Bunny hop - adult perspective

I'm a grown-up on a kids course, learning the bunny hop alongside the
kids with amusement. Today I started to jump it right, in the way my
kids already do, eyes high and forward, lots of bend, good takeoff
push on the pick, ...And, well ... it's suddenly enormous, I covered
about half of our tiny rink in one jump sequence. If you scale up what
a smaller child does (and don't they love bunny hops) to 6 ft adult
male proportion then they become something altogether strange. Is
this jump a kid thing only, I ask myself. Is there a difference
between an adult move and a child move on ice, should we be doing
entirely different things much of the time, and should I do this at
all? I suppose the bunny hop has value in learning to leave the ice,
but I seem to occupy much of the rink doing it now, and scatter
children before me as I do my 6 ft leaps. Strange maneouvre for an
adult :-). I guess most people here never do it.

Steve
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