Hey everyone and welcome back to another Tuesday tip where in this video I'm gonna teach you how to do a fakie
So before we get into the prerequisites that you need to know before you learn fakies and how you actually do them
Let's define what a fakie is and to put it simply a fakie is a movement in which the bike is written backwards
Not the kind of riding backwards where you sit on the handlebars and pedal of a bike with you facing backwards
But the entire bike and you moving backwards with the back wheel in the front and the front wheel in the back
according to the direction of motion of the bike a
Fakie is one of the easiest things that you can learn when starting out in riding BMX
Because the only prerequisite to learning how to ride fakie is just being comfortable on your bike
You don't really have to know how to bunnyhop or anything like that
There are some circumstances where being able to bunnyhop might help but it's not 100% necessary
And that's what makes it a great starter trick when learning how to ride BMX
And with that being said that's the prerequisites and the definition of a fakie
So let's move into how you actually do a fakie
Step one to learning how to fakie is finding somewhere to practice them on
I recommend a four foot quarter pipe or bigger because I believe that this gives you the perfect
amount of speed to learn how to do fakies
But you don't have to practice them at a skate park or anywhere specific at all
You just need something that you can roll up on and then back down from with enough speed to continue your fakie motion
And that's a pretty simple first step
So let's move on to step number two and that is to figure out which direction you should turn your fakie around in
Generally fakies are turned around the same direction that you naturally spin regardless of your foot position
You don't have to do it this way
but whenever you turn a fakie around the same direction that you spin it provides a more fluid and
Consistent motion as well as a more aesthetically pleasing
Turn around to your fakie
So if you spin to the right
You're going to turn your fake around to the right and if you spin to the left
you're gonna turn your fakie around to the
So now that you've figured out which way you should turn your fakie around once you've gotten into it the next logical step in step
Number three is to get into the fakie for this video
I'm gonna be teaching you guys using a quarter pipe
So you may have to adjust a little bit if you're using something else, but everything should be fairly similar
Other than maybe if you're going up a grass bank, you might have to go faster
But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here
the first thing that you're gonna want to do to get into a fakie is approach the quarter at a moderate enough speed to get
Your front tire at least halfway up it three four
so way up it is a little bit better because it gives you more speed and when it comes to a fakie the faster you
Go moving backwards the easier
It is to stay balanced the same way that it works moving forwards where the more speed you have the easier it is to stay
Balanced so go 3/4 or half way up the quarter pipe with your front tire and if you have a cassette
This is the point where you want to start backpedaling
So that you can prepare for the push back of your cranks and your cassette if you have a free coaster
This is the point where you just want to
Prepare to keep your balance and keep the bike up
And if you have a cassette you're gonna want to be thinking about that at the same time as well as pedaling backwards
With your pedals some people with cassette hubs like to start pedaling backwards as soon as they start rolling up the quarter pipe
You can do this too. It really doesn't matter as long as you're pedaling backwards
Before the bike starts moving backwards and no matter what kind of hub you have
This is the point where you want to start thinking about
Keeping your balance as you're moving backwards and that is going to be step number four
Balance balance is kept in a fakie by turning the tire the opposite direction that you're falling
So if you're falling to the left
You're gonna want to turn the bars to the right and if you're falling to the right
You're gonna want to turn the bars to the left now in regards to keeping a fakie up and keeping balanced
this is something that really only comes with time and I know I said in the video that
You want to turn the bars the opposite direction that you're falling?
But it's really touchy and it just depends on the fakie
Just like when moving forward it's not always the same. Sometimes you do turn the same direction
You're falling it all depends upon where you're leaning
You just want to stay over the center of the bike and try to keep your balance in your weight as centered as possible
While you're moving backwards
So that is easier to keep the bike up the more you're leaning the more you're falling off the bike
the farther that you're going the more you have to turn in the
Crazier your fakie can get now you really don't have to travel very far backwards to roll out of a fakie
But the more balanced you develop the easier will be to roll out of a fakie and that is the next and last
Step step number five is the roll out
This is the part where things become a little bit more
Complex depending upon which way you spin and what kind of hub you have because you have to have different
Advice for each of these things. So let's start out simple if you spin to the right
Whenever you're doing a fakie and you want to roll out to the right, you're going to be riding your fakie
And you're going to turn the bars to the left and lean
Slightly left so that the bike starts to roll
backwards and to the right and if you spin to the left
You're going to do the exact opposite while you're riding fakie
You're going to lean slightly to the right and turn the bars to the right so that the bike starts to turn to the left
and this is the part where what type of hub you have comes into play because if you have a cassette things work differently than
If you have a free coaster
if you have a cassette once you get about to the halfway point of turning your fakie around you can shift your weight in the
Opposite direction in the direction that you want to go and start to pedal forwards and look the direction
You want to go while also pulling that way with your bars and that will pull you to the direction?
You need to go whether it's spinning to the right or the left and you just continue the same motion that you were on
But if you have a free coaster
There's no pedal pressure there when you're turning it around to rely on
so if you want to turn it around without doing anything else you'll have to do this in a pretty
Exaggerated motion. It's about the same thing
But it's a lot harder and it's just a very quick motion that can be hard to grasp if this is the very first thing
That you learning how to do on your bike
I would personally recommend
using a cassette to learn how to do fakies
But a lot of people get free coasters on their complete bikes and get free coasters right off the bat and learn how to fakie
so there's no reason that you can't to the motion of bunny hopping to roll out of a fakie is called a half cab and
This is basically
where you get to the point that we've explained thus far where you start turning the bike in order to get to the direction you
Need to go and once you're about halfway around
you do a bunny hopping motion by picking up the front end and then picking up the rear end if you don't know how to
bunnyhop at this point
I will leave a link in the description and an info card on the screen for a video I made on how to
bunnyhop
But at this point you will do the bunny hopping motion
While looking in the direction that you want to go and then you'll land your bunny hop and you'll land your half cab
Finishing your fakie. This is probably not the easiest way to start rolling out of your fakies
It's just going to require a little bit more practice to get the quick movement. That is a half cab out of fakie
also
Don't forget that if you do have a free coaster and you are learning fakies this way that it is
Harder than with a cassette so don't give up stick to it
You will learn it it will happen and it will come to you eventually
I promise and with that being said that's going to wrap up this video on how to do a fakie
I hope that you found it useful
I know that fakies can feel very complex and complicated at first
But it's a skill that once you get it down
It will stick with you for as long as you ride and open up an entirely new world of tricks for you to try
I'm sorry about this wind that is all of the sudden picking up behind me here
Hopefully you learn how to fakie from this video
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