The winter classic, distilled to one finger and three perfect beats. You race down the in-run, and everything hinges on the instant you reach the lip: tap a hair too early or too late and you flop off the edge, but catch it dead-on and you explode into the air with full speed. Then the real game begins — you lean forward to ride the air for lift, and the further you lean the further you sail, except lean too hard and the wind flips you into a tumble that wrecks the landing. So every jump is a nerve game of riding the very edge of control, easing off the lean a breath before you lose it, then settling onto the snow for the distance. It is pure timing and nerve, no luck at all, and a single clean monster jump can rocket past everything you have done before. How far can you fly?
Tap to set off down the in-run. Your skier accelerates toward the lip of the jump, and a timing bar fills along the bottom with a green zone marking the perfect takeoff. Tap again when the cursor is in the green to spring off the lip — the closer to dead-centre, the faster and farther you launch. Mistime it and you leave the ramp with little speed.
Now you are in the air. Press and HOLD the screen to lean your skier forward: leaning gives you lift, so the more you lean, the longer you glide and the more distance you rack up. But watch the tumble meter on the right — leaning past the marked hot line builds tumble risk, and if that meter fills, the wind flips you and you crash, halving your distance and scoring a fall. Let go to straighten up and let the risk drain, then lean again.
The whole skill is riding that edge: hold a deep lean for distance, but ease off a moment before the meter tops out, again and again, until you touch down. Your score is the distance of the jump in metres, and your best is saved. Tap Save on the landing screen to send a big jump to the Hall of Fame, or New to jump again.
Distance is won in the air, but it is set on the lip. A perfectly timed takeoff launches you with full speed, and that speed is the foundation every metre of glide is built on — no amount of leaning will rescue a mistimed jump that left the ramp slow. Watch the cursor, not the skier, and squeeze the tap right as it crosses the centre of the green.
Lean is a throttle, not a switch. Beginners jam the lean to maximum and instantly tumble. The sweet spot sits just under the hot line: hold a strong, steady lean there and you get almost all the lift with the risk meter barely creeping. Treat full lean as a brief overdrive you dip into, not a place you live.
Ride the meter, then breathe. The skilled rhythm is to push the lean up until the tumble meter starts climbing, hold a beat, then release for a moment to let it drain back down before pushing again. Those little releases cost you almost nothing in lift but reset your risk, letting you stay aggressive for the whole flight instead of crashing halfway.
Don't chase a fall. If the tumble meter spikes near the end of a long jump, ease off completely and take the safe landing — a clean jump scores full distance, while a tumble halves it. A slightly shorter clean flight almost always beats a longer one that ends in a crash, so when in doubt late in the air, straighten up and stick it.