Weight Limit?

Hey Phil!

I rode with Joey Cohn last week, and now I'm pretty sure: Proper
technique is everything.
Learn to hop seat-out, this will give you, after a coupe of weeks of
practice, an amazing boost in height. After I've met Joey, I've only
practiced seat-out, and in the mean time I am able to hop 50 cm, which
is about 20".

Just study the technique, and pracitce a lot, I don't think that weight
matters at all.

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I don't know. It seems like it would be skill and ability.

Shaq out weighs me probably 3 to 1 but I know he can out jump me. If he
could ride a uni (maybe he can), I would expect that he would out jump
me on the uni.

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pdc said:

*How 'bout you Obie, I hear you're 200+ *

247, 26 inch hop.

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Quoted message said:

If you're 5'2'' 200 lbs and high bodyfat then you're gonna have
trouble.

Nope, I'm 6'3" and 200 lbs. But I am a decrepid 🙄 44 year
old.

Thanks for the input. I am determined, and I will do at least 20" by
the 3rd annual Belle Isle MUni Weekend.

Just wanted to know it was achievable.

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If you're 5'2'' 200 lbs and high bodyfat then you're gonna have
trouble.

Nope, I'm 6'3" and 200 lbs. But I am a decrepid 🙄 44 year
old.

Thanks for the input. I am determined, and I will do at least 20" by
the 3rd annual Belle Isle MUni Weekend.

Just wanted to know it was achievable.

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Quoted message said:

If you're 5'2'' 200 lbs and high bodyfat then you're gonna have
trouble.

Nope, I'm 6'3" and 200 lbs. But I am a decrepid 🙄 44 year
old.

Thanks for the input. I am determined, and I will do at least 20" by
the 3rd annual Belle Isle MUni Weekend.

Just wanted to know it was achievable.

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Quoted message said:

If you're 5'2'' 200 lbs and high bodyfat then you're gonna have
trouble.

Nope, I'm 6'3" and 200 lbs. But I am a decrepid 🙄 44 year
old.

Thanks for the input. I am determined, and I will do at least 20" by
the 3rd annual Belle Isle MUni Weekend.

Just wanted to know it was achievable.

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pdc said:

* I am determined, and I will do at least 20" by the 3rd annual Belle
Isle MUni Weekend.
*

Without me next time 🙁(

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its all about plyometrics... and short twitch muscles

i would focus on upper body strength.

im 175 6'2 and can hop 36"

i would like to be more like 185, but then i have to work harder to get
better results but stronger and higher in the long run.

if you feel slow and cant hop very high, chances are you dont have short
twitch fibres

this can be helped by doing some excercises at your gym... just ask for
plyometrics.

i think the more effort you put into physical fitness and strength the
naturally higher you hop. not to mention practice, practice, practice

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