What is a 360 Bunny Hop BMX Bike Trick?

Series Summary

A fairly recent craze has hit cyclist everywhere. Bicycle MotoX, known as BMX, has gained international attention. Formed in California in the late 1960s, BMX originated from a group of young teenagers engaged in some healthy imaginative play. Imitating their motocross heroes, these kids started to do tricks on their bicycles. Extreme sports has never been the same. Now, there are extreme BMX competitions all over the world! Within these competitions, two primary forms of BMXing emerge: racing and freestyle. BMX racing focuses on the racer who can most successfully master rough terrain and dirt jumps. Freestyle BMX riders are asked to creatively blend tricks and stunts to achieve mystifying combinations.

In this free video series, learn how to do advanced bmx tricks. Garson Fields shows you step-by-step instruction to turn you into an avid BMX rider. He shows you the basic steps of the bunny hop, and he offers ways to spin some variety on this traditional trick. Garson also shows you how to get bigger 180s on your BMX bike. Learn how to do bmx tricks like 270s, fullcabs, and nollies.

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to talk about Bunny Hop 360s. Once you have your Bunny Hop 180s down, 360s are pretty much the next logical step that you can take. It's actually considerably different doing a Bunny Hop 360 than it is doing a 360 off of a jump. It requires a much stronger pop and it really I think requires better form too because you don't have nearly as much time to spin it so you actually have to spin everything faster. The way that a lot of people first learn how to do Bunny Hop 360s is by doing 360 Tail Taps on flat ground which is when you do a 180, you land on your back wheel and you don't let your front wheel touch down. From there, you do almost like a fufanu and pick up and spin completing the 360. What that does, is it gives you a better sense of continuing that spin past 180 degrees so it's a pretty important step to take and if you're having trouble with your 360s, you might want to go back to that step because it really as I said it will allow you to regain a sense for the continuation of motion throughout the spin. For me, I personally think that the best way to learn Bunny Hop 360s is off of something flat into a very close to flat ledge. The reason that I say that is that it forces you to travel with just enough speed to make it into that wedge and what that does is it keeps you from whipping around too much and it gives you more of a sense of using a quick carve with your front wheel to generate that type of spin which is really going to be pretty helpful once you start trying to do Bunny Hop 360s over bigger stuff where if you're trying to do them down stairs or something where you need to control the speed a little bit more. If you're trying to just whip them around standing still pretty much, you're just not going to learn to develop that same amount of control."