After what felt like an eternity without any progress I though I'd mix things up a bit and include street moves in my riding. Here's the result. First video was on Sunday and after having sought advice from the guys at Trials-Forum.co.uk I managed to improve on it in the second video.

"Street Trial" Move from Niconj on Vimeo.

"Street Trial" Move continued from Niconj on Vimeo.

Have lost some weight. :D Sidehops and gaps have improved a lot. You cannot see it in the video but it feels so much better and I don't take 100 tries to land one side hop/gap.

Sidehop, Gap 09.09.16 from Niconj on Vimeo.

Yes... I've had too much food lately but my sidehop (do I even do other things on my bike) has improved a bit. The wall in the video is 92cm high. :D

Sidehop August 16 from Niconj on Vimeo.

It's been three months already since I've tried that 1m wall. I practiced side hops pretty much every time I went out but haven't processed at all height wise. Last week I tried the wall shown in the video and failed about 100 times in a row. I always set my foot down first and couldn't keep it on the pedal. I dunno why this happened so I went back to an even lower wall and couldn't do it either without putting down my foot. So I went back to a 30cm curb and only then I could convince my foot to stay on the pedal. It took me an entire week to get over this and I went up in small steps always focussing on the technique. Today I finally got back to the height I was able to do months ago. The technique is better though which is a good thing. I also focussed on putting down the front wheel first but have to get my head around this still. It kinda works already but needs a lot of practice still.

Sidehop from Niconj on Vimeo.

The last couple of sessions I got more and more frustrated. I don't know why but I've got a mental blockage at the moment. This takes me back to where I was one year ago height wise so I decided to to something else for the next couple of weeks in order to get this blockage away. So here's what I did yesterday. I haven't actually done ANY balance training since I've started trials so this is pretty good for me. :)

Tried to apply my newfound technique on a gap I was only just able to do rear to rear a while ago. Now it's become even easier doing it to front. :) Still have to learn the wheel swap though.

The last time I tried learning gaps to front I hurt my shin really badly so I left it for quite some while. Yesterday was the day to get back it again though and it feels rather good even though still no way near perfect.