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Welcome to the website of BMX Action. For those who aren't familiar with the word BMX, we are going to explain in the next article what BMX is all about.
As wikipedia says: BMX (an acronym for Bicycle Motocross) is a form of cycling on specially designed bicycles which usually have 18 to 24-inch wheels (the norm being the 20-inch wheel). The sport includes racing on earthen tracks, known as BMX racing, as well as the performance of tricks on the bikes, called BMX freestyle. Freestyle BMX has grown to include five distinct disciplines. These are Street, Park, Vert, Dirt, and Flatland. These usually involve technical movements of the bike in different ways over varied terrain.
BMX racing is a type of off-road bicycle racing. The format of BMX was derived from motocross racing. BMX bicycle races are sprint races on purpose-built off-road single-lap race tracks. The track usually consists of a starting gate for up to eight racers, a groomed, serpentine, dirt race course made of various jumps, and a finish line. The course is banked and has flat corners.
The sport of BMX racing is facilitated by a number of regional and international sanctioning bodies. They provide rules for governing the conduct of the races, specify age-group and skill-level classifications among the racers, and maintain some kind of points-accumulation system over the racing season. The sport is largely participant-driven, with the average age of approximately 9 or 10 years. Professional ranks exist for both men and women, where the average age is 18 to 21.
A BMX "Class" bike is a strong, quick-handling, lightweight derivative of the standard 20-inch-wheel, single-speed youth bicycle. Variations include a larger 24-inch-wheel "cruiser" class.
While BMX racing is an individual sport, teams are often formed from racers in different classifications for camaraderie and often for business exposure of a sponsoring organization or company. BMX racing rewards strength, quickness, and bike handling. Many successful BMX racers have gone on to leverage their skills in other forms of bicycle and motorcycle competitions.
BMX racing will become a medal sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing under the UCI sanctioning body. Sanctioning bodies in the United States are the American Bicycle Association (ABA) and the National Bicycle League (NBL). The NBL is certified under the UCI (International Cycling Union), which is recognized by the Olympic Committee.
Freestyle BMX is a creative way of using bicycles originally designed for bicycle motocross racing. It can be split into several disciplines, although riders will generally participate in more than one discipline. These are Street, (skate)Park, Vert, Trails (sometimes called Dirt) and Flatland. Rather confusingly, in competitions, park riding is often referred to as 'Street'.
Street
Street riding occurs on public streets or private property, typically within cities and towns, but can be also referred to when riding in parks. the bikes are usually the same set-up wise. Without purpose-made ramps, riders have to improvise with banks, walls, rails, gaps, etc. In fact, almost anything can be used as an obstacle, and it is precisely this that draws people to street riding. Riders enjoy street riding because they are not constrained to what a skatepark designer has planned for them to ride, so it allows a good deal of creativity. Street riding progresses relentlessly. Obstacles and tricks that were considered too big or technical to attempt become commonplace.
Many professional BMXers are street riders who are employed for the exposure they get through video parts and magazines, rather than for their competition results. These riders generally don't get paid the huge sums that the big competition riders get, as most of the big money comes from placing in events such as the X Games. However, riders like Van Homan, who is a progressive street rider, often enter the X Games and manage to place quite high.
Street bikes are different from those used on park or dirt. Typically they will have two or four stunt (axle) pegs for grinding. They are usually the strongest type of BMX bike. A considerable number of street riders set up their bikes without hand brakes.
Park
Skateparks are used by BMXers as well as skateboarders, and both draw inspiration from the other. Skateparks themselves can be made of wood or concrete, or in the case of local council-supplied parks, metal.
Styles of riding will differ between wood and concrete parks - wood lends itself to technical tricks, while concrete is more suited to a fast, flowing style, with riders searching for gaps, and aiming to air higher from the coping.Concrete parks usually tend to contain bowls and pools. However, it is not unusual for riders to merge the two styles in either type of park.
Concrete parks are commonly built outdoors due to their ability to withstand years of exposure to the elements. Concrete parks are also often publicly funded due to their permanent and costly nature. Parks made from wood are popular with commercial skateparks due to ease of construction, availability of materials, cost, and the relative safety associated with falling on wood instead of concrete. Parks designed with BMX use in mind will typically have steel coping that is less prone to damage than concrete or pool coping.
