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*Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. *

so are you saying it's possible to jump ten feet on a unicycle....?

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if someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

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if you think so, then maybe. but you have to admit, no matter what,
there is a limit of what a human can do.

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this is true unless evolution has a sudden growth spert

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In Zack's big hop thread, in the second video of the big jump it looks
like he pulls the wheel up in front of him. There is one frame where the
seat is higher than his butt. Also I could be wrong on this but it
doesn't look like he makes a very big prehop. Like it seems that he
jumps more because of jumping instead of compressing the tire and
bouncing up. Did any one else notice this?

David

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James_Potter said:

this is an interesting topic that we were actually discussing recently
at a Rubiks Cube forum.... human limitations. clearly, jumping ten feet
on a unicycle is impossible, right? five feet is most likely still
impossible. four feet....? where's the split between possible and
impossible? there is a limit somewhere.

People have postulated limits to human performance before, and often
have been proven wrong. Surely, some things are clearly unthinkable
like the speed record going to one million miles per hour. Still, it's
impossible to set a 'limit', in the sense that up to the limit is
possible (ever), but beyond the limit is not. How could you pick "the"
limit? The only hard limit I would accept are physical limits, such as
"on a unicycle you can't accelerate past the speed of light".
Obviously that is quite a useless limit, because unicycles will never
even be accelerated till 0.001% of the speed of light (by the rider,
with respect to the riding surface).

Perhaps the best use of limits is as a challenge. Who breaks the 4 ft
hopping limit first?

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let's say I could hop X" right?
but now I want to hop higher so I add a sheet of paper.
Shouldn't be aproblem there right?
So the next day I add another sheet of paper etc etc..I keep hopping
higher and if the paper's add up and start to take their toll I can just
add something even thinner than paper which would still be making me hop
higher.

So yes, you can always hop higher.

Which reminds me of a story.

There was a NINJA and he wanted to jump like a grasshopper. so wha he
did was as follows: He planted a corn plant and everyday he would jump
over it 100 times unitl eventualy he would be jumping 100 times over a
6' tall corn stalk.

I've got to try this.

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Murde Mental said:

*There was a NINJA and he wanted to jump like a grasshopper. so wha he
did was as follows: He planted a corn plant and everyday he would jump
over it 100 times unitl eventualy he would be jumping 100 times over a
6' tall corn stalk.*

this is actually what people did in African tribes like a billion years
ago. which is also the reason that Kenyan's make such good runners and
jumpers.

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NINJAs I say.

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do a pre hop before you do your real big hop.On a pre hop you bounce
down on da tire and jump from that bounce you got on the tire,i do this
and i get lots higher than a normal hop, and now i can do a normal hop
much better too!!😄

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I must practice! I havnt been out in ages.
Thats another new years resolution broken 🙁

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I too find that seat in is easier, from a static i'm up to about
68cm...im not sure how big that is in inches. seat out just feels really
awkward for me...

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68cm=~26", which is pretty good no prehop, and amazing seat in.

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*Yes, Ninjas are much better then dirty bushmen. *

I really hope that was just a joke made in bad taste. Otherwise, I must
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I'm quite sure it was a joke...

but then again..ninjas are better than all.

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I sidehop seat in 24" in my buddy hits 30"+ normally.

Seat in hopping isn't totally useless, keep practicing if you want to
get your height up. It's the best way, much better than working on
developing your muscles.

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*I sidehop seat in 24" in my buddy hits 30"+ normally.

Seat in hopping isn't totally useless, keep practicing if you want to
get your height up. It's the best way, much better than working on
developing your muscles. *

Does your buddy break 30" seat in sidehop or 30" rolling hop? 30" seat
in sidehop is thoroughly amazing. I can only do 32-33" seat out. But I
do think seat in hopping is generally useless, once you are good enough
at SIF. I can do every trials skill but skinny riding and stillstands
seat out better than I can seat in, and my transitions are good enough
that when doing gaps to skinnies where I want to be seat in, the
transition is irrelevant it's so quick.

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Quite right Bevan.

but even then, once you get good enough at seat-in you find that you can
still get some milleage out of those skinnies, and do all your gapping
and stuff seat-out.

yes, when it comes to trials, seat in is wack.

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gerblefranklin said:

*Does your buddy break 30" seat in sidehop or 30" rolling hop? 30"
seat in sidehop is thoroughly amazing. I can only do 32-33" seat out.
But I do think seat in hopping is generally useless, once you are good
enough at SIF. I can do every trials skill but skinny riding and
stillstands seat out better than I can seat in, and my transitions are
good enough that when doing gaps to skinnies where I want to be seat
in, the transition is irrelevant it's so quick. *

30+" sidehop and also rolling hop.

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