Going Off a Ramp for a BMX 360

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Andy on behalf of Expert Village, Seventh South Clothing and Ramp Riders Skate Park. In this clip we're going to talk about actually going off the ramp and starting with 360. When starting the 360 the most common misconception if I spin off the face as hard as I can it will help me spin faster, this is wrong. When doing that usually what will happen is you'll go like this your bike will turn sideways, you'll catch the copping and it's going to toss you all kinds of funny ways. Generally when you do a 360 the best way to start is you're going to do a general arch just kind of off the face, just very very settle maybe about that much, a 360 that is how you start the 360. The other biggest misconception is that if I pull off the face as hard as I can it will get me higher and it will increase the amount of time I have to spin. This is kind of true but at the same time what it's going to end up doing is you're not going to have enough speed and you're going to end up casing in. Sometimes you'll end up nose casing and going over the bike so it's kind of usually when I first teach students how to do this, I just kind of gradually flow over the ramp. You are not going to get it the first time you're probably not going to get it the first ten times, this is going to take a little while to learn."