Let's go!
This video we're covering how to do a switch bar spin on your BMX bike
so obviously before you do this trick you're gonna want to learn a regular bar
spin so I'm assuming you already know how to do that a thing I'm gonna be
repeating over and over again in this tutorial is that you're just gonna want
to do the same thing you do in a regular bar spin the other way now that sounds
stupid and obvious but I mean it's really true the way that I learned this
trick you can actually watch a video of me learning it because I filmed my
progression of it the way I learned it was - alright so the way that I learned
this trick was I thought back to the early days of me learning how to bar
spin and I thought of those techniques I used and I just redid it but I did it
training my left arm on how to throw this thing so a key thing that I did for
this trick was to just you it doesn't matter how you do it it doesn't matter
if you'd like to sit like this and do it or if you just do it on the ground which
is what I do or if you do it upside down don't care it you just need to practice
throwing them not in the air so you can build a muscle memory of how to throw it
like you can bus it you can fully throw it but you need to practice so that once
you actually get in that hop and get in the air you know what to do so that's
like the biggest thing is if you watch the other video you'll see I did it a
ton just do this over and over again and really ingrain it into your arm so the
trick is to just mimic the motions that you do with your full body for a regular
barzmann but in that window where you normally throw it just
throw it with the other hand pop up move those knees out of the way and then as
fast as you can just do what you were practicing on the
ground just fling it in there I was actually surprised by how quickly I got
this down once I had kind of mastered the muscle memory of it all right now
I'm just gonna go over some tips for this trick things that I struggled with
while I was doing it and things that can hopefully help you do it faster and not
get hurt so the first one is watch those knees because I hit my knees a lot
learning this just because it's kind of awkward and your knees are right there
you really got to get them out of the way before you throw it so we're knee
pads the next tip I have is to focus on catching with the hand that isn't
throwing what I mean by that is say I'm... switched for me as my left hand so I
throw with my left hand and then I'm gonna catch it with my right hand and
you want your stability to come from that hand that's catching because if if
you try and kind of fumble around with both hands at once I think you're gonna
put yourself at a higher risk for spraining a finger or something or
landing like this funky and hurting yourself so that was the thing that was
like a game changer for me when I start focusing on that focusing on that catch
hand so instead of barspin both down it was barspin catch hand
then place your second hand and that actually helped me get him down a lot
better when I did start doing that another tip I have is don't be afraid of
half bars because even though they look stupid and you won't actually use them
they can help you get the idea down and hey if you do a half bar spin you're
halfway there already and that's that's some progress so don't be afraid to just
throw a quick switch half bar you know get it started that's about all I have
to say for this video if you need more help like if this isn't sufficient what
I would do is just go and watch a how-to barspin tutorial and just apply those
tips to your other hand so thanks for watching hope you enjoyed if you want to
watch my progression on switch bars I'll put a link to it and I'll see you in the
next video