How to grind!

Grinding is one of the easiest tricks to pull especially because its the movement of a j hop. J hops seem to come easy to new riders and are a fun and flowing grind. In order to grind you must have pegs. Grinding is a transfer to a rail or flat surface and can be completed by sliding and jumping off. Always have your crank arms at equilibrium as I point out in each video. Learning these at low speeds or at stalls will help, and then speeding it up will force the grind to ride out. This is how it will be for every grind. Make sure the rail your grinding is nicely coated in wax, this will help tremendously. Lets learn how to grind folks.

Feeble Grinding...

Steps

1)Approach the box rail with speed to enforce the grind and and to ride it out.

2) J hop on to the box with a slight transfer over to make sure the 4 Inch Peg is on the back while placing the front tire on the box.

3) Lean back to keep the front moving, when you feel the momentum coming to an end this is where you want to exit the trick.

4) Hop off the opposite way in the j hop motion cleanly removing you and your bike from the rail!

This is how you feeble. Life on the daily grind...

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Double Peg Grinding



Steps

1) Approach the box with vigorous speed and locate where your going to initiate the grind.

2) Bunny hop transfer to you peg side with a slight lean in to keep the grind going.

3) As the speed decreases get low and bend your knees and prepare to hop off.

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Smith Grinds

Although I didn't video this I will give a description to add this trick to your notebook...

This trick is when the front peg rests on the rail while the back tire will coast along with your grind.

1) Approach your box/rail with immediate speed, pick your spot to invert j hop transfer.

2) Move the front of the bike with a jolt push down while the rear tire will land on the face of the box.

3) Leaning back during the grind your back tire will send you quickly down the rail.

4) Exiting, pull up the front and hop off, riding away cleanly!



Hitting the spine!

Hitting the spine is a very hard trick to do, the commitment level is 10 by far. The spine is one of the scariest jump within a skate park and not many people will trow it in their line, but when ya do its a very fresh and cool trick. Lets learn how to hit the spine shall we?

Steps

Dropping in from the top of a quarter pipe!

Dropping in to the quarter pipe is a very scary feeling I remeber my first time, I crashed very hard. This trick is a very commiting trick. Without your commitment you will fall as I did. Dropping in can be from the side or from straight on. Momentum will carry you down the quarter pipe and you will build speed quickly, this is a good way to air out the quarter pipe in my past video.

Steps

1) Balence on your bike with your pedals at a level standpoint, you do this because your crank arms will hit the coping resulting in death.

2) J hop and and 90 into the quarter pipe.

3) Follow through by pushing your bars forward and lean forward to. You wont want to lean back because you will wheely out and fall back wards hurting your butt, or hitting your head.

4) Ride away clean and you have properly learned how to drop in.

180 in a quarter pipe! How to air the quarter!

180's within a quarter pipe are easy and yet hard to perfect. 180's are conducted with a personal style of how you ride. I recomend starting in a large quarter pipe, even if that sounds weird believe me! The reasoning for staring in a large one is for that the wall will always be there to make you feel more comfortable and it avoids casing the coping, and creating a rough scenario that good really hurt.

Steps

1) In order to hit a quarter pipe you will need speed to get up the vertical wall.

2) Spin the same way you have learned to 180 flat in past videos.

3) Keep your eyes straight ahead and act as if you were jumping the quarter pipe like a box jump.

4) You will float along the wall this is where the spin is put in affect.

5) Look over the shoulder you are spinning torwards and twist your body, not much force should be used due to the gravity and will make the 180 fall right in to place.

How to air out the quarter.

Airing the quarter pipe is a little different than staying within in it. More speed will be an eccential to launch you up amd out. This trick will take alot of guts and perfecting the 180 will be key to learning this trick.

Steps

1) Approach the quarter with speed, and lots of it!

2) Hit the quarter straight on and bend your knees at the bottom as you head up (this will increace speed).

3) The coping (rail at the top) will send you air born as your tires ride over it.

4) Begin your 180 by looking over your shoulder again, invert your bike and push it back down to the landing. this trick will happen very fast but it always falls into place.

5) Drop back into the quarter and ride away.

How to 360

360 Flat

 

 

 

360 Flat sped up

360's are the copletiation of 180's. This trick is extremely hard, and I have yet to learn them (I fall all the time). My friend Justin Spencer is able to pull this trick all the time, on command. More speed, higher j hops/bunny hops, and more momentum are needed skills to perform this trick successfully.
This trick will make you the coolest kid in the group if you can pull it before your buddies.

Steps

1) Locate where you wana perform your 360.

2) With 4 to 5 pedals, build speed and get ready to pull, spin, and torque your body and bike.

3) Looking over your shoulder do all three verbs at once!

4) Set the bike down and bend your knees in to relieve stress and ride away clean.

How to 180.

180 attempt.

180 nailed.



Tricks are getting a tad bit more advance. But lets learn how to 180, this a combo of a j hop but with a half spin. This trick will take a little bit more time and effort to get but its a very simple trick. Finding the way your comfortable to spin will be the most consuming part of the this trick. Lets do some 180's!

Steps

1) Locate the spot where you wana throw your 180.

2) Ride in with a slight curve not much because you wont be able to get height to get the bike all the way around. 

3) Looking over your shoulder, j hop and have your body follow your head, you bike should follow your body and the momentum of the spin has been created.

4) You may not get the full 180 at first but you will realize the higher you j hop the more spin you will formulate!

5) Let the weight of your body lean backward and land on your rear tire bringing the front end with to complete the trick, and ride away.

How to J hop!

J hopping is a similar trick to bunny hops, yet again a crucial part of riding. Once you learn how to J hop you can begin to throw spins in to complete 180's, 360's, bar spins, grinds and many more tricks.
J hops differentiate themselves from bunny hops by lifting the front drastically higher than the rear. Lets learn them shall we.

Steps

1) Focus on the point where you would like to perform the trick and ride and a moderate speed.

2) Bend your knees and have a firm grip on your bike, control were your bike goes!

3) Lean back and lift the front of the bike up as if you were doing a wheely.

4) Explode for the position and pull up with the back following.

5) The rear tire should make contact with the ground first, with the front being gently set down.

6) The trick shall fall right in to place.