Since finding this in 2017, if any of my riding buddies asks me how to bunny hop, I pull out this video, and talk them through it. Even with a bunch of years professional MTB coaching under my belt, yours is still the best example of a bunny* hop in slow motion I've found - much appreciated. * I love the "that's not a bunny hop, it's a XXX hop" comments. There are two kinds of riders: one kind want to be really clear about what it's called when a rider gets their bike off the ground; the other kind get their bike off the ground.
@@dickstolemybike I am having the same issue and i am 280. Back when I was younger and much skinnier I used to be able to hop over 4 soda cans stacked on top of each other with no ramp and clear. Kinda sad I can't even hop over a stick on the ground now. Every once and awhile I do get the front higher but normally panic and jump off the bike because I think I am going to fall backwards. That is actually why I searched this video to see what other people do in slow motion. The only recommendations I have for both you and me is to get more comfortable putting our weight towards the back wheel more. Kinda use the extra weight as an advantage to get the front tire up higher. Try riding around and just practice throwing your weight back over the rear wheel more while pulling up on the handle bars at the same time almost like your going to do a manual. Once you get comfortable doing this, then work on exploding upwards after your front tire is high enough and pull your legs up to get the back end up. I guess just do this over and over again till you get it. Something that also may help is to record yourself. Not only can you record your progress but you can maybe see something your doing wrong. Hopefully around this time next year we both will be hopping much higher. Good luck
After watching a ton of tutorials i couldnt get my back wheel up. After watching this tho the next day i did it. This really is more helpful than other tutorials. TNX
BRO.... Thanks! idky no has thought of simply adding a slowmo to their how to's. This is gonna help me in my progress of getting the bunny hop, thanks again!
Bro I’ve watched so many videos on bunny hopping and I’ve never been able to do it until I watched this video I literally did it after I watch the first couple of seconds thank youuu
you got to get over the fear of tucking your crossbar to your hipbones then as you scoop the back wheel push your bike forward and tuck your seat to your ass
hey it not the bike is to heavy it because you dont know how to lift it right use your feet not arms get a grip on your pedals slightly lift your arm and push back on the pedal
I literally just started bmx and what pisses me off the most in bunnyhops is the angle at which you have to lean back cuz i can literally barely lean back and have a small bunnyhop which uses so much energy and force and when I lean back more sometimes I can get it so nice and so high and I barely use any force. the problem wit leaning back too much makes me loop out sometimes and makes me way to scared to do them a higher speeds.
I know where I have been going wrong now... My house is not beautiful enough! 😉🏆 Seriously though... Great slo-mo tutorial mate. Thank you, for me, I think this is a question of 'not loading enough before the pull'... I have no idea at all what I am talking about!! 👍🇬🇧
Watched my bunny hop in slow mo, watched your bunny hop in slow mo, next try added a solid foot to my hop. I can only imagine youre in orbit now, almost a decade later
Do I have to jump before the bars touch my stomach or during the contact between bars and stomach?? Also I have to jump up, not forward, right?? I'm new
Don't jump. This is what helped me. Concentrate on pushing the back tyre into the ground as hard as you can, while pulling the handlebars to your stomach. You can't push the earth away so you will go up instead.
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So the steps would be like this?: 1) Squat 2) Simultaneusly jump on pedals and start pulling bars toward hips 3) Simultaneusly push bars away and scoop rear wheel up 4) Fly like an eagle :D 5) Land using your body to "cushion" the forces
Compress down towards the ground(bend knees and press down) jump up and pull handlebars to chest. Then lean back and push your handlebars forward(this will lift the back tire). You only go as high as your front tire goes, so yank up high
Aren't those j hops bunny hops you pull everything up at once don't take that as hating tho your still very good and definitely a better bmx rider then me