Common obstacles include:
Vert
Perhaps the most extreme of the BMX disciplines, a Vert ramp consists of two quarter pipes set facing each other (much like a mini ramp), but at around 10-15 feet tall (around 2.5 to 3.5 metres) high. The biggest ramp ever used in competition is the X-Games big air ramp at 27 feet tall. Both 'faces' of the ramp have an extension to the transition that is vertical, hence the name.
Riders go up each face, performing tricks in the air before landing into the same face. A typical run involves going from one side to the other, airing above the coping each side. Also possible are 'lip tricks' - tricks on the platform at the top of the ramps before dropping into the ramp.
Mat Hoffman popularized the sport in the early 90s, and holds the record for the highest jump of 27' out of a 25' ramps (a total of over 15.5 metres from the ground). He achieved this by being dragged along a field by a friend with a motorbike and hitting one face of the ramp. On one attempt, he lost control at the peak of his jump, and the resulting crash caused life-threatening injuries such as losing his spleen. Remarkably, despite his age and history of injuries, he still competes to this day.
The danger of the discipline (and scarcity of full-size vert ramps) puts most riders off, and as such, there are a small number of top professionals who remain at the top of the sport for many years. Notable vert riders include Dave Mirra, Chad Kagy, and Jamie Bestwick (who has won the majority of all the major international competitions in recent years). Other up-and-coming vert riders include 18 year old Zack Warden, who landed the first tailwhip to tailwhip back in vert ramp, commonly referred to as a "windshield wiper".
Dirt / Trails
Trails are, as the name suggests, lines of jumps built from dirt (heavily compacted mud). The jumps consist of a steep take off, called a lip, with an often slightly less steep landing. The lip and landing are usually built as separate mounds, divided by a gap. The gap is measured from the topmost part of the lip, horizontally to the topmost part of the far side of the landing. Gaps typically range from only a couple of feet to over twenty feet. A moderate gap is around twelve feet.
Trails riding is sometimes also referred to as Dirt Jumping. Most riders that ride trails maintain that a subtle difference exists in the style and flow of "dirt jumps" and "trails"; trails riders focus more on of a flowing smooth style from one jump to the next whilst performing more stylish tricks, while dirt jumpers try to perform the craziest tricks they can without much thought to their style or smoothness. This flowing trails style is popularized by riders such as Van Homan, Mike Aitken, Chase Hawk and Chris Doyle.
Although many regard trails and street as being completely opposite, the attraction is similar—trails riders build their own jumps so their riding is limited only by their creativity and resourcefulness.
Dirt jumping bikes are heavier than bmx racing bikes but lighter than freestyle bikes. Often a bmx jump bike will have only a rear brake and they might also sport a gyro. The gyro will allow them to do airborne tricks such as barspins. But most trails riders don't ride gryos, they run a single straight cable from the lever to the brakes.
With trails you do not need to pedal in between jumps. By pumping (compressing your body as you come to the middle of a turn or the lowest part of the area between the jumps) you gain speed to clear the jumps.
Flatland
Flatland BMX occupies a position somewhat removed from the rest of freestyle bmx. People who ride in the above disciplines will generally take part in at least one of the others, but flatlanders tend to only ride flatland. They are often very dedicated and will spend several hours a day perfecting their technique.
Flatland also differs from the others in that the terrain used is nothing but a smooth, flat surface (e.g. an asphalt parking lot, basketball courts, etc.). Tricks are performed by spinning and balancing in a variety of body and bicycle positions. Riders almost always use gnurled aluminum pegs to stand on to manipulate the bike into even stranger positions.
Flatland bikes typically have a shorter wheelbase than other freestyle bikes. Flatland bikes differ from dirt jumping bikes and freestyle bikes in one way. The frames are often more heavily reinforced because the people riding flatland often stand on the frames. This shorter wheelbase requires less effort to make the bike spin or to position the bike on one wheel. One of the primary reasons flatlanders often ride only flatland is a result of the decreased stability of using a shorter bike on ramps, dirt and street.
A variety of options are commonly found on flatland bikes. The most unifying feature of flatland bikes is the use of four pegs, one on the end of each wheel axle. Flatland riders will choose to run either a front brake, a rear brake, both brakes, or no brakes at all, depending on stylistic preference.
Tricks
While there innumerable tricks that can be performed, and many new tricks are being created every day, there are a few basic tricks that form the staples of BMX riding in trails, street and park riding, and are often combined to create new tricks.
Base Tricks
Grind Tricks
Air Tricks
Lip Tricks
I think now you have a pretty good idea of the sport BMX.
