How to Pedal in a BMX Fakie

Video Transcript

"When you're riding Fakie, aside from your balance point over your bike. The other thing that can mess up or make your balance is your cadence. Which is basically how fast your feet is coming back at you. If you are going really slow. You'll find that if you're riding backwards, because of the way a hub naturally works. You can actually slow down how fast you're riding backwards, by basically applying forward pedal pressure. But if you want to maintain momentum, you have to keep going backwards faster than your wheel is trying to make your crank go. Some people like to deal with this by pedaling backwards frantically at you know, 100 mph and for me that just doesn't work. I find that I have much better balance if I'm coming up like so. I have a nice, even, cadence and basically I just come, I let my feet come back just as slight as bit faster than they would, than my cranks would naturally would be coming back at me. Because those nice slow motions allow you to control what your bike is doing, a lot better than fast frantic one. You know it's just like the balancing over your front end issue. Basically when you're riding Fakie, you want to make sure that you're slowing down all the little corrections you're doing as much as possible. Because the less fast, swishy movements you're the better off you're going to be and the more control you're going to have."