Quick jumping question

I think that is just a function of how you learned. I would like to be
able to jump forward over obstacles with more proficiency but I learned
by jumping sideways. I am slowly learning to hop forward onto objects.
Finally, I'll have to learn to hop to my right which I can barely do at
all. Maybe it's an advantage that you learned to hop forward in that
you are less likely to develop a bias toward one side or the other.

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Ok cool. Thanks harper.

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i think its better for trials to be able to hop forward, i practiced
hopping sideways to a point where i couldnt hop forawrd anymore without
doing a rolling hop and even then it was a very short hop.

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Hey, I learned to hop not so long ago and found that I had more
confidence jumping forwards at first, it just felt more natural. I
think that this makes it more difficult to hop up onto things as you
have to jump the distance of the radius of the wheel to get the land
with your body over the kerb etc. If you're sideways on then you only
have to jump the width of the tyre which is much easier, and means you
can jump up narrow things like steps more easily.
I learned to hop sideways by letting the unicycle topple in the
direction you want to hop, then when you hop it naturally goes in that
direction. It feels a bit weird at first and you fall off a lot, but
the more you let it go off balance the further sideways you will go. I
dunno if that's the right technique but it seemed to work for me, hope
that helps!

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when i hop i start sideways and twist in the air to a 45ish degree angle
when i land on the obstacle. when im dropping i do a full 90 degree
hoptwist so i can ride out easily which lightens the strain on my hub
alot...(all sidehop btw)

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Do whatever feels better. You should be able to do sidehops, but forward
hops are useful. When it comes to static hops jumping forward will
never be as good as jumping to the side, but it will work. Keep
practicing. At 6cm you shouldn't have yet developed a preference. I
didn't start to prefer jumping to the left until around 20cm.

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harper said:

Maybe it's an advantage that you learned to hop forward in that
you are less likely to develop a bias toward one side or the other.

....while developing a huge bias for jumping forward as opposed to
backward. :-)

Cathy, I would recommend to work on sideways jumping too. You don't
have to jump laterally as much. But don't lose that forward jump!

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OK, thanks everybody. The consensus seems to be to keep jumping forward
if that's what's comfortable but practice sideways too because
eventually that's what gets the hightest jumps. Is that about right?

Thanks a lot.

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Well, it deopends on how your jumping. If your doing it rolling hop,
forward is beset. If your doing seat in static hop (hopping up and down
in one place first) then I doubt forwards or sideways matters much. If
your doing seat in front, prehop or no prehop, then sideways is best.

Seat in front side hopping and fast forward rolling hops will get you
the highest, but at this point the best for you is probally to just
keep practicing what yo can for now.

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[qoute]Well, it deopends on how your jumping. If your doing it rolling
hop, forward is beset. If your doing seat in static hop (hopping up and
down in one place first) then I doubt forwards or sideways matters
much. If your doing seat in front, prehop or no prehop, then sideways
is best.

Seat in front side hopping and fast forward rolling hops will get you
the highest, but at this point the best for you is probally to just
keep practicing what yo can for now.

Dude, in Just Conversation your had the kindness to correct my grammar
on a post about ski's and point out that it was not skis, as I had put
it. So please allow me to point out your errors here so that maybe you
will realise your human and that we all have touble typing and not with
our grammar.

deopends = depends
beset = best
prehop = pre-hop
probally = probably
yo = you

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Wow, I'm usually not that bad....that's what happens when you try and
type too fast. Sorry.🙂

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(Continuing thread jack)

Beener said:

deopends = depends
beset = best
prehop = pre-hop
probally = probably
yo = you

And you missed
your = you're (multiple times)

BTW, I would have thought that the plural of ski is skis. The rule is
to not use an apostrophe in forming a plural, right? Anyway, skis
occurs much more frequently on the internet than ski's.

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Klaas Bil said:

I would have thought that the plural of ski is skis.

I agree with you. A lot of people seem to throw an apostrophe in if
they're not sure about how to form a plural, usually if the word ends
in a vowel. Another common example is video.

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OK, so this thread's taken a hard left turn. I think I'll take a sharp
right turn with it. So, Cathwood, I noticed the new avatar. Cool
Gecko but why the change?

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underdog said:

OK, so this thread's taken a hard left turn. I think I'll take a sharp
right turn with it. So, Cathwood, I noticed the new avatar. Cool
Gecko but why the change?

It's only temporary. This is the tattoo I'm having on my foot on
friday. My daughter is paying for it as a birthday pressie.

Cathy

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Very nice🙂

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cathwood said:

My daughter is paying for it as a birthday pressie.

Ah you turned 40? Congratulations Cathy!

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Klaas Bil said:

cathwood said:

My daughter is paying for it as a birthday pressie.

Ah you turned 40? Congratulations Cathy!

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I think not until Friday.

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Skippii said:

I think not until Friday.

Actually, it's a week on thursday. I'm building up to it gradually.

Cathy

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