How the hell do u hop so high?

Attach explosives under your wheel. Or you can be like KH and all the
other movie stars and use wires and magic lobsters.

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I second what DK said.

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KH doesnt use wires. and a good way to hop higher is to learn seat in
front hopping whaich is where you pull the seat out so when you jump
you can tuck it right up under you...until you learn that you can just
put your seat a bit lower so you can bend your legs a bit when you jump

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What do you use in your tire?
I found that inflating with a less dense gas, such as helium, makes the
tire significantly more springy, and will add about 6 to 8 inches to
your hops.

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I found that not being serious helps. But not really. So ignore this.

And, practice. Practice practice practice.

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Okay, serious help:
Lower tire pressure=more spring.
bigger tire=lower pressure=more spring.
Lower seat means you can go lower to start your hop.

Learning to pre-hop (doing a little hop first) helps immensley.

A lighter frame and wheel can help a little, but it's 90% technique and
tire pressure. Your hops will increase with practice.

On my KH mountain uni, I can get about 12 inch hops with right foot
forward, and about 4 or 5 with left foot forward. You get good at what
you practice. With the nicest, lightest uni in the world, I still
wouldn't get much better than that with my left foot forward, because I
don't practice it.
So, practice.

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tuck you uni alot under you same with your wheel amke ur wheel touch ur
but.. thats how they do it... I can get 5 pallets seat out like that..
and for seat in i can do 5 as well just kick ur uni foawrd alot..

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Skippii said:

Okay, serious help:

bigger tire=lower pressure=more spring.

Bigger tire=wider

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dont worry about hopping. learn something cool like a wheel walk or a
glide- thatll impress people a lot more. plus its jsut cooler.

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Skippii said:

What do you use in your tire?
I found that inflating with a less dense gas, such as helium, makes the
tire significantly more springy, and will add about 6 to 8 inches to
your hops.

where do you get helium to fill ur tires?

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Skippii said:

Okay, serious help:
Lower tire pressure=more spring.
bigger tire=lower pressure=more spring.
Lower seat means you can go lower to start your hop.

I would venture to say that none of that is true. Which shoots higher,
a rocket with 200psi blasting it off, or a rocket with 22 psi blasting
it off? YOu should ride the absolute highest pressure you are
comfortable with. Also, there's no reason to waste the energy of your
hop bottoming out your rim. If lower pressure equalled higher hops or
more spring, then nobody would bother inflating their tires.

A lower seat for SIF hops means your torso starts lower and you have to
lift your body farther for a given hop, which loses you height. Notice
how Zack Baldwin rides his seat wicked high. Watch a video of a hop
where the rider fully tucks. You'll notice the torso, for, say a 32"
hop, only moves about 18". If you think you need to get lower for the
initial hop, then you aren't hopping correctly. It's not at all a tuck
and jump, it's actually just a quick kik at the ground before a big
tuck. If big initial compression of the legs were needed to get big
hops, Ryan Atkins would practically be sitting on the tire to start
every hop.

I'm glad we've verified that hopping is unimpressive. Everyone is
impressed when I can ride with my feet on the tire, while only hardcore
unicyclists seem to noitice when I've suddenly jumped onto a picnic
table. Wait, maybe it's the other way around.

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forrestunifreak said:

Bigger tire=wider

Yes, that is what I meant. Sorry if that was unclear.

Gerble, those were all things that helped me, and made me notice
definate improvements. Everybody's different, I guess, and your mileage
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gerblefranklin said:

I would venture to say that none of that is true. Which shoots higher, a
rocket with 200psi blasting it off, or a rocket with 22 psi blasting it
off? YOu should ride the absolute highest pressure you are comfortable
with. Also, there's no reason to waste the energy of your hop bottoming
out your rim. If lower pressure equalled higher hops or more spring,
then nobody would bother inflating their tires.

Have you seen universe 2 or defect? All the top riders almost -always-
bottom out on their hops. I think that you actually do get more
jumping height with low pressure. Which bounces higher, a spring, or a
rock?

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Oh noes now Gerble is going to launch into his physics attack mode

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How does he attach the magic lobsters then?

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KH doesnt use wires.

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mscalisi said:

How does he attach the magic lobsters then?

He uses the Doppelganger 3000, dumbass

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As I have informed the others in my uni-crew, my higher hopping is a
result of my ability to fly. I just limit the use of said ability so
it's not obvious to the general public.

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Spudman said:

Have you seen universe 2 or defect? All the top riders almost -always-
bottom out on their hops. I think that you actually do get more
jumping height with low pressure. Which bounces higher, a spring, or a
rock?

Why yes, I have. Not only that, i've ridden with many of those riders.
I've tried their unis. You'd be amazed how high their tire pressure is.
Also, they don't bottom out, they come close. The idea is to get the
tire pressure super high and learn to time it such that you almost hit
your rim, but don't. That give you maximum spring, however you can do
this by riding a super high pressure and timing the kick to be faster.

I'm also speaking mooe from experience riding than watching TV. Similar
to what Skippi said, I am saying what works for me, and if riding crazy
low pressures helped me, I would. However low pressure doesn't help me
hop high and they hurt a whole lot when the surface is anything but a
large, flat plane. When forced to choose between better perfomance in
all other areas of trials or getting an extra 1/2" of hop height, I'll
take the former.

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Why yes, I have. Not only that, i've ridden with many of those riders.
I've tried their unis. You'd be amazed how high their tire pressure is.
Also, they don't bottom out, they come close. The idea is to get the
tire pressure super high and learn to time it such that you almost hit
your rim, but don't. That give you maximum spring, however you can do
this by riding a super high pressure and timing the kick to be faster.

Ahhh... I see what you mean. That's the same reason I was thinking low
pressure would be better, more springing distance. But I was basing
that on my jumping abilities, which are not very powerful. So a lower
tire pressure works for me, because if it is higher then I can't
compress the tire. But of course, if you are powerful enought to
actually compress the tire at higher pressures, then that's the way to
go.

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