that pedal grab was huge but something else caught my eye…the truck drop. holy crap! how high was that thing??? i watched that vid maybe 10 times in a row and i was still as surprised on the 10th as i was on the 1st time i saw it. geeze…whats ur technique on keeping ur nuts from completely getting nut-cracked between you and the seat?
my seat turned after i landed on that one… thats why i rode off funny… keep you seatpost tight… and seat lowish. and always try and roll out of them.
for drops. esp like the crazy ones french yoggi does. you need to be really strong. to keep as solid, yet shock absorbing as possible. it takes strength ive found.
my, profile cranks arent the same either… this drop is in their ‘i want them to break so i can get straight ones again’ stage of performance., hence the big drops
I love the Tomflip trick! Very innovative! (Is ‘Tomflip’ your name for the trick or Andrew’s?)
It looks like you land your 130cm pedal grab with your rear pedal. Is this true? Doesn’t it make the hop to rubber extremely off-balance and awkward? I first learnt crank grabbing with my rear pedal then when I tried to do seat out pedal grabs on the rear pedal I found the hop up to rubber really awkward. So much so that I learnt to grab with my chocolate (forward) foot. I wonder if I could have saved myself the trouble of re-learning this skill… I’ll have to go and try rear pedal grabs again.
I do it with my rear pedal, but I use the crankflip technique.
After you land on the object with your back pedal, bring the free pedal up behind, so now the pedal on the object is in front. Then pull the uni up and jump at the same time, so the wheel turns 180 degrees, and land with your pedals in the right position again.
Not only does it work, but it also looks really sweet.
i pull up the uni from back foot. its way less effect than the way everyone else does it… but i can do 130cm this way (onto walls and whatnot) so that kinda makes up for it.
the only thing it sucks on is posts. i cant really get up to posts vary well at all… if i need to get up to one, ill switch sides, and feet.
nah you didnt waste any time re-learning the skill. to know how to do it both feet is way better than only being able to do it with one foot. even if either are a little less effective than if you only learn once.