Mind blown! There is so much going on in here - in a good way. Kind of like when you are reading a really good book, and you go over it a few extra times just to make sure that it’s truly absorbed. I’m definitely going to watch this a few more times. Appreciate all of the thought that went in to this!
I been riding bmx for about a year and trying to learn several things at once ... and succeding at none. Dropin, flyout, 180, fakie, manual ... and got me thinking tho,I should probably focus on one thing at a time. And a fakie is something you don't need to go to a skatepark for (of have a dry park, coz rain sucks in a skatepark).
Cool that you have a place to ride indoors....I need to wait till snow melts away here......sweet video...I need to try this before my 57 birthday next month 🙄
I ride bmx and unfortunately don't have anyone to ride with. I have to go to youtube to figure out tricks. Out of countless bmx videos I havent heard anyone talk about getting your weight back.. this changed everything. I really appreciate your help
Thanks man. When you fail in a wheelie or manual you usually just do another and nobody so much notices. When you fail at a fakie it’s pretty obvious. : ) I think that can make it harder for people to put in the reps. I wanted to make it clear that it’s normal to fail.
Please keep making these videos!! You are my new favorite channel. I've been using your tips to get back to at least "proficient" riding again. I've never had a good fakie and now I see why!! Another great tip and instructions. I know what I'm working on at break today!!
@@damionpiper4000 Everybody should do this. I imagine a world where even every dud on wallstreet is taking the bmx inot the parking garage for a mid day sesh. : )
Wonderful. The overhead shot is so brilliant. It gave me the feel that I've been missing. Plus: That slalomy fall-and-catch feel is a big flow trigger. One more reason to learn this!
I was thinking about flow state when I put this together i hadn’t realized that fakies make you heavy and light. It’s like the scallop drill only on reverse. No wonder the flood your body with endorphins. : )
"The joy is in the process." Amen. Killer artwork on the walls. Also looking forward to a new way of falling down. The entire time I just kept thinking about the old Miller High Life Man spot (from the Errol Morris-shot campaign) about a non-High Life Man attempting to back his trailered boat into his driveway.
Funny. Yeah. Backing up a bike makes trailers easy. It’s more like backing up a motorcycle trailer at speed. Hahahaha. I’d actually like to see that now.
You are not 56?!?! Dude...cycling must keep us all young :) Keep up the great work Alex... I cant tell you how much you and Lee have impacted and improved my MTB performance and handling. You guys rule!
At age 46 in the middle of winter, I bought my first quality BMX to learn some tricks. I've already taught myself foot jam to fakie in my living room. lol. Great tips! I'm sure they will be helpful to develop more fakie skills.
I must have some kind of genetic fakie defect. Have learned all sorts of things I never thought was possible, 180's, endos, even skinnies on handrails, but I just can't fakie. Oh the shame...
You’re an amazing teacher. It was the best fakie tutorial I’ve ever seen. I know what in saying because I’ve seen a number of useless tutorials. You can actually learn something by watching your content. I really like how in-depth this video is. You covered crucial techniques that doing fakie involves like steering to the side your falling to. I liked and subscribed because your work deserves it. Cheers.
I love your content. I have a long history of biking from the '70's. But had a long dry spell of "adulting". Now, 8 months from retirement and recovering from spinal surgeries and weight gain.... your channel is a powerful tool for me to get it back. I even started a channel to chronicle my weight loss. Thanks for your channel and fulfilling your goal of giving back. I am grateful.
I am seventy-seven years old and haven't rode at all for 50 years. End of pandemic I bought a Gary Fisher and you have convinced me riding can not only be a lot more fun than just pedaling down a highway, but will be good preparation, for the next twenty-five years.
Good question. Ultimately there is no way to learn the fakie sitting but you can learn the balance technique sitting. The actual trick your feet are on the pedals and you’re peddling backwards. So I think it’s good to do both.
This is crazy, I have been working on fakies the last year or so (as well as manuals and jumps). I had a slight epiphany in my driveway last week. Was practicing the fakie then tried a couple hanging off the back of the bike. Felt totally more controlled especially when ending the fakie and whipping around. Thanks for validating what I thought made sense!! Love all the videos
NICE!!! There is a moment when you're just changing direction and going slow when the weight over the front fakie is the only one that works. It's a half second. I started to stay back and staight and ignore that moment and it helped a lot. Speed helped too!
