Hey everyone and welcome back to another Tuesday tip where in this video
I'm going to be teaching you how to do one of my personal favorite tricks the candy bar
So the concept behind the candy bar is pretty simple
You're just taking your foot and putting it between your arms above your cross bar and then bringing it back to the pedals
But actually trying this trick can be very intimidating
Especially if you don't have handle bars like mine where they are made for tricks like this and to make tricks like this easier
But I personally learned this trick with a normal cross bar
And that means that you can - so before we get into how you actually do a candy bar
Let's talk about some prerequisites that I think you should know before you learn how to candy bar
And the first thing I would say with this is you need to be comfortable jumping your bike
you need to be comfortable getting some air and coming back down and landing smoothly and staying in control of the bike because
Naturally, you need somewhere to try this trick and I wouldn't say that bunnyhop is the best place to learn it?
so you're gonna want to be able to jump out of a ramp fly out out of a box jump like the one that I
Have behind me here or at least be able to jump a pyramid hip or something like that
You just need to be comfortable getting a foot or two of airtime on your bike
another prerequisite to this one is obviously the one footer this is the whole concept behind the trick because you can't do it without
Taking your foot off. I would say that this is more of an intermediate to beginner level trick
so one thing that I would definitely recommend wearing while trying candy bars are
Shin guards and possibly knee pads because when you're bringing your foot back to your pedal
Sometimes it's easy to just barely catch the back of the pole and have it shoot up and hit you in the shin or knee
And if you have metal pedals or plastic pedals with metal pins or anything like that?
Hitting your shin can leave some gnarly gnarly cuts
That's something that we want to prevent if possible
so I would say if you have them wear them and if you don't proceed with caution because
You could slip pedals and get it really bad
With that being said, let's get into how you actually do this trick
and as I just said a
Prerequisite is a one footer
So that's gonna be the first step other than finding where you want to do it once you figure out where you want to do
The trick and you're getting the prerequisite foot or two of airtime that we talked about earlier
You're going to want to start practicing your one footers starting out small. Just taking your foot off and putting it back on
But before you get to the candy bar and actually trying to do this
I would say that you want to be comfortable taking your foot off and putting it out as far as you possibly
Can and getting it back to the pedal and this is a trick. That is all about timing
You really don't need that much time to do it
But in your head whenever you're first learning it, you need all the time in the world. One thing about candy bars
that might give you a little bit more peace of mind while trying them is the fact that you don't have to land with your
foot on the pedal and what I mean by this is that you don't have to get everything put back together and you don't have
To get your foot back to the pedal before
Your bike lands on whatever you're trying it on in order for the trick to work
So once you get comfortable taking your foot off and extending it as far as you possibly can you may even want to practice before
Actually trying to commit to the candy bar to take your foot off and leave it off until you land
Just to show your brain that all it is if you don't get this trick and you get it back
but you don't make it to the pedals is
landing without your foot on another thing to keep in mind while trying candy bars is that it is possible for your foot to get
Stuck in candy bar position if this happens and you don't lose your cool you can roll away from it
Normal, and it'll be just fine
This is another reason why I had you guys practice
jumping with a one footer and landing with your foot off of the pedal because if you're prepared for not having your foot on the
pedal when you're rolling the way it will just be a better outcome in case your foot does get stuck and I've had to get
stuck on some pretty scary tricks and had it end up being just
With that being said, let's move into the second step of the candy bar. This one really doesn't have that many steps
This one is to start trying to put your foot over your cross bar in between your arms
there is only one thing you can do to make this happen and to do this other than
potentially trying it into a foam pit and that is to just
Try it. All you need to do to convince yourself that you can do
it is be comfortable with your foot all the way off of the pedal as far as possible and
Start kicking it forward over your bars how difficult this feels and maybe for you might depend upon the rise of your bars
Because the higher your bars are the higher you got to get your foot to get it over the cross bar and back
But either way, it doesn't matter how high your cross bar is how high your stem Rises or anything like that?
It's going to work
If you try hard enough
This is another one of those tricks that just comes down to
Commitment and actually forcing yourself to try it and I know you're probably sitting there like yeah
This is easy for you to say from behind the camera and you would be right about that
This is definitely a scary trick
but I promise you if you commit to it and you try you'll be able to at least get your foot over the
Crossbar and back and that will give you enough confidence to continue on to step 3
Which is just putting it all together and bringing your foot back to the pedal and landing
It's one of those tricks that if you have the confidence and commitment for it
And you already can do one footers
All you have to do is push yourself into trying it and commit to the trick and it will work
I would say that once you're comfortable doing this trick fly out that you could do it
Anywhere that you can catch some air and you're comfortable on your bike
You can do it over box jumps over spines in air outs over hips
literally
Anywhere where you can catch a few feet of air you should be able to do a candy bar and I even like to do
candy bars and tricks like Foofa News and Abu Bakr's and I've done them in five tabs and just
Tons of other places. I love doing them in ice pick stalls
So it's one of those versatile tricks that you can really take just about anywhere once you learn it
So that's why I think it's a great trick to learn on your bike and it never lets things get too serious
With that being said that's gonna wrap up this video on how you do a candy bar
I hope that it helped you learn how to candy bar
And if it did let me know in the comments down below
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