How to Identify a BMX Over Toothpick to Fakie

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 over toothpick to fakie. 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 manuver on the spine of the ramp. and 180 over it. Finally, Sean will show you how to complete the BMX over toothpick to fakie so you can find the extreme bmx biker in you.

Video Transcript

"This is Sean from Expert Village. In this session we're going to talk about a trick that I really like to do and it's definitely one of the most complicated tricks there is. With a spin anyway and it's going to take a lot of practice to get it down right. There is a bunch of different tricks are going to have to put together to get this in. Number one is jumping a spine it's something that this one is a little tall if you wanted to learn right away. You should probably start on the smaller one and just get use to it and work your way up. When you jump a spine just get a nice curb going over it you don't want to go straight up and straight down because you want land low on the other side. Once you have done that jumping the spine you are going to want to bring a 180 into it. A 180 is a half rotation and you'll land fakie. You want to learn kind of how a 180 a spine because to do an over toothpick to fakie you are obviously going to be doing a full 180. The only thing is you're going to be tapping your peg on the spine before you go. Once you gotten that down obviously fakie still comes into play, also a big thing toothpicks you have to be able to hit your peg on the copping and be in the right spot to balance it. If you don't get it just right you are not going to make the trick and you'll put a whole lot of work into nothing. "