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  1. I can hop side to side ontop of objects pretty well, but i noticed in
    most of the videos, the unicyclists are hopping forward while pedaling
    and such. how is this possible!?!?! i can do like, 4 inch curbs that
    way, but not straight out of pedaling. tips?

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  2. uhh well the search bar makes this trick a little easier:p but to do it
    you peddal at the object and when your cranks are horizontal pop up and
    hop. It helps if you sort of tweak your uni out front, it also looks
    cooler. just keep practicing on curbs till you get the timing down. I
    find it better to hop too soon than too late. I hope this helps.

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  3. check 'here' (http://www.unicycletips.com) and 'here'
    (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/search.php)....

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  4. James_Potter said:

    check 'here' (http://www.unicycletips.com) and 'here'
    (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/search.php)....

    You can't click 'em both... only got one mouse 😠

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  5. guys come on. hey francis, those are called rolling hops. They are
    useful and can get more height SOMETIMES. In saying this the record
    for hop hight is set by a stationary side hop. For tips look up on the
    search button (what the second link of what james said) and put in
    something like 'rolling hops' or 'rolling hop tips'. Also check
    www.unicycletips .com.

    Hope this helps

    mike

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  6. DustinMichels said:

    You can't click 'em both... only got one mouse 😠

    Good one Dustin.😄

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  7. I tend to practice rollinghops on flat ground on easy parts of a
    muniride 🙂

    [image: http://enhjulingsfolket.se/uploads/9706/4415ae83-04.jpg]

    Great practice! 😉

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  8. Its so easy to do it in the snow =p

    Then after you hop you can look back and see the distance you covered,
    thats when i first noticed i was jumping about 2 feet lol

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  9. thanks, ill do the search thing. im sorry to bother you but, if you dont
    want to read noobies questions and / or respond to them, you dont have
    too, ya know, so dont act like I am wasting your time. :p (not that im
    offended or mad or anything, just, its a unicycle forum) haha

    by the way, just so everyone knows, "francis" is the name of my torker
    lx unicycle, not me, my name is Jake. lol.

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  10. lleberg said:

    I tend to practice rollinghops on flat ground on easy parts of a
    muniride 🙂

    [image: http://enhjulingsfolket.se/uploads/9706/4415ae83-04.jpg]

    Great practice! 😉

    whoa, thats exactly how i measure my hops i jump over snowmobile
    tracks.

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  11. francistorker said:

    thanks, ill do the search thing. im sorry to bother you but, if you dont
    want to read noobies questions and / or respond to them, you dont have
    too, ya know, so dont act like I am wasting your time. :p (not that im
    offended or mad or anything, just, its a unicycle forum) haha

    oh, you're not bothering me at all, I just thought I'd mention how
    amazingly useful the search function can be (:

    by the way, just so everyone knows, "francis" is the name of my torker lx
    unicycle, not me, my name is Jake. lol.

    hi jake!!

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  12. I have just learned to do a rolling hop. I found what worked for me was
    to pick a curb (find one with rounded edges), and attack it over and
    over again. Within a couple dozen attempts, I started actually
    hopping rather than rolling over the curb. A couple days of practice,
    and now I can hop full height curbs, and it feels natural to do so.
    Good luck.

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  13. A rolling hop is basically the same as a static, only instead of
    stopping, then hopping, you go straight into the hop. I found it helped
    to learn to hop statically without setup hops first, then all you do is
    shorten the time from stopping to hopping untill it is one continuous
    motion.

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