How to Do a Bunny Hop on a Bike: Part 3

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Probably the hardest thing to do is to integrate the up and forward with your wrist would be preloading and scooping motion with your feet. So sometime what you can do is you can find a obstacle in a trail to sort of bound off of to make a little bit easier. In my case I found a little planted rock and that allows me to sort of practice getting the back wheel off the ground cause it is ramped the bike is going to leave the ground anyway. But as soon as my front wheel is up in the air I really focus on scooping it forward that helped me a lot when I was first learning how to do it was to hit little jumps like that. You know really focus on staying connected. So another thing that could help is to have little obstacles like these branches that are in the trial in front of me. So I will go up to those branches and I will you know will make sure that I will not touch them. So I'm in rolling after them I pick up and over, up and over. So I may have actually hit some of those branches but as I go this way again and come back the way I just came I will try to avoid them. So it's you know all of matter of up and over. So if this one you know it is hard to make it over with this much speed but what we can do is integrate some of the techniques to get over it without touching it. So that is sort of a basic way to integrate the 2 or 3 movement of the bunny hop the front wheel lift and scoop, the pre low of the tires and the scooping with your foot. The way you want to think of what you are doing on your foot is you can imagine with my hand is a foot which is not that hard it is small is you sort of wrap your foot, wrapping your foot around the peddle and after compress the tires like a basketball you rock your foot back, and just sort of pull up like that. Cause weather your in clipper peddles like I have or on a pair of flat peddles that don't have any sort of retrenching mechanism when you pull up at a angle like that there is enough friction that you could sort of help lift the bike. But most of that rear drive that brings the back wheel off the ground isn't from picking up from your back end it is from being loose and in a scoop motion combined with a front motion that really gets everything up off the ground. That is bunny hopping.

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