- Turnbar.
ET.
One Foot.
One Hand.
Table.
X Up.
No Foot.
One Hand One Foot.
Maybe a bonus.
So those are my eight favourite tricks to do,
to learn as well.
It can be done anywhere: on the trail,
at dirt jumps at the skatepark, wherever.
Wherever you can get air, you can do these tricks.
You can do them on any bike as well.
So yeah, I think the first one to start off is the turnbar.
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Pretty self explanatory,
the turnbar is basically turning the bars.
But then you can progressively get good at them.
It's like basically digging in the dirt with a spade.
Dig, turn, shove, pull.
But, the best thing about the turnbar
is the very first beginnings of doing a whip
cause you're turning the bars
and it's all in your hips to to the whip.
But that's another story.
Have you ever thought about doing the biggest jump
in the whole world
and getting silhouetted in front of that huge moon
up in the sky with a basket in front of your bike
with a little alien in it?
No?
Oh, anyway.
This trick's called the ET.
It's basically that scene from the movie.
Pedalling in the air, getting away from the police.
Another thing is challenging your mates,
seeing how many you can do in the air before you land.
I've done 70.
A little tip when it comes to doing the ET,
is basically pulling up on the bars,
curling your feet on your pedals,
to lock that bike beneath you.
You don't want it to drop away.
That's the One Hand.
Basically taking a hand off, putting it off to the side,
putting it back on.
You can start really small.
You can do it on small jump just like that one
but you can just this.
Gradually, get bigger, get bigger, out to the side.
Just progressive one, get better.
Practise makes perfect on this one.
Best thing, curl your feet on the pedals.
This arm, don't let it drop away, keep it up in you.
You don't want that bike to drop away from you.
But don't pull on it, it'll twist your bars.
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That, obviously, self explanatory again, the One Foot out.
This one's a little bit easier than the one hand out
cause you basically just do a kick.
But again, start small.
Foot on the pedal, just lift it up, get it bigger.
The best thing is to push away from you.
And another thing, still keep the bike inside.
Lock it off, don't let it drop away.
Just kick out, foot back on.
One motion: out, slap back in.
I love doing this trick, it's the table top.
Technique wise, this is a little bit more difficult
but still an easy trick to do.
It's all about the push pull movement.
But mainly it's basically all down in the hips.
What I mean about push pull is
you pull on your top arm, push with your bottom.
Twist your shoulder and your hips.
Drop your shoulder in to get that Tabletop.
This next trick is so old,
your nan probably knows all about it.
It's called the X Up.
Super old school trick.
Basically you just turn in your bars like this,
all the way to the X in those arms.
The X Up.
Best way to find out which way is comfortable for you to X,
get on your back like this.
Tuck your bike in your pedal like that
and see which way you go.
Like that, I feel that way is more comfortable for me.
You got to make sure it doesn't hit your front foot.
I've got enough space there
so my front wheel is not gonna hit my front foot
and like stop me from doing the X.
Easy way.
Okay so this next trick is the No Footer.
You can start on the flat ground.
Basically get the motions, like that.
Get your feet off the pedals and back on.
Get comfortable with doing that technique:
getting your foot off and then take it to the air.
Basically, this one's the bigger brother of the One Foot
or twin because it's double.
Anyway, you can do this one on a small jump.
Just like this one here.
It's progressive.
You don't have to be a ninja and just go Ah Yeah!
Back in and out.
Alright, you don't.
You can just lift your feet off the pedals
and put them back down.
You can go up, out, back on.
So long as your feet come off the pedals, it's a no footer.
So when you've mastered doing it on the small stuff
and you're super comfortable with doing a No Foot,
you can go like ninja time on it
and go like super wide legs.
Right, this trick is a combo.
But, don't be scared.
Don't be alarmed because it's super easy.
You've done these two tricks.
You've learned them.
It's the One Hand One Foot combined.
Basically, a big ass starfish, like that.
A big one on your bike, okay?
There's a little technique to this one
cause your bike is going to drift away from underneath you.
So what you want to do is
pull up on whatever hand you've got on the bar,
so it could be your left or right, whatever.
Mine is left.
So I'm gonna pull up on the bar
and bring the bike up into my foot,
the foot that's on the bike.
Basically just do that, bring it back on.
But you don't have to go so massive ninja star straightaway.
You can literally just do that and then grip and carry on.
You don't necessarily have to be right hand, right foot
or left hand left foot.
You can go right hand, left foot.
Or, left hand, right foot.
Either way, it's a One Hand One Foot and it's a combo.
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Bonus!
This one is the Toboggan.
See, it looks like a toboggan like that.
That is the Toboggan.
But it's two tricks that you have learned.
It's the Turnbar and the One Hand combined.
Another combo.
Anyway, to get this started,
you don't want to turn the bar straightway.
What you want to do
is get used to going from hand to saddle,
hand to saddle, back and forth to get that motion.
When you get comfy, and you go from the hand to the saddle,
twist the bar slightly, just a little bit.
Keep doing that and then you can get like this.
Just make sure you don't land like this.
It's never good.
It hurts, trust me.
Man, eight of my favourite tricks, wait,
nine of my favourite tricks to do.
Basic ones that is.
But if you add one or two of those together,
in a bit more of a complex trick, like the 360 or the flip,
so what about 360 Table?
Super cool trick, I love it.
And what about adding the One Hand One Foot
in a 360 as well?
That looks sick as well.
Or, what about adding a flip into the X One Foot?
That's a three trick combo.
So it's two tricks, basic ones,
in a flip makes it look way more complex.
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