4 BMX Skills to Learn First
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How to Bunny hop: 0:14
How to Manual: 1:05
How to Ride Fakie: 2:04
How to Jump: 2:52
There are lots of different ways you can ride a BMX, but most people will start right outside their front door, riding street. Before you start learning tricks and combos, there are some basic techniques you should be practicing first. Let’s start with the most important one, the bunny hop.
A bunny hop is a combination of jumping straight up in the air, and pulling your handlebars to your waist. These two actions must be synchronized perfectly in order to bunnyhop, so it does take a little practice. First, practice pulling the bars to your waist just to get a feel for it. Roll along at a comfortable speed and start experimenting until you can get your crossbar all the way to your body. If you’re having trouble getting your front end up, you need to jump your body upwards more and put some muscle into it. To make the bike hop, pull the bars really hard and rocket straight upwards with a jump. You should be jumping your body as you’re pulling your bars, finishing the springing action in your legs just as the bars reach your waist. Don't worry about your feet coming off the pedals, as just holding the bars is sufficient to bring the bike up with you. Once you learn how to get up in the air, you can experiment with pushing the bars forwards to level out the bike. Then you can practice applying this technique by jumping on to and over things.
The next technique we’ll learn is a manual, which is riding on your back wheel, not to be confused with a wheelie. Manuals are a great way to connect two tricks together, and they’re pretty low risk to learn when compared to some other things. Since Bmx bikes are so small, all you need to do to get the front wheel up is throw your weight back. Beginners sometimes have trouble with this mentally, as they fear falling backwards. To get over this, dick around in the grass and maybe even fall of purposely. You'll find that just by putting your foot back you can catch yourself. Once you learn this, you’ll realize that falling backwards isn’t as likely as it once seemed. In a manual your arms should be straight out, with your legs doing all the balancing work. Bending you knees brings the front end of the bike down, while extending your legs brings the front end up. Staying low over the rear wheel will make things easier. Manuals take a ton of practice to master, so don’t get discouraged. Even if you can only do it for a second or two, that’s enough to do a lot of things, like manualing a small ledge.
Next we’ll learn how to ride fakie, and come out riding forwards. Fakie just means “backwards”, so riding fakie means riding backwards. You should learn how to do this as early on as possible, since it’s a prerequisite for a lot of tricks, like 180s. To get going fakie, you can push off a wall, or roll down a hill. You’ll need to crank backwards unless you have a freecoaster hub, which you’ll usually only find on higher end BMX bikes. Either way, you don’t need to roll far. By pushing your pedal and turning your wheel, you can whip your bike around to go forwards again. At first you’ll only be able to turn a few degrees, but as you get more comfortable riding fakie you should be able to get the bike all the way around. Even if you can only fakie for a couple of feet and come out, it’ll prove to be a really valuable skill later on.
The next technique is jumping, which is getting airborne from a jump or a bump in the pavement. As it turns out, this technique isn’t much different from a bunny hop, but the “lip” or launch will help you get a lot more air. Just ride a lip at a comfortable speed and pull your bars to your waist as you get to the top. It’s important to synchronize the pulling with the jump, so that you start pulling at the bottom, and snap the bars to your waist as your back wheel leaves the top of the lip. My favorite place to do this in the street is on the edges of driveways, as long as they aren’t actively being used by cars.
So those are arguably the 4 most important BMX street techniques since you can’t do anything else without them. Learn these skills and you’ll be primed to learn other stuff like 180s, 360’s, wallrides, gaps, and grinds. You’d better practice too, because next time we’ll be learning how to spin your BMX to do a 180 or a 360. Thanks for riding with me today, and I’ll see you next time.
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I remember watching this years ago and being really disappointed in myself cause I couldn’t do half the things and now I can do everything in this video and the skatepark video to and watching it now is a major confidence boost
@UserName-us1nm
2 жыл бұрын
Can't tell if I've seen you before on KZread, probably more likely that there are other people with that fantastic username
@anotheryoutube4635
8 ай бұрын
I hope I get there one day like you did. I haven't given up on it yet.
