Jump Tips for a BMX X-Up Trick

Video Transcript

"NICK GRALIKE: Hey, it's Nick here at Ramp Riders in St. Louis and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. All right, this clip, we're going to talk about some tips for the X-up. So good tips would be obviously, like I said before, just keep your toes back. If you hit 'em you know, you're not going to turn 'em all away around, so the farther around you get your X-up, the better it's going to look. So to get it like this, it's going to look real good. You have a lot of style to it. So you just got to really just throw it as hard as you can. If you want to add some style points to it, maybe lean back a little bit and throw it, but not too much though, but maybe just do it real fast. You know that looks real good when you go, snap it real fast and bring it back. Another good one would be is just really--when you get real good at this at the X-up going small, you can get bigger and bigger and go higher and higher. And the higher you get, you know, you can really you can hold it. You'll be in the air like this for a good couple of seconds. Then you can twist it back and you land good and it will just look real good. So really just practice it. You'll end up going higher, look better at it, get it farther clicked and maybe even hold it a little bit longer so just stick to it, keep trying, practice. And those are some tips for an X-up."