How to hop

I just started with 1 hop, then 2 hops, then 10 hops, then 20 hops, then
10000000 hops 😄

Im not sure if theres an easier way to learn, but I just did it over
and over again until it clicked 🙂
It's kinda weird though, because I started learning how to hop before I
even knew it was a useful unicycling skill

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Hopping is way easier than Idling.
Hold on to a wall and do a still stand, that is, stand up with the
pedals level. While holding the wall for balance. Get used to this
position. Now, pulling up on the handle on the front of the seat with
one hand, jump. Just keep doing that till you can do it easy while
holding the wall. Now do it without a wall.

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Stand up straight with both legs tense so your knees WONT bend. Have one
hand on the handle and also have that arm straight, so your whole body
is straight and tense and nothing will bend.

Hop with your whole body keeping everything tense and tight, if one or
both of your knees bend you're likely to come off the front or back.
The hops should be small and eventually you'll be able to do them as
long as you want on the spot, to help you balance when you cannot idle.

When you get good at this, you can start bending your knees (keep the
pedals level still) and actually trying to get some height... and
that's useful for trials if you are going to do that.

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I'm just a rookie, but I've read other threads about hopping and "how
to". At first I was only getting 2 or 3 hops, then a few days later I
got 10. A few minutes later, literally a few minutes later, got 25,
next try got 75. It's just like everything with unicycling, getting a
feel for it and practicing. Now a week later, I can pretty much hop as
long as I want, and am working on height.

Keep at it and good luck!

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as horrible as it may sound...

practice, practice, practice!

that is the most helpful advice that i can offer. you need to find a
balance of relaxed and tense that works, and just PRACTICE!

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This is applies for everything unicycling. Usually when you feel like
you are making no progress, you are close to breaking through to where
it gets easier. It's darkest before the dawn.

oneisenough said:

as horrible as it may sound...

practice, practice, practice!

that is the most helpful advice that i can offer. you need to find a
balance of relaxed and tense that works, and just PRACTICE!

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In addition to the great tips in this thread, I found that reducing my
tire (aka tyre) pressure helped.

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Thanks everybody, Great Tips.

I have practice tonight so I'll be falling down laughing as I attempt
to hop. I liked the instructions of holding onto the wall and handle.
That makes sense to me.

I've been trying to hop from a riding position and everything gets a
little confusing. Sometimes I hop, sometimes it seems I throw the
cycle at my crotch or my crotch at the cycle, I can't tell which it is.
Then I fall down.

How do you get into position when riding? Is this like learning to
mount, where you get a 1/2 second before you tip over and if you get it
good, if not start over?

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When riding, just pay attention to when your rear foot just gets past
bottom and is almost horizontal. Quickly stand up, lock your legs, and
start hopping.

Start doing this while riding slowly.

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pay attention to the tire pressure recommendation from stevya. I could
hop ok then I inflated the tire too much and it was like trying to
bounce a rock.... doesn't work well.

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also shift the weight so that you are not rolling while hopping, if you
weight the pedals unevenly, it will go forward, or backward, depending
on which pedal you weight more, so shift your weight on the pedals
until you are staying staionary.

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Posted this last August, but it won't hurt to repeat myself....

I learnt to hop about a month ago by cheating
Oh yes cheating......

I stopped the wheel from rotating by strapping the rim to the frame,
with the pedals at 3 and 9 oclock, using some toe clip straps.
This made the unicycle into a pogo-cycle😄
Pogo-cycle can't fly out front or backward leaving me to master
mounting and hopping up and down on the spot, side to side, backwards
ect ect without the worry of landing on my [censored]

After about an hour I unstrapped the rim, changing it back to a
unicycle, and hey Presto, with a little more practise, I can now
hop......

Good luck

Dave

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when you first start, you will be pretty much trying to jump off the
unicycle, this is incorrect 🙂

when you are standing up, and your hand is on the handle, picture your
handle pulling up as only needed to pull the (parellel to the ground)
pedals up into your feet.

Then, spring your legs up, remembering to keep pulling the pedals into
your feet (this allows you to hop, with the unicycle, all as one unit)

Repeat 300 times

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I am hopping! Not great, but hey my friends don't ride so they are
easily impressed.

Resting an arm against the wall did the trick. After a bounce or two I
would end up rotating around and was out there on my own. After quite
a few tries I was able to hop once or twice from a roll. More practice
needed.

Fall like a clown and everybody laughs

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Also, give yourself very small goals at first.

hop over a crack in the cement

then maybe over a painted line

then between two cracks

with all the height you have now mastered, curbs are not much further

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OldDrone said:

I am hopping! Not great, but hey my friends don't ride so they are
easily impressed.

Resting an arm against the wall did the trick. After a bounce or two I
would end up rotating around and was out there on my own. After quite
a few tries I was able to hop once or twice from a roll. More practice
needed.

Fall like a clown and everybody laughs

It's true, someimtes the locals guffaw mercilessly (thanks Mikefule,
this is still my favourite expression!)

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