How to Extend Your Manual Trick on a BMX Bike

Video Transcript

"Once you get a hold of the basic concept of doing a manual and really figure out how to pump with your legs, you know maintain a good center of balance so you can hold a manual. A lot of people find that they get to sort of a mental block point and essentially there sometimes you wanted to just keep doing a manual and you cant. There are two big factors in maintaining a good manual especially over good long distances. The first key is speed and it is often over looked. But basically you are naturally going to loose speed as you are doing a manual especially if you are using brake to sort of maintain your manual cause every time you go to grab your brake you scrub off a little bit of speed. You want to go in manual for a really long distance and especially if you are going on a flat surface you really have to make sure that you are carrying adequate speed to go as far as you want to go. As you loose speed you actually end up losing stability as well so you want to make sure you are not creeping by the end. The second point that a lot of people miss out on is very obvious but you know some people have trouble with it is making sure that your looking ahead. You don't want to be looking so far ahead that you are loosing track of where you are but if you start looking down on your front wheel while you are doing a manual it actually would throw your balance off. If you maintain a good you know if you maintain a good looking range where your sort of looking about 25-30 feet ahead of you it will keep your head up and it would actually allow you to stop worrying about all the stuff that your bike is doing that the moment and it will actually allow you to act more flexibly while you are doing that. So basically if you want, if you have gotten all the basic steps of doing a manual down and your just completely perplexed as to why it is that you can't manual indefinitely keep in mind those 2 factors speed and keep looking ahead. "