How I learned crankflips in 30 seconds

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This week I discuss how I learned crankflips on a mountain bike so quickly.
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My name is Mike Boyd and I make videos documenting my process of learning stuff really fast. Subscribe for more upcoming videos and feel free to tell me what you'd like me to learn next in the comments.
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[@whitk034]

That element of fear is exactly what stopped you from learning to backflip. Going full "dork" mode to protect yourself and take away that fear would be awesome to see if you finally complete that goal 4-5 years on!

[@Koala019]

@Angelina L 👇💋 among us

[@Jetaru]

Been watching mike for a long time now, and I've always wondered if he was going to go back to this like he said he was, and I really hope he does!

[@meneermankepoot]

@@Jetaru I think he did try again, but then didnt feel it and said he wouldnt do it again. Might be wrong because as said, it has been a while

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

lets appreciate how a bike is prob overpriced because of a useless extra chain pulley on it ! more things to go wrong and service and lube up on a weekly basis ,no wonder its scottish

[@meneermankepoot]

@@girlsdrinkfeck what does this have to do with doing a backflip? lol

[@athena1491]

ive never gotten the "wow youre wearing shin guards, what a dork" mentality, like.... dude is wearing body armour, thats badass, like god damn bicycle batman,

[@Johnny-tw5pr]

No he doesn't 🤣 but honestly I wish I had shin guards too

[@jackrobertson8732]

@@Johnny-tw5pr they're like £2😂

[@Johnny-tw5pr]

@@jackrobertson8732 yeah but I don't bike enough to justify buying them

[@vitoravila9908]

"Learning is hard enough as it is, and there are no extra points for being a hero, and there absolutely no extra points for looking cool" Words of wisdon!!!

[@Hidegety1]

Now that is just wrong. Of course there are extra points for being cool. Just ask your girl.

[@vitoravila9908]

@@Hidegety1 1 - BEING cool is one thing...LOOKING coll is another 2 - My wife cares more about what I'm actually able to do than how I look while doing or learning how to do it

[@Hidegety1]

@@vitoravila9908 Oh, a wordplay. All right then, it is hard to argue with that.

[@DannySullivanMusic]

totally. absolutely right

[@CaffeinatedTech]

You don't get to look cool until you nail the skill.

[@miholis]

Mike, after all these years that have passed... I think it's your time to get back to that backflip and nail it once and for all.

[@brownjh91]

This is such important advice for learning -- separating practice and performance -- practice has to be consequence free.

[@markkalsbeek5883]

This is such an elegant way of phrasing it!

[@chicken_punk_pie]

I think that inhibits a lot of young people from picking up musical instruments. If their family won't work with them and let them make all those terrible no good noises, they can't get better.

[@noahclouse1830]

@@chicken_punk_pie EXACTLY, also children in America are not taught how to build skills, processes, or learn to grow. If only we learned how to learn and demystified natural talent, EVERYTHING WE DO could be entirely ameliorated.

[@Badge9987]

My dude made a video about learning something in 30 seconds, and it actually just turned out to be more of a life lesson. This actually could have just been a non-video because it wasn't anything that was process, but he found a way to teach us all something afterall. Amazing work Mike, love what you do.

[@razorclaw7776]

Honestly you’ve really been a huge inspiration and showed me how to set goals I’m currently on day three of learning a card spring thanks to you

[@DannySullivanMusic]

you're absolutely right!

[@MILFSLAYER6969]

honestly this concept is pretty close to how backflips work. They are pretty easy (assuming you are at a descent level of health and fitness). They aren't too hard to do in a technical sense, but its scary to first start trying to go over your own head.

[@limo-swine6537]

I guess I got unlucky after crossing the fear barrier. Landed on my head 3 times consecutively so I gave up. xD

[@dylanelliott9589]

As a child I (unofficially) beat the Guinness world record (from the printed book of whatever year it was) for most consecutive back flips in a row off the hop you land on. The record was probably from the ground, but I was young and did it on the trampoline lol. Anyways, needless to say, I was very good at back flips, would do them off cliffs into the water and off of things at school, but one day on the trampoline I overshot a jump, and back flipped myself between the springs smack into my manhood.. From that day on, I haven't been able to straight back flip, and can only do back flip 180's, or full back flip 360's. So the fear has become a part of my DNA now unfortunately.

