Pre Jump Rituals/Warm-ups

Hey guys,

I have been trying the same 40 cm. hop for a few days now, and can land
it abut 10% of the time. I'm trying to figure out rituals or warm-ups
people do to prepare them for the big hop.

So??????


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hungry4uni wrote:
Hey guys,

I have been trying the same 40 cm. hop for a few days now, and can land
it abut 10% of the time. I'm trying to figure out rituals or warm-ups
people do to prepare them for the big hop.

So??????



I just ride around pretty fast and aggressively doing little things,
like 180s, jumping down and up stairs and ledges, just to get the blood
flowing,

If im really bored ill do those SIF crouching exercises a bit, but not
much.

After im warmed up I do some stretches too.


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Jerrick wrote:

After im warmed up I do some stretches too.


Any stretches in particular?


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hungry4uni wrote:
Any stretches in particular?




Not really. Just basic ones for legs body and arms.


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I just do some crank grabs on the object before I try going to rubber.

This is kind of on topic, every day I go out to hop on top of things,
its almost as if I have to relearn how to do it. Like sometimes
something I could do easy at the end of yesterday will take me a half
hour to land the next. Does this happen to any of you.


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littleman wrote:
I just do some crank grabs on the object before I try going to rubber.

This is kind of on topic, every day I go out to hop on top of things,
its almost as if I have to relearn how to do it. Like sometimes
something I could do easy at the end of yesterday will take me a half
hour to land the next. Does this happen to any of you.


Same thing with me.


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Nope.


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Jump w/o the uni as high as you can and pull your legs up all the way w/
your knees around your shoulders.

Repeat 20 times.

And/or...
Jump on a bunch of stuff that's normally relatively easy untill you're
warmed up. Focus on consistency, smoothness, and speed.


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skilewis74 wrote:
Jump w/o the uni as high as you can and pull your legs up all the way w/
your knees around your shoulders.

Repeat 20 times.

And/or...
Jump on a bunch of stuff that's normally relatively easy untill you're
warmed up. Focus on consistency, smoothness, and speed.




that's good. sometimes, when i'm bored i practice jumping and pulling
my legs up, just to get my body more and more used to it.

basically, most of jumping onto objects is a mind over matter. when i
started riding trials i couldn't hop onto anything higher than a curb,
then my mental block became anything higher than my tire, then my seat
post clamp, and now it's anything higher than my seat. Even though I
can hop higher than my seat (there are also eye-witnesses), over 1m
high, I have yet to hop onto something that high or higher. 39 is the
highest i've landed. Rest assured, I will also be pushing my own
limits both vertically, laterally, with speed, flow and style all this
summer. I feel it's going to be a good summer.

To warm up, I also do squats with the uni (I call them Zack Baldwin
squats, because he was the first that I saw post about them in detail),
and I squat ride. I stretch before all of that, and pogo on my feet to
warm up my ankles, and then I hop w/o the uni and bring my legs up to
my chest.

Any time I squat w/the uni i also push the seat as far forward as I
can. Any time I warm up ride sif I push the seat as far away as I can,
making sure to keep the pressure from my hand that's holding the seat,
off of the seat. I also ride sif backwards pushing the seat out
farther from me, as I go along.

Getting good at these things, I could ride SIF with more confidence
than seat-in, and generally better than seat-in. Isn't that weird?




Someone asked a consistency question. Yes. I sometimes go outside and
do something, mess up on it, when I landed it easily the day before.
This is when I have to compose myself and not get angry, otherwise my
whole ride will be a frustration.

hope that helps!
evan


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TrialsUni wrote:
To warm up, I also do squats with the uni (I call them Zack Baldwin
squats, because he was the first that I saw post about them in detail),
and I squat ride.

These are on the George Peck video.


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