How to Balance a BMX Ice Pick Grind Trick

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Virgil Black and I'm here at Ramp Riders Skate Park on behalf of Expert Village. The slower you go the more friction there is going to be in the grind. Thus, meaning the more drag you are going to have which is actually going to put front wheel down on the ground a lot quicker. The more speed you have the little more control you are going to have when hopping out of this trick. Definitely want to go a little bit faster, you are going to hop on the edge, the basic balance you are going to be over the back end a little bit. You are going to have to play with this trick a little bit to figure out a balance point on how to actually stay on that grind a lot longer. Which will basically be keeping your legs kind of straight sometimes depending if you are sliding on the incline. Sometimes you can actually use your legs, you can actually extend and do what we call pumping which is basically the movement of your hips and your knee caps in order to keep a good balance point on this trick. The basic balance point for this trick will usually be around this area right here, any lower it's going to cause your peg to drop. Any higher it might actually cause you to loop out, right here is actually a happy medium. If it was leveled happy medium."