Dirt & Vert tricks

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Easy:

• Swing Out -This is an easy trick to do off of any jump. While in the air, push your bike off to the side, and then bring it back.
• Dead Sailor- When you are in the air, stiffen your arms and legs.
• Bar-turn-While in the air turn your bars to the left or the right.
• Kickout-As soon as your back wheel leaves the jump, swing the rear of your bike around to the right or the left with your hips and legs. Once you swing your bike out bring it right back in. Don't stay sideways too long. A
• One-footer- Simply take your right or left foot off your pedal, kick it out to the side, and bring it back on before you land. Your crankwill rotate downward when your foot comes off the pedal, so be sure to get it back on in time to return your crank to a level position.start out small and gradually get bigger.
• One-hander- Take one hand off the bars and bring it back. Try to keep your bars straight the whole time. Start out small. You can do manyvariations to this trick, like a tire-grab or a seat-grab, which willhelp you out later on different tricks.
• Can-can- It's alot like a one-footer except you cross your leg over the top tube.This is another trick that you have to start out small and work bigger.
• X-up- Turn your bars a full 180 degrees and then turn them back to their normal position. You have to kind of
• Tabletop- Turn your bars to one direction and tip your bike horizontally the other direction. You end up turning your bike on it's side and parallel to the ground.

MED:

• Feeble Grind-A feeble grind is when your back peg on the rail and your front wheel rolls across the top of the rail.
• No-footer- Take both your feet off the pedals and stick them out to the side. Start out small and gradually work your way up to bigger no-footers. Wile you are in the air hold your back brake so that your crank does not rotate. Practice these on the ground to learn the feel of it.(if you have a front brake) Plus it looks cool when you are riding flatland and you do this.
• No-hander-Pull your front end up hard as you leave the lip of the jump. Get your bike in a near-vertical position. Your bars should be in your lap before you take your hands off. Level your bike out as you put your hands back on the bars. Make sure the bars are straight and your hands are securely back on the handlebars before landing.
• Bar Spin - You need a good ramp that has a nice lip and speed. Hit the ramp as you normally would and kind of tuck your knees under the nose of the seat. Lean your body backwords and spin the bars by removing one hand and taking the hand still hanging on and spin. Wait until the bars have spun, then catch them and land. Don't get discouraged if you screw up a couple times, also the front wheel may dip a little and if this happens, clinch your knees and lean back more. It takes time, so keep trying.
• Nac-nac- A cross between a can-can and a swingout, only you swing the rear of your bike to the right and take your right foot and swing it way back around behind you. And like you should always do, return to a normal riding position before landing.
• One footed seat grab - Get good at a one footer and a one hander then a one footer one hander. Now do a one footer one hander and with your free hand grab the top tube. This trick looks even better if you tip your bike strait up and down. Bring yourself back to a riding position and land.
• 360 Nose Pick - Go towards the ramp and when at the coping, lock the front brake and swing the back end to the side. When at 180 degrees, look where you want to land and let the frame fall around the rest of the way. The trick is having enough pressure on the coping with your tire so it doesn't come off when you are at 180 degrees.

Hard- almost impossible

• Flare - A flare is basically a backflip with a 180. When you are in the air,pull back on the handlebars like you are doing a backflip. When you do the backflip and you are staring at the ground, turn your handlebars to the right hard and swing the tail of the bike out.Once you do this, land.
• Back Flip - Pedal and get a good amount of speed. Keep your feet on the pedals when you take off. Pull up on the bars, arch your back,tip your head back, and keep your eyes on the landing ramp. While in the air, keep your hands on the bars and your body in a low position. Land on your front wheel and bring the back wheel downon the ramp. Land with knees bent and be prepared to fall the first dozen times or so. If you land on your back wheel,you'll bounce forward and over the handlebars. Don't over rotate the flip.
• Suicide Flip - In a regular flip, your bars would go straight up, but a suicide flip goes from the side. Here's how! Push your bars to the side and your frame will follow. If your flipping right tuck your left foot under your left peddle or vice versa. When your landing suck in your chest so you fall back. It's like doing a barrel-roll on a bike.
• Superman Seat-Grab Trickdriver - When you hit the jump quickly spin 360 degrees, while you are spinning take one hand off the handlebars and grab the nose of the seat. With the other hand spin the handlebars 360 degrees. Wile you do this, take your feet off the pedals and stick them out like superman. Then bring your hands and feet back to the pedals and bars and land.
• Cliff Hanger - First get alot of air. Then take your feet off of the pedals, hook them under the bars. Stick your arms straight up like you are hanging from your feet. Bring everything back and land.
• Nothing (No-footer/No-hander)- This is just pure suicide. Wile in the air, let go of the handlebars and jump off the pedals. Now comes the secret part, try to land back on the bike and land safely.
• 360 tailwhip-start to do a 360. When you get 180 degrees around, kick your frame around the other way. Keep on spining when you get 360 degrees around, catch your frameand put your feet on the pedals and land.
• Straight out
• No-footed Can-can- Take both feet off the pedals and and stick them both out to the same side of the bike. Bring them in and land.
• 360-You don't really need much air to do a 360. Start the rotation before the bike completely leaves the ground. Don't go too fast at first.start to turn before your bike leaves the ground. Turn your head and handlebars hard to one direction. Where your head leads, your body follows. Don't focus any where on the ground but the landing ramp. Because where you focus is where you stop rotating.
• oboggan- A Toboggan is exactly like the old school flatland trick
• Barspin-Lean back to balance out the bike because the nose will often drop. Pinch the seat with your knees, and spin the bars. catch them and land. Learn this on the ground first.(see barspin: flatland these aren't too bad) Start out doing half bar spins first. Land with your bars backwards.When you get good at that, try full barspins.
• Liquid sword - When approaching a dirt jump, get your left pedal down. After jumping off the ramp, jump off to the left side of your bike. While doing this, let go of the left grip and grab it with your right hand. When you're on the left side, put your right foot on the left front peg and kick it backwards. This will make the bike start to do a flip. When it is back to a normal position, get back on and prepare to land.
• Front peg grab - This trick requires a lot of air time. The more air time you got the easier it will be. While in the air lean over the handlebars and grab your front pegs. Come back and land. Pull the bike up before you start to reach for the pegs. This will keep the bike from tipping too forward. Be careful! This one will really knock the wind out of you if you do not make it back in time.