Hey everyone
And welcome back to another tip Tuesday where in this video we're gonna be teaching you how to air out of a quarter pipe
So before we get too far into talking about the steps to airing out the
Prerequisites and anything like that?
Let's define what airing out means airing out of a quarter pipe is going straight at the quarter pipe
Hitting the coping or hitting the top of the ramp going into the air spinning
180 degrees in the air and coming straight back down the path that you entered the quarter pipe in thus
airing out airing out means that you're airing out above the coping or
Above the peak of the ramp
Recently there have been a few of you in the comments of the how to drop in and how to hit a spine videos
Requesting a video about how to air out a quarter pipe. I told you guys that would make it happen
so here's the video and when it comes to airing out a quarter pipe as far as
Prerequisites goes and the things that you want to learn before you try to air out a quarter pipe
Really?
there's only
two things that I would say you need to be able to do or at least
Be comfortable with when it comes to riding before you try to air out a quarter pipe
those things are just being comfortable on your bike in general and
Bunnyhops, that's it if you can bunnyhop and you're comfortable on your bike
Chances are you're gonna be fine trying to air out of a quarter pipe?
And really there's nothing holding you back as long as you're comfortable with those two things and while it would probably be helpful
To be able to drop in on a quarter pipe before trying to air it out
Only for the simple fact that being able to drop in means that you're pretty comfortable on your bike
It's not 100% necessary and there's really no skills involved with dropping into a quarter pipe that you absolutely need
When airing out a quarter pipe aside from that little bit of added control that it might bring you
With all of that being said, let's get into these steps for airing out a quarter pipe
the first of those would be to find a quarter pipe and I would say that any
Local skatepark to you is going to have a quarter pipe that you can learn how to air out on I'm at a prefab wood
skatepark right now with a
4-foot quarter pipe and while this isn't absolutely ideal for airing out it is a great
Quarter pipe for a beginner to learn how to air out on because while it's somewhat mellow, it's also not super steep
it's not super tall and
It's really not that scary to hit this quarter pipe and try to learn how to air out on it
another thing to consider when looking for a quarter pipe to learn how to air out on is that you want something that has
Coping because the coping helps you get above the top of the ramp whenever you're airing out
I would even go so far as to say that trying to learn how to air out on a quarter pipe without
Coping while it might not affect you at first in your journey to learn how to air out it
absolutely will inhibit you whenever you first go to try to get above the coping as
We BMX riders say when you're airing out
because when you get above the coping that means you're actually airing out by definition my
Recommendation for a quarter pipe to learn how to air out on would be a simple four foot quarter pipe
Similar to the one we have beside us and once you've found a quarter pipe that you'd like to learn how to air out on
and assuming that you've never tried to air out of a quarter pipe before
My recommendation for the next step would be to find a wedge of similar size
To the quarter pipe that you're trying to learn how to air out on
Hopefully at the same skatepark here. Luckily. We have a wedge
That's the same height, right?
beside the quarter pipe that we're teaching you how to air out on
so what I would recommend as the next step and the first step that
actually involves riding is just taking a few minutes to roll up this wedge and trying to do a bunny hop and spinning yourself a
Little bit and riding back down the wedge. Just try this for a few minutes
And then once you're comfortable doing that
you can move over to the quarter pipe and do the
Exact same thing just roll part of the way up it you can do what we call
carving which means going at the ramp at an angle rather than going straight at it and just
Bunnyhopping a little bit and trying to spin you don't have to completely overdo this
it's just riding up the ramp a little bit bunny hopping trying to spin a little bit and coming back down it and
the main trick to this is
to turn your head whenever your bunny hopping and as you'll see in the examples that I've been showing we're turning our head and
That's all you really need to think about because when you turn your head in the air your bike and your body
Follow your head in the way that you're turning. So you roll up the ramp bunnyhop a little bit turn your head and
That's what's going to give you your rotation to spin you around and make you go straight back down the ramp
Look where you want to go. That is the next thing that you want to think about in this motion you roll up the ramp
Bunnyhop turn your head and look where you want to go and spot your landing
It's fairly simple when you break it down that way so just get comfortable trying this for as many tries as you think you should
once you're comfortable rolling up the ramp and getting your
Rotation and spin down and then comfortably coming back down the ramp
We can move higher and higher and higher and as you move higher
You're going to get closer and closer to the coping and the next step is to bring your front tire off
Of the coping to do your air out. This one is fairly straightforward
you're just trying to go up the ramp high enough to hit the front tire off of the coping and then
