Remember To Stay Relaxed In A Bmx Jump Video

You can never be too relaxed when doing BMX and in this free instructional video clip on applying basic BMX bike riding skills you'll learn some more tips on how to do just that.

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Garson Fields is 20 years old and has been riding BMX and mountain bikes for 7 years. He is currently attending college at the University of Vermont and pursuing degrees in both English and Philosophy.

Right now you are going to see exactly how you don't jump a head jump. Obviously it was a little bit exaggerated; some of the wiggling there really didn't need to happen. But a big thing to keep in mind as I've said a couple of times already when you are jumping, is staying relaxed. It is really probably the most important factor on whether you are going to ride out of a trick or not. Basically what happens is as soon as you start landing anything other than perfectly and if you are all tensed up, basically your body won't be able to relax as reflexibly as it otherwise could because your own muscle tension is going to be constantly in the way of that. You know that you'll end of kind of shaking rather than just allowing yourself just to ride out. A bike itself has its own natural gyroscopic forces which is why if you jump off your bike it will keep going. What you have to keep in mind is that you can make those gyroscopic forces work for you. The issue there is you have to let it work for you and the big part of that is staying relaxed. Making sure that when you land and this is the big issue mostly where you are landing because that is where people tend to tense up is just to stay relaxed and the bike if you weren't on it would ride out perfectly. So allow the bike to do that and just stay on top of the bike. As long as you can make sure you are going to keep relaxed and keep looking ahead, then you should be able to ride out of a lot of things that you otherwise wouldn't.

Remember to Stay Relaxed in a BMX Jump Video

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