What are the best hopping assessments and metrics in tendinopathy? Hopping is a wonderful thing to assess in clinical practice. The good thing is you can get lots of meaningful info from hopping assessments regardless of the amount of expensive equipment you have. Here are some of the hopping assessments I use in clinical practice (at the right time and for the right person): 1) Single leg hopping patterning observation and 2D video side and rear - where do they yield? where don't they yield? ho