Pro Mountain Biker Shows How to Bunny Hop

so i made some

bunny

hop tutorials, but i want to approach this video from a slightly different perspective. If you've been having trouble getting your wheels off the ground or having trouble with how to

bunny

hop, this might be the video for you. for you, so without further ado, let's jump into it, so we talked about jumping bunnies. jumping bunnies is simply jumping on your bike without the help of a ramp with a ramp, you have the ramp that helps you in the air. jumping bunnies you have to do all the work yourself, so a good way to talk about jumping bunnies is to start without our bike, start again to the side and observe the mechanics of jumping on our feet, okay, jump, you're getting pushing off the ground with enough force so that when your legs are extended.

You have generated enough force to push yourself into the air, so here I am pushing myself off the ground, but I am not pushing myself fast enough to propel myself into the air, this time I am going to push myself off quickly and that should be enough. To take me into the air, we have to think about that when we do a bunny hop, a bunny hop is not a slow movement, it happened fast, you have to generate a lot of energy to get you and your bike off the ground. Another thing we need to keep in mind when we talk about jumping is a vertical movement, so that's something to consider when we're on our bike because if we're on our bike we're in a little bit more.

In a hunched over position, if I were to jump up from this position, my range of motion would be limited by the extension of my arms. I wouldn't be able to achieve a full range of motion with my legs or hips, so before extending my legs we need to lift the front wheel off the ground, that is something we need to analyze in itself because it is one of the most complicated steps of the Bunny Hop . Okay, I want to put my bike aside real quick to talk about something else. Many of us have full suspension

mountain

bikes.

Every word she explodes into the ground we lose a lot of our energy that we try to use to propel ourselves upwards; Compressing the suspension is a good way to think about jumping onto a

mountain

bike. We are actually jumping on a trampoline on a trampoline. Before you jump up, you have to crouch so the net will lower before you can jump. It's exactly the same concept, so before we propel you into the air, we need to pre-suspend the compressor. that step is called preload now, if you are on a hardtail bike this step is a little different because you don't need to pre-compress the suspension, the biggest difference is the time, the jump on a full suspension bike is a slower process. -jumping on the tail of a heart is a little faster.

There is one thing that many people overlook when talking about preload. The preload has occurred quickly, for example if I lowered slowly my suspension would not compress further. did when I was sitting on it now, however, if I go back to that same position and drop my compressed suspension when I hit the bottom which is preloaded, but instead of our butt hitting the seat, you'll want to use that drop and we press our legs because later we will use that to propel ourselves into the air, so remember that earlier I said that when we jump up off the ground, it happens in a vertical motion, but when we are sitting on a bicycle we are in In this hunched position, my range of motion would be limited by the extension of my arms to be able to get a full range of motion of our hips and legs, we actually need to lift our front wheel in the air to add more complications to lift our front wheel in the air, we need to place our weight behind our rear axle, but it's more complicated than that, if we just shift my weight to the rear, my front wheel doesn't lift off the ground, we need to use our body weight along with energy to lift the front wheel, if I were to push my front wheel and shift quickly my weight back then my front wheel would lift off the ground and it would happen at the same time as I reload, that's why bunny hops can be so frustrating knowing that there are so many little movements happening all at once and if you miss one You won't be able to achieve the full range of motion and get that nice bunny hop you're looking for now, I think.

We must also discuss a misconception: we are not lifting the bike off the ground. This is me, lifting the bike off the ground. I'm contracting my arm to lift the bike off the ground. This is me carrying the bike that I'm just holding. I'm not using any of my muscles to keep the bike off the ground, it's just suspended there. There is a big difference between lifting your bike off the ground and generating force with your legs to lift it while in the air. So you will notice that when I am doing a bunny hop, my arms are extended when the wheels are not touching the ground and there is no sense that I can follow my arm to lift the bike off the ground, all the force was generated with my legs.

Okay so we're going to use a stick to help teach us these moves in the correct order so first I'm going to lift my front wheel onto this stick using my body weight and energy now that we have our front stick wheel we're going to try to do the same with our rear wheel, to do this we need to pre-compress our rear suspension and then jump up to lift our rear wheel off the ground and into the air, some of you will probably do this. to find out your feet come off the pedals when you try to lift the rear wheel onto the lever Now as you can see I have normal pedals I'm not engaged so how do I keep my feet on the pedals?

I will notice that my foot is pointed when my legs are extended. I'm almost smearing my feet along the pedals to help drag them into the air again. I'm not doing this by bending my legs, I'm just applying a little pressure. the pedals so that when I push myself in the air the bike comes with me, okay, now that we have the front wheel on the lever and the rear wheel on the lever, we should do both in one pass, this will help teach us timing basic bunnyhop, so now that we've gotten the timing down a little bit before dropping the front wheel, let's preload and jump up now that we've started to lower our bunny hops, now we can get to work.

At altitude, we can first start by placing our front wheel on this rock or curb you have near you and then continue by placing the rear wheel on it once you get used to lifting the front and rear wheels on a curb. We can use higher and higher objects to help us get better and better at bunny hops Now that we have learned how to time jumping on objects, let's practice getting more height by jumping on objects, so remember that the main way we lift our bike off the ground is to carry the bike with us while we push off the ground when we move onto larger objects it is when we can absorb as a bicycle upwards to gain additional height to jump over larger objects can require a lot of practice and some toys Curses to be able to reach the level What do you want if this video was useful to you.

I would love for you to comment or even share this video with your friends as always. My name is Phil Metz. Thanks for playing bikes with me today. See you next. peace time