@Mypenisissmallbut
8 ай бұрын
@@anotheryoutube4635 just gotta do your best tricks everyday and eventually they will just be warm ups.
Looks so easy and I feel confident UNTIL I am sat on my bike 🙁
@burgerboyz4270
4 жыл бұрын
What about now lol
@Benny46drift
4 жыл бұрын
@@burgerboyz4270 Gave up... Sold the bike!!! seems no mater how many YT videos I watch over and over I just don't get any better. lol
@BuzzGoober2329
4 жыл бұрын
@@Benny46drift dude it takes time you should buy a new one and try again just put a shit load of time in and hey you might be really good
@Benny46drift
4 жыл бұрын
@@BuzzGoober2329 I am 40, It wasn't a bad trade as I brought another Bike... Motorbike, not very good on this either
@BuzzGoober2329
4 жыл бұрын
@@Benny46drift how nice what did ya get
I'm watching this at 4 in the morning and want to ride so bad
@philiproszak1678
5 жыл бұрын
same
@fastman52
5 жыл бұрын
Why don't you?
@venislavgunevski4916
5 жыл бұрын
Sameee
@trentonmossel1993
5 жыл бұрын
Been there
@Chrissbeenon
5 жыл бұрын
Lmao I’m watching this at 2:00am 💀
When I learned to wheelie I was scared of looping out so I did it on purpose on the grass and I was never afraid again so doing it on purpose it a good piece of advice
@whiteboy3164
4 жыл бұрын
Yurmom yeah I did same thing but have been practicing for a month since learning hail and I still can’t :( it’s a mental thing I wanna learn
@gabekenyon4882
4 жыл бұрын
I used to ride and just got back into it and its like i started fresh i lost all my skill had to fall off purposely lol
@Mikem0
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah so I'm a pretty experienced mountain bike rider, I picked up my first BMX bike today - rode it out of the shop and went to drop off the curb, picked the front end up a little like I would on my mountain bike and proceeded to loop out and land flat on my back. Grass seems much more forgiving! (I got the manual down a couple hours later once I got comfortable with where the balance point of the BMX was.)
@caketin4216
4 жыл бұрын
M1K3YM0 hey so I’m really struggling lifting the bike up in the first place and I was wondering how long it takes to be able to learn it.
@wits2334
4 жыл бұрын
@@caketin4216 you just need to learn the balance points and where to distribute your weight, if you mean for bunny hops then try bending your legs a lot more and pull up harder. It's all to do with balance and timing
heres my bmx story. i got a mountain bike about a month ago, and ive been playing around with it a lot. its a full rigid giant something or other. in this month i've learned to get my front wheel up but not manual, and i can do drop offs/hop curbs with only a slight wobble here or there. then i was in walmart, waiting on a friend to do some shopping and i wandered over to the bicycles. i found myself looking at the mountain bikes, knowing how bad they were, then i saw it: a bmx junker. i checked that no employees were around, and with exactly no gear- not even skate shoes, i decided to try to manual. i pushed down in to my bars, and shot back like im used to doing on my full rigid, steel framed mtb with a 120 mm stem, and the next thing i knew i was lying on the walmart floor. i got up, did a quick look to make sure no one saw me, checked that the bike was okay, put it back where i found it, and hurried away, and now i think i want to save up and get something like a bmx.
@flawlessbutdysfunctional7787
6 жыл бұрын
Skidin Dingo snap lmao
@Noah-qk5sh
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah bmx is the best
@darian.brumari
5 жыл бұрын
I tought this was like a motivational story when the trick worked the first time on a bmx but nah, this was better
@zacrollsie2153
4 жыл бұрын
Good story
@bbduima
4 жыл бұрын
Mtbs aren’t bad Mtb and bmx are both just as sick
Best bunnyhop advice ever. Every other channel says it’s a “manual connected to an endo”, but when you see the footage, this description is far more accurate. In the manual you get away from the handlebar while bunnyhopping you’re pulling said handlebar towards your waist. Big difference. I’m 46, learning this stuff and this video has helped me the most.
