Is this a bad habit?

[peter_t]

When rolling up a step (like this http://www.trashzen.com/rolling-up-a-kerb.php) i find it easiest to lift the front wheel with my good foot then back pedal before unweighting the back wheel. It works ok but on higher objects sometimes i struggle to clear the back wheel.

I can do the way suggested on trashzen but lifting the front with my lazy foot always feels clumsy and i have less success.

What is best?

cheers

Edited May 29, 2015 by peter_t

[ogre]

just practice. youll have to learn it properly as you progress anyway; doing stuff like a rolling jump up an obstacle will require you to get the front wheel off the ground with your bad foot so you can put the power down with your best foot forward.

[peter_t]

Ok cheers ogre, i better get practicing then

[dngr2self]

I've always done the same. The way it tells you on there is the same technique as you'd use to do a pedal up, which makes sense but I do them both different.

[Paperclip]

You can't really call yourself out on a move while you're still learning. I always learn a move by doing it at the time the way it felt best for me to try for my ability and then once you're constantly getting that move you can work on your technique from there with the initial move learnt, I learnt getting up things by putting my front wheel onto them and using a pedal stroke to pop it up and it was by no means pretty at the time but after doing them for some time they just naturally turned into second nature.