duaner said:*This was discussed (and polled) some in thread 'Side hop preference'
(http://tinyurl.com/2oqow)
From my (rough) observations of better riders ...
Pretty consistently for most riders: The strong side hop is toward the
free hand. (Theory, because swinging the free hand arm helps lead the
hop to that side).
Pretty consistently for most riders: Each rider does have a strong
forward foot preference, but ...
Pretty much 50/50 split: The strong side hop may be either towards or
away from the forward foot. Though most riders have a strong foot
forward, it's roughly a 50/50 split whether their strong side hop is
towards or away from the forward foot. *
Good point, although one of the observations for me is that if you do
big seat out sidehops away from the free hand you can't lift the uni as
easily and landing is harder. This is because you naturally angle the
uni towards the free hand during the squat in a big sidehop (although
there are two different lift styles. Kris holm seems to bring the seat
closer to his head and doesn't push it out so far, while Ryan Atkins
seems to hold the seat farther in front of himself. Kris's style seems
less condusive to weak-side hopping. I seem to do more of Kris's style,
from what I can tell). This makes the uni collapse under you if the uni
is angled away from the object, at least from my experience. I was
trying to hop a 22" ledge to the right (I hold right hand, hop right
back, and jump to the left), and I was consistently making the height,
but the moment i put weight on the wheel, the uni collapsed under me,
the seat was ripped out of my hand, and I fell. I didn't understand
until I noticed the uni was angled away from the ledge.
As for the pedalgrab, you most definitely can do a right foot back right
side pedalgrab. Mike middleton does it this way. He just skipped
crankgrabs, and does the crankflip pedalgrab, which Potter described.
The only thing I reccomend is to pedalgrab on the same side as you do
big hops to. if I were you I'd aim to prefer my left, but Jeff Groves
does righty, although he's ambidextrous. You'll end up doing something
similar to Jeff groves.
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