How to Jump a BMX Bike Ramp

Series Summary

A fairly recent craze has hit cyclist everywhere. Bicycle MotoX, known as BMX, has gained international attention. Formed in California in the late 1960s, BMX originated from a group of young teenagers engaged in some healthy imaginative play. Imitating their motocross heroes, these kids started to do tricks on their bicycles. Extreme sports has never been the same. Now, there are extreme BMX competitions all over the world! Within these competitions, two primary forms of BMXing emerge: racing and freestyle. BMX racing focusing on the racer who can most successfully master rough terrain and dirt jumps. Freestyle BMX riders are asked to creatively blend tricks and stunts to achieve mystifying combinations.

In this free video clip series our expert will show you some basic and yet fun tricks that every BMX biker has started out with. From “fakies” to hip jumps this is a great series for anyone thinking of or has just started riding BMX. You will learn how to judge your speed going into a jump and how to successfully come out of one as well. Our expert has been riding for years and will systematically break down each detail of each trick so you can see that it is much easier than you think. A must have for every beginning BMXer, take these videos and go have fun!

Video Transcript

"Now we are going to take the bunny hop to a real jump. What I just did may seem a little bit scary especially if you are still figuring out all of your bunny hops but is basically the same motion being applied all of a sudden on a jump; happens to have a real big lip on it. Sends you up a little bit higher but at the same time it is a little bit nice because it actually requires a lot less energy to be expended. Basically you don't have to pull up as hard or tuck as hard. The natural arc that the jump will send you on does that more or less for you. At the same time having good bunny hop skills for this really makes this possible to really figure out how to get good air off from jumps and have good control which is ultimately the most important thing. Because it is one of those things the faster you start going, the higher you start going, the more issues you are going to run into if you start crashing and no one wants to do that. So basically if you just keep in mind that riding a jump isn't really that much different than just doing a bunny hop and just take certain steps to apply the bunny hop skills that you already have to riding a jump, then you are going to be good to go."