Learn tips on proper etiquette and how to behave when riding your BMX in a state park in this free instructional video lesson on BMX riding.
Garson Fields has been riding BMX and mountain bikes for 7 years. His first introduction to BMX riding was racing at the Whip City track in Westfield, MA. He then made the jump into freestyle riding. Garson has a full length part in the video Chaos Theory, produced by Quarter Productions and Dan Bowhers.
If you look around us right now you'll see there's a whole lot of people all over this skate park and as much as parks might from a outsiders view what to look completely lawless chaos there's a couple basic rules that you can do to make sure that everything goes smoothly, and which really allows large groups of people like this to all ride together and not end up in fist fights. The main thing that you want to do the most important thing is sort of a general rule and a thing which is a general rules and a thing throughout these different types of etiquettes that I'm going to talk about. It's just being respectful of other people in a skate park a lot of that means is A letting people have their turn so if somebody's dropped in and there riding around and doing there thing don't go and drop in on them you know you might really be eager to ride. But if they dropped in first and they're riding around just let them finish. Second rule with that which really applies primarily in the skate park is don't snake people snaking people is when somebody has made a very obvious if they tend to drop in next, they waited they turn and everything. And then you go and to spied that and drop in on them and basically cut them off, cutting people off or snaking people is a really good way to make sure that they're going to be a couple of people who are really upset with you. And that ultimately is going to be a bigger headache for you the third thing which is it kind of ties in with all this these are all sort of related. It's just be aware of everything that's going on around you if there's some kid who's skate boarding in a little corner of the skate park for example, don't go blasting through there on your bike 100 miles an hour and cut the kid off. Cause that's just again that's some thing that everybody sees everybody notices it when it goes on nobody will think your cool for it. One thing to deal especially with skate boarders something just to notice is keep in mind that if your on a bike A, most likely have brakes and B you have a whole lot momentum than somebody on a skate board does, keep that in mind cause if you start charging into an area where there's a couple of people skateboarding odds are your going to cut somebody off and you know they don't have brakes, and they're not carrying as much so if you hit them your probably going to end up hurting them worst if they hit you. And you know you can just end up hurting them in general the thing is a lot of the time they're a lot of skateboarders who are a little iffy about bike riders to begin with. And anything you can do from the beginning to prove that you can be respectful of the other people using your park is going to go a long way with everybody who is using the park. And ultimately if your doing everything right some people will always jerks to you know matter what but just try to be nice to and respectful of everybody else in the skate park you know doesn't matter if they're on roller blades, razor scooters if there walking there dog around the park, I mean in that case they probably really shouldn't be there to begin with, but you get the idea. So keep your head up make sure that your not cutting people off be aware of what's going on around you and act accordingly and just try not to be a jerk to anybody and if your here to all those basic guidelines everybody will be a whole lot happier.
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