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  1. as motorama nears, i find myself focusing on specific
    training routines.

    what is your training routine?

    here is mine

    1- practice crank grabs. i find that this warms me up for
    hopping practice pretty well. i usually start with something
    i know i can do but near the boundry of what i cant do/never
    tried. i work on increasing my success percentage and
    reducing time between the grab and going to rubber.

    2- hopping practice. first i do high hop. i usually start at
    about 22" and work up to about 26" (my limit). i work on
    reducing preparation hops and correction hops once ive
    landed it. then i work on endurance. this usually involves
    hopping up the amphitheatre at my school. it has maybe 20-25
    steps, each about 6' wide, with a foot of concrete making
    the initial step and then the remainig 5 feet before the
    next step grass. each step is probably 15-20" high (they
    vary in height). i do one hop onto the concrete step, then
    another onto the grass, and then up onto the next step. it
    is very tiring by the time i get to the top.

    3- gaps. my gap distance is pitiful. my best is probably 4-
    5'. i work on snapping the tire and twisting 45 degrees so
    that i dont fold over the tire on landing. i hop at a 45
    degree angle from the hopping direction to prevent the tire
    from folding over.

    4- stillstand. this is usually incorporated into the other
    practice. i work on seat out and seat in still stand,
    between hops and just by itself.

    5-control. this involves freestyle style riding with
    backwards. hopspins, mounts, etc. just things that will help
    on the trials line.

    6-lines. my campus has horrible trials lines. mostly just
    benches and walls. there are a few lines and i practice
    them. i want to practice on some sandwich boards but i have
    none and its hard to get them since i live in a dorm and
    have no car.

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  2. training makes loads of difference I rode every day last
    summer for at least 30mins and i am loads better than every
    one in the club eg they are working on going backwards and i
    am working on gliding/1ft backwards/crank grabs ect. the
    only person who is better than me that go's regularly is
    phil.but i would say i am better at freestyle tan him but is
    is far better than me at muni/trials but he has been riding
    half a year longer than me and is old than me and stronger
    so he is better a high hops ect

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  3. When it comes to training i do about 2 hours in whole of
    freestyle. I believe that tricks get learnt with time
    rather than time spent on them. Eg yesterday i tried one
    footed backwards ww and it was alot better than the last
    time I tried it.

    Trev

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