How to Identify a BMX Hang 5

Series Summary

BMX biking is a creative way of using bicycles that originally arose out of bicycle motocross racing. Split into several disciplines including street, vert, skate park, trails and flatland, BMX riding feeds off of skateboarding and occurs in the some of the same arenas. Like skateboarding, there are numerous and variable tricks that can be performed, and tricks that were once considered too risky or impossible are regularly mastered and eventually become commonplace. Considered an extreme sport, BMX biking takes its place alongside skateboarding as both a mode of transportation, hobby, and sport within the youth populace.

In this free video series, our expert Sean Morgan will show you how to do a bmx hang five. He'll teach you how to indentify the trick, perform a correct approach to the trick, and hop into it. He'll also teach you how to practice your balance on flatland and in hopping. Finally, Sean will show you how to complete the BMX hang five so you can find the extreme bmx biker in you.

Video Transcript

"This is Sean from Expert Village. In this series we're going to do what is called a hang 5 we're going to do it on the quarter pipe here so we can go up and hang 5 and come back in. Basically a hang 5 is a nose wheelie. The only difference is that when you're doing it you have one peg whether it be your right or left, what ever you prefer. I prefer my left. On your front peg, then you have your other foot hanging off to help you balance so your doing a nose wheelie kind of like this along the ramp there. That is something that takes a lot of balance, a lot of break control if you're to use a brake and something you have to definitely work at. Basically you are going to come up the ramp because you are on your front tire and moving real fast. You don't want to use your brake a whole lot so you're going to need a medium speed. But just kind of feather the brake once you are up there. If you have too much brake or to much speed or not enough speed, you can go over the bars really easily and it's really tough to get out of it. Because if you jump over the bars obviously your feet have to go from your peg up and over your bars. Like I said you're going to go up medium at a fast pace your going to pull the brake just a little bit and put your foot on the front peg just to get all your weight forward. Once there, let off of the brake whenever you can and try to coast it to use your other foot as balance as far as you can. Feather the brake if you have to when you get to the edge of the ramp and you're ready to go in there is a couple of different ways you can do it. I always prefer to make the last hop and then do a no footer in which is what you will see in a little bit. Otherwise you can go right off the edge and hopefully try to find your pedals. I usually also try to stop right before the copping that way if I do need to find my pedals I can and I'm not searching for them while I'm in air and about to go down. There is a lot of things that can go wrong in this trick so it's a good one to practice on the ground several times and try to get them down as the best as you can before trying them on the ramp."