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I'd say that you should release both brakes before taking off.

Use them to get in to position, but once you put the power down having the bike being prevented from morphing slightly around the obstacle is seriously limiting the return pressure.

Having no brakes locked when preloading lets the bike move downwards with the pressure, giving more rebound.

Certainly, I'm better at them since I went brakeless.

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Certainly, I'm better at them since I went brakeless.

Word! As with a lot of tech stuff like that (especially on natural), it's easier to balance and hold them without brakes than with. You get better grip because - as Flipp said - your bike can just shift around and hold itself in place, and it allows everything to move into the most natural position. When you preload and spring up, the tyres/wheels being able to rotate helps as the bike can spring better with the wheels moving rather than locked.

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Just use the front brake to control your self

As the forks flex giving time to react to loss of balance.

Pre load the body by lowering you arse to the tyre you can use the rear brake just for a second to help hold the position and as you explode you release both brakes

You should get a fair bit of spring from the flex of forks

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