Name
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Description
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Tsunami Flip
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While in the air, the bike is flipped behind the rider initially, with the rider remaining stationary, the rider then tucks backwards, rotating 360° onto the pedals.
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Tire grab
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While in the air, the rider grabs his/hers front tire
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Tabletop
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While in the air tipping the bike on its side to a 90° angle or further.
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Euro Table
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Sometimes called a Dark side, a euro table is when you turn your handlebars downwards instead of upwards as you would in a table.
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Invert
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Essentially a table, but over extended. Possibly enough for the front tire or fork to rub on your shoulder.
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Unturndown
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Similar to an Invert, but the riders legs remain straight and the seat tend to wrap around the riders outside leg.
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Whip
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Keeping the front of your bike straight while flicking the back to one side. There are many different styles of whips, each depending on the style of the rider.
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ET
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Pedaling forwards, one full rotation in the air
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Autistic Air
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ET and do a 2-star at the same time.
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Cannonball
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Taking both feet off the pedals and grabbing the seat with both hands
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Tuck No Hander
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Both hands off the handlebars with your legs pinching top tube and your bars in your lap.
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Suicide No hander
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Hands behind back while in the air with legs pinching seat.
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Toboggan
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One hand off handlebars touching the seat or top tube, one hand turning bars 90°. Tilt front down for extra style. Invented by Jeff Tabacchi (BMX Action Cover 1987)
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No footer
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Both feet off pedals.
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One foot can
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One foot taken off and put over top tube to the other side of bike
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No-footed Can-can
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Similar to one foot can except done on both sides so that both legs are together, off the pedals and on the same side of the top tube
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Nac-Nac
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Similar to the One foot can, except your leg goes behind your other one still on the pedal, instead of in front.
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Backflip
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Rotating bike and rider completely upside down & continuing to rotate 360° of vertical rotation until facing original angle/direction. Can also be performed twice (while still in the air) to make a double back flip.
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360
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Rotating the bike and rider completely round 360° horizontally until facing original direction.
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Front flip
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Inverse of a back flip
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X-up
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Turning the bars 180° or further without releasing the handle bars to make the riders arms form an X shape
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Barspin
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Using one hand to guide the handlebar around one full rotation (360 Degrees).
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Tail Whip
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Kicking the bike while holding the handlebars so that the frame makes a 360 degree rotation while the rider does not rotate
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Turndown
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Similar to an x-up but the entire body turns with the bars and the bike frame is as vertical as possible. Variation on the "cross-up" which incorporates elements of both the "Table" and X-up.
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Superman
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Taking both feet off the pedals and extending them outwards to resemble
Superman
in flight.
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Superman Seatgrab
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A standard superman but with one hand on the seat rather than the handlebars.
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Nothing
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Nothing is touching the bike, neither hands nor feet, hence the name.
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Superflip
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Superman while backflipping.
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2-Star
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Forming a semi-star with one hand, and one foot (Usually opposites)
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3-Star
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Only one hand touches the handlebars, so the extended arm and legs form a star.
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Dangler
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Only one foot on one pedal with both hands taken off the bars, a variation of the "3-star"
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Mays
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When in mid-Air the universal audio symbol is made with the hands and feet.
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Backflip Tailwhip (Flipwhip)
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As the name suggests, doing a tailwhip whilst upside down (halfway through) a backflip.
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Flair
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Invented by Mat Hoffman, more commonly a bmx trick, this can also be done on a mountain bike. It involves getting substantial air off a vert ramp, then doing a backflip and 180 so that you roll down the ramp going back the way you came.
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Truck Driver
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Doing a 360 and barspin combination, when the bars spin in the opposite direction of the 360.
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Decade
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Like a barspin, but person wraps around with the bars in a 360° position while tail stays straight.
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Orbital 360
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Like a regular 360, but the rider dips the front of the bike down so that both the rider and the bike are vertical during the rotation, the end of the rotation generally feels and looks a bit like a backflip.
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California Roll
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Invented by Mike Montgomery, this is where the rider does a 360 around his bike, it is similar to a body varial however the rider does not touch the bike during the rotation.
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Cliff Hanger Backflip
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Invented by Mike Montgomery, this is where the rider does a no hander but holds on the handlebars with their feet, while in a rotation of a backflip.
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Flip Double whip
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Invented by Greg Watts, this is where the rider does a back flip and two tail whips whilst in the air .
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Truck Driver Tailwhip
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Invented by Martin Soderstrom, this is where the rider does a Truck Driver and a tailwhip, which is when the rider does a 360 barspin to tailwhip.
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360 Downside Tailwhip
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Invented by Tyler Mccaul, this is where the rider does a 360 and a tailwhip in the opposite direction.
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Special Flip
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Invented by "Special" Greg Powell from
Nitro Circus
. This is where the rider performs a backflip while the bike stays flat.
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Cashroll
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Consists of doing a 180 into a corked backflip, into another 180 in the same rotation.
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