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Freestyle BMX is the name given to people who perform tricks and stunts on a BMX. It consists of five disciplines: "street," "park," "vert," "trails" or "dirt jumping," and "flatland."
Origins
Freestyling can be traced back to San Diego teenagers Kyle Miller, Bob Haro, and John Swanguen. In the late 1970s, the three spent a lot of time on their BMX bikes at Skateboard Heaven, a concrete skatepark in their hometown. They were giving the skateboarders a run for their money, duplicating and topping a lot of the insane tricks. Soon they moved out of the skate pools and onto the streets, where they started developing new tricks that became the discipline known as "flatland", with the objective of blowing peoples minds.
In the fall of 1977, Haro, then nineteen, left San Diego for a staff artist position at BMX Action magazine in Torrance, California. Every chance he got, he would practice his freestyle moves. It wasnt long before Haros pastime caught the eye of fourteen year old Robert Louis Osborn (known as "R.L. Osborn"), and the two became friends and riding partners.
With all the trick riding going around the BMX Action offices, how-to articles started popping up in the magazine. Heres a quote from the first freestyle how-to ever printed, which appeared in the January/February 1979 issue: “Trick riders are the ballet dancers of BMX. They are a concert of perfect control; rider and bike joined in a symmetry of choreographed fluid movement.” BMX Action Magazine, January/February 1979 issue.
The how-to showed how to do a “Rock Walk”, spinning the rear tire around 180 degrees and pulling the front tire back around another 180 degrees to complete a 360 degree circle, so it looks like your bike is walking. The article included photos of Bob Haro demonstrating the trick.
Towards the end of 1979, the first organized freestyle team was created — the BMX Action Trick Team. That came about when Kyle Miller, BMX rookie who made it in read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle+BMX
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