stirlingpowers Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 (edited) You could practice the double 180 on the flat. Turn in, push hips beside the stem, turn with hips and knees, keep weight there until landing, then push hips back, twist starting from the head. In the second 180, when you lift the front wheel, try to straighten up mid-move like when you are doing a pedal-up, but keep your head and body twisted, looking at your landing already. Edited September 30, 2016 by stirlingpowers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niconj Posted September 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 2 minutes ago, stirlingpowers said: You could practice the double 180 on the flat, however. Which would be a 360? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stirlingpowers Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 No, its a double 180, 360 on the flat would be a jump, which is really a short 90 deg manual, a 180, and another short 90 degrees manual for most riders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stirlingpowers Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 You could also try to learn the 360 on the backwheel only or on the front wheel only. But the rear wheel is hard on your joints while learning it, and the front wheel move is really difficult. I mean how many riders can do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niconj Posted September 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 8 minutes ago, stirlingpowers said: No, its a double 180, 360 on the flat would be a jump, which is really a short 90 deg manual, a 180, and another short 90 degrees manual for most riders. Video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stirlingpowers Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 (edited) Trashzen to the rescue. These two combined, using the momentum of the first to make the second one a bit easier: http://www.trashzen.com/biketrial-180-turn.php http://www.trashzen.com/biketrial-180-turn-2.php They are hopping a bit for the 180 sometimes, but as seen in the 360 in one turn, it can be done without lifting both wheels. For the 90-180-90=360 for most riders, there was a nice vid of Kenny B where he did it on the flat when he had this 24 street trials bike. I can't find it. But many BMX tutorials show it as a 90-210 or 230. It needs some practice to do more than 270 completely in the air starting from flat ground... Edited September 30, 2016 by stirlingpowers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bottleneck Posted October 1, 2016 Report Share Posted October 1, 2016 I personally found it rather useful to sort of push of the wall with the front wheel when you're jumping off. A bit like when you're doing front hops, but you want to land on the rear wheel after that. Gives you this extra bit of momentum for the rotation. Does this make any sense? I am rubbish at explaining things 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niconj Posted October 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2016 11 hours ago, Bottleneck said: I personally found it rather useful to sort of push of the wall with the front wheel when you're jumping off. A bit like when you're doing front hops, but you want to land on the rear wheel after that. Gives you this extra bit of momentum for the rotation. Does this make any sense? I am rubbish at explaining things I get what you mean and even though it doesn't show in the video, this is what I tried to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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