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POWER BOCKING EXPERIENCE => Beginners Board => Topic started by: DJ MIDNIGHT on March 01, 2008, 05:10:28 PM
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hey ive just picked my pjs up from the shop they are sooooo hard to use cant even stand in them. they seem to either wanna go backwards or forwards and ive fallen over 20 times lol. plus they keep hittin each other wen i try n walk( holding onto wall lol) and seem to be too heavy, cant lift them propaly . HELP
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Practice. When I forts got mine I put an old chin up bar on the kitchen door and just took little steps on the spot holding on until I got used to them and started to keep up without needing to hold on. Most important part is to keep moving! I start to wobble and lean forwads and back if I stop moving for too long! very tiring.
Get the hang of standing up before you strat to walk. At the minuit you are a bambi..Have little control of your legs and stuff right? Once you practice keeping up then you will have more contol. Its practice. Secondly if you are clinging to a wall your wieght will be off and away from the C of G making it much harder for you so try keeping up, then get somebody to walk infront of you and hold thier hands but dont lean. Keep straight!
They are quite heavy but you will soon adjust to it.
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I used a wall when I started to walk in them, so i could slowly build up my confidence to walk on them without the wall
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At first take little steps, pick your feet up so you do not stumble.
Look forward not at your feet.
Walk with your knees apart (pretend theres a football between your Knees).
Try to walk with your feet pointing directly in front of you like this I I not slightly splayed like this V
Hope this helps
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they keep hittin each other wen i try n walk
The usual reason they hit each other is simple !?
You walk like a duck :o
When you walk ( without them on ) stop and look at where your toes piont !?
They should piont forward but I'm betting then piont out a little ( like a duck )
Your knee only bends forward and backward so try keeping hips straight.
Think of each foot on a train track and your PJ's shouldn't hit each other :thumbs:
You also say you keep falling over ? Your not trying to stand still on the spot :-\
You need to tread water ( keep moving ).
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First have you got them adjusted properly for knee height and are you well strapped in (read every post on the forum you will find a lot of help on adjusting and first steps ) use the search engine
Next get youself a 7ft stick and use it as a walking stick (turn yourself into a tripod)
Then just keep getting on them until your leg muscles are strong enough so they don't go wobbly after a couple of hours
once you can walk and run the best bit of advice I was given was by tundraH when Iasked how he got so good he said spend at least 2 hrs a day every day on them :biggrin:
And finally Enjoy Yourself
Jason :Hoofies2:
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i finely learnt to walk in them (kinda) but they still keep hitting each other even when they are straight either the springs hit or the knee pads. it cud be that i have small legs n i think i should bring my knee pads down a bit??? ???
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when i used carls i dident have the problem of them hitting together... i just kept looking down thats all... but carl held both hands at first when i first used them... then one hand then he walked by me while i walked..
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i finely learnt to walk in them (kinda) but they still keep hitting each other even when they are straight either the springs hit or the knee pads. it cud be that i have small legs n i think i should bring my knee pads down a bit??? ???
Unless you really do have small hips, they really shouldn't hit each other :-\
There a couple of people who are not very tall/big their doing great it just takes time :)
It more learning to keep them straight and controlling your stride, don't rush to run keep your step small and build up slowly.
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there well heavy lol it took me 10mins to sit down because i fell straight to the ground then had to try lift them up to sit down on chair lol
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there well heavy lol it took me 10mins to sit down because i fell straight to the ground then had to try lift them up to sit down on chair lol
Think their heavy ! Check out the pair I'm making " Fusion " ! It almost like a pairs on each leg :Dark_Knight:
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lol got my mate ricky on my pjs yesterday and he was running after 1 min of avin em on
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yo ive got a vid of me on my jumping stilts but its not very good
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links links links, come on dblok share with the community
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lol
1. im not very good on my pjs coz i just got them
2.my mum is recording me and making quotes making sound like a 5yr old
3.in the video im up the end of the road 4 bout 5 mins coz i went to show my uncle my pjs lol
... soo its really crap
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dw we really dont care how crap it is we jsut like seeing how people are improoving :thumbs:
also a vid will help the other figure out what you might be doing wrong :banana:
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ok will add it to website in a min and u can tell me wots going wrong yh :thumbs:
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wait how do i add a video
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if its uploaded to youtube then just paste the address of the page with the video, full address and the forum will add it for ya, if it aint on the tube youll have to upload it to the projump gallery
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1EJfkL7M0t8 n remember wot i told ya its really crap
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oh n can u guys tell me where im going wrong or any tips thnx . :banana:
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Keep your feet paralell, your springs are almost touching each other as you walk.
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Your doing quite well mate just keep going and it will all come together
One Big bit of advice get yourself a set of knee and elbow pads and most of all Wristguards
You don't want to know how much pain you'll be in if you have a bad fall without them
I speak from experience I thought I didn't need wristguards until I slipped up walking (yes Walking ) and shattered my wrist
Have a look at what Wristguards prevent
http://www.projumpforum.co.uk/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=166
http://www.projumpforum.co.uk/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=185
http://www.projumpforum.co.uk/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=167
Learn from my pain and get Pads
Jason :Hoofies2:
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Keep your feet paralell, your springs are almost touching each other as you walk.
i find it soo hard too keep them straight coz it hurts my legs as no1 walks with there legs that straight lol. i cant do it :'(
im getting all my pads this weekend ;D
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Just keep trying...wlll get used to it
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ok thnx n e other problems oh yh its really hard 4 me 2 bounce as im 3 stone under the limit lol
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Now you got an excuse to use them loads and loads and loads!!
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Keep your feet paralell, your springs are almost touching each other as you walk.
i find it soo hard too keep them straight coz it hurts my legs as no1 walks with there legs that straight lol. i cant do it :'(
im getting all my pads this weekend ;D
You mean you cant be bothered to do it, it only takes practise. If you dont, you can expect at some point to damage your springs or yourself.
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i just look stupid wen people say run or jump and i say i cant look like an idiot lol
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Yep we've all been there I just used to tell people I was good at falling over (well it was true)
It take a while to get enough muscle in you legs to control the bocks let alone do anything with them some people start at an advantage as they did Gymnastics or free running etc before getting into bocking
I rode horses for years and climb scaffolds and ladders a lot so my legs were fairly strong to start and I found it hard at first
As for the toes out walking the best advice is to learn to walk straight on your feet first this you can do all day just look down and if your walking like a duck point your toes in and it will transfer to the PJ's soon enough
But ET is right you will trip yourself up eventually if you don't try to correct it
Jason :Hoofies2:
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yh thnx but dnt no y hes saying i cant be bothered coz im on my jumping stilts 2hrs a day sooo...
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ET has a point (in his normal blunt way, love ya ET), but, if you start to say you can't do it, you will end up not being able to. Which is exactly why I am finding it near impossible to get up, because I am defeatist from the start. You have to get your head around it and go 'I CAN and I WILL do this' then you find you put so much more enthusiasm into trying!
-Carma (The Bocking Rocker)
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Everything is just in the mind. Everything is possible. Pain is just in the mind. If that is invented by the mind think what else could be!!!
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Forget the bashing bocks for a minute, forget bouncing really high or running, Dblok look at the video again mate, because even if your stood on one spot trying to stay standing YOU HAVE A HUGE SMILE ON YOUR FACE, and thats why we do it all aint it. to have fun
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yh thank you ive got to admit they are really fun lol :thumbs: