BMX Basics - 7 Skatepark Skills
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- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2016
- 0:20 Skatepark Etiquette/Choosing your line
0:53 Riding quarter pipes
1:29 Pumping
2:00 Dropping in
2:33 Fly outs
3:10 Dropping in from pegs
3:28 Stalling
@austin _sager - 360 Tailwhip
@og_nick_mantz - Backflip
The first thing you need to know is skatepark etiquette. Normally, riders will take a path across the park where they hit a few ramps and then rest for a minute on the other side. This is called a line. When you go out on the ramps you should know what line you want to take first. Crashes usually happen when someone is riding in an unpredictable way, or ignoring the lines that other people are taking. Be considerate, and observe the skatepark before you jump into the mix. After you watch for a bit, you’ll have a much better idea of what line to take, and who to keep an eye on. Like that scooter kid who just finished his 4th mountain dew.
Next, you’re going to need to learn how to ride quarter pipes. We’ll assume you’ve already been messing around on your BMX in the street, so it shouldn’t be too hard for you to ride up and down a mellow quarter pipe just by turning around. You’ll quickly grow comfortable with the transition and work your way higher and higher up the quarter. As you move on to bigger quarters, you’ll want to practice hopping slightly to turn around. While turning around on an embankment requires a bunnyhop, you don’t need to do this on a quarter. Just pull your bike towards your body slightly, and you’ll feel it leave the ramp. Eventually, you’ll be able to get your front wheel over the top, and then your back wheel. Now you’re airing out.
Next, you can learn to ride more efficiently by pumping. Kind of like a swing set or a rocking horse, pumping is how you’ll gain speed on ramps by shifting your weight around instead of pedaling. As you go up or down a ramp, you want to shift your weight back in sync with the transition. You’ll know you have it figured out when you can start at the bottom of a miniramp, and work your way up higher and higher without pedaling. You’ll find that pumping is very easy to learn. It’s a lot more fun than pedaling, and it gives you way more style points.
Once you’ve gotten pretty comfortable with pumping and riding quarter pipes, you should learn to drop in from the deck. Again, starting on a small one first is probably the best way to learn. Notice the metal piping at the top. This is called coping. The trick to dropping in is to ride parallel to the coping and turn into the ramp. Because coping can sometimes be slippery, I recommend actually lifting your front wheel over it a bit. By dropping in parallel to the coping with your wheel turned, you avoid needing to nosedive into the ramp to make your transition. In fact, you’ll pretty much end up in the same position you would if you were just riding up and down the quarter.
Now, you’re going to want to get back on to the deck so you can take a break. By throwing your body forwards as you ride up the quarter, you can get your bike over the coping and on to the deck. You can put a foot out to get back on to the deck, but go a little faster and you can do a fly out. Fly outs are really fun, and they’re actually one of the best ways to learn tricks since they send you straight up and straight down. Since you’re basically going 0 mph when you land, it’s easier to pull off tricks without executing them perfectly. Learn fly outs on small quarters, and work your way up to the big ones.
If you have pegs, you may also want to learn how to stall on the coping. First, get comfortable with dropping in from your pegs. To do this, throw your body weight over the center of the ramp, and then immediately turn your front wheel to roll back in. If you don’t center your weight over the ramp first, you’re just going to end up sliding down the ramp sideways. Commit to throwing your weight over the ramp, and the rest will come naturally. Dropping in from pegs is actually easier than dropping in from the deck. Learn this, and then work on your stalls.
Start by riding up the quarter and carving towards the coping. Make sure your pegs are getting above the coping, and then push your bike off to the side. At this point, you should be using your momentum to bring your body over the center of the coping. If you can’t quite get this part, it’s easy to just turn your front wheel and drop back in. This is probably what will end up happening the first few times, but I find that the worst that will happen is that you slide down the ramp or need to drop back in. Find your balance point, and you’ll be stalling in no time. 
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love that you're chirping on scooter kids!
it's a biker thing, Adam LZ does that to haha
Ya mostly skater thing but anybody with commo n sense too
no one likes them xD
god dammit stop crapping on scooters. skaters do it too. mountain biker bmx rider and scooter kid you should not judge someone just because they are on a scooter and doing what they like
@@thedeadbeaver8972 Scooter kid spotted
that is 10 000000000000000 times better than my local skatepark
kookaburashasvisited bro mine is the WORST in the world and the smallest too
• JlvYii • that's mine
• JlvYii • bro i don't even have a skate park, how bout that
Māris Sedlenieks catch me ouside
amen lol
Thanks, today I went to the scate park on my new BMX for the first time and this video taught me how to drop in and air out
+Lachlan Green glad the video helped!
