Crank Grabs

depends on what your grabbing.

wood and metal will not hurt you uni so much. rough concrete will be a
little worse.

Dont worry about your uni though, it´s designed to take stuff like this.

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If you've found nothing after searching that likely means there is
nothing to find. I wouldn't worry about it. "Everyone's doing it." As
Fexnix said they are designed with that in mind. if you are really
worried grab with the pedal (they are tougher), then go to crank, then
up. it just means you won't be landing on your crank hard. And when you
want to learnd pedal grabs you'll have part of it down.

Don't worry at all, they'll get marked up, but they are just marks.

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You go through life and you choose. Do I want my trials uni to look
brand new? Do I want to have fun? I picked fun and the cranks on my KH
look like they were run over by a dump truck on a gravel road.

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Iv done a 2 ft drop to my crank, nothing happened, Its scratched but who
cares?!

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Thanks guys, I'll go for wood first though, just to be sure :p

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what exactly is a crankgrab?

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Here is a video of a crank grab.

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albums/Hazard/Run_XI.mov

You jump on to the side of an obstacal with your crank and pedal and
then jump on to the top of it (going to rubber). A pedal grab is when
you only use your pedal to do this.

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crank grab is also usually seat in and pedal grab is seat out. both are
useful and hard on the related parts. but then again a good splined
crank will take that abuse and not bat an eye.

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I bent the "KH protrusion" on my Summit doing grabs so that when I
remove the end bolt the left crank comes out with it (vs removing the
bolt with the crank remaining on the axle). Everything is still fully
functional; besides, all the damage is on the bottom.😉

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darchibald said:

*if you are really worried grab with the pedal (they are tougher) *

I disagree.

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TheObieOne3226 said:

*I disagree. *

Yeah I do too. Not sure what I was thinking. However pedals are more
easily replaced and not as expensive but tougher no.

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skate4flip said:

*Here is a video of a crank grab.

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albums/Hazard/Run_XI.mov

You jump on to the side of an obstacal with your crank and pedal and
then jump on to the top of it (going to rubber). A pedal grab is when
you only use your pedal to do this. *

No. That was a pedal grab.

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Yes it is, but let's keep it a merry thread eh? :p I can't do seat-out
yet, I've never really tried training it either, it'll come someday... I
think it's my brother's shins that kept me from doing it....

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I've been trying to polish my crank and pedal grabbing. The grab is not
so bad, but the "up to rubber" gives me fits. I can hit it maybe 5 of 10
times. I'm still seat in. Most of the time it feels like I'm lifting a
car. I know its just practice and technique.

But while practicing crank grabs (as an easier prelude to pedal grabs) I
landed too many times with too much weight on the bearing cover. This
pounding damages the bearings. All of the sudden one day I produced an
ear-shattering, fingers-on-th-chalkboard
"skreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech" when riding. Very unpleasant for me and
the unfortunate Muggles nearby. I replaced them (a very simple
proceedure on a Summit --$10 or so for bearings), but just be aware,
metal is not invincible. Its so cheap and easy, don't let it deter
you.

Also, we try to be polite. Pedal grabs will eat wooden park benches and
picnic tables. In my experience, if you destroy someone's stuff, they
will ask you to stop. We don't want to limit our venues, so we're
cognizant of this.

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Memphis Mud said:

*I've been trying to polish my crank and pedal grabbing. The grab is
not so bad, but the "up to rubber" gives me fits. I can hit it maybe 5
of 10 times. I'm still seat in. Most of the time it feels like I'm
lifting a car. I know its just practice and technique.

*

I have been working towards pedal grabs recently. I am doing it seat in
on my trials with 145mm cranks.

I always try to break skills down to parts and learn the parts.
I set myself up with one pedal on a curb. Tire is in the gutter.
Street is on my left and grass on my right just to the right of the
curb. The grass helps to take the falls. I go to rubber to the right.
I think it helps to do this to get used to getting the timing and
technique of going to rubber after the pedal grab.

Yeah, the tire is in the gutter and I might be getting some push off the
tire, but I think it's a start. A higher curb would be even better,
though.

I do this seat in. I am having a hard enough time doing hops seat out
at this point. I will try seat out next time.

I also will add the side hop to the pedal grab, later.

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teachndad said:

*I set myself up with one pedal on a curb. Tire is in the gutter.
Street is on my left and grass on my right just to the right of the
curb.*

That sounds like a good way to practice. Curbs are everywhere. I've got
a practice spot at a little park about a mile away. (But I don't use it
often enough because Its over there, instead of over here where I am.
They use RR ties as retaining walls. I place the pedal on one thats
about 3 feet tall and which has a split rail fence on the top, about two
feet from the edge. Perfect for my hand to use. I progressively use the
hand rail less and less until not at all. Then I move on to lower
portions of the retaining walls that I can pedal grab.

I launch from my forward foot. Unfortunately, thats my non-dominant
foot. This might be common, I don't know. My dominant foot is at the
rear when I hop, drop, etc. And I grab onto the front pedal.

My buddy Tommy just flows right up from crank to rubber. He seems to use
about 1/10 the effort that I do. Carefull observation of his technique
teaches me two things. 1. Seat out looks smoother (I can't yet do SO).
And 2. Practicing 500-1,000 times in a session, 2 sessions a day is an
effective way to learn a skill.

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