How high did I jump?

If you want to know how high, then it's obviously 18".

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So you don't take the width into account it's strictly vertical height?

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Well, not if you measure the height of the jump.

You could say that you jumped 18" vertically and 13" horizontally, but
usually people just leave out the horizontal one, because it rarely
matters that much. You can still mention it if you want, of course.

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Thats pretty much what I figured but I found the jump much more
difficult then onto a picnic table bench which is only 1/2" lower so I
thought I'd ask.

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It also depends on the style of jumping. I suppose a rolling hop would
be of about equal difficulty for both of them, but a sideways hop would
be more difficult with the steps, because you'd be able to stand right
next to the bench for it, but would have to jump over the lower step
and so clear more horizontal distance. It all depends.

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You jumped 33! (18" height + 13" width +two steps)

Joe2005 said:

Ok so I was riding around in my drive way today, to set up the scene, we
have _two_ concrete steps leading up to our door, the total height is
18" and the total width is 13" So I used my awesome math skills and
found the distance of the hypotenuse which is roughly 22.2".

So my question: Is this considered jumping 18" or 22.2"?

p.s. i finally mustered up enough courage to jump off a picnic table
onto concrete. <and i landed it😎.

:edit. Whoops I forgot to mention I did manage to get jump up them🙂.

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ivan said:

It also depends on the style of jumping. I suppose a rolling hop would
be of about equal difficulty for both of them, but a sideways hop would
be more difficult with the steps, because you'd be able to stand right
next to the bench for it, but would have to jump over the lower step
and so clear more horizontal distance. It all depends.

It was a sidehop.

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mscalisi said:

You jumped 33! (18" height + 13" width +two steps)

Exactly what I was thinking 😄😄😄😄😄

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mscalisi said:

You jumped 33! (18" height + 13" width +two steps)

Yay for maths!

Joe2005 said:

It was a sidehop.

The height is still 18". If you gapped 1.4 metres and unto a curb, you
wouldn't say that you jumped higher than Ryan Atkins.

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ivan said:

Yay for maths!

The height is still 18". If you gapped 1.4 metres and unto a curb, you
wouldn't say that you jumped higher than Ryan Atkins.

Excellent point.

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ivan said:

Yay for maths!

Did you say that because he added them wrong?

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Joe2005 said:

Did you say that because he added them wrong?

That and because the addition is completely meaningless. Your
hypothenuse approach was correct and made sense in terms of
displacement, his calculation just gives a completely irrelevant and
meaningless number.

Btw, congratz on the hop.

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Ivan said:

his calculation just gives a completely irrelevant and meaningless
number.

Btw, congratz on the hop.

Well I thought it was hilarious especially because the picnic tables
around my house are 29" high. So by his math I own those picnic tables
😄.

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Didn't ryan atkins have videos posted on unicycle.tv? I can't seem to
find them. And when I try and look at his gallery here it won't open.
🙁

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You jumped 18" like every is saying. When you get into rolling a good
form is jumping from a spot as far back as the object is high. 34"
tall, jump 34" back.

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Right now I can only rolling hop 9".

Shaun Johanneson said:

When you get into rolling a good form is jumping from a spot as far back
as the object is high

And I already knew that, but thanks anyways.

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You could just say that you jumped up a set that was 18" high. Then
people would know that you must have jumped side-ways too. If it
wasn't a set you would say a ledge and people would know what you were
talking about.

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ok, so i dropped 9' (not really, keeping the math easy)
YAY
no wait, that was down a set so that would be another 12' over, and on
the thought I jumped 15 feet WOOOOH YEAHHHHH
just kidding

sorry, but it is how HIGH or FAR the gap is, not both unless it is like
3' high and 5' over or something, but then you would have to be ryan
atkins to get it.
haha

it only matters on both of them when it is stupidly hard(for most
people) to get that far and that high, but you do both at the same
time, and even then, you say I jumped 3' high and 5' over. hypotenuses
take TOO MUCH math and it makes you seem like a nerd.

just a thought.

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