(source: wikipedia)
As wikipedia says: BMX (an acronym for Bicycle Motocross) is a form of cycling on specially designed bicycles which usually have 18 to 24-inch wheels (the norm being the 20-inch wheel). The sport includes racing on earthen tracks, known as BMX racing, as well as the performance of tricks on the bikes, called BMX freestyle. Freestyle BMX has grown to include five distinct disciplines. These are Street, Park, Vert, Dirt, and Flatland. These usually involve technical movements of the bike in different ways over varied terrain.
BMX racing is a type of off-road bicycle racing. The format of BMX was derived from motocross racing. BMX bicycle races are sprint races on purpose-built off-road single-lap race tracks. The track usually consists of a starting gate for up to eight racers, a groomed, serpentine, dirt race course made of various jumps, and a finish line. The course is banked and has flat corners.
The sport of BMX racing is facilitated by a number of regional and international sanctioning bodies. They provide rules for governing the conduct of the races, specify age-group and skill-level classifications among the racers, and maintain some kind of points-accumulation system over the racing season. The sport is largely participant-driven, with the average age of approximately 9 or 10 years. Professional ranks exist for both men and women, where the average age is 18 to 21.
A BMX "Class" bike is a strong, quick-handling, lightweight derivative of the standard 20-inch-wheel, single-speed youth bicycle. Variations include a larger 24-inch-wheel "cruiser" class.
While BMX racing is an individual sport, teams are often formed from racers in different classifications for camaraderie and often for business exposure of a sponsoring organization or company. BMX racing rewards strength, quickness, and bike handling. Many successful BMX racers have gone on to leverage their skills in other forms of bicycle and motorcycle competitions.
BMX racing will become a medal sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing under the UCI sanctioning body. Sanctioning bodies in the United States are the American Bicycle Association (ABA) and the National Bicycle League (NBL). The NBL is certified under the UCI (International Cycling Union), which is recognized by the Olympic Committee.
Freestyle BMX is a creative way of using bicycles originally designed for bicycle motocross racing. It can be split into several disciplines, although riders will generally participate in more than one discipline. These are Street, (skate)Park, Vert, Trails (sometimes called Dirt) and Flatland. Rather confusingly, in competitions, park riding is often referred to as 'Street'.
Street
Street riding occurs on public streets or private property, typically within cities and towns, but can be also referred to when riding in parks. the bikes are usually the same set-up wise. Without purpose-made ramps, riders have to improvise with banks, walls, rails, gaps, etc. In fact, almost anything can be used as an obstacle, and it is precisely this that draws people to street riding. Riders enjoy street riding because they are not constrained to what a skatepark designer has planned for them to ride, so it allows a good deal of creativity. Street riding progresses relentlessly. Obstacles and tricks that were considered too big or technical to attempt become commonplace.
Many professional BMXers are street riders who are employed for the exposure they get through video parts and magazines, rather than for their competition results. These riders generally don't get paid the huge sums that the big competition riders get, as most of the big money comes from placing in events such as the X Games. However, riders like Van Homan, who is a progressive street rider, often enter the X Games and manage to place quite high.
Street bikes are different from those used on park or dirt. Typically they will have two or four stunt (axle) pegs for grinding. They are usually the strongest type of BMX bike. A considerable number of street riders set up their bikes without hand brakes.
Park
Skateparks are used by BMXers as well as skateboarders, and both draw inspiration from the other. Skateparks themselves can be made of wood or concrete, or in the case of local council-supplied parks, metal.
Styles of riding will differ between wood and concrete parks - wood lends itself to technical tricks, while concrete is more suited to a fast, flowing style, with riders searching for gaps, and aiming to air higher from the coping.Concrete parks usually tend to contain bowls and pools. However, it is not unusual for riders to merge the two styles in either type of park.
Concrete parks are commonly built outdoors due to their ability to withstand years of exposure to the elements. Concrete parks are also often publicly funded due to their permanent and costly nature. Parks made from wood are popular with commercial skateparks due to ease of construction, availability of materials, cost, and the relative safety associated with falling on wood instead of concrete. Parks designed with BMX use in mind will typically have steel coping that is less prone to damage than concrete or pool coping.
Common obstacles include:
- quarter pipes - literally, quarter of a pipe - riders air from it and perform tricks on a platform above the ramp
- spines - two quarter pipes back to back
- flat banks - a flat bank set at an angle of roughly 40 degrees from horizontal
- wall rides - a vertical wall above either quarter pipes or flat banks
- miniramps - two small quarter pipes facing one another, like a halfpipe, but with a short flat area between.
