What is a 360 to Fakie BMX Bike Trick?

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to talk about the 360 to Fakie. Of all the tricks that you can do that involve a lot of spinning, it's a little bit tricky, a little bit intimidating and it looks really cool. At the same time it's really not nearly as hard as it looks assuming that you have your one eighty's down pretty well and that you have all of your fakies skills, your riding backwards really good because if you don't have those two things it's really just not going to work out too well. As the name implies, you basically go up a quarter pipe or really anything that has some sort of elevation to it like that and you spin around, roughly 360 degrees and you ride out backwards. Like I said, a little bit scary looking but at the same time, I actually learned how to 360 to fakie on a quarter pipe quite a while actually before I could even 360 a jump. So it's not one of those tricks where you have to have 360 down necessarily to learn it although it certainly helps. The main thing that you're going to do is as you're riding up to the quarter pipe, it's a lot like if you're just sort of turning around, like you're doing a really low air on a quarter pipe, almost like a below coping air because you are looking down into the transition. That where you're landing. What you do is rather than just turn a little bit you pick up and you spin through the bike. Like you're doing a 180 on flat ground. Because of the angle that you will already naturally find yourself in because you're carving across the quarter pipe, you actually don't have to do a full 360 to make the trick work. What you're going to do once you get the pop around, you want to keep looking down into the transition of the quarter pipe and as you're coming around you are going to find that your back wheel is going to have to come up to get around the transition of the quarter pipe. Then once it comes down, you want to pick your front end up so that you land your body isn't, you're not landing with your front wheel too early or your back wheel too early that's really going to mess up the whole trick. It's a little bit complicated to explain but I'll demonstrate it in this next clip."