Easy tricks for idiots learning to BMX...

[c2crider]

Hi everyone.

Im an idiot with a bmx:devil: and I wondered if anyone knew any easy tricks for me to learn, I can do tweaks, almost do x-ups and am learning no footers.

Any other ideas?

(ps Id love to know how to do whips, how do you do them??)

[Baker]

Manuals.......... this leads to a lot of other tricks, actually rather hard to get but once you find the ballance point you can use it so much!

Whips you have to run up to a jump, take off the jump with your body weight the oposite side to the way you will whip, then swing it over to the direction you want to whip in using your legs to also move the bike round a bit!

Hard to explain really but thats the rough idea!!

[c2crider]

cheers, I can do basic manuals, and ill try the whip technique.

Keep them coming people...

[Will]

One Handers, If you quick with your hand it can look very affective from a jump/hop.

[Fwogddy]

Dont try suicide no handers, slip the pedals and land gooch on tyre - inches away from the crown jewels, i was shaken haha

Edit, grip your seat with your legs!

its actually alot harder then it seems...
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f262/fwogddy/suicide.jpg

Can you 180?

[c2crider]

hmmm, I can see hours of fun, enjoyment and pain from here!!!

[zakk54]

you know what they say...

no pain no gain :)

[c2crider]

Oh well ill try some of these and if I end up horribly crippled....................Ill post the pics:devil:

[Baker]

Is that not into the foam pit Mikey ;)?

[Fwogddy]

yeh, its still hard

If you wanna learn tricks, get your ass to corby skatepark.

[c2crider]

A 180 is one of this summers projects, it just depends on whether I have the balls to have a go. Me and my friends are thinking of making some kind of a vid on this summers riding escapades, so if we do youll be the first to know about it...:D :D

[IMafizzleI]

i'm getting a dodgy second hand BMX this Saturday, so it's almost asif this thread is for me ;)

I'm hoping learning a few fundementals on a BMX will help my freeride, aswell as having something to do with my mates, who all skate for some reason :)

[swifty15uk]

learn to drop in easy as whe u can do it just need to get over the fair of it and keep on hoping bigger the better

[Baker]

What is that post ment to say swifty, i really cant make any sense of it!?
Pluss you are still using 'u' etc. rather than full english!!!

[Xpink]

I thought you said you had a new thing that stopped you from writing like that?? Doesn't look like it's working so well at the minute! ;)

[swifty15uk]

no i posted that before i got this

[swifty15uk]

learn to drop in to quarters easy as when you can do it just need to get over the fair of it and keep on hoping the bigger the better
there you go is that better

[carrerabiker]

get a kerb do a 180 hop off itt , roll backwards , pull the back brake , pull the front up , spin roond (180) , put the front end back down ..... piss easy looks realy good

[Baker]

learn to drop in to quarters easy as when you can do it just need to get over the fair of it and keep on hoping the bigger the better
there you go is that better

I still really cant make any sense out of that swifty, there is no punctuation in it and it all links together to make nothing! You may as well not put spaces in because it would probably make more sense that way!!!

[c2crider]

I know i'm king of this but...

ARE WE LOSING THE TOPIC A BIT HERE??

[carrerabiker]

oh for gods sake baker stop winjing

[Baker]

Dude its the forum 'rules' use propper grammar otherwise a ban will be imposed and i am just helping people to avoid the fact, face it and keep your comments to your self, it will help us actually understand the posts people are making.......... OK?

[carrerabiker]

ok or should it be Ok. :p

[swifty15uk]

Dude its the forum 'rules' use propper grammar otherwise a ban will be imposed and i am just helping people to avoid the fact, face it and keep your comments to your self, it will help us actually understand the posts people are making.......... OK?

Dude, its the forum 'rules', use propper grammar, otherwise a ban will be imposed and i'm just helping people to avoid the fact, face it and keep your comments to your self, it will help us actually, understand the posts people are making... OK?

Nobodies perfect Baker, not even you!

[Baker]

Could have been left at that, I made sense in what I said so that is an improvement. Please just do your best and leave it at that, there is no need to slate the committee members who are trying to improve the use forum.

END OF

[c2crider]

That was a bit low people, Baker's only trying to help after all.

Anyway...

Any more tricks/ideas?

[Baker]

If you can bunny hop and are confident landing to back wheel you could try an abubica; you roll up to a curb to start with and hop pushing your back wheel outwards towards the curb, you then hold your back brake stalling you on the edge. After this you could either hop back off it and fakie or 180 off the curb facing outwards to roll away. Then once you have nailed it on a curb move up to bigger ledges etc.

[c2crider]

Thanks very much everyone, there's plenty of stuff here for me to sink my teeth into, and i'll give it all a go, if anything really funny and Bike Related happens on camera, i'll post it here:)

[Baker]

I'd say unless you already decided on doing so use a helmet for sure, especially with the Abubica because if you miss the edge and slide out or something it could be your head doing the stall on the edge rather than your tyre!

Just for the safety side of things!

[c2crider]

Dont worry Baker, im not that easy to kill off, the helmet, gloves and pads will come out before I try anything new.:) ;)

[IMafizzleI]

Also you should remember the fundementals to all sports.

Use the force.

[swifty15uk]

just a point on Bakers abubica theory, i find that they are easier to learn on banks/slopes, then when u feel confident move to ledges/rails