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Summary: It is very important to distribute your weight well when riding. This also helps to do a fakie correctly as shown in this free instructional video about BMX freestyle bike riding.
Garson Fields is 20 years old. He has been riding BMX and mountain bikes for seven years. Garson is an avid BMX rider. He has taught others various tricks and techniques as well.read more
"If you watch where my weight is distribute over my feet you would notice that basically I have a nice neutral riding position over the bike while I'm riding fakie. This is absolutely essential being able to ride a fakie in control cause basically what happens if you back off in the bars it slows down your stirring a lot and you have a lot more control on how your bike stirs. Just watch as I demonstrate riding fakie hunched over the bars. Essentially I don't have room for my legs to come around and on top of that as my hands start twitching and my body is naturally trying to adjust to leaning one way or the other basically I just not loose enough in that hunch over the bars position to try to cope with all those changes that are going on and it is really you know obviously makes it nearly impossible to ride fakie controllably. So the main thing just keep this is mind is if you are getting frustrated with your fakies you are probably leaning to far forward. Make sure to keep nice and up right and to keep your weight so center on the bike that you can almost take your hands off and that you don't your hands are really are there only to control the front end. If you have such good balance riding fakie then you can kind of do this and hover over your handle bars to make sure that your front wheel is not going to do anything crazy and that is when you know that you really got it. "
eHow Article: Tips for Weight Distribution when Riding BMX Bikes