1 year later doing barspins/fakies/tailwhips
Seth's Bike Hacks are you going to that park this weekend
Lachlan Green scate park???????
DaZombieSlayer 333 no that's Brian piccolo skate park
Talk about Chicago bars in the beginning
Whiteboy Balla58 no kidding
Dan kruk would like those bars
scooter kids ride in a unpredictable WAY.
Donik Wolf yes
Ikr execpt at my fav skatepart ik that ive been to the scooter kids are everywhere bu not too bad.
And IN your way
Vert good and sympatic video, I'm french and I never comment video on english but this one is very usefull and for the persons like me who's want to learn BMX it's awesome! Thank you! One suscriber win!
Haha I would be soo pissed if I did that to my sprocket ! I have a 4 mile ride to my closest skate park and back
That's nothing compared to me, the nearest skatepark is an hour-long drive
I have to drive as well
Ive been watching ur videos for a while and they've really helped me out, thanks Seth ;)
Great video! I like how you broke those tricks down, seeing them done as a whole makes them look hard to learn, but the way you show makes them look much more learnable. I've been riding since I was a kid, I even had a few BMX's, but all we did was ride them on dirt. No parks or jumps. Now after watching this, at 37yo I kind of want to pick up a BMX and try this shit, it looks like fun!
These type of videos are amazing! They’re helping a lot keep it up
This is really helpful, thank you! I started today having not ridden for 10 years and I'm finding it terrifying! Practised dropping in some ramps that weren't too steep, havent attempted dropping in to quarters with coping but that will hopefully come tomorrow. Then getting up them will be the next step! Spent a lot of time at the top of ramps counting to 3 today 😆 great tips bro
I've been riding for half a year and this is exactly what I was looking for.
Great video series. You explain things very well. Off to the skate park to practice!
44 Yrs old and just got myself a BMX after about a 25 Yr break..... This video is great!! Gonna give it a go at the weekend :-)
Mike Grant dont break a hip now! jks have fun!
i love how i was like man this guy probably is in cali but you live in my neighborhood 😂😂😂
My local skatepark is literally two quarter pipes, and a stack of pallets.
Mine is 1 really steep bank with a quarter pipe in front of it, but really far apart, 1 big manual pad with 2 levels, 1 low rail and 2 small ramps looking at each other creating a 2-3 foot gap
the kids will love this!
44 and getting back into it... Your vids are ace! Thanx man ;-)
Nice! You should do a video on riding pump tracks, they're one of my favorite things to ride.
thank you so much man now i learned many things on my new BMX
This video help me so much with my bmx bike I got for Christmas ❤️
Great video Seth, thanks for sharing. :)
Your videos are awesome!!!
Thanks! Quick and easy to follow.
One i will show my 5yo 🤟
This vid rly helped me as I am getting a bmx
Best way to learn thanks for the video dude
thanks, very helpful vid
this actually helped me... Thanks
Great commenting, great music, great atmosphere, great video.
This videos will really help thx
Thanks this helped me a lot
Thanks for the video
fantastic videos!!
Great video!!
That 360 whip is so smooooth..
Yo! Piccolo! Grew up there hahaha. Totally gonna go hit it up after watching this at work!
I don't know who dislikes your movies. I love all your stuff
You are so helpful!
great helpful vid
Sick park!
Gonna start rocking the road helmet at the park thanks to you :)
Such a nice park
Sick tips
These helped me
Man this is a good tutorial thank you Seth.
It's not really a tutorial
Thanks for making this videos i am a beginner and finding it scary to try new thing thanks
Nice Video Thanks for the tricks!;)
damnnn that skatepark is so nice
"like that scooter kid who finished his fourth mountain dew"
truth hurts.
Seth, how about a vid on riding a typical mtb at a skatepark. What you can and can not/should not try. Been messing around at my local park on my slack hardtail. Keep up great work.
the intro is relatable
Watching You from Australia
Great vids man, love em! How is there no one else out at that skate park?? Its sunny and that place looks awesome
You know those grimy BMX kids don't wake up until 2pm... Morning session!
3 third great video man
Live in the uk and our council decided it’s a good idea to leave our skatepark half built, great
holy crap.. its brian picalo park.. i use to go there when i was a kid.. im just getting back into bmx now
HE MAKES IT LOOK SOOOOO EASY!!!!
Youve got the best skate park for bike omg
I love bmx
Plus I liked and subscribed
sometimes, when i ride in a bowl's walls, my front tire lifts up and i almost fall, should i be putting more weight to the front, or try and keep it equal?