Been riding a bmx bike for transportation for years now. I love getting air when I'm getting speed and I hit a lip and I whip my handlebars to my body and capitalize. I think I'm gonna start trying to do tricks.
@woodyb220
4 жыл бұрын
How ya doin so far?
@Mypenisissmallbut
2 жыл бұрын
He can probably tailwhip by now
@administrator9490
Жыл бұрын
he can probably do flips now
Just bought a $400 BMX bike today. Can't wait to start tomorrow - 3 hour drive :(
@wjejwjje9493
6 жыл бұрын
Monkey D. Luffy congrats man
@naitlvv
4 жыл бұрын
Slingshot I’m two years late but do you have a update? I just started bmx so it’s kinda confusing
@TheDhos23
4 жыл бұрын
@@naitlvv Whats confusing about it?
@naitlvv
4 жыл бұрын
Running the timings like how I lift the front wheel and then I need to snap the back one.
@connerschlindwein6432
4 жыл бұрын
Haro?
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the ninja pug graffiti
@bobystevsn5751
3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@bmx828
2 жыл бұрын
Love it
No worry about your feet coming off because if it hits you its hurts like shit
@Jakestar3D
7 жыл бұрын
Hmm maybe its your shoes try wearing runners
@jacobwebb8818
7 жыл бұрын
F7 Strafe he was mentioning what Seth said about bunnyhopping. he said all you need is the arms
@hausdertoten5252
7 жыл бұрын
Omar Henry stop being a bitch that's what happens in sports
@nurofiend3555
7 жыл бұрын
Boy my feet came off mid air and I landed with enough force to snap my shin in half and tear my ACL off the bone
@ElChuy69
7 жыл бұрын
se te resbala un pie, y adiós a tu espinilla. a menos que utilices espinilleras.
im getting into BMX and watching a bunch of vids so far ive really been liking yours keep up the good work and u earned a new sub
@straightupreggie5583
7 жыл бұрын
Blizter giu I recommend a kink bmx it's a really good starter bmx and if you want get the launch it's my favorite
@loxih96
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah I'm a skater I wanna start bmxing to
@Meg8554
7 жыл бұрын
Its Skye buy a bike lol
@ajortiz5153
7 жыл бұрын
William G lmfao me, I just hate the roads where I live cracks everywhere basically have no fun especially that I'm always alone when I skate.
@BREEZYGAMING_TRUE_GAMING
6 жыл бұрын
I'm a skater who just got into bmx check out my GoPro bmx first time on my channel
Looking back at Seth's simple videos. 5 minutes or less, calm and informative. Still a great channel, but nothing will compare to this.
who is watching this after they just got a bmx
@vernontauro
8 жыл бұрын
you
@boombetch2883
8 жыл бұрын
mee
@lindenanderson9814
8 жыл бұрын
Me I got a got a sundae
@lindenanderson9814
8 жыл бұрын
I'm still learning
@noahvanderveen9219
8 жыл бұрын
I am getting my BMX soon, it isnt a very expensive one, but i am not gonna do tricks that need insanely expensive bmxes :)
I remember watching this when I just started it’s cool to know I learned all this in like 4 months
I just discovered these and I'm glad I did, I'm 37 and about to start riding again after a 10 year hiatus. Really cool to see you rediscover bmx and I'm looking forward to doing the same thing! Thanks for posting!
Easily the best one of these types of videos. I just watched a bunch and watched this one last, and you do such a better job of explaining things.
Keep up the good work seth I own a [giant atx 27.5 kinda like your trek
Just got a bmx, and this really helped.
@beniiiii718
3 жыл бұрын
S ame
@beniiiii718
3 жыл бұрын
Oh and this was 10 months ago how much did u learn?
This is great stuff. I am now getting back into this thing after more than a decade and the outline of the basics is refreshing and motivating at the same time. Thanks for taking the time to put together videos and detailed descriptions.
This is the best BMX beginners tutorial out there. Thank you!