[@atch300]

@@dylanelliott9589 that’ll do it lol

[@scubasteve3183]

Tell that to my ACL😂😂

[@jonathanclark7444]

@@limo-swine6537 you probably hesitated halfway through

[@Sandalwoodrk]

had to relearn this lesson a couple of times as a juggler especially with low spinning clubs the hardest part was always being afraid of the props and it makes it feel impossible but once I put some safety measures in place the skill actually came easily

[@Timooooooooooooooo]

What safety measures can you use for that?

[@Sandalwoodrk]

@@Timooooooooooooooo well for me it was just covering my feet cause they were what were in danger of getting hit

[@VictorFang]

How long did it take you to learn to juggle clubs?

[@Sandalwoodrk]

@@VictorFang I can barely remember it's been a while. but just doing a basic cascade took less than a week. but I already juggled balls very well at that point so the learning curve was small.

[@AJ_UK_LIVE]

I was super scared when learning clubs. I kept smacking myself in the face. Those things hurt haha

[@depresseanxd]

I'm gonna be honest, the helmet looks pretty cool to me.

[@grimsoul0]

I was thinking the same thing. I think it looks better than a regular bike helmet.

[@TheBreaded]

Yeah, I didn't even notice it being a trials helmet. Regular bike helmets are pretty dorky and we've gotten used to them, I think the trials helmet looks more like a helmet than a dumb foam hat.

[@chrisburn7178]

@@TheBreaded It's not even a trials helmet, it's a Giro Switchblade regular mtb lid which has a removable chin bar as well. I've had one for years and completely agree with him about the feeling of extra protection.

[@Rockstarrred]

I had the EXACT same thing snowboarding... First few weeks I wasn't hitting stuff as hard as I wanted to, so I bought a helmet and instantly, overnight just started decimating the mountain.

[@DannySullivanMusic]

agreed! 1000% right

[@fmga]

I’ve always worn a helmet after I cracked my first one on a rail… totally had the “what if the helmet wasn’t there” mentality

[@joeyvandenoort3660]

Helmets on a snowboard are the best way to stomp tricks easier man it saved me 100x shooting some new tricks on a 20m+ kicker. What helped me a lot is a amplify backprotector man that thing saved my back from breaking.

[@dante3546]

You've been a huge inspiration to me for the past 3 years , mad respect for speaking up on safe and proper learning.

[@ThePaulRayner]

I had the same thing when learning to snowboard. I learnt at about 28, but learned as fast as teenagers because I wore wrist guards, kneepads and impact shorts. A friend, who doesn't use safety gear, once proudly told me he'd spent a morning on green slopes and only fallen over a couple of times. I said I'd fallen more than that as I bombed down reds! Often you've got to make mistakes to learn, so it's good to remove the pain from the mistakes.

[@DrMillF]

I know exactly what you're talking about! When I first started out riding Downhill, I didn't have much money and rode with nearly to zero protection (would not recommend that to anyone by the way) and crashed quite often with not much progress. As soon as I got a good set of protectors my progress skyrocketed! - I still would not call me anything near to pro though... The fear alone made me do stupid and unnecessary mistakes and also - due to the lack of protection - I got unnecessarily hurt (nothing really bad though). I would recommend everyone to prefer looking like a dork - also people who really know their stuff won't (in almost all cases) ridicule you for it because they know what protection is good for. Those looking down on you are typically the ones who aren't any good themselves!

[@denniskara6196]

Now do a bunnyhop crankflip, that'd be dope!

