Mountain Biking Tips for Large Obstacles

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I drop this log in the middle of the trail to show you one really key application of the bunny hop which is clearing a larger obstacle on the trail. This is a appropriate size for the approach that I have to do and everything like that but I would show you even if you miss up and hit the obstacle there still a way to get over it. So I'm going to roll up to it with some speed and get over it. So I am pretty sure my back wheel hit it, it sort of rolled forward a little bit but as you see when I come at it with a little bit more speed it would be much easier to clear. So as you see when I was going down the hill the obstacle was considerable smaller then it was going up hill you are still using momentum to your advantage. It also helps that the land is lower then the take off here. So I widen up the trail a little bit, so I got to get a approach angle cause even if I'm bunny hopping it I don't want to hit from the side. But just encase I do hit so I'm coming in, I'm pushing my bike really hard into the ground I mean you can see like if you went back and looked at the video my tires would be really compressed coming in here from pumping them up like a basketball. Then right after I compress them I lift up and then throw my weight forward to get over the obstacle and you know we pretty much clear it no problem. So you can do the something riding around town hopping up onto a curve. To save your wheels from dents you can you know if somebody falls in front of you can jump over them, there all sorts of real great uses. And knowing how to bunny hop can get you wheels off the ground that controls even manner is the key to moving on to even more advance techniques like going large drop offs, hitting ledge jumps and stuff like that.

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