I just got back from getting a $500 bmx bike I don’t even know how to ride
@killercat5659
5 жыл бұрын
A bike
@DreiGuapo
4 жыл бұрын
Killer Cat nice
@spiritualjulian3624
3 жыл бұрын
$300 in the same boat
@user-eg4fe2xy6x
3 жыл бұрын
Just pratice
Hey, I am a big fan. I was wondering why you do not make an edit of you riding? I love to watch you ride because you have an interesting approach at different things; I think I speak for alot of viewers when I say that. So, maybe consider it? Thanks.
When you talked about how to bunny hop really helped me more than a lot of videos. I practiced just pulling my bars to my waist and that really helped! Thanks ❤️
Such a well produced and clearly instructed video. Well done Seth. Us old guys returning to BMX appreciate it.
didn't even mention the scoop for the bunny hop
@SethsBikeHacks
8 жыл бұрын
+carlos juncal because you don't need to scoop
@DiversedBegal22
8 жыл бұрын
+Seth's Bike Hacks I feel it helps more
@stuntguy6351
8 жыл бұрын
It is actually a j hop
@rooksensleaf
8 жыл бұрын
bunny hop, j hop, doesnt matter. its just about getting the bike off the ground ;p
@EscapeGamingMc
8 жыл бұрын
bunny hop jhop are the same thing
Love the space jam graffiti
I love watching your channel. You explain this a lot better than other riders
I wish your channel was around when I first started riding! Keep up the great content!
Great stuff Seth. I'm really thinking into getting a BMX. How come the music kept playing on and off everytime you introduced a new topic/skill in the video?
I like your Videos
@henryoxburgh1010
8 жыл бұрын
Who doesn't?😱
@nyxx7813
8 жыл бұрын
+Henry Oxburgh I know left? Its a joke. Please don't be dumb.
@deymos2175
5 жыл бұрын
@@nyxx7813 A pretty bad one though... xD
My Sunday Bmx bike comes in 2 days. Cant wait to try some tricks.
very detailed thank you
4 skills first to learn at bmx 360 and 180 at first part Xd
Pray for me and my *WALMART* bmx bike
@notyourpapi
4 жыл бұрын
practice til its destroyed. then get a good bmx
Thanks this really helped me because I'm new to BMX
Nice video! Thx for that!
Did anyone else try a manual for about an hour and then remember that you have a race BMX
@shawnkamps5549
4 жыл бұрын
Tristan Thompson me, but I’ve actually managed to do it lol
Are redline bmx bikes any good ??
@windexbottle3537
5 жыл бұрын
Yes. They are very good bikes
Thank you for the vid can’t wait to try these
Good vid. Very helpful
can you do nose manual
@SethsBikeHacks
8 жыл бұрын
not for very long
@zayahbeatz
5 жыл бұрын
Jappe Kapanen my cousin can
I have a mongoose is it possible for me to do any tricks?
@Colours
7 жыл бұрын
yh
@robertray4272
7 жыл бұрын
Ya it's possible but I strongly recommend buying a BMX bike. Like if your staring out and have a low budget, check out the Framed Impact BMX bike, it was my first and I liked it, it's a great begging bike and it only costs around $125
@robertray4272
7 жыл бұрын
After a year or two I upgraded to a Eastern and I love it
@CookiesUnleashed
7 жыл бұрын
Having a bad bike is no excuse to not being able to do some tricks keep practicing you can get just as good with your mongoose. Get a better bike when you can but you're good for now
@Lostprovince2319
7 жыл бұрын
SuperSlayer mongooses arent as bad as people think as long as you go to their actual website and buy a bike that isnt being sold in low end stores youll be fine
Glad you decided to go back to BMX. You look like you're having a blast dude!
Came back to this, getting one for Xmas!
Damn I miss my bmx days 😪
can those work on a fixie?
@SethsBikeHacks
8 жыл бұрын
Similar, but you need to deal with the pedaling part and the bigger bike. Obviously you can only wheelie a fixie too, not manual. I may do some fixie tutorials later this year.
