Trials Discussion Thread

TrialsUni wrote:
How about some trials pics?

It's hard to guage just how high the hop is, but it's about 3 feet.

(I'm posting this for any beginners wondering what the apex of a good
side-hop looks like. This is an example of good tucking).


From that angle, it looks like you jumped higher than the house.


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Well folks the NUMBER ONE /Omero numero trials question NATTY OR URBAN?!
Dun dun dun!


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harper wrote:
Maybe the police used a lower than usual voltage. They might have had
their TASERs set on "annoy" rather than "stun." No one has reported on
this important detail. Why are details like this omitted?
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I find natural to take a lot more skill than urban. All the rocks, never
really on any flat, smooth surfaces, roots, odd angles to even mount
on. I find it to be so much more technical.

And after doing natural riding, going back into the city to ride is
just all easier, even skinny stuff becomes more natural to ride and hop
on.


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fatlardboy13 wrote:
From that angle, it looks like you jumped higher than the house.



Of course he jumps higher than the house. A house can't jump... duh

Back on topic,

To make a good trials rider, you should be able to natural and urban.
Like me bro sais, a good natural rider is always a good urban trials
rider, but an urban rider can suck at naturals.


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Exactly. I love natty when I get the chance. Logs, rocks, stumps,
stones, sloped angles I love it.


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harper wrote:
Maybe the police used a lower than usual voltage. They might have had
their TASERs set on "annoy" rather than "stun." No one has reported on
this important detail. Why are details like this omitted?
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Danni wrote:
Of course he jumps higher than the house. A house can't jump... duh .

Skrobo, unless you haven't beaten your old record (which was very big)
you really don't need to plaster every thread with this 9ft bull****.
Everyone KNOWS that you did 9ft+. Don't need to bring it up at every
debate; learn to be a bit less cocky like Ryan A, or Luke C. It might
make you feel good to stroke your ego at every possible opportunity,
but it isn't very enjoyable for us viewers. Telling others that you
should *obviously* be the best candidate to test part/s, because of so
and so, this and this, and look at the size of my penis, really lowers
my respect of you.

I thought that the bible taught things more important than premarital
sex.



Well written I was thinking almost the exact same. Shame he is probably
too full of himselft and will probably just ignore this.


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Well after almost a year and a half of MUni I have now been doing Trials
for about two months. Here are some thoughts.

Trials is very cool. It is hard to do well on the KH24 that I use for
MUni and is much easier to do on a KH20. I find that improving my
Trials skills has given my MUni rididng a definite boost!

I was having trouble tucking when hopping. I am now improving and
getting up onto park benches. The three things that I did were the
Baldwin Squats, jumping up stairs SIF, and jumping up inclines SIF. Let
me explain. When I got good at jumping up stairs SIF I started jumping
up the stairs while only raising my knees and not raising my upper body
until after my tire had allready landed on the stair. This taught me to
tuck my legs. In Spaced Out there is a realy good shot of Ryan doing
the same thing. Now for the incline. I was always afraid of not making
"high" jumps and falling bad when the tire gets caught on the ledge of
what I am jumping up onto. This can't happen when jumping up a ramp or
incline of 45 degrees. You just land where you land with the same
effect whether it is 14 inches up or 16 inches up. This has allowed me
to get a feel for how high I am actully jumping before trying the jump
on a rock or up a ledge. Also it allows me to to concentrate on the
jump without worrying about the potential biff.

Stand stills help with Rail riding and high accuracy hops. At FLUCK
Forrest Rowel told me to practice stand stills in order to do rail
riding. Now when I watch TV I try to practice stand stills. I am still
not very good at them but sometimes I actually do 5 to 8 seconds
without hoping! However my rail riding and hoping accuracy have
improved tenfold.

Until I started doing trials I could just ride off a picnic table. I
could not hop off. There is this trials rider that I ride with
sometimes and he could hop off picnic tables and other high stuff but
he could not ride off. Now after doing trials I can also hop off of
high ledges. It was quite interesting seeing the differences in skills
between trials and MUni.

Natural trials is harder because you have very few flat surfaces.
Learning to land on rough rocks and jumping up step dirt inclines with
little traction is much harder than jumping and landing on a flat
garden or fountain ledges. Also the skinnies in the woods are usually
rough logs. So much harder. However in Urban trials I usualy go bigger.
Also people are usualy around to watch and that forces me to try and
put on a show!


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New world record by Fabian Mark 116.5cm!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWom1lUpbf8


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isaac steiner wrote:
New world record by Fabian Mark 116.5cm!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWom1lUpbf8

From
July 24.
its old new world record.
As far as trial i am getting more into it but i need a new uni so i
don't bend my cranks even more so i can still use the 24" onces i get
my trials uni.


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