I don’t usually comment, however, I love your attitude and outlook on the process. I recently started BMX and approaching 40. I do it because it makes me feel good. Keep up the positive chill vibes!
Hello Alex. really great video. I propose the following intermediate step: (that is what i will do) put Pegs to the rear wheel axis. Step on them and concentrate on the steering without having the stress of rotating the feet backwards. BR Thomas
Cool idea. I do those peg fakies but I learned to do them afterwards so I’m not sure if it’s an intermediate step for everyone. For me it’s stressful to jump from the pedals to the pegs!! Either way it will be fun and help with balance so go for it and let me know if it helps. Another idea is to get a freecoaster hub. These hubs coast backwards as well as forwards so you won’t have to rotate your feet.
@@JoyOfBike one possibility ist also to remove the chain from the front Gear to avoid the needs of back peddeling. My priority is to learn the back rolling with the motorbike - Enduro end trail Bike. www.youtube.com/@hardenduro
I rode a track bike for my twenties, just got a BMX for my 37th birthday. Hopefully riding backward circles in parking lots will transfer something to the small bike.
It is different but will probably help. My son rides a track bike and pedals in circles backwards but can’t fakie and i can’t make the track bike work. But better than starting from zero!!!
@@JoyOfBike 😬 That's not exactly reassuring! Haha. It's rainy here for the next couple days but I'll pull out the bex this weekend and give it a go, hopefully.
At 53 I've been working on these for years. Sometimes get nice long ones, sometimes not. Turn outs are the hardest and I need to start working on the big bike.
Hi from Philippines. I always enjoy your videos, so different from others. So fun just watching from my office desk then will give it a shot on my lunch break, ahahahaha Ride safe.
Very true, That is a great trick!! I show one of those sort of but I think I actually oliie out. If we do a 180 video that will have to be a part of it.
Awesome vid! Tried fakies at the skatepark with my 29er a few days ago and noticed how far and how easier it is with my weight over the rear wheel..this video confirmed my feeling about it! So much fun discovering steezy moves like this when you get older, it helps consoling me for having lost my confidence on jumps LOL
Just learned consistent bunnyhoping and boy I am hopping everywhere, it is so much fun. However we are not young so to anybody reading this comment or seeing Alex´s videos, please warm up thoroughly before practicing any new trick, your body will perform better and you will avoid stupid injuries, which in turn will allow you to have more fun and progress constistently.
Thanks for this video !! I'll try this !! I'm beginning bmx and this is so well explained !! Hope I'll can do it ! Im 30!the only this I miss is riding buddy
Amazing video! I just started riding after a 21 year hiatus. I was never that good but I was stuck as my weight was over the bars. I'm at the skate park right now watching this and I'm almost there now!
Love these videos! I'm 41 with a 4.y.o. how just switched from a balance bike to a pedal and I couldn't keep up with them riding to the park so I decided I was gonna get a bike, at which point I decided hell I may as well try and learn some tricks too
Dude I love your videos! So informative without unnecessary fluff. And realistic in what can be achieved for the average biker . Appreciate you taking the time to do this! The bar tip was super helpful. Fakies are cool!
I'm 48 I'm going to try this as soon as I can get out ..I can still sit on the handle bars and pedal forward easy I learnd that when I was 16 jumped back on a bike last year for the first time in 20 years and still manage forwards and back to front ..
Loved this one Fakie is bugging me for a long long time... I am gonna try tomorrow all this beautiful and meaningful stuff!!! Thank you Alex and keep bringing the Joy ❤️
Watched a few of your videos. Nice job! I'm over forty lol. I'd like to get back into bmx. Want to learn some freestyle. My bike is an old elf pro. I want something for freestyle what would you recommend? Front and rear brake,gyro,pegs,ect..
Dude. The front / back weight thing is genius. I’ve been dialed on my fakies for a bit and didn’t even realize when I’d shift my weight forward and the impact it had on my stability. Worked on staying back for the last week and they’re so nice and silky now. Oy! JofB for the win 🙏
I love your videos. Thank you for your content. I am 10 days away from turning 35, and 6 months ago I decided I wanted to learn how to BMX. You videos have been fantastic information & have been extremely motivating for me. So again, thank you for your videos, I love them.
