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Got Five10 Freeriders so I should be on the safe side here.

I don't have small feet. 10 1/2 actually. I put on the Trialtech SL caged ones one time and found them way too small compared to the Wellgos. I'll give them Nukeproof a try after the Wellgos I just bought. I don't really care about the looks of the pedal.

Have ridden three pairs so far. I weigh between 90 and 95kg. Never bent an axle or anything. The only thing is that some pins got lost in the way. Have had some copied version of those and broke an axle in no time.

Wellgo MG1.

Probably why Damon hasn't posted on here. He has sold his workout to him.

Yeah... I know. Heard of those 10 pallet sidehops... Would've been depressing for me.

I began riding in autumn 2013. Sidehoping I began about a year ago but left it for a long while because it was my least favorite move as well.

Both the same.

Technique that I lack. Been doing side hops for a while now and only see slow progress.

This guy barely even jumps... I am doing something wrong. It's not so much the flexibility I think but my overall technique.

Hm... I don't have this problem so much. I don't think I'm doing it wrong though as I work out with a spotter and kill my legs on the last set on Monday (Squats) and Friday (Deadlifts). I was wondering about Jack and Vince. Do they hit the gym regularily or do they "just" ride? I think both could benefit of a real good workout routine for hops. The have the technique down so this would be the best way to improve on height imo. edit: I saw Jacks preview video of some winter workout. He could really improve on his deadlift form -> makes me think that he has just started doing them. Weight may tell a different story. Would be interesting to se the weights he is able to lift. I vote for Damon instructing these two.

That's interesting. It seems as if you haven't done much weight training lately. I am sore for two days but not as much as you.

Well, jumping is about strength. You'd be surprised if you saw the standing verticals of powerlifters. What I do and did when still playing professional basketball is use this strength playing ball. Now I use it in trials as well. I think that you need pure strength to start with and also the sport using it. So I think you are fine. I'm in the 4th week of the workout and will go over to plyometrics after this. There's a programm called Air Alert III*, mainly designed for Basketball but it's about increasing your vertical, which helps in trials as well. It's the hardest program I've done so far. Haven't had that many cramps in my entire life. BTW: Did you do the mentioned workout with or without spotter. Without someone helping you, you won't really benifit as you cannot kill your muscles on the last set. *" The final week is designed to completely exhaust and breakdown the jumping muscles and prepare them for final recovery. "

Every good video has a teaser.

After yesterdays usual squat workout I opted for half an hour of intense stretching. It was harder than the sets of squats I did before that. Will do this everyday now hoping to get some results by the end of the summer.

Stretching doesn't lengthen the muscle and the correlation is indirect. Just read into it a bit more. There's no way you can lengthen the muscle. The only thing stretching achieves is that you can have your muscles fully relax. Once you reach a certain point in order to protect other parts* from getting injured, the muscle automatically contracts. Stretching helps you to exceed this point to a certain extend. Anyways... I think we can agree on the point that flexibility helps in trials. *Not going into the anatomy of our body now.

The correlation is rather indirect as my example of Jean-Claude shows. Direct would mean weightlifting = inflexible = every bodybuilder is inflexible, which isn't the case. But yeah... you are right, I need to do stretching a lot and I have already outlined a routine that I will be doing everyday. I think I might be able to sidehop 7 pallets by the end of this year. Right now I'm at 5 1/2.

Thanks. I will at least do the stretching part but I don't think I can leave the weights untouched. I don't really think that weight lifting and being inflexible have any correlation really. Just look at Jean-Claude Van Damme. He is/was rather strong and still flexible. It's just that you have to stretch a lot, what I didn't do but will start doing. So I can still do my weight routine AND be flexible by the end of this year. About the tucking part when side hopping. I still have to get my mind around the jumping well part, the tucking I don't really think about when doing side hops. I could probably put another pallet on that wall and get onto it easily when tucking more. Will do the visualization part you were writing about.

Funny that you should say that. In the video it doesn't show but I'm a pretty explosive guy, having done plyometrics a looooot. I just can't get it transferred to trials. Playing basketball is different I guess.

I can but with a lot of effort. I also try to get more flexible but this is harder than getting muscles. The technique I've been struggling with for quite some while now and it really sucks knowing what you just confirmed.

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A bit more preload than in the last video and a bit more of letting open the rear brake. Compared to what I see here everyday this is nothing but I'm still satisfied with it. What I also figured is that I should learn the side hop off both wheels as I have to have the rear brake open longer in order to get up.

I pre ordered one just to try it out. Costs a third of the Eclipse.

http://www.schwalbe.com/de/schwalbe-evotube.html

Probably a routine similar to the one I currently do. Squats, deadlifts etc. Yesterday I did my personal best in dealifts btw.180kg. I adapted the program a little but it seems to work pretty well for me. Will go over to plyometrics for the next 6 week after this program.