FAKIE BETTER (BMX Fakie Advice)

[@bobchapman5495]

I like this longer more in depth format for your tips. I just learned these a week or so ago. After 2 years of trial and error. Lol but I got em baby! Good shit Doug! Make them all this detailed.

[@johnepperson6434]

Love the tips! Thanks!

[@markwest759]

Doug, I find your content very informative and relevant. But I disagree with some of what you said here. It's much easier for beginners to have their weight back and keep the front light. Balance seems easier and it's more stable this way as the front end castors side to side. If the front wheel wants to slide just let it! Later on it will be easier to do sliders, slider fakie-outs etc. Landing backwards is less harsh and easier to control if you compress over the back end. The front wheel can naturally bounce and skip under load if you stay aft. The pivot or half cab is a matter of timing with practice. At some point bmx riders need to commit to learning HOW TO RIDE BACKWARDS. The dynamics is totally different, it's a new balance and the brain has to just re learn how to ride. I learned by raising my seat way up, sitting and pushing off backwards with my feet until I could keep feet off the ground. Then to pedals, then standing. All downhill qith confidence from there. Just my opinion. Respect your work.

[@CooklanBeats]

Is it different for cassette/freecoaster? The tips I read online were the complete opposite of what he said, so I always lean far back. But I can only fakie properly on freecoaster, I can barely do it on cassette

[@markwest759]

@@CooklanBeats Thanks Doug for entertaining this chat. Very few of us have equal access to both coaster and cassette. They are totally opposite and you will have to choose your own path. Neither one is easier than the other for rollbacks, your mid-brain just has to learn that reversing balance. With cassette you MUST backpedal. But backpedalling cadence and pedal/grip pressure helps keep the bike up. With a coaster your main focus is to relax, keep pedals perfectly level and STAY OFF THE CLUTCH, and there is no pedal pressure to help your turnaround or fakie tricks. Just like manuals every rider will have to take the time to learn to run backwards. If no transition or bank, just find a flat place, sit down and push off then go to pedals. I do not recommend freecoaster for beginners at all but that's a different matter.

[@kirkwickham3336]

Keep your fakies short, kids. Just halfcab out already!

[@markwest759]

Dude....what do you think a freecoaster is for?