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muniracer wrote:
*gerble, in an earlier thread (pretty old) ryan said a prehop can add
10-15cm when you are jumping almost 30 inches without the prehop,
which is where i came up with that number.

today's practice was not too succesful. i was hitting the 69 pretty
much every time, and a 71 about 1/2 and the 73 about 1/4. i couldnt
land the 75 again, mostly because i sliced a huge chunk out of my
right ankle and i hurt the arch on my left foot trying to land a high
rolling hop (for me) with only room for 1 pedal rotation. it hurt. *


You gotta be good at prehopping, though. I used to have a great prehop,
but now it's really small, and doesn't raise my hopping height by more
than 2". I'm just as consistent with or without a prehop at 64cm. I
don't think using a prehop will put you at 3' very quickly. As for
foreseen progress, barring any injuries, I expect to be at about 30"
within 3-4weeks. Then I'm gonna break off the heavy hopping practice,
and focous on stuff like 2' onto an 8" diameter pole. I find an
inprecise 30" hop to be decisively useless. An accurate 2' hop without a
prehop is priceless. I'm now focusing on the accuracy at least as much
as I focus on height.


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precision definitely is the best skill to have, and i think that if you
can jump 30 inches, you will invariably get much more preise with your
20 inch hop. im not planning on using a 30 inch hop much, but by making
my 27-28 inch hop more consistant i will be able to complete more lines.


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VICTORY!!!!!! Just five minutes ago i landed a hop a hair below 77cm
(30 inches and a quarter). im so happy that i achieved my goal!


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Nice work!

That was seat-out obviously huh?


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sabin_a. wrote:
*Nice work!

That was seat-out obviously huh? *


yep.
and no prehop


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Recently I've been getting more consistant with my 100cm hops (no
prehop) and I'm not real confident with a prehop...any advice.

Allright So i can really do 100 cm. I can just about get 22''. Sorry
for the lie but I wanted a small confidence boost. Anyway, anyone have
any tips for me when it comes to adding a prehop in. I don't use one
now...Is it better, even if your only goin 20 or so inches. I cant get
the four pallets i have and I'd really like to.


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WOW, how much pressure do you run, as opposed to how much you weigh?

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sabin_a. wrote:
*WOW, how much pressure do you run, as opposed to how much you
weigh?

-Sabin *


is this question meant for me? if so, im not sure of the exact
pressure, but its probably 15-20 pumps of my mini-pump above the point
where i cannot bottom out just by pushing down and compressing the tire
with a hard kick while standing on the uni. i know thats not helpful at
all, but i have done 28"ers with tire pressures varying about 10 pumps
from eachother, so exact tire pressure is not that important (i think).
i weigh 150 lbs.


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I see...I have my tire pressure set so when I compress the tire on the
pre-hop, I -almost- bottom out, the pressure is pretty low. But that is
only for the high jumps.

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