Hopping

pluto said:

*moving hop*

I think you mean rolling hop. There have been hundreds of
threads on this, and a quick search of the forums will bring
you lots of useful info. My advice:

-Don't ride on your arches, keep the center of the pedal
between the balls of your feet and your arches, but never
on ethier.

-For sidsehops, do a hop-pause-hop-pause, so you have more
control and precision. It also saves energy.

-When doing sidehops at or above your max hopping height, do
a 2-3' prehop/gap before the main hop. Note: if you can,
it's better not to prehop at all. I find it's really helpful
when I wanna ride a line where there's a big up with a small
jumping surface, such as a 2x4.

-Lift the uni as much as you can, for seat in, it may help
to lower your seat.

-Visualise yourself making the jump (this really helps on
intimidating stuff, and also when you first start out).

-Once you have seat in sidehops down and can do over about
14", start taking the seat out. This will help you get a
better prehop, more precision, better control, and best of
all, a bigger jump. Withing a month of learning to jump seat
out, my hopping height increased by 6". Since then it's
reached over 2'.

-For rolling hops, don't prehop. Ride up to the object (I
prefer a 45 degree approach, so I can bail better, but I'm
just a wimp) quickly, and when your pedals are in the
optimum position, stop the wheel and jump. Pike the uni out
in front of you, and land it on the object. This is insanely
intimidating at first, but it has been shown that some
people can do it. I saw Ryan Atkins land a 34" rolling hop
onto a rock straight on. Also, most importantly, commit. But
these are best learned as a side hop rather than a front hop
at first, that way if you bail, or don't get the wheel high
enough, you won't kill your nutz.

That's my advice.

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how high can people hop?

Im pretty sure the highest official hop (as in
competition) is 92 cm (about 3 feet). there is video of
ryan doing 95 cm (about 37 inches). this was doing a
sidehop with a prehop. I would assume that without prehop
the highest is about 30-31".

rolling hop?

the best way to think about a rolling hop os that you are
riding and, when the cranks are horizontal in your normal
hopping position, push down with all your strength on the
back pedal. at the same time bend your knees and the lift
the uni up. you will be catapulted into the air. as what
gerble said, try riding parallel to a curb/obstacle and do a
rolling hop to the side on top of the obstacle.

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