How To Hop Your Mountain Bike

Learn how to hop your mountain bike! This video breaks down all the elements that go into getting your bike off the ground. Slightly different from a traditional bunnyhop, this skill will help you gain confidence and allow you to readjust or reset on your bike, especially when you are riding challenging trails.

We break down the skill into three parts, and it is followed by a handful of drills that you can practice to lock in this new ability!

My bike setup:

Riding Gear:
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Three Parts
0:55 - Suspension
1:40 - The Most Important Element
2:55 - Front Wheel Lift
3:33 - Back Wheel Lift
4:02 - Rocking
5:29 - Fast Way
6:29 - The Hop
8:07 - One Quick Thing
8:40 - Practice Drills

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[nyankoneko]

These are the first moves I learnt after track stand. Looking back, it took me quite a while to master these basic moves but it came without notice while I was practicing other more tricky moves.

[danone]

Mate.

The production quality of your videos has reached a new high. The camera. The Lens. The lighting. It is truly incredible and that for sure keeps your brain engaged watching the video attentively.

Congrats.

[kirinmackenzie]

Loving all this trials on a mountain bike content because many people (myself included) aren't lucky enough to have a proper trials bike and are just using there mtb bike instead. Great work!

[aayushpandey]

Just discovered this channel, there aren't any bike trails nearby but I enjoy learning new tricks. Thank you!

[GameplayerSolCley]

You are creating masters.
when I get to play whit the bike that way is just mastering.
Thanks bro.

[charliemaybe]

Hopping my bike will help my in the technical sections like navigating the slow and densely packed human crowds

[chrish]

Awesome video, I definitely need all the help I can get!!

[mtbcarlosruiz]

Hey! Super nice videos, could you do a video of foot position on trials?

[dtclimber]

Do u brake both the front and rear wheels during the hopping?

[maxpainxl]

you brought the best of riding bikes....

[healthkit]

I’be been working on this. I can do side, backward circular hop but hopping forward seems difficult (even unnatural) and I am sure what I am doing wrong.

[sapinva]

One thing that helped me is to use a full suspension bike to practice. Doing this for an hour with no cushion and poor technique is really hard on the body. Was able to spin 120 degrees today, but only to the left :| My goal is a 180 on rollers, like Brumotti.

[Marco-fsfk]

I can now hop vertical while in trackstand. But I fail to initialize the lateral motition. Do you have a tip how to learn this movement ?

[donhodson]

Hi will these techniques work on an emb, being quite a bit heavier. I want be able to ride up n over stuff on the trail instead of getting off and pushing.cheers Don.

[alimantado]

Are the Diety you use on the Mountain bike the same rise as you use on STB? 80mm rise?
My DJB frame is more similar to this bike than your other trial specific bikes.
Ive experimented so much, I have 100-120 travel on a DJB frame.
what rise handlebar would you recomend for learning.

[Goodman-]

Okay for all the bunny hop tutorials they never mentioned the importance of the scooping motion I'm gonna give that a try (also I literally have the same bike so no excuses for me haha)

[mandlakhumalo]

How critical is it to master the track stand before attempting this skill? I'm asking because I see that you do not wobble around, but when I try it I'm unable to hold my balance from tipping over the side.

[radiocontrolled]

My hardtail weighs around 14kg. Can I do this as well?

[t-virus]

What size tires do you use? I have 3” and I feel they are to much. I like how they roll into berms but not much else tbh

[fdrr]

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