More pre load. Bring your body lower to the bike, pushing your body weight into the bars and pedals. Spring up and back over the rear axle, pull bars to your gut, suck up back end, throw your momentum back to center of bike while pushing the bike forward. Keep practicing. Looks good!
Merfstick on
Your head doesn’t really move up at all when you’re popping. That tells us something is happening underneath -at your hips and lower – where you’re keeping all the motion contained without any real vertical gain.
Remember that it’s actually and fundamentally still a jump. You should be physically jumping sort of no different than when you jump up on your feet without a bike. Do that at the top (or close to the top) of pulling up the front end.
I think what’s happening is that you’re not jumping properly in order to keep enough tension on your pedals to be able to “scoop” them up. To fix it, think about making your feet and ankles go from “heels down” as you begin and pull up the front, to jumping as you switch and drive your toes down instead. That will give you the “scoop”. It’ll take some timing practice and feel that words can’t help you with.
Also, pull up higher. Bunny hop height is always limited to how high the front end gets up first. It’s harder to “scoop”/”pop” the back when you don’t have a lot of force going up in the front.
Practice doing it up curbs. It’s definitely easier to go up stuff, for whatever reason essentially everybody agrees on this.
Worth-Lawfulness6235 on
You look like you’re trying to lift both wheels at the same time. Timing and technique are off. Also you’re pulling your bars up with all arms. That’s a no no. You should be using your body mass to lift the front with straight arms.
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More pre load. Bring your body lower to the bike, pushing your body weight into the bars and pedals. Spring up and back over the rear axle, pull bars to your gut, suck up back end, throw your momentum back to center of bike while pushing the bike forward. Keep practicing. Looks good!
Your head doesn’t really move up at all when you’re popping. That tells us something is happening underneath -at your hips and lower – where you’re keeping all the motion contained without any real vertical gain.
Remember that it’s actually and fundamentally still a jump. You should be physically jumping sort of no different than when you jump up on your feet without a bike. Do that at the top (or close to the top) of pulling up the front end.
I think what’s happening is that you’re not jumping properly in order to keep enough tension on your pedals to be able to “scoop” them up. To fix it, think about making your feet and ankles go from “heels down” as you begin and pull up the front, to jumping as you switch and drive your toes down instead. That will give you the “scoop”. It’ll take some timing practice and feel that words can’t help you with.
Also, pull up higher. Bunny hop height is always limited to how high the front end gets up first. It’s harder to “scoop”/”pop” the back when you don’t have a lot of force going up in the front.
Practice doing it up curbs. It’s definitely easier to go up stuff, for whatever reason essentially everybody agrees on this.
You look like you’re trying to lift both wheels at the same time. Timing and technique are off. Also you’re pulling your bars up with all arms. That’s a no no. You should be using your body mass to lift the front with straight arms.
https://youtu.be/Wd_7YZccfYY?si=pPHkqYxY9hd4AL60
This bunny hop tutorial helped me immensely. Check it out.
Its all in the hips 🤷