Spin your rotation and come back down
And here's why it's so massively important that we picked a ramp with coping to learn how to air out on
not only for the simple fact that
you want to be comfortable on the ramp that you're trying it on all the way through trying it but also because we want to
Do it all on the same ramp if we can to keep things as comfortable as possible
Bringing your front tire off of the coping is going to give you a little bit more pop and it's just going to bring you
That much closer to actually getting your bike over the coping in your air out and in some cases
You'll be able to actually get your entire bike over the coping just from hitting your front tire off of it and doing your bunny
that way
carefully watch the
Examples that I'm showing on the screen right now to show when you want to try and time things out as far as your bunnyhop
And rotation goes because this is when things actually become important in those regards and as you can see here
my front tire is coming off of the coping as I'm going to pick up the bike and spin the
rotation
And this is another thing you're just gonna want to take as much time as you feel you need to get comfortable with this process
as far as going off of the coping with your front tire and getting your
rotation to come back down goes and once you're comfortable with this we can move on to the last and what I think is the
most crucial step and actually
airing out your bike and this applies to any
quarter pipe that you try this on and is also another reason why having coping on the quarter pipe that you're trying it on is
So important and this step is to bring your back tire off of the coping as well
We're just adding on to these building blocks to build up to this point to where we're taking both the front tire and the back
Tire off of the coping to give you the pop and bring you over the coping and actually make you air out
So as you can see on the screen, we're doing the same steps that we've been doing
We're rolling up the ramp hitting the coping with our front tire and pulling off of it as we're doing our bunny-hopping
motion and this time we're pulling back so that at the same time our back tire keeps rolling up the ramp and
hitting the coping itself before we start to do the
Rotation and by this time once your back tire hits the coping you're going to be sent into an air out your most
Definitely going to be over the coping you're gonna finish your rotation
Turning your head
Spotting your landing looking exactly where you want to go and then you're gonna land and you're gonna roll away
It's as simple as that and this is one of those things where you should be able to do this at the same
Speed that you were hitting the ramp before at just because this is more of a commitment issue than a speed issue
But either way goes fast as you're comfortable with and just work up towards
Coming off of the coping with your front and your rear tire
You've seen me do in these examples and it's exactly the same on all quarter pipes with or without coping the coping
Absolutely makes it easier which is why I recommend it at the beginning that you find a quarter pipe with coping
Before trying to learn how to air out
Another thing worth noting is just because I recommended that you do this all on the same quarter pipe from beginning to end
Doesn't mean that you have to and if you find yourself more comfortable
Trying to air out in different steps on different quarter pipes and different ramps
That's okay too because sometimes you'll find that other ramps are more comfortable to actually
Try going out of the coping on such as bigger ramps with more
Transition just because a smaller ramp requires you to pull up and out
harder and farther to go straight up because
Whenever you hit a ramp like this one it wants to push you forward rather than up and out the way that you need to
In an air out, these are just things to keep in mind during the process
You can absolutely learn all of the steps to airing out all on one ramp just like this one a prefab mellow
four-foot woodward ramp there's no reason why you can't but there's also no reason why you can't pick any other ramp that you
Want to to learn this process?
I would say that the most important steps when learning how to air out are one to be comfortable on your bike
two to turn your head whenever you're doing your airing out motion and your bunnyhop motion off of the ramp and
three coming off of the coping with your front and your back tire whenever you're
Actually trying to air out of the quarter pipe
the number one issue that I see people have when they're trying to learn how to air out is that they're pulling off of the
Ramp too soon and not using the coping to their advantage
You want to make sure that you let your front tire come off of the ramp and then you wait long enough and you pull
back
Enough so that your back tire can hit the coping or the peak of the ramp and use every inch of it to your advantage
So that you can pull off of it and actually be in the air
Once you're comfortable airing out a quarter pipe
You can start to go faster and faster and try to go higher hire the concept stays the same
You can also start trying to throw tricks into the mix and putting your own
Style into your air outs the way that you see some of your favorite pros do in videos like chase Hawk and Tom Dugan
They both have their own distinct airing out styles that only come with doing thousands and thousands of air outs
Literally the more you do it the more you can add into it and the more style you can throw into the mix
So with that being said that's just about gonna wrap up this how to air out of a quarter pipe video
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