles, 1 or 2 doubles, a table top and a bunch of whoops. The last time I tried to run the course for practice I couldnt keep the truck from overturning. I either backflip and crash or nose dive and crash. Is there a proper way to take these jumps other than just squaring up and hoping for the best?

 

[Scrogg]

Practice... keep doing it until you get it. It comes down to being quick enough to adjust the truck in flight with your throttle and brake. Also how much throttle to leave a jump with.
After you square up to the jump, give it the necessary throttle right up to the lip of the jump. Watch the nose of the truck and see what corrections it needs. That's all there is to it.

 

[Brushlessboy]

Remember to lift the nose you throttle up, to drop it throttle down. On small jumps if the nose is too high you may need to actually brake to drop it fast enough.
For practice get a friend, or enemy if you're a sadist, and find or make a big ramp. You jump it, he can catch it.
The bigger the jump the more air time, the more reaction time.

 

[TWOCANE]

Great explination Brushlessboy +1 on that.

 

[griemar]

Thanks for the info everyone. Scrogg, your saying that I dont throttle all the way off the jump but to actually let off just before launch? Guess that explains why I backflip so much.

 

[beason]

i throttle just to the top of the jump, that normally gives me a slight nose up flight. if its to high TAP the brakes, if its to low TAP the throttle. also suspension tuning has alot to do with launch attitude.

you want to land as flat as possible to the ground your landing on. if you landing on a downward slope like the back side of a double, slight nose down is ok.

 

[hpinitromt]

i had that problem with one of my savages, it turned out to be my susp. tuning, it was too soft, and when i hit the jump , it made the truck bottom out against the jump and it bounced off it, rather than drove off it, always made me go nose high and crash, i put stiffer springs in and it made it better, never been much of racer anyways, I'm a sand pit kinda guy

 

[griemar]

i had that problem with one of my savages, it turned out to be my susp. tuning, it was too soft, and when i hit the jump , it made the truck bottom out against the jump and it bounced off it, rather than drove off it, always made me go nose high and crash, i put stiffer springs in and it made it better, never been much of racer anyways, I'm a sand pit kinda guy

Well i'm a bit of both actually. I love the track, great ppl there. But I also love to bash! can't wait to get my second rig. Then the GT2 will be my track truck and the new rig will be my basher. Ultimately I'll have 3 which will then include a drifter, been dying to try that.