[@briggsolson3542]

Yeah his are fake crank flips, easiest thing ever

[@danieloosthuizen8870]

@@briggsolson3542 technically what he’s doing is a lazer flip (lazy crankflip)

[@willwhite9647]

@@danieloosthuizen8870 pure waffle you

[@sulo868]

thats actually what i consider a crankflip, what he did is kind of the exercise for the crankflip

[@hunterG60k]

It's really great to hear you talk about this aspect of learning, which especially applies when learning as an adult. I'm a horse trainer and it's interesting how I can see the parallels; one of the most important principles when teaching a horse something new is to always ask "yes" questions. In other words, set them up to succeed. Whether it's going back a step or breaking things down into smaller chunks to make it easier, it's so important for building confidence, and I think it applies exactly the same way to humans. Great video as always, dude

[@blackoutjoker8696]

Hell yea Mike boyd is becoming so good at everything he'll become god soon enough

[@procyclingclips]

Ive been trying to master the crankflip for a long time, thanks for this video im gonna try it with shin pads now.

[@Ktulu789]

I truly think that helmet looks freaking cool!! And yes, wearing appropriate protection gear makes a whole world of difference. No doubt about it. I'm an inline skates hockey player. When I was a beginner at it I arrived at the court with my skating protections, I proceeded to change my knee gear for the shin and knee hockey protection. Someone comes and tells me to quickly go with him to get some beverages from nearby, "Yeah, let's go" I then proceed to fall on the floor with my full body weight on my knee. It was ten terrible minutes of painful agony. The normal thing was that I wouldn't feel anything at all when wearing the knee protection. Even after one hour my knee was still sore. And as I mentioned the first ten minutes it was agonizing pain. Wear protection! Friendly reminder xD And about using the smart way to learn, I also agree!

[@thomasdubouchet]

As an avid mountain biker myself, I am so stoked to see you with such an amazing bike and really getting in mtb riding! I can also vouch for how simple-looking and scary that trick can be! 🙌

[@bobowiththedodo8155]

I was questioning why you would make a 30 second trick into an 8 minute video. Definitely learned something really useful

[@perpendiccular7680]

I have been always inspired by your content but never has achieved anything.its unbelievable that you could do that without being tired

[@jobfernandez9274]

I love how in the intro he says "this trick is called a crankflip" and proceeds to show himself doing it even though when he said the line he probably didn't know how to crankflip and had full confidence that he will learn it

[@SeraphimCramer]

He'd probably already shot the rest of the video.

[@eeeeric1966]

I couldn't agree more! Back when I learned crankflips I raised my saddle super high and wore shin pads to make fails less painful and allow myself to get over the fear. You can also easily practice them while rolling and staying seated! The next step up is a bunnyhop crankflip, a bit more scary as you really want to get the catching of the pedals down... but then the sky is the limit! I've done bunnyhop double crankflips on my canyon spectral (trail bike)... at some point it just becomes a "hop, flick and pray" haha Wonderful video! It would also be awesome if you could learn backwheel hops with Danny MacAskill! Cheers :)

[@Cimlite]

30 seconds to learn the skill, and yet this is the most educational video I've seen on this channel to date. Well done.

[@bartmaas5850]

Love the more frequent uploads man! Good to see more from you!

[@BadgerBarnes]

My new favorite channel. Thanks for the videos!

[@tahiraslamm]

You're the reason I started learning how to solve Rubik's Cube, it took me few hours but I felt so good.

[@dragon-zq9vs]

Since you know how to bunny hop too, i would love to see you learn how to do a good long fakie on a bike (including getting out of the fakie, into forwards again) ! Cheers mate, and keep up the awesome work ! p.s. If you can do some stuff on a bmx bike that would be awesome too

[@jakobcs6856]

wow thanks for this. I learned how to solve Rubiks cubes whilst juggling on a unicycle this year, and the biggest problem was the anxiety of dropping my Rubiks cube onto some hard tarmac. it is so much easier if you do the exact same thing on some soft pavement where the chance of the cube getting obliteratet is much lower.

[@littlefrank90]

For a short period of time back in 2010 I had the world record for solving a Rubik's cube on a unicycle (12.4 seconds) it was pretty cool but I believe it's two separate skills that don't really blend that well, it's pretty easy when you know how to ride a unicycle well enough.

[@nikopencil2847]

@@littlefrank90 he was juggling too!

[@tristanalderton1415]

Very interesting turn in this video, great lesson mike

[@plasmacarrot6863]

I had this with batting and thigh guards. Really helped me be confident enough to step out to the ball.

