The Unspoken Rules of Biking a Skatepark 

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As someone who has skated just as long as I have mountain biked, I really appreciate how detailed and well explained this vid is, thanks Seth!

Damn that dude at 6:32 is shredding some gnar

Yo! Seth doing his older style videos. I love it

As a skateboarder I believe every mountain biker should watch this video, could solve a lot of issues

Having Jamie Bestwick tell you how to drop in on vert is amazing. I don't think the younger viewers will realise how cool that is.

It takes balls to drop in on that bowl. For the people outside of Asheville the big bowl at that park is probably 10-12ft high. Major props for being able to do that and make it look easy.

as a skater, we love seeing anyone pull up to the park. i’m super glad you’re teaching bikers how to go with the flow, it definitely feels safer when everyone understands the few unspoken rules. great video seth!

I don’t even own a bike, but i still watch every Berm Peak video. One of my favorite channels!

Love sethbikehacks type of vibe. Keep up the riding!

Awesome graphics on those walls!!

What a cool park! I grew up riding bmx too, stil do occasionaly and now again with my son too alongside us riding MTB together. One additional thing I would ad and see people struggle with a lot when starting out too is knowing when it's okay to drop in when you are not alone. Especially when it's a bit busier it get's tricky. The easy answer: "You take turns", but not everyone hanging on the deck is ready to go for a run. The way we did it is: sitting down, you are chilling, not in the que. Anyone with both feet on the ground is also chilling and not in the que. You are ready to go and "queing" for a run, when you stand up and put your front foot on the pedal/scooter deck/skateboard. And you should never que right at the edge of a ramp, stay at least a meter/3 feet away from the edge of any obstacle to give whoever is riding enough room to do his run. Starting a run while someone else is already riding or skipping other people in the cue is called "snaking" and is a great wat to get into a fight. Hope this helps!

YESSS its been 7 years or something ive been waiting for more bmx videos!!

This needs to be a QR code at every skatepark for all newcomers.

as a fellow bmx/bike rider of 20 years, i love seeing friendly helpful etiquette instructional videos like this for the futurre Groms to watch ! right on Seth, long time fan from Chicago

Whenever I see Seth pulling off awesome moves, whether on trails, in a bike park, or in a skate park, I really wish I could come to even 10% of his skill. I guess starting at a young age really helps. I got into MTB only in my mid forties and I doubt I can progress beyond a bit of flow trail and a small hop here and there - old bones heal slowly, so I am a bit risk averse.

I've been biking for 30 years since a lil pup, but the last ten years I've just been commuting on a mountain bike. Since seeing your vids in the last month I've bought a san quintin 1 and been on 3 epic adventures with my nephew.

As a Skateboarder: Thanks for the whole part about "Skatepark Netiquette"! This is the most important thing about Security and Safety for everyone! Everyone whos following the rules will check your line and aligns his line to yours or wait if he dont cross you. That works not out everytime, especially if you have kids on the track, but dont be a kid as an adult... For Mountainbikers and Bikers i want to add something: If a park says "no bikes" or "no Mountainbikes", please follow the rules. Theats in 99% nit because they dont want you there, its because of the park itself. Especially if the park has wood elements. A Mountainbike damages the park if you fail something more than a Skateboard, Inliners or Scooter does because of its weight and metal parts. This damage is maybe not relevant for you, but for everyone else who has way smaller wheels than you. Just wanted to add this up. Everyone should still enjoy a Skatepark! Cheers!

Seth! You make this all seem so easy. I watch your channel all the time and this is very enjoyable and inspiring.

After years of watching your videos of all types of bike content to being reminiscent of the bmx days... how about 1 more bmx 50/50 on a handrail before you are completely Gray and have more kiddos? Just a thought or an addition to your bucket list.. keep it up while you can, haha🤙🤙🤘

Love your shows, best bike show on RU-vid. Watched here in Western Australia.

I prefer the flash-bang approach to riding parks. Drop in loud, cause confusion and anger and bust out

This is the video that I've been waiting for! Neat to watch you ride this way.

Thank you so much for making this video. As someone who used to go to the skatepark every single day... you can almost instantly tell if someone doesn't know what they're doing. It's not that them riding around makes you anxious, it's that it's DANGEROUS! I can't tell you the number of times I was riding the bowl and some biker just climbs in with their bike.... like come oooon one at a time!

Another banger from seth! Awesome love your content!

So good, the world needed this video. Stoked to see you ride the vert bowl, also nice to see they fixed the coping on it.

Classic af vibes from ya and top quality as always

This video was amazing! I'm just starting riding skateparks, bought my first bmx and this was really helpful to start off with!!!