Seth, if you make more BMX videos, can you explain more about the handling and body positioning? I've noticed people hold the bmx bars really in the center. I used to ride bmx years ago and didnt hold it that way. Now I ride downhill but i want to go back to bmx.
at the start those bars are full on Chicago
Broooooo thets a grad video ❤❤❤
That’s a pretty nice skate park we get a new one soon
I wish you did more bmx riding and vids on bmx's
i wish i had a skaepark like this
Thanks for posting all your videos! I am a mountain bike skills coach and it's nice to see another perspective on teaching - much appreciated! ...Gotta say your riding and pumping a half pipe, not a quarter - just to clarify for any nubes out there... Ride on!
Thanks! To be more specific, that is "miniramp". I try to keep it simple though and just refer to each side as a quarter. By the way... how do you become a mountain bike skills coach? I want that job!
www.pmbia.org/
Nice try on that transfer at the start 😂😂
In my city in Saskatchewan Canada the skate park is open at 5:00 in the morning.
Hey great video, you inspired me to change from MTB to MBX
Awesome man, but you know you can always do both!
+Seth's Bike Hacks yea my friend is selling his to me, and I'm keeping my hard tail :D
Seth's Bike Hacks was taking a trip down memory lane and remembered this beauty of a comment, I have left bmx and got myself a slope style bike and currently learning tuck-no-handers, oh how times have changed...
xboxapple101 MC+ Oh damn respect for having the balls to slopestyle👌I'm getting a downhill sometime soon
Real Adam Lanza cheers mate
What grips would you recommend for a Cannondale Catalyst 3 27.5" MTB for doing jumps and constant pulling up on your bars. My hands are getting bad calluses (yeah I know makes me sick too) and I need decent grips that don't hurt my hands or tear apart.
+Garrett Adams The Specialized sip grip. Or the Lizard Skin "peaty" grips are great too, very comfortable and long lasting
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OHHHH SNAAAAP WE BOTH LIVE IN BROWARD
I always forget that tou can shred a BMX. A video on your bmx roots woud be awesome
Great video, greetings from Germany ;)
Was fährst du so?
+Robert Koch DEUTCHLAAAAND
+MrGamegast ist nicht nur Bayern!
Ein full suspension, das cube ams 125
deutschland ;)
Great vid Seth, ..more of these longer vids with more footage of riding. :) *:thumbsup:*
Glad you enjoyed it! This took me a solid 12 hours to film and edit
+Seth's Bike Hacks Cheers mate.
ayeee this my local park
Your park is awesome
lets see some more bmx videos! Its been ages
when you go up to a quarter pipe or half pipe and do a 180 to come back down do you just bunnyhop like on flat? do you turn first then bunnyhop to get the last bit of air back down??
great video! will help me out a lot. but I think a new chainring would help you out more...
Do more BMX videos like these
Hey Seth I've watched a few of your videos and I wanted to ask if you knew of any parks or like dirt jumps/trails in the central Florida area that I can bring my BMX to. I wanted to get back into it and would like to do more park riding and potentially some dirt riding
4 mountain dews jeeeeezze
Now I REALLY WANT A BMX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a Mazda cx-5 to!😀
now he has chicago bars
Where is this?Best park I've seen.
Hey
I have started riding the skate park with my 29er recently and I was thinking of getting a more appropriate bike for this.
I'm looking for something more forgiving than a BMX, do you think a 24inch street bike with a DJ suspension fork would work as well in a skate park? Can you ride a halfpipe with it and do 180ies and stuff?
j3di3 A dirt jumper is the perfect bike for that it's a bmx for mountain bikers
What park is this in Miami? Hopefully I see you on the trails some day.
I recently was givin a we the people trust 2011 model and it is extremely light I'm kinda scared to jump and do fly outs with it, and this is my first Bmx bike I've had (and a good one too) should I be scared or is it better I have a lighter bike?
what about extreme steeze
Thanks for that l am not that good but now l will be l am saving up my new bmx
Hey Seth, what fork do you have on your Trek 4900? I know it's a fox but i've never seen it up close enough to know, also, love your videos! :D
Thanks! It's actually a Rockshox Recon
Really? I thought it was fox... I have a recon on my bike, but I think it's a less nice one. Also, thanks for replying!
do you need hub guards to do grinds like that?
Odly enough this video actually helped me lea3n to air a quarter pipe
so when i try to air out.... my front tire always get caught at the top of the quarter pipe and eveytime i try to air out and turn around...i cant because its almost like im riding up the quarter pipe. and thats not what i want to do, any tips?
0:48 that was kyle
You know all my friends at piccolo 😂 lets ride Seth!
+corey stuart I've been going there every Saturday morning. Too early for some, but it's cool out and the place is empty!
that park is fukking awesome
Chicago Bars!!!!