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Hi OJ,

I'm no trials Mac-Daddy but I can get up on picnic tabes tables. I'm
going to be in Tallahassee in a couple of weeks with my family. E-mail
me if you want to ride near the state capitol building grounds on
Saturday the 5th with my step-son and me.

Tommy

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to do really high hops with the seat still under you you need to do a
rolling hop. This means ride up to the object really fast, and hop while
in midride. your momentum will carry you forward and up.
someone with more experience with rolling hops will probably post here
soon with some more useful tips....

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Rolling hops obviously work only for forward hops. For big side hops,
seat in, you've got to compress the tire--or prehop) before launching (a
timeing thing), leap, and at the dead point (apex), tuck, fold forward
and suck the uni under you (keep the seat heigth low). Try and be cat
like quick when you [censored] the uni up after the leap, and don't overgrip
the uni. The idea is to jump, then [censored] the uni up in mid air, not
jump WITH the uni as a fused unit. The more you can scrunch the tuck,
the higher you'll go.

If I practice a lot for a week or so I can get up around 23-24 inches,
and good trials guys (I'm a MUni rider) can seat-in hop a lot higher
than that. IME, it's a lot of practice to start getting consistant over
about 22 inches, seat in.

JL

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learn to seat out hop. if you really wanna clear picnic tables that's
the only way i can thin kof to do it. I can side hop maybe 18 inches on
my muni seat in, and that's very nearly as high as i could possibly
jump, there's just no where else to tuck the uni. With seat out you can
tuck much much higher. As someone else mentioned, rolling hops can me
good for hopping really high but its a forward hop and requires really
good control. at lesat more than a side hop.

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markf said:

*learn to seat out hop. if you really wanna clear picnic tables that's
the only way i can thin kof to do it. I can side hop maybe 18 inches
on my muni seat in, and that's very nearly as high as i could possibly
jump, there's just no where else to tuck the uni. With seat out you
can tuck much much higher. As someone else mentioned, rolling hops can
me good for hopping really high but its a forward hop and requires
really good control. at least more than a side hop. *

Potter said it. Rolling hops are the way to go. I can air a picnic table
on a trials uni either way, and in my opinion rolling hops are easier.
BTW, Mike Middleton used to be able to do 24" on him muni seat in,
sidehop. I think Pluto can too.

ROlling hops start when the bottom pedal is as low as it can get. I
don't feel like running through the explanation right now, but a quick
search should turn a good one up. John Childs or someone else has a good
frame by frame of a big hop by Dan Heaton. Finding that would be good.

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I just started working really hard on my rolling hops a couple of weeks
ago, when I first started I could barely make it up your average
curb....... but so far i'm VERY happy with my progress! And can now jump
about 1.5" on a rolling hop. Infact everything around hear is either way
to high or way to low for me to really practice on now, so toonight i'm
ganna go steal some crates from Behind albertsons (Grocery store) I plan
on getting my rolling hops to two feet, then i'll stop working on them
so diligently, and let them just get better over time. But yeah,
although I'm know pro there is three small things that I've just kinda
learned on my own that have helped me (If you're good at rolling hops
and any of this is incorect, please correct me)

1.Try jumping up not ,forward and up, your ganna go forward anyways.
2. Jump WAY before you think you should I mean WAY I had trouble with
this at first. It should be about six inches away from the object pluss
the height of the object, so a 1 foot object would be A foot and a half
away. When in doubt jump even sooner. And 3. Stand up on your pedals as
you come to the object, then let your knees bend and body weight come
down on the tire to kinda help you get a prehop out of the tire, then
launch up all at once. The launch should be QUICK one quick Snap of the
legs, really think about pounding the tire into the ground as hard as
possible.

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It is possible to seat in static hop 2 feet or so. Joel Burgess was
doing it easily every try at Motorama. I can get around 14 inches
consistently. Basically its a mix of pulling the seat up and the wheel
forward while tucking your body down.

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Stactic hopping with the seat in is easy wth the seat really low. I can
do about 19 inches seat in with and really low.

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I can static hop a generally reliable 20 inches, but I can't seem to
learn seat out, or rolling hop( I can only jump 10 inches) . We seem to
have opposite problems.🙂

For me, after you've developed you muscles, static hopping is a mental
skill. I have been working on my jumping height by hopping into
snowbanks. They give you a nice soft landing, and you can reach your max
height without having to find a object just the right hight to jump
onto.

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I can jump higher than a house.

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Once you get close to your limit, I've found the most essential skill is
to be able to fail on the heigth without falling way out of control.
You won't be able to stick it all the time, and a graceful fall is a
must--it's also tricky when you're fully tucked and the tire catches,
then suddenly sprongs off the lip of a ledge or bench. You can shock
load onto the deck with bone snapping force, even from only a couple
feet.

Wear those shin and wrist guards.

JL

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yoopers said:

*I can jump higher than a house. *

😄

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Since houses can't jump?

😕

Anyway, how much of static jump height is skill, not muscle or build?

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since when could houses jump?

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MUNIFREAK said:

*since when could houses jump? *

There seems to be an echo...🙁 😄 Were you writing while I was
posting?

P.S. Sorry for the offtopic posting... Back to the topic at hand.

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Ingo van Thiel said:

*Stactic hopping with the seat in is easy wth the seat really low. I
can do about 19 inches seat in with and really low. *

True, but having the seat low sucks for everything else. Keep it high,
suck at seat in hops and learn seat out.

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i have been riding for 3 years and i have a 20"jump with seat in. i try
so hard to do it with seat out but i only have about a 5 " jump. also
the thing where you take 1 small jump and then jump up to where u want
to get, the small jump seems to take away power.

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MUNIFREAK said:

*i have been riding for 3 years and i have a 20"jump with seat in. i
try so hard to do it with seat out but i only have about a 5 " jump.
also the thing where you take 1 small jump and then jump up to where u
want to get, the small jump seems to take away power. *

Your technique is bad. Practice. Watch videos of people who are good.
Practice. Fin.

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thanx. way to be straight forward🙂

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