- hips - essentially two quarter pipes or flat banks, each with one edge at a right angle or a more aggressive angle to the other.
- box jumps - a steep quarter pipe like lip with a deck extending to a landing often less steep than the lip.
- pyramids - a four way wedge or transition box.
Vert
Perhaps the most extreme of the BMX disciplines, a Vert ramp consists of two quarter pipes set facing each other (much like a mini ramp), but at around 10-15 feet tall (around 2.5 to 3.5 metres) high. The biggest ramp ever used in competition is the X-Games big air ramp at 27 feet tall. Both 'faces' of the ramp have an extension to the transition that is vertical, hence the name.
Riders go up each face, performing tricks in the air before landing into the same face. A typical run involves going from one side to the other, airing above the coping each side. Also possible are 'lip tricks' - tricks on the platform at the top of the ramps before dropping into the ramp.
Mat Hoffman popularized the sport in the early 90s, and holds the record for the highest jump of 27' out of a 25' ramps (a total of over 15.5 metres from the ground). He achieved this by being dragged along a field by a friend with a motorbike and hitting one face of the ramp. On one attempt, he lost control at the peak of his jump, and the resulting crash caused life-threatening injuries such as losing his spleen. Remarkably, despite his age and history of injuries, he still competes to this day.
The danger of the discipline (and scarcity of full-size vert ramps) puts most riders off, and as such, there are a small number of top professionals who remain at the top of the sport for many years. Notable vert riders include Dave Mirra, Chad Kagy, and Jamie Bestwick (who has won the majority of all the major international competitions in recent years). Other up-and-coming vert riders include 18 year old Zack Warden, who landed the first tailwhip to tailwhip back in vert ramp, commonly referred to as a "windshield wiper".
Dirt / Trails
Trails are, as the name suggests, lines of jumps built from dirt (heavily compacted mud). The jumps consist of a steep take off, called a lip, with an often slightly less steep landing. The lip and landing are usually built as separate mounds, divided by a gap. The gap is measured from the topmost part of the lip, horizontally to the topmost part of the far side of the landing. Gaps typically range from only a couple of feet to over twenty feet. A moderate gap is around twelve feet.
Trails riding is sometimes also referred to as Dirt Jumping. Most riders that ride trails maintain that a subtle difference exists in the style and flow of "dirt jumps" and "trails"; trails riders focus more on of a flowing smooth style from one jump to the next whilst performing more stylish tricks, while dirt jumpers try to perform the craziest tricks they can without much thought to their style or smoothness. This flowing trails style is popularized by riders such as Van Homan, Mike Aitken, Chase Hawk and Chris Doyle.
Although many regard trails and street as being completely opposite, the attraction is similar—trails riders build their own jumps so their riding is limited only by their creativity and resourcefulness.
Dirt jumping bikes are heavier than bmx racing bikes but lighter than freestyle bikes. Often a bmx jump bike will have only a rear brake and they might also sport a gyro. The gyro will allow them to do airborne tricks such as barspins. But most trails riders don't ride gryos, they run a single straight cable from the lever to the brakes.
With trails you do not need to pedal in between jumps. By pumping (compressing your body as you come to the middle of a turn or the lowest part of the area between the jumps) you gain speed to clear the jumps.
Flatland
Flatland BMX occupies a position somewhat removed from the rest of freestyle bmx. People who ride in the above disciplines will generally take part in at least one of the others, but flatlanders tend to only ride flatland. They are often very dedicated and will spend several hours a day perfecting their technique.
Flatland also differs from the others in that the terrain used is nothing but a smooth, flat surface (e.g. an asphalt parking lot, basketball courts, etc.). Tricks are performed by spinning and balancing in a variety of body and bicycle positions. Riders almost always use gnurled aluminum pegs to stand on to manipulate the bike into even stranger positions.
Flatland bikes typically have a shorter wheelbase than other freestyle bikes. Flatland bikes differ from dirt jumping bikes and freestyle bikes in one way. The frames are often more heavily reinforced because the people riding flatland often stand on the frames. This shorter wheelbase requires less effort to make the bike spin or to position the bike on one wheel. One of the primary reasons flatlanders often ride only flatland is a result of the decreased stability of using a shorter bike on ramps, dirt and street.
