Gaps to front and Wrist problems

[mistri@l]

ive recently been working on gaps to front
i am ok at them but recently as i go bigger i get the worst pain in my wrist after.
my wrist almosts ceases up and just kills i have to stop riding because i cant hold onto my bars.

could this be do to my handle bar angle?
mabe i just am not gapping to front properly?
anyone else have a similar issue?

or have my wrists just gone to shit

[Peace]

i have never had wrist issues.... it could be your lever angle... are they at a very steep angle towards the ground? what bars you running?

[rush]

Sometimes when I gap to front my wrist feels like its going to collapse. :hs:

[Peace]

my wrist has given way a couple times and i have ended up hangin over the handle bars but thats only happened in bunnyhops when i have relaxed my wrist a little in the air... never on front wheel gaps.

[Acolyte]

When you land the front wheel, are you locking the front brake, or modulating into it? Or doesn't that make a difference?

I'd say with practice you'll get smoother, and have fewer problems. Then again, that's true for everything.

[hasa2006]

might be your lever angle is wrong which cause wrist pain.

[digby]

It might be you locking up both your arm and shoulder which would make your wrist take all the weight of the gap and your body.

Learn to relax a bit, keep your wrist somewhat straight and bend at the elbow and shoulder.

[Bryan]

what bar are you running? shoulda bought mine sucka...

[hello?]

if its a flat bar(brisa,px,/upsweep kinda thing) then its probably a good cause for the pain. try something with no rise like a try-all or toxsin or eastons..something like that

[xtreme_jeremy]

It sounds to me like you are doing something wrong because if you do everything right you should not feel much presure on your wrists.

Are you keeping your wrists streight or are you moving them when your front tire hits?

from my experence when your front tire hits you kind of push your bars forward and bend your wrists a little bit down as you get over the back end of your bike. If you keep everything streight and dont bend your joints then you will hit harder and over time it will start to hurt.

hope this helps!

Jeremy VanSchoonhoven

[mistri@l]

first off i am running and axiom riser bar
pretty big rise
my levers are angled closer pointing to the ground

im not realy sure exactly what goes on after i kick off into my front
but it is only my left wrist that does this, like i said im still fairly new to front tire gaps.

i do modulate the front brake, sometimes its only a brake tap and sometimes i dont even use my brakes.




Gbread those bars lookd sketch-O

[crash]

hello. I'm from Kiev, Ukraine.I'm riding for 8 years.

I had a big and serious wrist problems for 8 months. That pain was killing and I had no ability to ride. I visited a lot of doctors and they said different things. Conclusion: I had tendon inflammation because of trials. And the stupiddest thing that they said - this injury is almost could not be cured.

there was 2 ways to try - injection and shock wave therapy. Therapy would last for a year. So I chose injection. They made me "diprospan" and "lidokaine" injection 2 times. This is a very strong anti-inflamination injection. They did it 1 time in 2 or 3 weeks. This injection is very painful and you would not be able to do anything for 5 days with your hand. But now I have result - I ride comps without problems. But sometimes it feels that smth is clicking in my wrist - they said it is the beginning of "artroz" - sorry I don't know how it is called in USA.

So my advise - try wearing wrist bandages and change your levers angle - put them more horizontal. Then if there would ne no effect - talk with your doctor about injections. But remember - this injections are very harmful to your health.

Good luck. Take care.

And don't hesitate to write here for any questions.


p.s. sorry for my grammar - i don't have time to check it )

[Peace]

yeah bring your levers up a little, at the moment they are causing you to to this :greddy: when you wana to grab some brake whilst doing a front wheel gap...

Peace

[chronic]

I would just ease off of riding for a bit... especially the moves that cause you the most discomfort and take some glucosamine.

Ice your wrists after rides and ...yeah for the most part. Just dont push them past what they can take. I've always had my levers pointed pretty far down... pretty well to the point where they leave my hands semi straight with my arms when I am standing on the bike/hoping around.
Maybe helps?

[xtreme_jeremy]

to find the right spot for your lever get on your bike lean the bars up agains a wall or something stand on the pedals and lean back all the way till you hit the tire with your butt make sure your arms are streight. your wrists should be a little
Uncomfortable but not too bad. after you ajust your levers till it feels ok in this position then get on your bike and put your front tire on a table or something about that high and see if you can handle your levers being tipped up so high. I find that there is a place where you can be sort of comfortable in both extremes.

hope this helps.

[big nd]

Adjust your lever position and take it easy on these moves for now. Wait another week. Your wrists need to get used to the pressure. Later you almost won't feel any wrist pressure during these moves.

[EL_NOPPES]

try it with less pressure on your tires
with cross country it's the same, on coblestones i releas my tires to 3/4 of the original pressure, it helps to deal and prevent arm- and wristpains

[Cryo-Cube]

if its on one wrist only it could be that you land in a way that this one hand gets more abused.
I used to have this a bit too. I seems like i "use" one arm/hand more than the other when i land something to frontwheel,when i pivot or trackstand. One arm is always more in use than the other.
I notice this alot when i pivote the frontwheel while trackstanding.I apply more force with my right arm then with the left. The left is only doing like 65% of the work.

[MIKE1968]

Took my wrist (left one, the front brake) about a year to get used to the shock of going to front wheel...it ached a ton at first, but after a while it kept getting better and better. just keep at it, if it hurts too much to touch the bar take a week off.