How to Do a 180 BMX Bike Trick

Video Transcript

"Once you really learned how to ride fakie very well all of sudden you have a whole new opportunity to learn all sort of different tricks. The key to getting into those tricks is a lot of the time those learning how to do a 180 and without doing a 180 your fakie skills are almost useless in a lot of cases. You know much like a bunny hop most people learn how to do 180s picking up both wheels at the same time and whipping the bike around as fast as they possibly can and landing backwards. Which is really not the optimal way to do cause once again once you start taking it to more advance stages of doing 180s for example if you are going 180 down some stairs or you are going a 180 over a jump something like that you have a lot less control over the trick. So basically once you want to start taking your 180s to all sorts of new avenues that you that you have not really though about before you want to make sure much like a bunny hop your 180 starts with your front wheel coming up. But you want to start looking to your inside shoulder which ever way you naturally way you want to spin and as you come in you pop and you push the bike through but you make sure to keep looking over your shoulder cause you body basically will follow wherever you looks so as long as you keep looking over your shoulder you should be able to land just fine. It is also very important to make sure that you spin a complete 180 because once you start learning them you would carry much better speed riding out backwards if you spin it really a complete 180 rather then spinning you know a 160 degrees or so where you are basically going to land in a complete stop. "