@WangBatTumenjargal
8 жыл бұрын
Seth's Bike Hacks ok thanks Can't wait you fixie tutorials :)
@stuntguy6351
8 жыл бұрын
+Seth's Bike Hacks what you call a bunny hop is a j hop
@josiahzerbin6697
8 жыл бұрын
+stunt guy?! oh yeah? try hoppin without raising yojr front wheel first. dumbass
@andrewgarviso7582
8 жыл бұрын
+Seth's Bike Hacks I coud peg manual a fixie
Love your vids man keep it up
I had a good manual/put your chest down pop but since then haven't biked yet today but watching this hypes me back up
Lol Me: Yes more show off skills Trying it:Shit let's stick to know hands
Anyone know any good bmx brands thanks ❤️❤️
@Battlemaul123
7 жыл бұрын
Fit bike
@Jakestar3D
7 жыл бұрын
i have a Forgotten they're not very well known but they're good and my friend has a Fit i wouldn't mind one of them ethir
@gergffgd8373
7 жыл бұрын
Subrosa
@Maddy-sk8qf
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you all 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
@janussosa4504
7 жыл бұрын
Subrosa has amazing bikes for parts id go Stranger OSS or Demotion
So I recently started watching your videos. You can tell you really love bike, you take so much abuse from them and just keep going.
I love your channel i love bmx tricks ill try to learn them wuth my BMX
Just got my setup it was worth $300, and the seller was desperate so i got it for $100. it sucks i want to ride but im at work😶😒😔
This really helps thanks
sooner or later i will do it.thanks man, i always watching your videos!
This is really helpful!!!!
thanks man that was by far the best video on simple tricks I have seen
Really helpful
Love the video not many good BMX Channels out there keep up the good work
Got my first BMX a few days ago.... now I’m learning how to bunny hop. Thanks seth
love this video it helped me so much
Hi Seth I love all your videos and have learned a lot from you I just got a bmx a couple of days ago and looking forward to trying this.
Great video help me alot 👍THANKS !!
Love the zen music!
I finally got an bmx. I learned the bunny hop from this video. Thanks a million.
best bunnyhop tutorial!👏
Love these
amazing video
It's awesome that I just bought a bmx and you made this video.
Awesome video
Hey, thanks a lot for all the videos!!! You are the best teaching, from argentina!
Great video blood
thanks man ... very well spoken, and easy to fallow. now take to the street. I love the learning process. I know somethings don't come over night, just keep at it if you love it and things will come together... Charlie m.
Dope Video. Im 27 getting into bmx and this is literally all I want to learn. maybe a feeble...
OMg thanks for the help i learned all of these in 2 days! Best vid i have seen yet!
Hey Seth I love your videos and I been practicing😀
nice and tnx for the video
You make it look so easy
thx. you are the best👍
Thank you Master
Man the video was A+ but the ninja pug spray painted on the building was the best part.
This is really good thank you, I have been riding a bmx bike for two years but never learned any tricks because I thought I just wasn't naturally skilled enough and too weak, but you make it seem easy I want to try to learn :D
good tutorial subscribed
5 years later and this was still helpful af
This channel is good you should keep uploading
thanks, this really helped
Thank you
thankyou so much
Thanks bro 👊
OMG! One of my home towns! Ft. Lauderdale! I rode my BMX all over there in the 90s!
Just subscribed good content
thank you for the helpful tips because I am a skater but I recently bought a bmx n I would like to learn some tricks because a lot of kids do bmx where I live
this channel has inspired me to take my bike out and learn some new damn tricks beside bunny hoping after 6 years in the garage my haro is finding new life haha
Nice i just bought an se hoodrich 2016 it will arrive in 4 days nice
thanks to this video i am somewhat good at bmx now thankyou Seth
Super helpfull
Thanks bro
I finally got it, I finally figured out how to do the bunny hop and manual. Instead of trying and failing over and over, I just watched some slo mos of bunny hops and manuals and thought about the physics and what it would be like to do it myself
really helped
you make it look so easy haha