A variety of options are commonly found on flatland bikes. The most unifying feature of flatland bikes is the use of four pegs, one on the end of each wheel axle. Flatland riders will choose to run either a front brake, a rear brake, both brakes, or no brakes at all, depending on stylistic preference.
Tricks
While there innumerable tricks that can be performed, and many new tricks are being created every day, there are a few basic tricks that form the staples of BMX riding in trails, street and park riding, and are often combined to create new tricks.
Base Tricks
- Bunnyhop - Jumping the bike off the ground without using a jump. Performed by pulling back on the handlebars, and then leveling out the bike by pushing back on the pedals/pushing forward on the handlebars
- Air - Simply, getting both wheels off of a ramp and landing on the same ramp you came off.
- Grind - Sliding the bike along an object most times using a peg, usually grind on the coping (the metal edge of a ramp), a handrail or ledge, using anything other than both wheels.
- Fakie - Riding backwards. Made more difficult because most rear bicycle hubs will force the cranks to rotate backwards while the back wheel is rolling backwards. However, a special hub called a freecoaster enables a rider to ride backwards without having to pedal backwards.
- Manual - Riding with the front wheel held in the air, without pedaling. A coasting wheelie.
- Nose Manual Basically the same as a manual except you balance on your front wheel instead of your back wheel, usually a bit harder. Corey Martinez currently holds the record for the longest nose manual. This occurred when he managed to nose manual a 52 foot long ledge. A nose manual with brakes is called a nose wheelie.
- Wallride - Riding with both tires on a vertical or near vertical wall.
- Endo - Stopping the bike with the front wheel, and raising the rear wheel into the air.
- Roll-back - While riding fakie spin the bike 180degrees on the back wheel so you ride normally.
- Cat Walk - While doing a manual you pedal (more commonly known as a 'wheelie').
Grind Tricks
- Feeble Grind - A grind when the rear peg is grinding and the front wheel is rolling along the top of the ledge or rail.
- Smith Grind - The opposite of the feeble grind. The front peg is grinding along the edge while the back wheel is rolling on the top of the ledge or rail.
- Double Peg Grind/50-50 - Grinding along with both pegs on the ledge or rail.
- Icepick Grind - Grinding balanced only on the rear peg, with the front of the bike held in the air.
- Toothpick Grind - Grinding along only on the front peg, with the rear of the bike in the air. Regular Toothpick Grinds are most commonly performed on quarterpipes.
- Crooked Grind - Grinding along a rail with the front peg on one side, the bike crossing over the rail, and the opposite rear peg on the other side. For example, the front right peg on the rail, and the rear left peg on the rail.
- Pedal-Feeble Grind - Grinding on the pedal with the front tire on the rail or ledge, much like a feeble grind. Generally done by pegless riders.
- Luc-E Grind - Grinding with the forward pedal and rear peg, with the front peg hanging below the grind obstacle. Named after John "Luc-E" Englebert, who invented the grind in the late 1990's.
- Levitator - Grinding on just the pedal, with the crankarm vertical, thus making the bike appear to levitate a few inches above the ledge.
- Magic Carpet Slide - Front peg and pedal, with the rear wheel suspended. Popularized by street-legend Joe "Butcher" Kowalski.
- Sprocket Grind - Grinding along using the sprocket.
- Derek Duster - A grind along the bottom bracket of the frame and the rear peg. This grind is similar to a crooked grind, except that there is no opposite front peg being grinded on, so the front end of the bike is dipped down slightly. Named after Derek Adams who is the owner of Little Devil Brand Clothing and thought up the grind.
- Snaggle Tooth Grind - A rare grind accomplished by grinding on the front peg and the opposite-side forward pedal. It is essentially a front-foot forward pedal crooked grind. This trick usually looks similar to a Hang Over Toothpick Grind.
Air Tricks
- X-Up - Turning the bars 180˚ or beyond while holding onto them.
- One hander/no hander - Letting go of the handlebars with one hand/both hands.
- One footer/no footer - Removing one foot/both feet from the pedals.
- Seatgrab - Grabbing the seat with one or both hands.
- Tiregrab - Grabbing the front tire with one or both hands.
- 180/360/540/720/900/1080 - Spinning the bike the number of degrees indicated, left or right. The first 900 on a BMX bike was done by Mat Hoffman in 1989. The first ever 1080 was done by Mike Spinner in 2007.
- Backflip/Frontflip - Rotating the bike 360 degrees on the horizontal axis, backwards/forwards. Double backflips have also been accomplished by several riders.
