Hey everyone
And welcome back to another Tuesday tip where in this video I'm gonna be talking about five things to learn as a beginner BMX rider
So having ridden BMX for a little over twelve years now
There's a few things that I've learned throughout the years that I wish
Someone would have told me when I was first starting out
So I'm making this video for you today to talk about some things that I wish I would have known when I first started riding
BMX the first thing on the list of things that you need to learn as a beginning BMX rider is
Skatepark etiquette I've made a video about this which I'll put in an info card on the screen right now
But the basics behind this are just pay attention at all times whenever you're riding at a skatepark
Don't cut anyone off don't drop into a bowl while someone is in the middle of a run and just be a general
polite Pleasant
Person while you're at a skatepark. It's pretty simple
and if you want any more information
like I said info card was on the screen and a link will be in the
description below after that is one that's along the same lines, but not
Immediately as obvious escape park etiquette and that is street etiquette believe it or not
there are some things that you should and shouldn't do while riding street that will definitely help you out and there are things that
maybe come across as obvious to some people but aren't obvious to others and without videos like this or
People talking about these things. There's no way for people to learn them. So
first of all
if someone's kicking you out of a spot while you're riding Street don't give them a headed to be nice and just
Comply and leave even if they have nothing to do with the spot
They don't own it or anything like that. The best thing to do is to just leave wait for them to leave
Maybe come back if you can but either way it's important to realize that by riding your bike on someone else's property
Potentially damaging someone else's property. You are breaking the law and you have absolutely
No right to be there
so if someone is trying to just be a good citizen and tell you that you should
Be breaking the law and try to get you out of there
You should just comply and leave and come back at another time and try again. Later
And another thing to realize that has to do with this is the fact that if you leave nicely and don't cause any problems
It won't cause trouble for other people trying to visit the same spot in the future being
Completely unreasonable and giving attitude and acting as if you're entitled to ride this piece of property
that isn't yours can completely ruin a great spot for
Everyone else in the future regardless of what they're there to do and that's not something that we want the same goes for
Leaving trash or breaking bottles or anything like that at a street spot basically leaving any trace that you were there
other than maybe some tire or grind marks can completely ruin a spot for anyone who tries to visit it in the future and
Despite what your favorite video title might make you think
Criminal mischief and criminal trespassing can be serious crimes that can lead to serious consequences
And it's just something that you want to think about and learn about whenever you're a beginner BMX rider and that brings us to number
Three on the list and perhaps a little bit more important to actually riding
itself
And that is figuring out the proper foot placement
And spinning direction for the tricks that you're trying to learn and just riding in general
These things aren't super important in the long run when it comes to BMX
But if you catch these things in the very beginning and learn things the easiest way possible
In the beginning it can help you in the future with certain tricks a tail
Whip is a perfect example for this if you learn tail, whips in the opposite direction that goes with your spinning
Direction it can lead to problems in the future say if you want to learn how to do
360 tail whips the way that I do tail
Whips is a perfect example of this because I learned tail whips in the wrong direction that I should have and with the wrong foot
forward so if I wanted to learn 360 tail whips I would either have to do a
360 downside tail whip using my normal spin direction in the normal taalib direction that I've learned
Caching with the wrong foot forward or I'd have to learn opposite
360 tail whips doing an opposite 360 with a regular tail whip for the way that I learned them or
I'd have to learn tail whips the other direction and then proceeded to do everything the normal
Direction for the way that I spin
There's a few other tricks that work the same way as far as foot placement and spinning direction goes like bar spins
Turn downs and look backs can be the same if you are goofy footed now
Of course once you get so far into it, it really doesn't matter because you can learn everything anyways
But why not catch it early in your beginning years riding BMX and learn everything the way that it makes the most sense
With your foot placement and you're spinning direction the way that you want to do
this is just pick the way that your feet are the most whenever you very first start riding and stick with that and
Spin in the direction that corresponds with it
If you pick left foot forward, you will spin to the right so that your back foot helps in your spinning direction
And it's the exact opposite if you pick right foot forward
You'll spin to the left
left foot forward you have
Pegs on the left side to make things the easiest and right foot forward you have pegs on the right side to make things
Easiest I know a lot of people that start out these days with four pegs and a free coaster and I even have a few
friends that grind on the opposite side that they spin and this can lead to
some things being easier but in general
it's just easier to learn everything when you do it with the way that corresponds with your foot placement and
spinning direction and that leads us into
Number four on the list of things that you want to learn as a beginning
BMX rider and that is how to work on your bike
There's a few things that come with working on your bike that if you don't know about it
You can break parts on your bike
Your stem is a perfect example of this if you don't
Loosen the side bolts on your stem before you tighten your headset cap
You can strip out your headset cap, or if you tighten any of your stem bolts way too much
you can completely break your
So it's important to learn how to work on your bike and no matter how good you get or how smooth you get
You will tweak things on your bike and have to work on it
So it's just important that you learn how to do these things. So that it
Doesn't end your session in the future and you don't have to stop riding or take your bike somewhere or hope that a friend is
Around to fix something because you'll know how to do it
I've got a ton of videos on my channel
and there are endless other videos and channels on YouTube about how to work on your bike and do things safely and
fix things in the proper way
so
All you have to do is a quick youtube search if you don't know how to work on something on your bike and that leads
us into the fifth and final thing that I want to talk about when it comes to learning things as a
beginning BMX rider and the most important thing I think is to remember and learn that BMX is
Exactly what you make it no matter what anyone else tells you or says about what you're doing
BMX is yours
And it's what you make it you can do anything you want anywhere you want any way that you want to?
Regardless of what anyone says if BMX for you is going out with your friends and having fun progressing with each other
That's perfect
and if BMX for you is going to a resi and training to be a contest rider or you want to try and get
Sponsored in some way or you just like street or you just like park or whatever your idea
of BMX might be that is perfect to
Just realize that not everyone else is going to share your idea of BMX and you're not going to share everyone else's
Idea of BMX. That's the point of freestyle we can do whatever we want whenever we want
However, we want with whoever we want and that's BMX and at the end of the day
We're not street riders Park riders dirt riders vert riders flatland riders driveway riders or anything like that
We're all bike riders
and as long as we don't try to push our ideas and values of BMX onto someone else and make
Them see BMX your way
Everyone should be able to get along and have fun in this Brotherhood and family. That is BMX
And with that being said that is the end of the five things to learn as a beginner BMX rider
I hope that it helps you if it does let me know in the comments down below
let's have a conversation if there's anything that you think I missed as a
Veteran BMX rider yourself or anything that you might have learned as a beginning BMX rider or anything
You might want to learn just anything. You guys want to talk about leave them in the comments down below
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