Hop help

Pull up, scoop you're feet (as if there was shit on ya shoe and were scraping it off) and push you're bars forwards. But hopping s mainly about practice.

Zach P-D wrote:

Pull up, scoop you're feet (as if there was shit on ya shoe and were scraping it off) and push you're bars forwards. But ...more

Zach P-D wrote:

Pull up, scoop you're feet (as if there was shit on ya shoe and were scraping it off) and push you're bars forwards. But hopping s mainly about practice.

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I've been practicing for about a month, can't even clear a curb. But thanks, I'll give it a go.

it takes time man. iv'e been riding a year now and can only hop 24"

At first i couldn't even hop over a brick... after a month.

Zach P-D wrote:

it takes time man. iv'e been riding a year now and can only hop 24"

At first i couldn't even hop over a brick... after a ...more

Zach P-D wrote:

it takes time man. iv'e been riding a year now and can only hop 24"

At first i couldn't even hop over a brick... after a month.

...more

Yeah, I went out to practise bending my toes and ended up with a cramp/dislocation. It's happened heaps of time so now I'm gonna see if I can go to the Doctor.

Got the same problem, im a newb though. what bike you riding though because its better to learn on a light bike.

it took me about 3 months to learn of to hop and another 2 i think to learn how to hop over curbs for curbs its all about the timing when you start learning those i would suggest hopping over one of those tiny little cement guards the put in front of parking spaces to make the end of the space those helped me a ton first or something like that i popped quite a few tubes learning to hop curbs trying to get my timing right at first i cased mad hard but after awhile i got it