- Flair - A backflip incorporated with a 180 turn, so that the bike returns in the direction from which it came. Also known as a corkscrew flair, and first done by Mat Hoffman. (Kevin Robinson achieved the first 180 double-backflip in 2006, and remains the only person to have done it so far. The trick is popularily but incorrectly called a double-flair, when a double-flair would be a 360 double-backflip) The frontflip variation of a flair is also known as the 'lawn dart' (as named by Keith McElhinney, the first and only person to do it).
- Tabletop - Tilting the bike flat on its side while in the air. Variations include the 'old school tabletop' (with bars facing up), and the 'euro table' or 'pancake' (with bars facing down).
- Turndown - Pulling the bike up vertically whilst turning the bars down over the leg until they are rotated 180˚ from the frame.
- Lookback - Similar to the turndown, except the bike is horizontal and the rider is facing backwards. For example, if you do an air out of a quarterpipe to the left and turndown to the right, this is a lookback.
- Barspin - Spinning the bars 360 degrees while letting go of them. Numerous riders have thrown the bars up to three revolutions in one air to date. Throwing double and triple barspins has become uncommon, but riders often perform a trick where the bars are thrown a full revolution in one direction, then a full revolution back the other way. This is called a 'barspin to barspin back'.
- Tailwhip/Double Tailwhip/Triple Tailwhip - Spinning the bike frame 360/720/1080 degrees, respectively, underneath you whilst holding the handlebars. Only a handful of people have pulled a triple tailwhip, including James Foster (the first person to do so), Dennis Enarson, Scotty Cranmer, Cameron White, Garrett smith, Chad Kagy, and Mike Spinner (who is also the first of an even smaller handfull of people to pull a 360 triple tailwhip).
- Can-Can - Lifting one foot off the pedal and thrusting it to the opposite side of the bike.
- No foot Can-Can - Lifting both feet off the pedals and thrusting them both to one side of the bike.
- Candybar - Lifting one foot off the pedal and thrusting it over the handlebars.
- Superman - Lifting both feet off the pedals and thrusting them backwards while extending the arms.
- Nothing - Releasing the bike entirely.
- Busdriver - Rotating the handlebars 360 degrees while still holding on to one end of the handlebars through their rotation. Like a bus driver turning a corner. Most people just refer to these as barspins.
- Truckdriver - Performing a barspin while spinning 360 degrees.
- Toboggan - Turning the handlebars 90 degrees while letting go of the furthest grip to grab the seat instead.
- Nac Nac - Removing one foot off either pedal (depending on which foot is ridden forward) and thrusting it behind the seat and above the rear wheel.
- Alley-Oop - Rotating in the opposite direction to which you are airing.
Lip Tricks
- Fufanu - Leaving the ramp, then placing the rear tire on the coping, while holding the nose of the bike in the air, and returning nose first into the ramp.
- Abubaca - Similar to a fufanu, but returning into the ramp backwards, or fakie.(These are very similair to tire taps).
- Stall - Stalling at the top of the ramp; common variations include double peg stall, smith/feeble stall.
- Sprocket Stall - Stalling straight out of the ramp, sprocket on the coping, front tire on the deck and back tire below the coping.
- Disaster - Leaving the ramp, spinning 180 degrees, and landing with one wheel in and one wheel out of the ramp.
- Icepick - Stalling at the top of the ramp with only the rear peg, while holding the nose in the air.
- Nosepick/Footjam - Stalling at the top of the ramp with only the front tire on the deck using front brakes, while holding the rear of the bike in the air. A footjam is the same except the rider uses his foot between the forks and front tire. Variations include the can-can footjam, canadian nosepick/footjam, footjam tailwhip or "whiplash," and the vader-jam. Another variation is "sponging".
- Double Donkey Kong - A move, usually performed by accident, where the rider hits his/her front wheel on the lip of an obstacle, such as a rail, followed by the striking of his/her rear wheel on the obstacle.
- Toothpick - Stalling at the top of the ramp with only the front peg, while holding the rear of the bike in the air.
- Tailtap/Tiretap Stalling up on the deck of the ramp with the rear tire and hopping back in.
- Footjams - Jumping onto the deck of a quarter pipe and jamming one foot into the front tire, causing the back end to rise up in the air. Many variations on this trick can be performed.
I think now you have a pretty good idea of the sport BMX.
(source: wikipedia)