Love that you showed your bmx skills!

Watching berm peak while prepping my bike to ride this fine sunday.

I like riding bikes, but I've never skateboarded/rollerbladed etc. I'm commenting three minutes into the vid, because I really appreciate the info. I have to admit, the one time I went to a skate park, I made all the rookie mistakes. Your explanation makes so much sense, and now I feel like I won't spoil anyone's fun or embarrass myself next time. Thank you!

Love seeing the long awaited follow up to ur old bmx and skatepark videos. Those videos got me into bmx and I still ride and love it to this day. Videos also helped me to not be the dumb kid at the skatepark snaking everyone wen I was younger lol

This was such a good video. It honestly kinda shows what has been missing from recent videos. I hope we continue to get topics like this in the future, too.

Wish I would have seen this 6 years ago before breaking my wrist jumping a spine for the first time. Great video Seth I hope it helps keep a lot of people safe

Awesome vid. Answered some questions for me. Keep on pushing Substack - I'd love to see that succeed.

I have always been nervous about dropping into quarter pipes and this helped!

Finally a classic Seth video

Loved the positive approach to a possibly contentious subject. Great ambassador for the sport as always!

I’ve never been a skater, per se, though I had a couple of skateboards as a kid. I’ve watched skaters at various parks but never understood what was REALLY happening. Now I know. Thank you, Seth.

I absolutely love this video

I love the mix up! I def learned something today. . . that I want to visit a skatepark now.

Seth, I've been wishing for more BMX / skatepark content from you. Thank you! Love your old BMX videos. I ride one with the intent of acquiring MTB skills.

Wish I had seen this video when I was a kid. I remember some rough lessons learned.

So I'm a 40 year BMX veteran and I want to say that in the video talking about drop in directions and the mix match of some people. I carve a 1/4 pipe opposite the way I throw my 360° spin and I can throw both ways but naturally I want to alley op my 1/4 when I spin

What a fun and educational video! Makes me want to go find a park!

That park looks sick! Love the video, I'm just getting into biking, but skating is where I started, so I really appreciated the crossover and the perspective!

Great video. I have watched a few of your videos thru time but this one is for sure a public service! Thank you. Will hit the sub button just for that. Learning them mountain bike people how to behave properly.

Congrats on the 1 million.

Awesome video, well done, great to see you whip the big bike around. Your all around bike skills are impressive Seth. Keep up the good work and love you venturing off the normal Mtb bike stuff. Old BMX racer here, Jaime Bestwick will forever be a legend and super nice person as well. Thanks for sharing that story, slightly jealous 😂

Dude that skatepark looks awesome!

This is super helpfull thank you!

I waited all my life for this video.

doing jumps while sitting down is a very good contraception method, I recommend

Solid advice here.

In college I rode a decently deep (2m or 7 ft or so) skate bowl a few times with my MTB and with a single speed road bike and man by far the scariest part for me was airing out, I once missed by a hair and went straight backwards back into the bowl on the back of my head. Thanks helmet!

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This is like saying you have to have experience before you get a job… I appreciate the explanation on the etiquette from this video but not everyone will see it so the people at the park should politely explain rather than get nervous and annoyed. 🤪 I like the hint of go early, as if you are just learning to drop in you will be focused on dropping in rather than having a plan for your run.

I’ve been tempted to check out the local skate park, there are times that no one is there. I actually popped by one day when I saw people there and struck up a conversation about whether or not it’s OK to take a trail bike in there. The people I spoke to were pretty cool about it and said absolutely, no issues whatsoever. I occasionally have time off during the week so definitely planning on a weekday morning when no one is there.

nice video I skated for 10 years before I picked up mtb and yur rght about being at ease. Its not just about the bike you can tell when someone is new to. If you ever see someone dont hate gie them advice and hope they takeit

I’ve always found skate parks intimidating. A lot of the parks around me are cement even when I was doing aggressive in-line skating. I appreciate you showing this because I’ve always kind of wanted to make an attempt at picking up some of the skills you get from going and riding a skate park and applying it too might Trail riding

That is so cool! I think I'm going to hit the Asheville skatepark tomorrow. Nice and early just to get a practice session and I haven't rode skatepark in forever.

That park is sick. The wall ride was so good. Showing your age with the sit down fakie haha! I can tell you were a very good Bmx rider when it was your primary focus

Fun Informative and entertaning Thanks for this topic

Parents of lil kids with mountain bikes are really who should watch this...also next time im in Asheville i need to skate and bike this park, it looks fun

Seth, great job as always kicking out more fresh & creative content !👍 but I got one for you. How bout doing a klunker build & pay homage to mountain bikes beginnings?