[@rabwardell758]

I love this. Cheers Mike! You’ve hit the nail on the head with this one!

[@MrCanadianGoof]

Something so simple yet so effective! I love it!

[@hardtailhenry1405]

Hey mike you should try bunnyhop and wheelie crankflips they a bit confusing at first but once you get them you have them down

[@xsagaming3376]

I love how this video was more of a lesson than a standard Mike Boyd video

[@tintinsmith]

Love you Mike, you are one of my first KZbin inspirations! A major reason why I started my channel

[@TheBluemindedGod]

5:50 I think that helmet looks sick. Looks very sci-fi, which is cool.

[@dazzleps3345]

I love that you‘re doing so much mtb stuff

[@daylightsensor8695]

I love Cathro's series, this collab is all I ever needed

[@Ryaninja]

Fear is probably the biggest opponent for learning a new physical skill. I'm a snowboard and ski instructor and I've seen people's fear cripple their ability to learn or progress in a skill, it's incredibly common. On top of having to fight your fear, when your body is tense you lose a fair amount of fine muscle control you're more likely to fail. It results in a self perpetuating downward spiral where your fear causes you to mess up, which in physical activities often causes you pain, which causes more fear, so your body becomes even less responsive and more of your brain's CPU cycles are taken up with thinking about the fear and consequences if you fail, which simply leads to more failure. Finding a way around that fear is key, so good job on doing that and sharing the knowledge for all your viewers! :)

[@eugenschneider7986]

Love your content so much. What a character!

[@qw-rp4hw]

Yo I was rewatching your old bike videos yesterday

[@Pensi0nar]

Removing fear, interesting concept! Thanks for the advice!

[@danieldey]

This is brilliant advice

[@edvinhaglund]

This video motivates me to go and learn it on my bike right now!

[@JumpMasterJef]

Great video and great message, and for the record, I think the helmet looks cool.

[@emac1657]

You should try the crank flip on your unicycle

[@aransullivan4827]

Loving these mtb videos keep it up

[@jamescanjuggle]

xD removing the fear is exactly how i learned to juggle while riding a bike of course everyone stared all the time, whether i was on a streak or i was falling, but the goal was all the same, no matter how i got there

[@MrSaemichlaus]

I totally agree that with the right protection, you can clear your head of any worries and fully concentrate on the task. For example, if you split wood without gloves or just thin ones, you will always have to be considerate of splinters, scratches and so on, but when you wear thick gloves, you can just blast through a bunch of work. When you constantly have to worry about risks that you unneccessarily expose yourself to, that gives you second thoughts about every move, it puts a time penalty on everything you do.

[@Pozitivi]

Great video Mike!

[@jkomelettes6609]

Love your channel Mike!!!

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

another video, yay! great learning speed.

[@Smallathe]

Cool and very good points!

[@Stubakez]

Sick bike! Love it!

[@UmarHamza]

Always enjoy ya videos

[@MoritzvonSchweinitz]

This video is urprisingly deep, and apllicable to almost everyhting.

[@johngill5175]

I think I've seen every video. This is one of if not the best video you've made! This is such a great point, and don't we all do it!!! haha Thanks for making!

[@marktalii]

getting a BMX in a few days, videos like this will surely help me!

[@NochSoEinKaddiFan]

Very wise words indeed, I will take them by heart. Thank you for reminding me!

[@tripleeyeemoji2685]

That bike is GORGEOUS

[@isxp]

Excited for this one!

[@zg4705]

What a fantastic message

[@GeekyGarden]

The lack of the element of fear can be a dangerous thing. As a dumb kid in the 80s, I was riding my bike to the local pond to go for a swim in nothing but shorts. This included no shoes. I was flying down a hill that had a turn at the bottom. Leaning over in the turn, my rear tire hit a rock. 35 years later that moment is still fresh. Me sliding along the pavement and into the gravel along the road at 20 mph, the blood, picking gravel from under my skin, and the insane burn of the Merthiolate my grandma put on the cuts. .... A typical Saturday for any Gen-Xer or Xennial. 😂

[@Professor_sckinnctn]

I love your bike!

[@ewan_young]

your helmet, the giro switch blade 2 in 1 is a really good and cool looking in a way to!

