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Bunnyhops like pretty much of all the finer skills that you might learn out of a bike
do require a lot of practice. I can sit here and explain how to do them to you all day
that at the end of the day it's not going to be the type of thing that you just learn
how to do. It's a trick that you often learn but you really perfect because as you keep
doing them over the years you get better and better at them. You learn how to better use
your legs and how to get better hop, better tuck all these things and it's like constantly
evolving process. At the same time there's a lot of steps that you can take to make sure
that your getting a good bunnyhop quickly. The main thing as I said is you want to keep
in mind that a bunnyhop is a 3 part motion it's not a single motion as a really good
rider make it look. You really want to make sure that when your practicing your bunnyhops
that you keep in mind that the 3 part motion is you get your front end up high. You explode
up with your legs and then you tuck the bike out and a really good thing to keep in mind
when your practicing this is working on specific parts of it. Sometimes it's if you know you
have to allow all the things to follow from the previous action that you've taken so you
know you get your front wheel up you really have figured out how to get the front wheel
to a proper height. The next logical step is make sure that you have a good a really
good solid hop from your legs. And you really don't want to worry about the tuck so much
until you can get to a point where the bike is almost flatten out just by using your legs
for the vertical hop. Once you've gotten to that point and you feel comfortable doing
that point then you really go for the tuck to maximize the bunnyhop. But until then it's
not something you should worry about so as long as you keep in mind that a bunnyhop is
a 3 part motion and concentrate undoing each on of those 3 parts as well possibly can by
the time your done, and you've gotten to that 3 step to where you really working on the
tuck and good form of having a tuck. Then that's where your bunnyhop is going to be
in tip top shape.