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when you do bigger drops, try to have the pedal in the middle of your
foot, so you don'y screw up your achiles. I did that and it sucked.
also try to roll out of drops as supposed to landing staticly The
main thing though is practice

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Do not be stiff and rigid when doing drops, let your knees bend, and
your body bend as soon as you land to help absorb the impact.

Pedal as soon as you land, or jump forwards, so you have enough
momentum, that when you land, you will automatically pedal forwards.

Pedals on the medal of your feet, so your ankles don't bend in horrible
ways when landing.

Just keep it fluid, and almost rag-doll like when you hit the ground.
And if your scared, do it anyways, even if you wreck, it probably wont
be too bad, or not bad at all, and you'll be pumped to get up and try
again.

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ive had some problems with drops as well of about 3 feet, i found that
the only reason i would stack was because when i landed i would try and
stay static on the ground and then bounce away, the best way is to
pedal out of it as i found out after almost cracking the back of my
head open on a pallet, my skull missed the pallet by about 3cm

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bend over when you land. take a look at some videos on
www.xaviercollos.com
he does some big drops and illustrates the bend quite nicely. and a hop
fowards off the object, not up. almost as if your gapping something. be
carefull tho as this isnt always possible if your on a slippery
surface.

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There is a video in the tutorials of Kris Holm teaching drops. Basically
he says to roll out immediately. I am mostly a MUni rider and always
rode off Dropps. (I don't do drops more than 3 feet.) The riding
momentum automatically puts you into a roll out once you land. When I
started doing Trials I couldn't figure out why I was having problems
landing when jumping off ledges that I easily rode off. The roll out is
the key. Try landing with more weight on the front pedal so that you
roll out.

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I know nothing about doing drops, but I know a lot about learning
dificult skills.

If you want to learn to drop 3 feet, then keep dropping 1 foot until
you are 100% with it, then try 1'6" until you are 100% with it, then
try 2', and so on.

If you keep going for the big one, and crashing out half the time, you
are learning bad technique, as well as risking hurting yourself.

Every time you fall off a unicycle, you learn how to fall off. It's
all to do with muscle memory.

If you "just survive" a big drop, will that be as rewarding as doing a
slightly smaller drop smoothly? It might be exciting, but not as
rewarding. It's only a skill when you can do it right time after
time.

A musician learns scales first, and arpeggios, and simple tunes, and
work ups to more complex pieces. You wouldn't learn violin by going
straight into a piece of Vivaldi and getting it wrong 3 bars in time
after time.

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