[@skyeg5330]

One counterpoint is the idea that becoming comfortable with a skill in high-stakes environments can be beneficial to quality and long-term retention of a skill (if you can succeed when the pressure is at its highest, then can probably do so under any other circumstance). Probably the ideal balance is to start by doing what you talked about in this video (removing fear as much as possible), but as soon as you prove to yourself that you CAN do it, graduate to a real-world environment. Theoretically, that gives you the best of both worlds.

[@ashen_dawn]

Yeah having the skill to be comfortable with higher stakes definitely comes faster if you learn first in lower stakes, but once you're there it's great.

[@WilliamCronin]

Mate i was just thinking I needed to see more of this deviate bike!!!

[@blossomnessstudios4446]

This!!! It's totally true. I've always picked up experience faster in horseriding especially when I'm working in a soft dirt arena with a helmet on and a horse I trust to keep me safe. It suddenly doesn't matter if I fall, so I can test out more methods that I would normally avoid.

[@Pavel_grodman]

Mike upload it more often, you are so good!

[@MrKaboom315710]

Yah back flip man you got this no pain no fear just learning

[@JCV123]

I tried doing this on my bike (it has pedal brakes).... It didn't go as planned.

[@Muckduck92]

😂

[@tcparker2]

I learned a lot about learning from how you learned about how you learn. Thanks

[@abdullaluai926]

you learned something new about learning!

[@sinder_78]

I’ve been trying to learn to crank flip without shin pads and my shins were covered in blood yesterday. I think I’m going to get some shin pads lol

[@LeonardoHSilva]

That's a really good reflection

[@Boost00130]

I have the same thing with snowboarding. I wear padded shorts and because of that extra confidence, I don't fall anywhere near as much

[@donutdonovan4682]

I think your totally right I try to learn as easy as possible

[@pearcy6917]

This guy learns everything 🔥

[@ITS_MK65]

I just learned them recently too!

[@Budooby]

Idk if you changed cameras or editing techniques, but WOW this video is so beautiful aesthetically!

[@succathog5906]

Amazing cranks,. Champ!

[@thannilol5793]

Slowly but surely you are becoming a pro

[@ABSENT_EU]

The legend is back

[@annoyniket]

Please make more stuff with MTBs or cycling in general. I think it's the greatest invention by man.

[@jo3ywils0n39]

A video about crankflips that has bigger messages about actively assessing risks in what you're doing, and mitigating them as a responsible learner. 10/10

[@Flyingpapaya]

Hey Mike, G-form brand foam pads. They offer some excellent shin guards that I've worn for years with my Onewheel.

[@osmia]

Great attitude!

[@kruks]

This is such a wonderful video. It's not even that interesting of a trick to learn, but the wisdom given is so essential and it's too bad more people don't care less about their image and would care more about what they're trying to accomplish.

[@brooksridesbikes]

I do MTB racing and I love watching your bike videos I still haven’t master the crank flip

[@TotalVikingPower]

BANGING video !

[@Exiled_Q]

That might just be the most beautiful mountain bike I’ve ever seen

[@keithreay]

A big YES to giving yourself a break when it comes to learning things in an easier, less stressful way!

[@SeanHollis]

Please take this message and reattempt learning a backflip! Been waiting for a part 2

[@PickDifferent]

Well done ! You could also learn first the timing and synchronisation of feet jumping and crank flipping by staying sat on the saddle. And then doing it on your feet once confident. I do agree also about fear and safety net, whatever the domain. Another example : learning guitar. If you learn how to play funk with first a rag to damp on your strings, you do not fear the open strings to ring, and you progress much faster by focusing on the other difficulties. Keep going dude, all your videos are so inspiring and motivating 😃

[@qwertyTRiG]

You're reminding me of Hampton from Hybrid Calisthenics. He's wonderful at taking the ego out of fitness.

[@jenniferwallace-mcdowall5695]

i spent this whole video in shock that you recorded this near where i live

[@farzadjahanfard]

Honestly you are so cool and humble you are my idol I wish I could have a pint with you man 🤘🏼

[@scottpink2013]

thank you!