hey guys my name's Adam Rosie I'm not a
bunny I promise
hey guys my name is Adam LZ and today
I'm going to be teaching you how to do
the bunny hop
so probably the number one request I get
is for making a video for how to bunny
hop so you guys might be wondering why I
haven't done it already well honestly
myself I would probably learn bunny hops
like five or six years ago so the tips
like we're always fresh in my head and I
don't like to make videos if I can't
explain them like really well but I've
been teaching a lot of people recently
had a bunny hop and all the tips are
like super fresh in my head so now's the
time to make the video another reason I
haven't made it is because I know this
video is going to get a lot of views
because it's the number one search thing
probably on YouTube regarding BMX and
I've been like waiting to have the
perfect opportunity with like perfect
scenery and like a really good film err
but I realize it's probably never gonna
happen so here we are in my boring
street self filming a how-to bunny hop
if the tips are good that's all that
matters right so the bunny hop is
literally the easiest trick that you can
learn on a bike it's probably the only
trick that you can actually like go out
and learn in like 10 minutes or less
which is like unheard of in BMX if
you're searching how to bunnyhop on
YouTube chances are you're too impatient
to learn on your own or you're just lazy
both of which I am myself so just bear
with me this can be kind of a long video
but I'm going to give you the most like
detailed instructions step by step
tutorial and I promise you're going to
learn bunny hops or your money back
so rather than just tell you everything
you need to do at once I find it easier
to tell you like one thing to focus on
at a time and then at the end what we're
going to do is we're going to combine
all those things and then you should be
doing the bunny hop so one thing that
people don't really focus on that much
are the things that you just kind of
need to know like body position wise on
your bike before you even get started if
you're trying to bunny hop and you're
like holding your wrists like this it's
going to be nearly impossible to get all
the right leverage in the ways that you
need so the first thing I want you guys
to do is to just kind of ride with your
wrists angled downward a little bit it's
going to give you more leverage and the
ability to actually do what you need to
do it's also kind of self-explanatory
but your pedals should be level whenever
you're doing any trick on your bike
don't have one up and one down have your
pedals level
do I look pro yet step one is very
simple all we're going to learn how to
do is just pull the front end of your
bike up you may have already seen my
how-to manual video which will
definitely help but I'll tell you guys
again how to do it if you want your
instinct is going to tell you to keep
your weight over and
pull up with your arms and bend your
arms but that's not right I want you
guys to take your weight forward shift
it backwards and kind of hang off the
back of the bike with your arms straight
that's going to pull your bike up and
it's going to give you the position
where you'll be ready to do the hop if
your arms are bent you're just gonna be
like pushing up and down and it's just
not going to work
very simple not too scary you shouldn't
get hurt doing this just like I said
focus on shifting your weight forward
and then shifting it back and kind of
yanking on the bike with very straight
arms arms locked you don't need to be
able to pull up your front end very high
but if you are comfortable with it it's
going to make the bunnyhop easier so you
figured out how to get the front wheel
up I bet you can guess that now we're
going to teach you guys how to get the
back wheel up this is where that wrist
position that I told you guys about is
going to be really really important
because now what we're gonna do is lift
the back end of the bike up by taking
our weight from the back and shifting it
forward we're not gonna do it with the
manual - we're just gonna lift the back
wheel up don't worry about the front
wheel right now I've always told people
to shift their way back and then forward
to lift it back into the bike up but one
of my friends Jimmy was actually
teaching someone and he told them to
kind of use their toes and I think
that's a really good example gonna be
really confusing at first but I want you
to kind of when you're doing it angle
your toes downward a little bit and then
when you're shifting your way back to
forward while you're kind of like
pushing lift up with your toes and
that'll bring the back end of the bike
up again your arms are straight the
whole time you're just kind of shifting
your weight look at my big muscular arms
go I promise that won't happen you're
not that's not gonna happen to you
promise you're not this not gonna happen
I promise alright so now you've got step
one master which is lifting the front
wheel up step two master which is
lifting the back wheel up and now it's
time to combine them in the past I've
just told people to just like you know
go for the bunnyhop at this point but I
was watching some other tutorial and it
kind of like showed people that if you
lift your front wheel on the back wheel
up over something it helps so why don't
you try that in this video I'm gonna use
a bunny but you could use a dog a cat a
frog whatever you have laying around
just something that you can lift your
front and back wheel over that's not too
big not too small bunny hops and average
bunny maybe like two three pounds
so I want you to keep working on lifting
your front wheel and back wheel over
that and then slowly you'll be able to
combine the motion and you'll be doing a
bunnyhop
