Can you do a scrub on all types of jumps? If not which jumps can you scrub/whip. because theres this easy but big table top that i always clear at my MX track an I just wanted to know if you could scrub it or whip it.

You could certainly scrub the jump you speak of that you are clearing.

yz250d, on 17 March 2012 - 03:23 AM, said:

No I can't. I did once accidently scrub a small table top one time when my rear wheel kicked out to the side while in the air. I must have been up in the air a whole death defying 5 feet.
Credit to those who can though, amazing to watch!

Edited by mikewrf18, 17 March 2012 - 08:18 AM.

yz250d, on 17 March 2012 - 03:23 AM, said:

Well, lets get the definitions out of the way first. Whipping and scrubbing are two different things with similar outcomes, they are designed to slow you down. You whip large stuff and you scrub small stuff.

So in your case, I'd throw a whip! We do have a "whip master" on here that I'm sure will be a long in a few moments to give his input. Its raining here in so cal today, so he won't be riding! heh

The idea is that your faster when your on the ground accelerating, no traction in thin air, So if the terrain is such that your better of staying low and getting back to traction sooner than scrubbing makes sense,  We just called it staying low back in the day, but tracks then weren't designed to entertain the crowd.

When you scrub you are attempting to reduce your upward momentem by allowing your suspension's rebound force to act to the side instead of strait down and by changing your bodies tradjectory so that is lower then if you would hit the jump normally. Personally i think the biggest difference between whipping and scrubbing is more in essence then in technique. Scrubbing is trying to stay low, your leaned over while your still on the face of the jump and continue to lean and pull down keeping the bike lower after youve left the face. The biggest difference with a whip is your arn't trying to stay low and maintain momentem. You can whip with the bike pretty much perpendicular to the face as you leave the lip, and you can also have the bike leaned over on the face and still have it be a whip not a scrub. Some guys whips scrubb of height even though they don't look like and aren't trying to scrubb.

start off whipping it, if you feel comfortable you can try scrubbing it.

Whether you can scrubb or whip something depends on the face, the size of the jump and rider ability. Start small and don't try to whip/scrubb to hard on jumps you can't bring it back on.

Edited by Die_trying, 17 March 2012 - 12:15 PM.