How to Land 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. Okay, this clip we're going to talk about landing the X-up. When I say landing, I mean the landing of this, you want to be able to land kinda on this part, you don't want to be landing way up here and you know land like this. It won't look good. So you want to go clear the entire box first before you start trying X-ups. You also never want to land halfway turns so you won't be doing X-up in the air and then land like this 'cause what will happen is you'll flip, you'll turn, you'll wreck and something like this size if you fall off of it, it won't feel good ever. Also, make sure that you do bring your bars back. You don't want to be landing like this either. I'm sure it looked real cool feeling like that but I wouldn't do it. So make sure you're landing straight. You're going to have your feet firmly on the pedals, center of your bike and just roll away clean. Also, you don't want to land flat 'cause as you can see the landing, it's kinda at an angle and up here it's like flat so you don't want to land like this and then you're just going to rock it out of this landing and you're going to be on your back tire and you're going to fall like this. So you're going to kinda level yourself out with this. You don't want to level all the way or you going to kinda want to bring your nose in so you'll land on an angle. To do this, what you're going to do is really just kinda lean [PH] on the bars a little bit and you'll just kinda angle right into it real natural and you'll land away, all the way look real good. That's how to land an X-up."