Understand the Importance of a Bunnyhop in BMX Biking

Series Summary

BMX, which stands for Bicycle MotoX, is a form of competitive cycling that imitates regular motocross while using regular bikes. Often times done with many jumps and dirt courses, BMX biking has been around as an Extreme sport since the 1960's. After almost fifty years of existence, BMX Biking is an internationally competitive sport and a featured event in the X Games. An important aspect of BMX biking is going over jumps and the most basic and commonly used jump for BMX biking is the bunnyhop. The bunnyhop is a type of jump where one lifts both wheels off the ground using momentum.

In this free video series, watch as professional BMX biker Garson Fields teaches how to do jumps on a BMX bike using the bunnyhop. Learn the importance of the bunnyhop, common mistakes with the bunnyhop, how to do a bunnyhop, how to apply a bunnyhop, how to jump over and onto objects with a BMX bike, how to jump off a takeoff ramp, and basic safety while doing BMX biking. The bunnyhop is an essential part of BMX biking, so learn the basics and let the experts at Expert Village turn you into a pro!

Video Transcript

"It may be hard to believe that, that right there a bunnyhop is probably the most important aspect of BMX riding all together. It may come to as a surprise but anybody whose been riding BMX long for a long time will know that a bunnyhop really is what the vast majority of all tricks on a BMX bike are based off of. Having proper form on a bunnyhop is really and a necessary to what your start getting on to a lot of more difficult tricks especially the ones that are both built off of bunnyhop the ones that evolved jumping. Basically anytime that you are going to be getting the error on a bike you want to make sure that you have the most solid bunnyhop skills that you possible can because there ultimately going to decide in a lot of ways how far you can push your riding. You have there's a lot of different ways that people will do them some correct some very very wrong and in this segment I'm going to explain what the difference is between the 2 and why you should why you should do them correctly all the time."