@@JoyOfBike Now I am learning a lot of bike parts & bike geometry, and how they affect the ability to do things. There a whole lot more to all of this than I anticipated. But so far I love it all.
@@JoyOfBike My wallet doesn't enjoy this rabbit hole haha. It is so weird wanting to learn all these things I never wanted to earlier. Trying to balance wanting to learn new things on my bikes, and the pacing myself with all of it and getting a head of myself is kind of challenge, because I also need to figure out how to learn proper bike maintenance.
@@OddlerTheHousehusband Doing your own work on the bike is a big money saver. And the BMX is still pretty simple vs mountain bikes which change standards like the wind.
I wasn't even aware of this video and being mentioned in it until now, haha. That was a fun watch, I think you added some useful stuff! I'd not call slow fakies a dead end, though. Being able to do both and transition between them as your speed changes is the most controlled. And they're pretty much mandatory for trials. So just learn them both ;)
I think this is the first fakie tute that mentions a difference between weight forward & rearward. Hopefully it's the breakthrough I need! Thanks guys, new sub.
Well the first I saw was The Useless Trials. Just trying to build on what he revealed to me! Welcome to the crew! I was watching Blake from GMBN. Don't know him but LOVE his attitude and he was learning fakies. He was doing both kinds which is common on MTB because they're longer. It was probably harder for him because he was learning both at the same time. He's so talented he started to make it work.
Bro I love your channel..! I ran BMX as a kid and did some “intermediate” level freestyles, now just a conservative MTBr trying to go back it as I am enjoying it to the fullest, but it is so amazing to know how to do some tricks just by trial and error (we had no other way back in the 80’s in south America !) and then listening to you and be like “yeah it is true, I move my head that way” but not in a lifetime I would have been able to explain how to do it and I do have a little kids that may need this info at some point
is that a freewheel u trying it on? dies it shift to fi when you pedl back? i tried fakie so many time on my fixwed gear , just didnt get it at all i'll ty your tips this year :)
I know it's a bit late, but I have to say your channel is fantastic. The way you break things down and make each piece useful and digestible for everyone is brilliant. Thank you for your service
Another fine video. Been waiting for your advice before I try lol. 3 months at wrong skill not too bad to unlearn. I just found out (from your manual video) I shouldn't have been trying to wheelie sitting down and bending my arms. Since around 1989.... I'm actually almost good it this way. Its not easy to stop. Probably going to be helpful again later, when I transition to trials style manual hops. But for just getting that basic manual. Bent arms suck. I wonder how silly/unsafe it is to try with pvc pipe over my arms lol. Probably bad idea. Might try a manual machine idk. Not giving up, thats all I know.
Sitting wheelies are cool. Different than a manual but very nice. And the PVC Is brilliant. I was on your channel looking at the ion thruster. Got me going down a rabbit hole last night. I bet you could invent a better manual machine. : ) The ones now don't have a way to create the drag on the rear wheel that pulls the front down. Also when you push your legs you don't push your ass back you push your ass back and the bike forward. Mostly bike forward because of mass. Anyway I'd love to see YOUR manual machine.
@@JoyOfBike Its so funny that you mentioned this right when you did. I just quit my R&D/CAD/DFM job in november, to start freelance product development firm... Can do your manual machine, have design in head and very bad crude semifuntional prototype already. Can get fully functional final product delivered in bulk, but would need a marketing guy, and maybe a little $$. I wasn't intentionally fishing for work, lol but since you brought it up....Would love an opportunity to work with someone of your experience. I will be in touch soon via insta if your interested.?
@@MongrelShark So wild. I figured you'd have something. : ) I don't want to go into the manual machine business but if you get something going please share it. I'd like to see your genius and try one!!
I learned fakies on accident the other day when I was trying to size up a dirt jump (Rolled up on the double lip and rolled backwards). But I don’t know how to turn back out of it 🤔
I love your videos man. Yall seem like some fun people to ride with. I could learn alot. I'm still struggling with fakies and 180's on my bikes. I'm basically a jumper and thats in. Just need more practice and videos like this help alot. Thank you!
I was thinking it would be cool to do a video about how to pick a crew to ride with. Makes a huge difference. Or maybe the vid would be how to create a supportive crew. What we all can do for each other to lift the riding experience.