This was well made!

Thanks for info

this is some useful info!

Digging the new art at the Food Lion park. i remember when the street part at the top was a building where you were to pay 3 bucks to get in.

Well I didn’t know this. Now I feel a little less intimidated by going to a skate park. Thanks.

Looks great fun Seth. Meanwhile here in the UK. Skatepark = metal cage with one "jump" between two three foot "half-pipes". Usually there's a mother pushing a toddler on stabilized bike over the "jump".

Learn footplants on transitions and quarterpipes, it's the single most useful park skill there is because it will often save your ass. It also builds a huge amount of confidence and leads to learning other stuff like bomb dropping in. Practice on a bank, berm, or even curb. Ride up, hop, plant the top foot then lift the bike and stall there for a second. Next, jump away from the lip or face and back onto the bike. When you take it to transitions, roll up, bunnyhop and turn, and just try to 'kick' the wall. Kick higher and higher until you're planting just under the coping, then plant on top of the coping. Once you've planted on top of the coping, stall there for a few seconds then drop, congrats you just learned how to bomb drop. Now you can walk up to the coping, put one foot on a pedal and just jump off the deck and onto your bike instead of roll dropping, or bomb off a small ledge, wall, rail, or fence like a boss. And now that you know that works, you'll start doing it all over the place to dab, bail, abort, explore new lines without having to commit fully first try, feel out that new spine, or just do a sick looking wallplant instead of a wallride. Also you're now doing one footed airs to get into it so you can just kick a foot out over a box or summat and NOT plant and call it a onefooter. Kick that foot over the toptube and you're starting to do cancans.

Love you Seth

Such a great video.

This really helped me learn skatepark ethics and skills love the videos man keep it up

Recently I've gotten a friend into bmx who had never been on a park before we went. It was weird to have to go back to the basics again😂 Its awesome to see the progress though, the first time we went he was learning to go down a bank and now a few weeks later he has done flyout out of a quarter and is dropping in soon

The Ole food lion skate park looking good!

I rode mountain bike for years, even running dual slalom. But i was NEVER able to drop in to a quarter pipe. I didn't spend much time at skate parks but when I did, I always WANTED to drop in, but could never build up the courage.

Very cool! I always wanted to do some of these things. The indoor Bike parks like Ray's in Cleveland, and the Wheel Mill in Pittsburgh are pretty cool. Sadly, the Wheel Mill has recently closed. I would love to see someone purchase it or partner up with Harry, the previous owner, and make a go of it. It was a great place for people of all ages, but awesome to give the kids something to do in the city regardless of weather.

The “Food Lion” park! I love that skatepark! I totally know what you’re talking about too! I usually skateboard but brought my trail bike one day and I definitely got a lot of nasty goth and scary looks 😅

in Australia, we have NO 'no bike' restrictions at a skatepark, Bikes are allowed at all public skateparks.

Love the shoutout to Jamie Bestwick.

Good idea for a vid

And the most important rule, use a trail helmet when riding a trail bike and a skate helmet when riding a bmx/dj. Super important!

I've spent many a morn at the Ashevile skaptepark, good flow and transition plus there's some decent street spots around the city you can hit if you get bored.

I watch all your videos and I love biking

Its cool seeing you ride skateparks, you should do it more often, but it doesn't need to be an educational video, just a riding video.

I am a skate boarder and a mountain biker I very much like this video because both of the people who ride bikes at the skate park have no clue how the flow of a skate park goes

I'm a big fan!

I remember back in the day, we would break in there at night to ride that park on dirt jumpers. Well, they were called freeride hardtails back in 02.

wow, transfer on the spine. Mind blown

To practice dropping in on a quarter pipe, I recommend starting on a grass hill to practice your technique.

could you review the "Swamp Master Suspension Bike" its a full suspension bmx

Hey Seth! Great video as always! I had a random thought today wondering what the best 5 states are to live in for mountain biking? I live in Utah and it’s becoming so expensive here to live and am considering moving but feel so attached here because the riding is amazing. Anyways thought it could be an interesting video idea. Love your channel!

I'm a lifelong skater and do enjoy playing around on a bike in a skatepark (especially the one next to the trails) but I only hit it if its empty for these reasons.

Time to make some "Skatepark etiquette" QR stickers (linking to this video) to plaster around skateparks for "MY LITTLE JIMMY CAN GO WHERE HE WANTS!" parents..

First time here with single digit views, hello all!

09:15 that ambulance! Ha ha ha! 😂

woah sick thumb!

4:51 ahh yes super early in the morning. Reminds me of when I lost my teeth at 6:45 AM at the skate park all alone