5 months in - still struggling w/ bunny hops
Posted Oct 9, 2020, 9:12 PM UTC
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took me literally a year to lift up the rear end, don’t feel too bad.
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pull the bike up towards your body when your in the air
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Not sure if it makes any difference but don’t crouch for as long before the hop , get down and then straight back up , staying that low for that long makes you stale , like if I crouch for ages before a hop onto a grind or whatever I’ll find myself getting close to take off and standing up then compressing again , dunno that’s just how it feels to me like it takes away the edge a bit maybe , it’s about snap and explosive , get down then straight away , pull up like your life literally depends on it.
like as hard as you possibly can , But , dont rush it take as much time as you need to pull bars up as far as you can , and get the bike vertical it just takes as long as it takes for it to move to the upright position.
Not even sure that mAkes sense but you have to use as much as possible of the range of movement available to you while the bike is still on the floor .
Get a stick and some bricks and set up a hurdle that would fall apart when landed on, and focus on getting over that then make it higher etc etc.
Your body will try harder without you knowing if there are consequences to not making it even non dangerous ones , it’s like it triggers a survival response .
Looking good tho ! Decent hop really , just about practice now and it’ll come. Try hopping up a kerb, and side hops and kerb endos to back hops on the pedals not the brake , it’ll all buildup to more understanding of where the bike needs to be to get higher . Planks and press-ups for core strength . Hop every day even it it’s just 5 min or 5 hops , it’ll help
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Lift your front wheel up more buddy and lift the back end higher with your peddles
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Thanks, gonna work on that the next time
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If you can’t learn it watch some YouTube tips to get it higher bro
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Thanks to all of you for your tips! You’re awesome
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Try pulling front wheel first and then jump
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You need to get your front wheel higher by pulling back. The motion is back, not up. You will always be gated by how high you can get your front wheel. The best thing to do is to first practice looping out of manuals as it’s the same motion. You should be standing up straight and your wheels should almost be stacked one on top of the other
Aaah, thank you, I will concentrate on that. I’m totally afraid of looping out although I did that a lot (accidentally) and nothing too bad happened. Time to overcome the fear.