BMX - why can i still not do a bunny hop???

i have been trying to learn how to do a bunny hope for the last few months, every time i go out i will have a few attemps at doing it but with not sucess. All my friends can do it and therefor can do all a lot more tricks i can do. obviously i can get my front wheel but but i jus cant get my back wheel off the floor. i have read loads of sites instructing me how to do it and watched a couple of tv shows but yet still no result. i also cant get my back wheel up when i am trying to get onto something like a bench or log.
How long did it take you guys to learn?
is there something that sombody told you that made you see it in a different way, and really helped you to make it?
Also i do not want to hear PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE as i am doing, jus want a little more help.
Please help

to pop like i do now it took the best part of 4 years to learn.
i know you don't wanna hear this, mate, but just keep practising. unfortunately BMX is a sport where you will stick a trick or skill immediately or it will take years, or anywhere in between.

lol your helping me a lot today JMC. not the answer i was looking for but i will keeping going at it

no problem man.

JMC if your still around, could you have a look at my threds on the mountain bike forum and see if you can answer any of my questions there

yeah

pump some iron, and practice on the woodward bunnyhop foam pit

for me when i was learning how to bunny hop, i learn on a 15 speed mountain bike and just pulled up the back and front at the same time

Tilt your feet forward/down and LIFT that back end up. Practice doing this on its own, like a donkey kick. See how hi you can bring the rear up on its own.

you learn everything by ****in riding, man. did you need to read something off a website to learn how to eat?

every time i go out i will have a few attemps at doing it but with not sucess.

A "few attemps" isn't enough, just go out for a couple weeks and do not focus on bunny hopping on flat if it's causing you that much trouble. Try em off curbs, and mybe off the side of some pyramids, or off a home made gehto ramp, so that you get the feel of goigng in the air.

just quit

queens and bmichaelx said it best
it took me about 3 months.

i cant bunnyhop high on flat ground but i have no problems on ramps, sorry but... practice!!

I'm a 40-year-old bald road cyclist with the coordination of a hippo. One of the neighbor kids was riding his BMX bike around and I asked to give it a shot. It took me about three tries to bunnyhop on the platform pedals. If I can do then anyone can.

Coordination of a hippo lmao.

i cant bunnyhop high on flat ground but i have no problems on ramps, sorry but... practice!!


if it's off a ramp it's not a bunnyhop.

reely (sorry keyboards skrewed up) it took me about the most of a week to learn it

to bunnyhop you have to have the right shoes i can only bunnyhop good when im wearing my DCs

to bunnyhop you have to have the right shoes i can only bunnyhop good when im wearing my DCs
i hope to dear god your jokeing

Take the advice of the guy with the dancing bears.

pump some iron, and practice on the woodward bunnyhop foam pit do they seriously have one?

practice lifting your back tire

so until i can bunny hop, are there any other cool tricks i can do either in a park or on the street to impress my mates?

manual?

can a little but nothing to be proud of

practise mate. :) sorry i know its not really a useful answer, but thats the way it is.

lol... anything else?

nose manual, hang 5, flatland whip, etc.

without hops, your basically staring into the face of the flatland beast.

prob a stupid question but waht is a hang 5? im not too sure about a flat land whip either lol

hang 5, is like a nosemanual, but ur lead foot on front peg & other foot waving around front tire to keep balance.
flatland whip is a tailwhip on the ground.

reely (sorry keyboards skrewed up) it took me about the most of a week to learn it


explain to me why you can't just type "really"

bar spin

What is wrong with you?

bar spin
ill try that, but its very hard without pegs

explain to me why you can't just type "really"

brainless perhaps?

so until i can bunny hop, are there any other cool tricks i can do either in a park or on the street to impress my mates?
learn how to stall :crash:

stall?

no joke man it only goes with the DCs i guess its sum sort of Superstitious thing iv got

ill try that, but its very hard without pegs
Start out slow and then stand up, then bar spin.

My son is also having a hard time bunny hopping. It's one of those thing though, that once you do it, your like, oooooohh, that how. Even when I read tips on how to do it, I don't think it's really what I'm doing. I just do it.

http://www.bmxbasics.org/new/bmx0703.html

read this.

It's one of those thing though, that once you do it, your like, oooooohh, that how. Even when I read tips on how to do it, I don't think it's really what I'm doing. I just do it.
that is exactly what my friends say
lol

I CAN DO IT!!!, oh yes last night was just practicing getting by back wheel off the floor and i could do it... so then a tryied pulling the front up 1st to do a bunny hop and after a few goes it worked!

Hey congrats man. I can bunnyhop i think in the early stages when i first started.

now you learned to do a bunnyhop what is next in the begining for your bmx life now that you can bunnyhop?
:tool:

well i can jethop/bunnyhop about 2 inches above a curb but i just started in may, i learned from these really good riders in my town. pull up as high or at a decent hight, but try to hold at that hight n just jump. it took me about a week to learn after i got my bmx bike

i think ill just try and see how high i can get... find some obsitales and see if i can clear them

suck it up like I am doing and keep trying, also dirt jumping helps with the technique

haha never tried dirt jumping before...:P