- Right, five basic street tricks that anyone can do.
Just need a bike.
And if you can't do them,
a little bit of practise will get you there in no time.
Right, number one. The side hop.
Doesn't need to be big side hop, can be up a curb.
And I found one, right here.
I'm gonna give it a go.
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So if you're new to the side hop,
starting small by using a curb to practise this is perfect.
When getting it to a bigger level,
the bigger you can hop, the bigger side hop you can do.
Basically, the side hop is a bunny hop but
you're using your hips and your handlebars
to move the bike in the direction you're side hopping.
Right, this one's a bit tricky.
This is the manual, to drop.
It gets a bit tricky when the drop
gets a little bit higher because
if your nose starts to go, that could be game over.
But, little tip, give a little nudge on the pedals,
just to keep the front end up,
just a little bit longer off the drop, and you'll get it.
But you can start off small, off a curb is perfect.
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Does seem like a corner of a curb, which it is, but,
this is perfect practising for the nose press.
Like a nose bonk. Watch this.
Right, this is a neat little trick to do in the streets,
it's perfect, cause it's such an easy trick you can start
off super small, and work your way all
the way up to a massive one.
But, it's all about compressing both wheels into the
ground, and lifting them up together,
and then bonking your front wheel down,
on this object that you're bonking,
and using that bonk to bring you back off it.
Then you can get big like that.
You can even go even bigger.
If you've got a really big hop.
Oh yeah. That's the nose bonk.
Right, well that is the basic way of learning
how to do skinny's.
If you find bricks in the pavement,
on the floor, or anything that's skinny enough,
if you can stay in the lines, practise that,
you can move onto bigger things, higher things,
rails, even Danny Mac does them.
Pro tip though, always look ahead.
That's my pro tip.
Don't look at your front wheel.
So when you've mastered the little line
and you've moved onto a thinner line,
then you wanna move it on to an object,
and then you wanna challenge yourself,
then this one, is very challenging.
Look at it, it's thin, it's off the ground,
and your wheel can go both ways.
Let's have a go, it might take a few goes though.
Yeah, close.
Right, gaps, one of my favourite things to do in the streets
and a good challenge as well.
And the best way of learning this one,
is basically putting two sticks down,
jumping them, moving them apart,
jumping them, moving them apart.
Even jumping over a drain cover can help.
And then when you've done that,
and you've been doing it for ages like myself,
you can go from one car park space, to the other.
And if you can do that, you can jump across driveways.
And if you can do that, how big can you go?
Just practise makes perfect.
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Learn how big you can hop in a car park
and when your confidence is high
and you know your distance,
you can hit gaps just like this one, in the streets.
That is my five, basic street skills that
you guys should learn.
But if you want to know more,
let me know in the comments below.
More advanced, more basic, whatever.
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