I think I looped forward over the bars a few times before pulling a flat-landing one. Kurt Schmidt, may 2005: Backwards 360º jump over a spine? Yup! I actually pulled that first on a 6 foot spine. I landed sprocket first time and I pulled it third try.īackwards to 180 over spine and Backwards to 360 over spine.
#MINI RAMP BMX MANUAL#
Then I was trying to steal John Heaton's flip to manual but I couldn't do it because it's too hard so I got mad and tried flip to sprocket.
#MINI RAMP BMX HOW TO#
I didn't know how to do 'em so I accidentally bashed my sprocket and then fell on my head. Matt Beringer, Ride BMX US april 2001: I tried a flip fakie in England last year. Joe Alder, april 2005: 360 Abubaca (360 fly-out to Abubaca) by Jeremy Alder in 1987. The term "abubaca" is African for "chief". He named it after a character that Gary Coleman was playing in the '80s sitcom, "Different Stroke". Scotty Cranmer, double tailwhip to 360 tire tap to tailwhip out on a spine, 2006.ĥ40 tailtap to Tailwhip out by Dave Osato in 2002Īn abubaca is a back tire stall in which the rider jumps or launches to a ledge (rail, deck, etc),stalls on the back tire & fakies off the ledge.īob Haro was doing ramp stalls in BMX Action january 1981.Ī rider named George Conjame was seen doing abubacas at one of the first AFA Masterscontest in early '84. The Future: Even though so many tricks have been done on a mini, there's still a long way to go.ĭave Mirra has pulled a 360 tire tap to tailwhip out on a spine March 6, 2003. Dave Freimuth, Dave Osato, Ruben Alcantara, John Heaton, and others are doing things no one ever thought possible. Wilkerson remembers, " Lip tricks became like 'clank clank' tricks."īegiinig of the century: The level lip tricks are at today is flat-out incredible, and now a new crop of riders is helping to push things even further. Moliterno and Schmidt even added a twist by doing a lot of amazing fakie tricks that never really became as popular as their other tricks.Ĭlink, Clank, Clunk: The mini ramp craze was in full-force by the mid-90s, and it almost became a game of, "How many lip tricks can you do at once?" At contests it was pretty common to watch riders do something like tailtap-to-nosepick-to-icepick-to-toothpick all in one trick. For an example of how hard these guys were pushing it, look no further than Standard's first video, "Rogers Garage." Those three were doing things ten years ago that most riders still can't do today. The Rampage Crew: Around 1987, the original Standard Bykes crew of Rick Moliterno, Krt Schmidt, and Bill Nitschke got into the mini ramp game, and then things really started picking up. Then you could learn them on a mini ramp and you wouldn't fall as hard." He says, " Before (mini ramps) you'd come up with an idea for a lip trick on a vert ramp and you'd have to bust your ass learning it. Ron did appreciate the less damaging effect of a mini ramp crash, though. If you weren't man enough, you'd ride a mini ramp. Like, if you can't do stuff on a big ramp you go to a mini ramp. Ron says, "I t was kind of like a cop-out. Wilkerson had somewhat the same mentality when mini ramps showed up. It was just, 'Let's do this on this little ramp.' " Mini ramps really started gaining popularity a few yearslater, but McCoy and the Kansas City crew didn't consider lip tricks really pulled until they did them on vert. I actually learned 540-tailtaps and stuff that's common now a long time ago. As Dennis McCoy remembers, " We had a quarterpipe n my parents' backyard (in 1984) that we were tearing down, and we decided to cut it down to a mini ramp size. Ron Wilkerson was one of the guys pushing lip tricks the hardest, and he was responsible for things like Miami Hopper drop-ins, pedal-picker drop-ins, and abubacas- and he was blowing peoples minds in the process.Īround the early-to-mid '80s, the mini ramp slowly started to show up. Even then riders were doing lip tricks, but it was more kick turns, fly-outs, and drop-in variations than anything else.
The beginning: When freestyle started out, the only ramps people really rode were sketchy quarterpipes, wedge ramps, and cement skateparks (if you lived in Southern California and had balls of steel).
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If you want to add any info, please contact Lip tricks: a series of tricks so named because they are done using the coping and decks of a ramp. Sources: Ride BMX US april 2001, Carsten Conrad, Joe Alder, Jason Shaffer, Kurt Schmidt, Anthony Favennec,, BMX Business news.
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