Freestyle Definitions

Flatland Tricks: Start with an endo. From rolling at a slow speed put your front brake on hard (or get your front wheel aginst a curb) and lift the rest of the bike up by throughing your wieght forward and pushing on the handlebars. You can get the back tyre to touch your bum. A roll back is something you will need for riding out of and linking stuff. Practice rollbacks from an endo standing up, or down a hill sitting on the seat.

Tailwhip From riding at a slow speed have your right foot on the left side of the bike and jam in on the front tyre behind the forks, using your front brake at the same time. Use your left foot to spin the whole bike in a anticlockwise rotation and stomp on the frame once it completes the spin. Even after you have this it can be hard to ride out of it.

Infinity rolls Start with one foot on a back peg. (left foot on left peg or right on right) Push off backwards with the other foot and use that foot to scuff the tyre backwards in circles. Continue in circles by having your bars turned at 45degrees and a finger on the brake. Have your peg foot on the outside of the circle you make. You can start this with an endo.

Rockwalk After carving a small arc lock the front brake on and lift the back up and around 180 degrees, like an endo only with a turn. After the back wheel comes down use your momentum to spin another 180 degrees on the back wheel. It is hard at first keep the momentum for the second bit.

Another good one ? Have the bars turned 90 degrees. Hold both the seat front and a grip with one hand, with the other hand on the front brake. Put one foot on the outside front peg and the other scuffing the front tyre backwards. This makes you go in circles. This is good for practicing your foot scuffing and front brake coordination.

Backwards Steamroller Start with the bars backward with yourself at the front of the bike facing the seat. Have one hand holding the seat and one foot on a front peg. Push of backwards stearing the bars to ballance. Once you have this lift the back wheel of the ground a few inches rolling on just the front wheel using your free foot to ballance. This is the first one wheel rolling trick you should be able to learn as you don't need to scuff the tyre or feather the brake.

Firehydrant Start rolling with right foot on left back peg and left foot on front left peg. With a dab on the front brake turn the bars and swing your body around to the front. You are now facing the seat going backwards. With another dab on the front brake use your momentum to lift the back wheel and swing the rest of the bike around. If you can Decade this is a common trick to link after a firehydrant.

Decade Have your left foot on the back left peg, your right foot on the top tube. After a small endo put your back brake on hard, rock back onto the back wheel bringing the front wheel up high and jump around the head tube clockwise landing with a foot on the top tube or pedal.

Backyard Start facing backward on your bike holding the grips. With the back brake on hard lift the front of the bike up. Put one foot on the back peg and after pushing off use the other foot to scuff the tyre. At the same time let go of the bars with one hand useing it to balance and the other fethering the back brake. After some practice the brake will not be needed much as you can both push and brake the tyre with your foot. This is the easiest and first real scuffing trick you should be able to get. After you have this good you can go into a locomotive which is the same only with no hands and the bars turned at 90 degrees.

Frontyard While rolling slowly put your right foot over the bars ready to scuff the tyre. With a jab of the front brake do a small endo while shifting your weight forward and moving your left foot onto the front left peg. At the same time start scuffing on the front tyre while modulating the front brake to stay ballanced on the front wheel. Some prefer to have the right hand off the bars using it to keep ballance. This is an easlier scuffing trick you can start with like the backyard. Once you can scuff in one of these positions, many other scuffing tricks will come a lot easier. A Frontyard can also be done with both feet in front of the bars.

Funky Chicken Scuffing in the same position as a front yard only with the rest of the bike in front of you and holding the seat with your right hand. With your right foot to the right side of the frame you will be going in circles.

Squeaker Put your left foot on the front left peg and do a small endo with the brake. Then use your right foot to scuff/scratch? the front tyre backward. You need your brakes for this putting them on and off as you scratch the tyre. It is easier to let the seat rest under your bum.

Pinky Squeaks This combines backwards squeakers and whiplashes. Start with your right foot on the left pedal and your left foot on the front left peg. After rolling slowly do a small endo and kick the frame anti-clockwise with your right foot. Then use your right foot to work the front tyre backwards inbetween jumping over the frame. To do more than two turns of the frame you will need to get you squeaking in a bit of a rythem, like two scuffs inbetween hopping over the frame.

Hang Five While rolling forward put your left foot on the front left peg. Without using the brakes thrust yourself forwards with your wieght on the peg with the other free leg used for balance. Let the seat come up and rest under your bum with your arms out stait and your head up looking forwards. It would be good to be able to do a steamroller or back peg wheelie before you try this.

Lardyard Your feet may be in the same position as a Backyard only you are holding the bars with one hand letting the bike hang on an angle to the ground. This makes you go in circles. This takes a lot of practice. The skill can be applied to a Stick B / Caboose / Dumptruck which is similar only with the bike upside down holding the forks.

Dumptruck Start with a back peg wheelie, left foot on left rear peg, tap the front brakes to stop the wheel spinning. As you bring the front wheel up higher let go of your right grip and reach to grab the left fork blade. As you grab the forks bring your right foot through to scuff the back tyre and let go of the left grip. You then continue to scuff in circles on the back wheel holding the forks or peg with your right hand.

Street Tricks: 360 Hop Carve the front wheel in a tight arc just before hopping, lifting the front wheel first. A bit more than half way around you can let your back tyre touch the ground at the same time as applying force on the pedal. Use your momentum to spin the rest of the way around on your back tyre. You can do them off a curb or down some stairs when you get gaim.

Feeble grind Ride parrallel to a bench and hop up so as your front wheel rolls on the top and your back peg grinds on the edge then hop off. Keep your front wheel close to the edge so your peg doesn't drop off.

Manual Roll This is when you stand on the pedals and wheelie without pedaling. You can start by doing a wheelie then just stop pedaling, or just pull the front wheel up. You will want to have a finger ready on the back brake. To balance you keep your arms stiff and move the rest of your body back and forth.

Foot Plant Ride parrallel to a bench and bunny hop. After you leave the ground take your foot off the pedal on the bench side and plant it on the bench and use it to boost higher or away from the bench. Get your foot back on the pedal before landing if you have time.

Bar Spin Lean back like you are doing a manual and grip the seat with you knees and spin the bars while leaning back to lift the front wheel off the ground. This can hurt your knees before you can do it real well and you may have to move your seat forward or get a wider one.

Dirt Jumping: Three Sixty Just do it. A 360 degree spin in the air. This is a fundamental jump for any novice to try, then go bigger.

Cancan After you have pulled up for your jump, take one foot off the pedal and stick it out over the other side of the tup tube. Try to get your leg fully streached out the other side. The higher you got the more time you have to get it back.

Candy bar Once launched, take one foot off the pedal and stick it stait over the top of your bars. Try to get it back before you land. This monover goes against natraul instincs so it needs some practice. Go high.

Superman Once you get some air, pull the bike vertical tucking your knees up under the bars, take your hands off. Or, hold the bars and streach your legs out behind you.