now before you run down to the comments
section and you comment saying no that
is a J hub not a bunny hop I don't even
want to talk about it who cares we're
just teaching people how to get their
bike off the ground it doesn't add if
you called a bunnyhop a J hop we can
call it a Q hop I don't care it doesn't
matter don't start an argument over it
please your bunny hops at first they
might not be like a perfect pull-up then
push forward thing you might be like
lifting both wheels up at the same time
but whatever like at this point I'm just
trying to teach you guys how to get your
bike off the ground because you're
probably new to BMX and it's gonna feel
really good knowing that you can get air
without a jump when you're getting in
the phase where you're more ready to do
the bunny hop you're going to be kind of
taking your weight once your lean back
and then not really pushing forward or
anything I like to describe it kind of
like an ollie in a skateboard because
there's a good chance that most of you
guys or failed skateboarders you try
that it didn't work and now you're on a
BMX so it is kind of like that motion
where you're leaning back sliding
forward and that's what propels your
motion but what people don't really
focus on is how important your legs are
because you're going to kind of be
leaning back your front wheel will be up
and then you just kind of want to spring
push forward and then use your toes like
I told you
you gotta realize that like anything
like it's not going to come like that
it's you're gonna need tons of practice
where you can start bunny hopping high
you just got to keep working at it now
I'm going to address another really
common question concern whatever you
might think that you're too weak to do a
bunny hop or you might think that your
bikes too heavy good news for you
neither of those make any difference
people have been doing like super high
bunny hop since bikes weighed 40 pounds
and you could take your uncle who's
extremely muscular and works out every
single day put them on a BMX bike and I
guarantee you that you can bunny up
higher after like an hour of trying it's
really all technique it doesn't have
anything to do with weight or anything
you're just moving stuff around physics
chemistry math you name it I don't know
I was even able to teach my girlfriend
Nicole she's like the weakest person
ever away technically she's my fiancee
but I've watched some tutorials where
they say if you like stand over the bike
and kind of practice the motion of like
picking your bike up and then pushing it
forward that it helps I never really did
that when I was learning so I don't know
how necessary it is you could also try
using like a curb or something as a
helper to pop your front wheel up and
get your back end up some people say
like giving a little pedal crank will
help you lift your front wheel up if
you're having trouble with that B so I
hit it
I truly just one of those things that's
going to take practice be patient I
promise you learn it I've watched like
every how to bunnyhop video on YouTube
and I've tried to just include all the
tips and advice just to make your life
easier booboo bunny so this guy's was
how to bunnyhop I didn't really give you
a lot of tips for how to bunnyhop really
high because I don't want to get you
guys overwhelmed because that's kind of
like a different technique so I want to
kind of keep everything very simple and
very easy to learn so you can go out and
learn this today and what I want you to
do is to check back in about a week
because I'm gonna make another video
explaining how you can take your bunny
hop that you just learn and you can
start bunny hopping really high on to
stuff over stuff into stuff out of stuff
into houses into Taylor Swift's mansion
whatever you want so in addition to
subscribing so you see that video I have
one other thing that I want to ask for
you guys if you have any questions or
anything please post them in the comment
section and then if you already know how
to bunnyhop and you're watching this
video because I know some of my
dedicated subscribers are still watching
this video even though they already know
how to bunnyhop please just go and help
one person in the comment section
chances are they're asking a question
that you know the answer to and I would
love for the comments section to be like
a very helpful discussion board where
everyone's helping each other out and
then people are just getting stoked on
BMX because honestly this tutorial is
probably the most important one to me
because I know this is what's going to
make a difference
from someone being interested in BMX
trying it and like carrying on with it
or just getting discouraged and moving
on to something easy like scootering not
that scootering is like crazy easy but
it tends to be the thing when people are
discouraged with BMX they move on to it
nothing against scootering but I love
BMX and I want everyone else to love BMX
just as much as I do so if you guys
could do that for me it would be beyond
appreciated and then I'm not going to
even ask you to hit the like button but
when you go out and you learn this today
I want you to come back to this video
comment that you learned it and then hit
the like button because if this video
truly does help people I want it to be
the first one that pops up when you
search how to bunnyhop because I want
every single person that's ever touch
I'd like to know how to bunnyhop that's
my goal I'm at a mosey and thank you for
watching
today we're gonna teach you guys how to
do a manual alright so one of the first
things you guys want to know is how to
get comfortable flipping back because if
you don't know how to put back get your
knees in and ease it back execute it
make sure your when you say