One-Handers

This trick is the natural progression from taking your feet off the bike to taking your hands off the bike.  Often people learn to start taking a hand off before they learn to do no-footers so don't feel like you MUST learn one-footers or no-footers before beginning to learn this trick.

• Head towards the jump at your normal, comfortable jumping speed.  As always, you will get more and more comfortable with jumping and be able to go higher when doing this trick.
• You should know before you jump which hand feels comfortable to come off the grip- in the end it helps to be comfortable doing one-handers with either hand.
• Right before reaching your maximum height release the grip with your hand.
• At first DO NOT remove you hand from the grip- just open your hand up so you aren't holding onto the grip tightly.
• When landing close your hand back around the grip and land normally.
• OBVIOUSLY you want to do more than open your hand up in the air- But one-handers allow you to progress to really streching your arm out.  After a few (dozen) tries with opening your hand up, begin to pull your hand slighly away from the bar.
• A inch or two at first, but within a week you should be fairly comfortable taking your hand a foot or more away from the bars if you are jumping comfortably.

One-handers are another one of the fundamental combination tricks.  You can take a hand off on almost any trick you are doing.  Having them wired makes tricks like one-handed 360's possible as well as being a critical element of one-handed x-ups and tobogans.

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